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Exhibition: GenovanversaeviceversA

date	09.09.2003 – 28.03.2004
location	Modemuseum Provincie Antwerpen (MoMu)
creation	MoMu - Modemuseum Provincie Antwerpen (Museum)
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As part of Europalia Italia, was the exhibition based on "Arte e Lusso della Seta a Genova dal '500 dal '700", an exhibition held in Genoa in 2000-2001.
In GenovanversaeviceversA the MoMu links the ports of Antwerp and Genoa, both of which enjoyed a period of great economic and cultural growth during the transition form the Renaissance to the Baroque in the 17th century.

The fashion designer Angelo Figus created a setting in which he combined the 17th and 18th century objects in a surprising way with contemporary textiles by such designers as Missoni, Gianfranco Ferré, Romeo Gigli, Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Roberto Cavalli,...

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1 © MoMu ; Collage : Angelo Figus, 2 © MoMu ; Collage : Angelo Figus, 3 © MoMu ; Collage : Angelo Figus, 4 © MoMu ; Collage : Angelo Figus, 5 © Jacques Sonck, 6 © Jacques Sonck, 7 © Jacques Sonck, 8 © Jacques Sonck ; Silk Roberto Cavalli, 9 © MoMu ; Collage : Angelo Figus

participants	Ann Demeulemeester (Fashion Design) Dries van Noten (Fashion Design)
contribution	Boudens, Paul (Graphic Design)

Book

Debo, Kaat: Genovanversaeviceversa. Gent: Snoeck Publishers, 2003-09-01

Media Coverage

Wasseige, Manoëlle: L'aristocrate, le baquir et l'artiste. Bruxelles: Arte News, 2003-11-03

Cugnon, Gisèle: Tissus et tableaux recréent un voygae Gênes-Anvers. Paris: Journal du Textile, 2003-10-27

Laurent, Denis: Genovanversaeviceversa - Anvers dévide le fil de la soie. s.l.: Arte News, 2003-10-01

Windels, Veerle: Angelo Figus hult ModeMuseum in barokke dromen.. Groot-Bijgaarden: De Standaard, 2003-09-03

s.n.: Genova si fidanza con Anversa. Milano: La Repubblica, 2003-08-25

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Flanders Fashion Institute FFI

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