Expos
Martin Margiela at Lafayette Anticipations
Martin Margiela is a bit like
The Man Who Came Elsewhere
, the extraterrestrial to whom the British filmmaker Nicolas Roeg gave the face of Bowie in 1976. Born in Louvain in 1957, the Belgian couturier was fascinated, as much by his boots forked and its bluffing unstructured cuts than by its parades which were happenings. As a star of the scene, he knew how to make himself invisible and stir up the mystery around himself. The Lafayette Anticipations Foundation wants to capture this original essence that makes the artist and give him all the tributes due to the visual arts. The elliptical exhibition is
"the sum of the research of a life devoted to transforming the gaze, to shedding the obvious, to celebrate the complexity of being"
, warns its director, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel.
The face is buried under the hair, the body no longer has an explicit gender, the most common objects are bizarre such as
Le Déjeuner en fur
, 1936, by
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