在奥罗武(Olowu)最大的策展项目展出之际出版的《杜罗·奥罗武:看见》阐释了这位设计师兼策展人的创作过程,他想象了艺术家和物品之间跨越时间、媒介和地理的关系。Naomi Beckwith阐述了奥罗武(Olowu)的策展过程,其驱动力是对当代艺术和文化的强烈渴求,它们以鲜明的并置方式被汇集到了一起。瓦莱丽·斯蒂尔(Valerie Steele)将Olowu的设计置于当代时尚界;埃科夫·埃顺(Ekow Eshun)关注Olowu在英国黑人和非洲-加勒比创意社区中的作用;塞尔玛·戈登(Thelma Golden)就Olowu作为设计师、策展人以及博物馆和时尚界的文化和风格记录者的工作,对他进行了采访;而Lynette Yiadom-Boakye则为本书创作了新的故事。
Fashion world leader Duro Olowu applies his creative process and cosmopolitan eye to a major exhibition drawn from Chicago’s great art collections.
Nigerian-born British fashion designer Duro Olowu is internationally renowned for his womenswear label launched in 2004 that speaks to a cosmopolitan sensibility informed by his international background and a confident eye for visual disciplines from art to film to popular culture. Olowu’s global viewpoint has translated into wildly popular platforms and projects from Instagram postings to revelatory curatorial projects in London and New York that position him at the transcultural crossroads of art, culture, and fashion. Now Olowu turns his gimlet eye on Chicago to curate a show drawn from that metropolis’s public and private art collections, anchored by the MCA’s holdings. Published on the occasion of Olowu’s largest curatorial project, Duro Olowu: Seeing elucidates the designer-cum-curator’s creative process as he imagines relationships between artists and objects across time, media, and geography: Naomi Beckwith illuminates Olowu’s curatorial process, driven by a voracious appetite for contemporary art and culture brought together in sharp juxtapositions; Valerie Steele situates Olowu’s designs within the contemporary fashion world; Ekow Eshun focuses on Olowu’s role within Britain’s black and Afro-Caribbean creative community; Thelma Golden interviews Olowu about his work as designer, curator, and chronicler of culture and style across the worlds of museums and fashion; and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye creates new fiction for this volume.
