06.06.25
A workshop that has within it the memories of so many delivered at @iuav_moda first in Treviso and then Venice. They form part of a two decade long conversation with @lafrisa . @antoniomasciariello was at many of the workshops and is my host today.
I will be speaking about the studio work carried out at @j_clarkspace
A special day out today to visit @stephenjonesmillinery exhibition @palaisgallieramuseedelamode
He has always been an inspiration to me and the exhibition was full of his references, humour and chic: What to add, what to splice, what to twist, what to simply turn into a tiara, always joyous and always new. Congratulations dear Stephen.
Research Souvenir 02
Two finger ring with souvenir box
The ring is the latest iteration of a long term research project based on the Judgement of Paris. The ring is based on the missing section of the Judgement of Paris sarcophagus hanging in Palazzo Altemps in Rome. It depicts not the central drama but the river gods that Aby Warburg believed was (after Raimondi) part of a cultural thread that re-emerged with the Dejeuner sur l’Erbe.
By recovering this section of the panel the transmission is reactivated. The ring and its box re-imagine the project in the style of ‘grand tour’ souvenirs of Rome that often took the form of parures.
The ring is currently included in Memorabile Ipermoda exhibition in Rome curated by @lafrisa
A travel album by the extraordinary artist Mirella Clemencigh who worked as a buyer and designer at Fiorucci. One of the many unpublished objects in the exhibition Elio Fiorucci @triennalemilano
When anyone speaks about Fiorucci they start with a personal anecdote. So it is only fair that I do the same. I don’t have this TShirt anymore but I do remember that I insisted upon wearing it for the only studio portrait I have ever sat for. I remember why. That it was funny and it was pretending to be dungarees. It was saying something and I wanted to play along.
I learned later that Anna Piaggi reported that season on those TShirts. Moda-Copia she called them. She was to become one of my heros.
So it is with particular pleasure that I post today that tomorrow Elio Fiorucci opens to the public at @triennalemilano an exhibition I have curated and that the inspired @fabio_cherstich has designed. @mrsammicheli@triennalemilano@lucastoppinistudio
Until mid January Judith Clark Studio will store the exhibition: Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Itinerant Archive that will be exhibited at the Architectural Association from 18 Jan- 7 March 2024. Friday 15 December 1933 was the date the Warburg library arrived in London from Hamburg. To mark the 90 th anniversary we hosted the book launch for the wonderful publication edited by Tim Anstey and Mari Lending that accompanies the project and created a stamp to signal the arrival of the crates on that day.
The crates hold 7 1:75 models of the spaces that held the famous itinerant library between 1926-58.
Anstey and Lending write in their ‘Warburg Models: Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge’ ‘Introducing the scale model as a vehicle to understand the concerns of an architecture that might be called Warburgian, we attempt to construct a “little library” - a visualisation of buildings and a retelling of their stories organised according to an overarching principle of architectural representation- revealing connections through juxtaposition and sequence in a way that recalls the efficacies of Warburg’s own instrumentalising library.’
Of the 7 models we are - as a preview - showing the model of the ship SSHermia (1933) that transported the library to London made by @maratruebenbach
The studio is storing the crates but also the supports that have been created to hold the models. These replicate those used in the exhibition planned by Aby Warburg and Fritz Saxl for the Hamburg Planetarium 1930 - and so we are also storing a fragment of exhibition-making history.
