Biba Inspiration Art and Fashion 2018 - Series of 9 artworks Print

I am inspired by shapes of Italian fashion, work uniforms and the brightness of the colours of British clothing, the simplicity of the shapes playing with primary colours, secondary and complementary.The human body, male or female, that communicates emotions through different clothing. I would like to link art to fashion.- Emanuela Di Filippo The Vestibules is pleased to host an exhibition of oil pastels by Italian artist Emanuela Di Filippo inspired by the iconic London fashion of Biba and recently featured in The Observer. Di Filippo's influences include the slender portraits Modigliani and especially, the vibrant colours of Sonia Delaunay. In The Observer she explains, "I was inspired by abstract, minimal, contemporary artists. But then I came back to my first loves: art and fashion." Biba’s designs are reminiscent of the classic Italian fashion Di Filippo grew up with: "They have a simplicity of shape, and I loved the colours such as olive, rust, and bruised purple." For Di Filippo, Biba's 60s style remains timeless. "It’s like Coco Chanel’s little black dress. It will never get old." Before moving to Bristol, Di Filippo had three solo exhibitions in England. The last two, at the Beecroft Gallery, Southend and the Worthing Muesum and Art Gallery, have been based on the synthesis of Italian and British art and fashion drawn together in the lines and the colours of Biba fashion. The Biba Inspiration Exhibition at The Vestibules consists of 25 oil pastels on paper of different sizes. A mixture of work from past exhitions but also new pastels inspired by Barbara Hulaniki's High street fashion collection. The colours and forms of these artworks utilise a wide range of colours from the silver, brown and gold of Biba to the brighter reds and yellows of Delaunay but always concentrating on the shape and pattern; the repetitions of stripes and flower patterns that characterise these fashion illustrations.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:9 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:14.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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