Arthur Arbesser curates the art and fashion exhibition for Heidi Horten in Vienna
Arthur Arbesser curated the LOOK exhibition, including top couturier dresses, portraits and photos about the life of Heidi Horten, the founder of the homonymous museum in Vienna!
The designer Arthur Arbesser paid tribute to the collector Heidi Horten. The Austrian miliaria, died2 creature at dawn on June 1, a few days after the inauguration of her creature. A private museum of modern and contemporary art, to which you have proudly given your name, Heidi Horten collection. The privilege? Being in the heart of Vienna, between the Albertina Museum and the Opera House.
Combining art and fashion, photography and image, the museum’s first exhibition dedicated to its founder and curated by Austrian designer. Organized by themes, the exhibition highlights this stimulating and meaningful interaction. Between glamorous divas, avant-garde modern women, contemplative portraits, psychologizing representations of femininity, fetish accessories, nude portraits and feminist movements, LOOK ranges from the 19th century to the present day.
Arthur Arbesser X Heidi Horten collection
«For me, working on this exhibition was a journey into an unknown world. In which I wanted to focus simply on the dazzling beauty, but also on the style, on the attitude and, of course, on the woman herself », said Arthur Arbesser. The exhibition includes a collection of 22 high fashion dresses by Christian Dior, Hubert de Givenchy, Yves Saint LaurentJean Patou and Jean-Louis Scherrer. Dresses designed exclusively for Heidi Horten’s formal occasions.
In addition to the original designs with fabric samples that the collector received from the couturiers or their ateliers in Paris. “These unique dresses and the exciting art that they feature in this collection give us an intimate glimpse into Heidi Goëss-Horten’s sense of beauty and her creative spirit,” concluded the Viennese designer.
The exhibition will be open to the public until April 16, 2023 inside the private museum created by Horten to collect the over 500 works collected over the course of his life among which those of artists come Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Kees van Dongen, August Macke and Andy Warhol.
Heidi Horten collection
Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Vienna
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