Until 15 September 2019, the Mondrian House will show work by Sally Pittman under the title 'Mon : fleur'. Her art objects are on display in two galleries of the museum.
Piet Mondrian's work has always inspired fashion. Fashion and Mondrian belong together. Just think of the famous dress designed by French couturier Yves Saint Laurent in 1965, which has since become a fashion icon. In addition, many other fashion designers, including Frans Molenaar, were inspired by Mondrian's abstract geometric imagery in their creations.
Sally Pittman (1960, Jay - Florida, USA) feels precisely inspired by the flowers in Mondrian's early work, some of which will be on display at the Mondrian House from 17 March 2019. In the early 20th century, as well as in his later abstract period, Mondrian regularly painted flowers. Usually a single flower, such as a chrysanthemum or an amaryllis, central to the composition.
Pittman: ,,Flowers have always been an inspiration for me. In photographs, paintings, botanical studies, in gardens, forests and fields. The shape, the smell and the colour, living and withering. In 2015, I discovered Piet Mondrian's flower drawings and paintings. The fine lines, the colours, the simplicity, directness and vulnerability in his work; it touched me.''
Mondrian's flowers inspired Pittman to create eight textile objects. In these objects, as well as in the sketches, which preceded them, you can see how she searched for the connection with Mondrian. It also reveals her own fascination with beauty and vulnerability.
About Sally Pittman
Visual artist and fashion designer Sally Pittman studied, among other things, theatre studies in the United States, her native country. she moved to the Netherlands and studied Fashion Design at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht. Besides designing fashion, Pittman also focuses on art made of textiles and other (found) materials. In her often poetic work, the artist explores and creates moods and atmospheres. Sally Pittman's compositions and installations have been shown in a variety of exhibitions and presentations since 2005. In Utrecht and Den Bosch, but also in her hometown Amersfoort, where she exhibited in Museum Flehite and was involved in the Kunstvaarroute and art biennale Vreemde Gasten, among others. Also at the Mondrian House. In 2015, Pittman's art was part of exhibition Otherwise abstract.
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