"Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper" opens June 16, 2018 Four paper fashion collections to be presented together for the first time |
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) announces the special exhibition, "Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper," opening June 16 and running through Sept. 9, 2018. The exhibition will feature 67 life-size, trompe l'œil paper costumes of Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave.
"This exhibition will be the culmination of a fruitful collaboration among several institutions," explained President and CEO, E. Michael Whittington. "The work began several years ago when the OKCMOA team and our colleagues met with the artist in her Brussels studio to explore the possibility of a retrospective that would tour throughout the United States. I am especially appreciative of Kevin Sharp and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens staff for their lead role in organizing this project."
"We are thrilled to host Isabelle de Borchgrave's work in Oklahoma City," added director of curatorial affairs Dr. Michael J. Anderson. "As one of the most prominent artists working in Europe today, de Borchgrave is well known for her creativity and ingenuity in the fields of painting, fashion and paper sculpture. Visitors will be amazed at the intricacy and beauty of her artwork and surprised to know she crafted the work in this exhibition using just paper and paint."
de Borchgrave (born 1946) is a prominent Belgian artist, painter and sculptor, best known for her intricate paper costumes. Following a visit to the Metropolitan Museum in 1994, de Borchgrave began working in the new medium, creating trompe l'œil paper works in what eventually would become four major paper fashion collections.
This exhibition is organized by OKCMOA, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Society of the Four Arts Frick Art and Historical Center, and Artis-Naples, the Baker Museum and is the first time all four collections will be presented together in a retrospective of de Borchgrave's innovative work.
Along with these pieces, a series of 11 kaftans highlighting Silk Road textiles will be included, as well as a newly commissioned costume inspired by a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, "Portrait of Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency, Princess of Condé," c. 1610. Both the costume and the original Rubens portrait will be included in the exhibition.
Sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information contact Kimberley Worrell at (405) 278-8227.
An exhibition catalogue will be available for purchase in the Museum Store.
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