renaissance
electroTEXTILE DESIGN & APPROVAL PROCESS Morena Chiriano Debora Ferrara
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THE TREND The trend explores the marriage among two very gritty themes, the art and technology worlds. The world of technology is investigated through the two electronic systems, analog and digital, through which the prints are “disturbed”. Analog electronics are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal, in contrast to digital electronics where signals usually take only two levels. The term “analogue” describes the proportional relationship between a signal and a voltage or current that represents the signal. The word analogue is derived from the Greek word ανάλογος (analogos) meaning “proportional”. The art world is represented by the artistic period par excellence, the Renaissance. The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries and marking the transition from the middle ages to modernity. The level of artistic and architectural production during this time is astounding, so much so
that centuries later works produced during the Renaissance continue to capture the public’s imagination. The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was its version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman Humanitas and the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy. Taking inspiration from digital and analog design technologies, this trend creates a contemporary, and almost futuristic, approach to Renaissance for S/S 20. Classical themes are revived looking to Old Master paintings, sculptures and heraldic motifs combined in neon hues glitch and pixel. Prints and graphics embrace Renaissance masterpieces, patterns are declined in all-over, placed, micro & macro prints creating gritty textures that are placed between a trash and dystopian aesthetic. This retro-futurist vibe takes inspiration from the return of iconic Versace aesthetics and 1980s styles, but adding disturbed electronics features, give a neuer and more contemporary aesthetic.
glitching_(R) The first print theme is based on glitch art and Renaissance masterpieces. Glich art is the practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices.
devices The second theme is about specific vintage devices, analog or digital, and their match with Renaissance masterpiece.
binary_system_r The third theme seen the binary system as protagonist. 0 and 1 are the graphic elements repeated vertically or orizontally, mixed with Renaissance masterpieces.
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poster The first pattern is used for digital placed prints and is composed by two layered rgb colors Michelangelo’s sculpture masterpieces: “David” and “Pietà”. The two patterns are inserted in a minimal frame, creating poster prints.
PRINT (1)
motifs The second digital print is composed by repeated macro glitched pattern of Botticelli masterpiece’s “The birth of Venus”. The motif pattern presents two color versions, green or pink shades.
PRINT (2)
pixel Vermeer masterpiece “Girl with a Pearl Earring� is the protagonist of the third digital placed print. The main characteristic of this pattern is the use of pixels as disturbed film for the Renaissance painting.
PRINT (3)
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Motifs The first pattern is declined in two versions and is a collage of an old no signal screen tv and two sculpture masterpieces: Michelangelo’s “David” and “Pietà”. These are a digital placed prints and a type of print named “collage”.
PRINT (4)
COLLAGE The protagonist of Botticelli’s Primavera, Venere, is repeated with a scattered allover layout with on the side a vintage error warning window of Microsoft system.
PRINT (5)
bad tv The pattern is composed by the union of a masterpiece, Caravaggio’s Medusa in black and white, and a disturbed television signal. The layout can create a placed or a repeated pattern print.
PRINT (6)
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numbers The print is created from a one-way layout pattern with a masterpiece background, Michelangelo Buonarroti’s The Creation of Adam in black and white, covered by a binary code in different color versions.
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Collage This all-over print is a collage of features: the masterpiece used is the Michelangelo’s “St. John the Baptist”, mirrored on the side with the adding of glitch and bad tv effects ; a film of binary code vertically completes the print.
PRINT (8)
numbers The four-way layout, repeated in up-and-down and left-and-right, print presents the Michelangelo’s sculpture “David” marked with a colored stripe where a binary code is located.
PRINT (9)