Jean Paul Gaultier is Coming to Rotterdam for Exhibition

From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk

'The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier' is more of a contemporary installation than a retrospective. Over a hundred and forty original creations from the early 1970s to the present day, and from both his haute couture collections and his ready-to-wear lines, can be seen at the Kunsthal. Most of these pieces are being exhibited for the first time in the Netherlands, with exceptional loans from Madonna and Pedro Almodovar to name a few. Fashion show recordings, television programmes, films, videos, sketches and photographs by leading photographers complete the world of Gaultier. In this multimedia exhibition, thirty unique mannequins wearing remarkable wigs and headdresses by Odile Gilbert, founder of the Atelier 68 in Paris, come 'alive' with interactive faces created by technologically ingenious audiovisual projections, surprising visitors with their lifelike presence. Poetic and playful, the production, design and staging of this dynamic audiovisual element has been produced by Denis Marleau and Stéphanie Jasmin of UBU/Compagnie de création from Montreal, Canada. A dozen celebrities, including Gaultier himself, have lent their faces -projected on to the mannequins - and often their voices to this project. Jolicoeur International from Canada have designed all the mannequins and the scenography was created by Projectiles from Paris.  

Catalogue

Published by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with American publisher Abrams and under the direction of Thierry-Maxime Loriot, the first ever monograph on Jean Paul Gaultier has been published to accompany the exhibition.

The exhibition was developed by the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with Maison Jean Paul Gaultier.