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Exhibition: The fourth sex. Adolescent Extremes
date 10.01.2002 – 09.02.2003
location Stazione Leopolda
creation Pitti Immagine (Fashion Organisation)
curator Raf Simons (Fashion Design)
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text The exhibition The fourth sex. Adolescent Extremes observes and portrays the restless territory of teenagers: an incredible resource of creative energy. The show lights a series of emotional fires where ideas meet and derail in new constellations of meaning. The materials in the show reflect the complex universe of contemporary culture: fashion, communications, art, music, cinema


The exhibition and catalogue include contributions by:

for art – Vanessa Beecroft, Dan Graham, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley, Elizabeth Peyton, Andreas Gursky, Jim Lambie, Charles Ray, James Coleman, Sharon Lockhart, David Hamilton, Larry Clark, Gillian Wearing, J&D Chapman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Takashi Murakami, Katy Grannan, Collier Schorr, Bill Henson, Cady Noland, Olaf... [more]


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  1 © Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery ; Photo: Willy Vanderperre, 2 © Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery, 3 © Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery ; Intallation Stephen Sprouse, Firenze 2003, 4 © Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery ; 'Tomao Heads', Paul McCarth, 1994, 5 © Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery ; 'Tomao Heads', Paul McCarth, 1994, 6 © Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery ; Photo: Alexei Hay, Armani Exchange S/S 2000, 7 © Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery, 8 © Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery ; 'Fuck You Sunset', Justine Parsons/Alexei Hay

participants Bernhard Willhelm (Fashion Design)
Houbrechts, Bert (Photography)
Vanderperre, Willy (Photography)
Veronique Branquinho (Fashion Design)
Walter Van Beirendonck (Fashion Design)
contribution De Potter, Peter (Theory/Journalism)


Book
(Ed.) Bonami, Francesco ; Simons, Raf: The Fourth Sex : Adolescent Extremes. Milano: Charta, 2003-01-01


Media Coverage
s.n.: Il quatro sesso come pradigma della vitalità del mondo. Milano: La Republica, 2003-06-09

Baelden, Pascale: Raf Simons verlegt grenzen. Roeselare: Weekend Knack - Mode dit is Belgisch, 2003-03-01

Browne, Alix ; (Photo) Wagstaff, Lee: Raf Simons Designer. New York: V-Magazine, 2003-01-01

Mair, Avril ; (Photo) Shafran, Nigel: It's just an age I'll never grow out of. London: I-D Magazine, 2003-01-01


source
Flanders Fashion Institute FFI

 
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