News, United Kingdom, London, 04 May 2010
Blue Bird is pleased to exhibit artist Hormazd Geve Narielwalla’s latest photographic-collage artworks titled Oscar Hodgepodge from the 5th of May until the 6th of June. This is Narielwalla’s first London exhibit this year having had a successful showing at the Scope art fair in the Lincoln centre, NYC curated by fashion blogger Diane Pernet (A.K.A ashadedviewonfashion.com).
Sounds of well-heeled footsteps on cobblestone punctuated by the clicking point of a rolled umbrella evoke in Narielwalla a mist of tenuously attributed nostalgia. Collecting fragmented memories of old films, people and places, the mist condenses to find form in a particular gentleman, Mr. Oscar Hodgepodge, who totters awkwardly between memory and imagination in the mind of an artist born in Bombay now seeking his identity in London.
Oscar's shifting shape is haphazardly collaged from bespoke Savile Row patterns discarded after the death of a customer, utterly useless, abandoned until found by this itinerant artist whilst working for Savile Row military tailors Dege & Skinner. It was in the company of these highly skilled craftsmen at Dege where he developed an appreciation for the cutters' all-important brown paper blocks of individual customers. This fascination of the patterns prompted him to produce a limited edition book entitled Dead Man’s Patterns also presented at the store.
Creating bespoke clothes for the rich and powerful has made Savile Row iconic but in his evocative work Narielwalla shows us tailoring patterns, as they have never been seen. The immaculate outlines accentuate a quintessentially English Englishman whose stiffness trips all too easily from formality to folly. A revenant rising from redundant remnants, he is a hodgepodge held together by our longing to remember the forgotten.
Oscar Hodgepodge - Playful artworks exhibited from 5th May – 6th June at the shop at bluebird, 550 Kings Road, SW3 5UU ¬www.theshopatbluebird.com
Sounds of well-heeled footsteps on cobblestone punctuated by the clicking point of a rolled umbrella evoke in Narielwalla a mist of tenuously attributed nostalgia. Collecting fragmented memories of old films, people and places, the mist condenses to find form in a particular gentleman, Mr. Oscar Hodgepodge, who totters awkwardly between memory and imagination in the mind of an artist born in Bombay now seeking his identity in London.
Oscar's shifting shape is haphazardly collaged from bespoke Savile Row patterns discarded after the death of a customer, utterly useless, abandoned until found by this itinerant artist whilst working for Savile Row military tailors Dege & Skinner. It was in the company of these highly skilled craftsmen at Dege where he developed an appreciation for the cutters' all-important brown paper blocks of individual customers. This fascination of the patterns prompted him to produce a limited edition book entitled Dead Man’s Patterns also presented at the store.
Creating bespoke clothes for the rich and powerful has made Savile Row iconic but in his evocative work Narielwalla shows us tailoring patterns, as they have never been seen. The immaculate outlines accentuate a quintessentially English Englishman whose stiffness trips all too easily from formality to folly. A revenant rising from redundant remnants, he is a hodgepodge held together by our longing to remember the forgotten.
Oscar Hodgepodge - Playful artworks exhibited from 5th May – 6th June at the shop at bluebird, 550 Kings Road, SW3 5UU ¬www.theshopatbluebird.com
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