This summer, the Brooklyn Museum will stage a version of the first institutional survey dedicated to the late fashion designer and creative visionary Virgil Abloh. The show, titled “Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech,” will build on an earlier exhibition of the same name that originated at the MCA Chicago in 2019, and then traveled to ICA Boston, the High Museum in Atlanta, and Qatar Museums. — Artnet News
The Brooklyn Museum’s showcase of the exhibit is organized by writer and curator Antwaun Sargent and will be Abloh’s first posthumous retrospective since his passing at the age of 41 in November.
Originally a mid-career survey, “Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech,” designed by AMO director Samir Bantal, explores two decades of Abloh’s prolific career that saw the creative merge the gaps between seemingly disparate realms, including streetwear, high fashion, architecture, and music.
The exhibition will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from July 1, 2022, through January 29, 2023.
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This will be fairly similar to the show at the MCA, won't it? Even that came a bit early for Abloh, despite his prodigeous output. There were pieces that seem to be celebrate the man but didn't possess much merit on their own - such as his undergraduate thesis project, which took up an entire room. The OMA-curated show took pains to showcase more art and installation - most of which were fairly derivative - than his fashion designs, which were more interesting.
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Honestly, the things he was doing were done in most arch-art schools and was nothing ground breaking, I mean respect...
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