{"id":12880,"date":"2015-07-11T10:10:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T10:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it\/en\/?post_type=exhibition&#038;p=12880"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:43:51","slug":"azzedine-alaia-couture-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/galleriaborghese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/exhibition\/azzedine-alaia-couture-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"AZZEDINE ALA\u00cfA. COUTURE\/SCULPTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry p-4 xs-p-2\">\n<p>Azzedine, a couturier who began his training the study of sculpture, observes the body and space, builds the silhouette with the dress and captures its movement. The clothes exhibited at the Galleria Borghese were chosen or created specifically for the exhibition: the place of sculpture <em>par excellence<\/em>, the museum expresses its widest range of variants, colours and materials. These match the Tunisian designer\u2019s models which in turn create a common ground for the different disciplines of art. The museum\u2019s timeframes, whether slow or fast, but personal, coincide with those of Ala\u00efa\u2019s creativity.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter between the Galleria Borghese and the works of Azzedine Ala\u00efa takes place within an exhibition project that strives to explore the museum\u2019s identity as a place of sculpture, through contemporary forms. Its works, from antiquity to the nineteenth century, celebrate the body, revealing its softness or enhancing the lines of its profiles, and clad it in garments whose folds are sculpted, surprising and seducing the observer.<\/p>\n<p>In his attention to the material \u2013 fabric, leather or metal \u2013 whether conceiving the forms or modeling the bodies, Azzedine\u2019s clothes, \u201csoft\u201d sculptures, correspond to the poetics and inventiveness of each sculpted work. A balancing of references reveals the master\u2019s profound perception and assimilation of the place and of the sculptures exhibited.<\/p>\n<p>The dresses are exhibited in themes, colours and forms that are consistent with the works in the various rooms, in order to create continuity with and accentuate the gallery\u2019s collection. The exhibition, inspired by the relationship between the master and the Galleria Borghese, reveals a lot about Ala\u00efa\u2019s creativity,and \u00a0his quest for relationships and intersections in shaping the clothes and the female body.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azzedine, a couturier who began his training the study of sculpture, observes the body and space, builds the silhouette with the dress and captures its movement. 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