{"id":53600,"date":"2021-11-15T21:32:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/?p=53600"},"modified":"2021-11-15T21:46:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:16:40","slug":"ian-berrys-material-world-exhibits-at-textil-museet-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/events\/ian-berrys-material-world-exhibits-at-textil-museet-sweden\/53600","title":{"rendered":"Ian Berry’s ‘Material World’ Exhibits At Textil Museet Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done it again! Ian Berry <\/strong>has just opened a show in Sweden, the country he lived in for 5 years to open the solo exhibition\u00c2\u00a0Material World<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0at Textil Museet<\/strong> in Bor\u00c3\u00a5s Sweden – the National Museum of Textiles and the Nordic region\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading museum on the subject and it looks even better than the last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Textil Museet shows some of Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most well-known pieces never seen in Sweden before but often on this site – large (denim) \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccanvases\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, made with layers of recycled jeans, creating photorealistic yet often melancholy scenes out of the indigo fabric he is known throughout our industry and the world for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To celebrate showing a large collection of his works at Textil Museet Ian Berry has collaborated with Dutch fashion designer Jonathan Christopher<\/strong> to create garments inspired by his most notable bodies of work;\u00c2\u00a0Behind Closed Doors<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0Hotel California,<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>and the Secret Garden installation<\/em><\/strong>, amongst others, that debuted at the museum and looks stunning.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Secret Garden<\/strong><\/em> installation touches on subjects such as sustainability and the environment, and once more Berry collaborated with our friends Tonello in Italy for the washing and lasering and with Cone Denim. It showcases this material made from plants turning back into plants, with hanging wisteria, flowers and vines falling from the institution\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ceiling and making this even more special is the beautiful black room making the install even more magical. Within the Garden now, Jonathan Christopher has made a beautiful dress named Cunae- Cradle which looks elegant and fragile.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<\/em><\/strong>Everything we have and take starts from nature, we alter, we add, and we consume. Once we have used it, it will return to nature with all the harmful chemicals and additives we used.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em> Jonathan adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe dress is representing mother nature with her vines connecting the circle of life. Where the butterflies symbolize the butterfly effect we have on mother nature. We create our own toxic environment where our harmful practices aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t able to be undone by nature and things like microplastics are found in the animals, soils, and plants.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sustainability is also at the core of Ian Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friend Lill O.Sj\u00c3\u00b6berg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/strong> innovation. Making denim wood, TWOOD<\/strong>, is the Swedish designer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest innovation and the pair have come together to exhibit two pieces that compliment Ian Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work that looks back at the history of denim \u00e2\u20ac\u201c specifically that of Rock and Roll. TWOOD shows both a guitar and a drum kit made of wood created only with denim scraps and displayed with the album covers from Ian Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s much loved 2012 Record Store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Ian Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s specific medium is denim, and the famed industrial city also has a textile and denim heritage and is home to the national museum. Within the same complex is the Swedish school of Textiles, a part of Boras University. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading courses, if not the leading course on textile innovation and sustainability. A number of the students came to help Ian Berry in the install. His show Material World also helps the city celebrate its 400 year anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Berry Needs You! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Berry is asking, who is your favourite Denim Legend<\/strong>? <\/em>You may have seen online already the question being asked and it has continued into the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It could be from the cowboy actors, 50\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rebels, the punks of the 70\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to the influencers of today.\u00c2\u00a0Who inspired your denim looks or who do you feel had the biggest impact on denim?<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0Over the last year, he has been asking this question and using his wealth of knowledge from working with the material over the last 15 years has already created dozens of portraits from Brooke Shields to Bardot, Marley to Moss, McQueen to the material girl living in her own material world -Madonna. As he creates one of his largest works, he asks the audience to help shape it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it may even end up with a Swede in now! It may mean some of the portraits already made will get rejected so the piece will form the greatest influences from Pop Culture, making the Denim Legends<\/strong><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The temporary install in Sweden will grow and evolve over the period of the show, which is six months to May 1, adding in new Denim Legends as people and experts add their own opinion. The install at the moment also includes mannequins dressed in the distinctive style of some of the most famous, like Marilyn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lee Rider, Brando\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jeans and leather and Hendrix\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s frays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The portraits are exhibited in an area where visitors can submit their choices and also watch short videos of the making of and some of the icons in action in the films, music, and ads they helped make denim so popular in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malena Karlsson,<\/strong> Curator at the Textile Museum of Sweden, says<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ian Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work is interesting and important on so many levels. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 factor of the craft, the thematics, and the way in which his art shows how the textile material forms yet another dimension in art\u00e2\u20ac\u009d,<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ian Berry<\/strong> appeared on the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc30 Under 30\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 list of the most influential artists in the world, has exhibited his work in both the USA and Europe, and was on the 2019 Rivet 50 list of the most influential in denim. The Textile Museum of Sweden was very happy to announce the arrival of Ian Berry, a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdream\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for curator Malena Karlsson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a photograph, it’s jeans!<\/strong>
At first sight, it is easy to mistake Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work for blue- or indigo-tinted photographs, but a closer look reveals that they are made up of layer upon layer of denim in different shades. The contrasts between the different shades of blue visible in a pile of old jeans were the genesis of Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unique art form. Soon, he began to explore the possibilities offered by the material and create photorealistic artworks. Berry only uses upcycled denim in his works. No colouring agents or bleach are used \u00e2\u20ac\u201c only scissors, glue, and second-hand jeans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Berry was born and raised in Huddersfield, England, which like Bor\u00c3\u00a5s has a long-standing textile tradition. Over a decade ago, Ian Berry moved to Sweden and exhibited his art at galleries in Sk\u00c3\u00a5ne and Motala. Since then, his art has been exhibited all over the world, most recently at Museum Rijswijk in the Netherlands and in Genoa, the Italian city that leant its name to this favourite garment, jeans <\/em>with his portrait of Garibaldi. The Textile Museum of Sweden is the first Swedish museum to exhibit a large, in-depth exhibition of Ian Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Twood<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ian Berry and Lil O.Sj\u00c3\u00b6berg have been friends for several years. Ian says \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a humble genius\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. She is based not far the from the Textil Museet in Gothenburg and has worked with the Smart Textiles there. Ian Berry and Lil were together before the pandemic but since could only talk online, but together they came up with the idea to use the wood to make a drum kit, a nod to Ian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s show about the music connection to denim. There is also a denim guitar all exhibited with Ian Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s albums from the 2012 Record Store installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This material research project by Swede Lil\u00c2\u00a0O.Sj\u00c3\u00b6berg and her collaborators\u00c2\u00a0explores the possibilities to extend the lifecycle of denim fibre with a new innovative recycling technique, creating a new material TWOOD [textile-wood], and is made just had wood is created beautiful contours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The aim of this ongoing part of the project is to identify and develop the industrial processes. The goal is to produce material prototypes and evaluate the material specifications to target usability for the next step. With the material, she has been able to make items that range from tables to a beautiful denim Twood guitar and drum kit, the latter with the help of ICE percussion\/Kjetil Granli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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