Redefining Market Forces
Kostas Murkudis challenges the way fashion is perceived, created and curated, through a celebration of freethinking this Summer.
Aesthetica Magazine Issue 65
June / July 2015
With each issue of this magazine, I find myself exploring new territories. I am interested in how art influences fashion and how in turn these two disciplines influence almost everything from architecture and interior design to popular culture. A few issues ago, we featured the Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen, who produces magical images of lamps in the wilderness. They are at once installation, photography and sculpture. However, only months after publishing the article, I saw an advert on television for a certain Scandinavian company and their campaign had a similar idea. I couldn’t believe it. In a nutshell, this was the process of influence and saturation in full form.
The June issue of Aesthetica follows such an ideology – many of the artists featured are moving between sectors and providing true proof that innovation still exists today. We take a look at the new phenomenon of re-purposing shipping containers and turning them into luxurious homes. The idea that something which has defined modern times is now being reused in the domestic sphere is fascinating. It shows humankind’s insatiable appetite for invention. Kostas Murkudis’s rejection of mass production is presented in a show that’s not so much a retrospective but more a timely appraisal. Influenced by sculpture, he has reinvented the catwalk by allowing models to dress themselves in front of audiences.
In photography, we’ve curated a selection of works that inspire – from Lori Nix’s detailed scenes that depict an apocalyptic world but in miniature to Ellie Davies’s lush images of forests overlaid with actual images from the Hubble telescope, humanising the universe. How we inhabit spaces is a theme explored in Carlo Cafferini’s detailed images of buildings, capturing the detail and somehow a uniqueness which can be found in repetition. We also take a look at the show Modernities, which traces hidden moments in an industrialised society. In film, we look at the new documentary Good Girl, which portrays the filmmaker’s ordeal coping with depression. Finally, Candida Höfer offers you the last words. Enjoy!
