Le Petit Echo de la Mode No.5 Collage by Hormazd Narielwalla

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Le Petit Echo de la Mode No.5

Hormazd Narielwalla
United Kingdom

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Size: 29.5 H x 21.1 W x 0 in

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Collage: Paper on Paper.

I make collages from antique tailoring patterns. My latest work mines a seam of precious found material hidden between the pages of Le Petit Echo de la Mode. Published in Paris between 1897 and 1983 was a popular fashion and lifestyle magazine. It followed fashion making it accessible to the fashionable Parisian housewife. Within it, loose and often discarded, I pluck a streak of radical abstraction. The magazine contains tailoring patterns that, for efficiency's sake, layer the life-sized templates of entire garments onto a single sheet of paper. Each facet of the garment is encoded in an intricate web of lines, dots and numbers. I challenge to view this sheet not as a means to an end but as an end in itself. Shattering the female body into precise overlapping facets flattened not as views of a subject but as the object itself.

I make the radical potential loose in Le Petit Echo de la Mode real. I cut delicate sheets of coloured paper and acetate with the pride of a mother. The sheet of paper instructs the housewife, and me – the artist, to make itself. Predating Futurism and prefiguring Cubism these Le Petit Echo de la Mode abstracted the female subject to a degree more radical and precise than the highest aspirations of the 1912 manifetso Du "Cubisme". I discover once discarded but now groundbreaking artworks that were begging to become real and loved.

This pattern was extracted from August 1957. Acid free archival double sided tape is used to create the artwork.

Keywords: body, women, Sewing, found material, collage, antique, fashion, geometry, tailoring patterns

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Comments (18)

André Pillay

3 years ago

Congrats on your Showdown recognition. Interesting concepts of work visual ethic.

Dries Ketels

3 years ago

Interesting. Congratulations Hormazd! "Dessiner et sculpter la couleur avec des ciseaux"

Miss Cotton Candy

3 years ago

well done.
but don't see ''body electric'' in this whats so ever..........
im even more confused with what ever art is????
callme stupid...............
at least that's something????

Gustavo Ortiz

3 years ago

I am glad that for this competition they didn't select a literal allusion to the body, but a piece that references the subject in a more metaphorical way

Niki Hare

3 years ago

Big congratulations on your win with this piece, brilliant work!! And congrats to Raffi and SaatchiArt for looking outside the box!

Tully Satre

3 years ago

Congratulations, my dear! Very well-deserved. xx

Pernilla Iggstrom

3 years ago

BIG Congratulations Hormazd!! Worthy winner - simple but conceptual take on the body through the intricate taylor's patterns, which once belonged to bodies full of life! Electrical!

Simon O'Corra

3 years ago

Very well done Homi, you deserve every success. I love both the allusion to the body and the 'sight' of a kind of abstract body in the way the pattern is laid out. I love this work and the many others that I have seen of your collections.

Nicholas McInerny

3 years ago

Congratulations, Homi. I have collected several pieces of yours and regard MY Echo as part of a key development in your practice, as well as a wonderful vibrant piece to live with. I hope this exposure continues to help you develop and evolve further as you bring a new way of looking at the world.

Tahnee Lonsdale

3 years ago

well done Homi, so happy you won. This piece is amazing, can't think of a more deserving winner.

Eric Buechel

3 years ago

Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. shear genius and cutting edge! I like the fact that you were able to incorporate an era long ago and incorporate it into a very contemporary look. Well played sir, well played!

Hormazd Narielwalla

3 years ago

Thanks everyone, especially my friends, for the kind supportive comments and celebrating my win. Thanks to Raffi and Saatchi Art for recognising my work. Also to all my collectors who have believed in me by acquiring work. Well done to the finalists. Warmly, Hormazd (A.K.A Homi)