After a successful exhibition in London's Barbican Art Gallery, the two are now doing the Centraal Museum in Utrecht on. This is the largest exhibition of the modeduo Viktor & Rolf ever held in the Netherlands.
In an impressive Accurately made dollhouse miniatures of the original documents displayed on handmade porcelain dolls. This retrospective offers the spectacular highlights of the Viktor & Rolf collections of the last 15 years.
The original design play an important role in the exhibition.
Known Haute Couture pieces are a highlight here, as the well-known Russian Doll from 1999-2000. A model was-on way of perfomance art by the designers dressed in ten separate layers. Typical of the ironic and surrealistic style that has become the big two.
International art collections
The works of Viktor & Rolf are part of several important international collections. For example, the documents shown in several exhibitions worldwide including the Kyoto Costume Institute, the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.
Since the purchase of the first Viktor & Rolf piece in 1998, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht now collected 29 pieces, of which a large part in the exhibition can be seen.
Traveling exhibition
The House of Viktor & Rolf is composed by Jane Alison, senior curator of London's Barbican Art Gallery. The Dutch architect and art historian Siebe Tettero is responsible for the design. The Viktor & Rolf boutique in Milan where everything on its head was also his hand.
The construction of the dollhouse requires meticulous precision. For that same reason carpenters deployed by the exhibition in London have built up. It includes miniature design as the originals very sensitive documents. Nevertheless, the exhibition several international destinations ports. The locations are still subject to change, but New York is high on the wish list.
Viktor & Rolf
Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren forms since graduating from the School of the Arts in Arnhem in 1992 a successful ontwerpersduo. In 1998 they presented their first Haute Couture Collection. This was in March 2000 followed by their first prêt-à-porter collection. The launch of their own Flower Bomb perfume, and a sellout collection for H & M in 2006 marked their international breakthrough.
The House of Viktor & Rolf is up to and including February 8, 2009 to visit the Central Museum in Utrecht.
In an impressive Accurately made dollhouse miniatures of the original documents displayed on handmade porcelain dolls. This retrospective offers the spectacular highlights of the Viktor & Rolf collections of the last 15 years.
The original design play an important role in the exhibition.
Known Haute Couture pieces are a highlight here, as the well-known Russian Doll from 1999-2000. A model was-on way of perfomance art by the designers dressed in ten separate layers. Typical of the ironic and surrealistic style that has become the big two.
International art collections
The works of Viktor & Rolf are part of several important international collections. For example, the documents shown in several exhibitions worldwide including the Kyoto Costume Institute, the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.
Since the purchase of the first Viktor & Rolf piece in 1998, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht now collected 29 pieces, of which a large part in the exhibition can be seen.
Traveling exhibition
The House of Viktor & Rolf is composed by Jane Alison, senior curator of London's Barbican Art Gallery. The Dutch architect and art historian Siebe Tettero is responsible for the design. The Viktor & Rolf boutique in Milan where everything on its head was also his hand.
The construction of the dollhouse requires meticulous precision. For that same reason carpenters deployed by the exhibition in London have built up. It includes miniature design as the originals very sensitive documents. Nevertheless, the exhibition several international destinations ports. The locations are still subject to change, but New York is high on the wish list.
Viktor & Rolf
Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren forms since graduating from the School of the Arts in Arnhem in 1992 a successful ontwerpersduo. In 1998 they presented their first Haute Couture Collection. This was in March 2000 followed by their first prêt-à-porter collection. The launch of their own Flower Bomb perfume, and a sellout collection for H & M in 2006 marked their international breakthrough.
The House of Viktor & Rolf is up to and including February 8, 2009 to visit the Central Museum in Utrecht.
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