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MARK HARRIS | Work
and Commentary
Mixed Media
Sixty-eight, Sixty-nine, 1999, 9'
x 23' 6";
acrylic on paper inset with digital prints of Ungaro fashions.
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Ungaro designs from the end of the 1960s are interspersed within
a cartoon drip structure of cut paper whose colors derive from
the same images in Vogue and L'Officiel fashion
magazines of the late 1960s. The distribution of outfits is determined
by material,
with synthetics and chiffon on the left, woolens in the center,
and leather and PVC on the right. I'm impressed by the brash
hedonism of these couture designs. I imagine these designs (and
the fabric from which they are made) as utopian representations
sustaining an image of the future that was imagined during that
decade. Psychedelia has a similar reference in the cutout paintings.
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