thanks fenrost
the leather piece in the last pic is the "spiral wrap trousers" I and Chinor1z were referring to in the ccp general thread #1.
twisting, serpentine line, and spiral can feel unsettled because they don't give a fixed point of focus to the viewer. they come from questioning the validity of the definite view from one stable standpoint. they are a psychological reflection of the mind who doubts whether that perspective is the only value. everything has facets that there are to be seen. and besides, what is visible to the eye is the outside of what does exist inside. it's just the surface. it's disturbing to think the world may be a perpetually unsolved labyrinth. but they part with peace of mind and accept unrest. they play with the state of unresolvedness and trust curiosity.
so, perhaps they also show his love and hate for the sartorial classicism that prevents him from disintegration but at the same time restricts him. while he needs it, he needs to be liberated from it. just like long ago, in the period called 'rinascimento notturno', in a way they were an expression of ambivalent struggle with the apollonian clarity/rationality of the classic style that stands on the golden sunny but slightly stale side of the world.
" the eye can never come to rest on anything, but is kept constantly traveling around and around the composition following the curving lines of drapery until a sense of nausea is produced. just as one feels nauseous at sea when motion is constant and there is no firm place to rest. "
- daniel b. rowland
" in the spirit of donne's quest for truth, who, donne remarks ( john donne who said 'though truth and falsehood bee neare twins' ), may be a little elder than falsehood but is not easily found on her craggy hill; one must, to see her, go 'about and about'.
... if we try to decide what hamlet's nature really is, we find that we must take one of two incompatible points of view: we must either take a quite arbitrary, narrow approach and consider Hamlet as a 'revenger', or we must look at him from many angles as if we circulated about this figure. the mannerist artist is always experimenting with points of view and approaches. if we take a 'revolving view' of this mannerist hero, as we are surely tempted to do, he corresponds to michaelangelo's figura serpentinata in sculpture. "
- wylie sypher
" social phenomena that occur right there result from various factors being complicatedly connected to each other, and twisting your view might reveal not only one aspect but some others. "
( what he mentioned back in 2002 when talking about the collection's
content and its twist pants and shirt )
- carol christian poell
centocose
mattotti
please don't reproduce this attachment image below, thank you very much
courtesy m