Gowns inspired by Ottone Rosai's art parade at Florence's Novecento Museum

On Friday, May 31, 2019, an event combiningart and fashion will be held at the Museo Novecento in Florence: the Liceo Artistico Statale di Porta Romana, of which Rosai was a student, has created a series of dresses inspired by the works of Ottone Rosai (Florence, 1895 - Ivrea, 1957), a protagonist of the Italian and Florentine twentieth century, featured in the museum. A project that faculty and students have been working on all year. The clothes will be presented Friday evening in the cloister of the museum building in a fashion show accompanied by music and readings of passages by the artist.

This is how Ottone Rosai spoke of his own education: “Bad schoolboy in all schools in the anxiety to know men and the world. The road, the villages, the countryside were teachers to me...The event of the war made me a man and an artist [...] Art was always above me to dominate me. No theoretical assumptions [...] simplicity, absolute truths. My models: men, countries, objects [...] Art is life. Suffering, pain, joy, all together.”

The clothes were handcrafted using fabric manipulation techniques that allow surfaces to move, creating textural and three-dimensional effects: the brushstrokes of the Florentine painter became inspiration for the textile materials and took shape thanks to the educational path that involved about twenty-five boys and girls. A path of study, design and finally craft creation that pays homage to the art of one of the most important Florentine artists of the last century.

The result will be shown in the cloister of the Novecento Museum in Florence, where a set will be set up with large canvases made by twenty other students from the same Liceo, also inspired by Rosai’s painting, with the accompaniment of music by Claude Debussy, Arthur Honneger and Pasqualino Alessandro Polito performed by Donatella Cheri (transverse flute) and writings by the artist read by Francesco Gori.

The collection curated by the Liceo Artistico seeks to capture the suggestions of the dreamy atmospheres of Rosai’s paintings and is the result of a careful study of the color palette and taste for its volumes.
Each dress takes its name from quotes or paintings by the artist: Sempre vivo, Tocchi di blu, Il Carmine, Sopra i tetti, Tegole, Pennellate Santo Spirito, Grattacielo, Simili screzi, Tuo Ottone.

The event will be organized in collaboration with MUS.E

Gowns inspired by Ottone Rosai's art parade at Florence's Novecento Museum

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