Helmut Lang- Make It Hard

Some might call it sacrilege, or some might call it art, but nonetheless, fashion designer Helmut Lang has shred his clothing archive to create the linear sculptures below. The pieces are part of an exhibition, titled 'Make It Hard', showing at The Fireplace Project in the East Hamptons, near New York. The curator, Neville Wakefield, describes the project as "The columnular forms that rise from floor to ceiling invoke forces of nature and culture. They suggest both the accretive geological slowness of stalactites, and the destructive force of tornadoes. And if their material has been subjected to similar violence here it takes on the graceful abstract form of the endless columns; odes perhaps to Brancusi’s sculptural connection between terrestrial form and spiritual grace, life, and afterlife."

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