christophbroich:
“CHRISTOPH BROICH Home Project
at MAISON&OBJET PARIS
Parc des expositions – Paris Nord Villepinte
24 - 28 march,. 2022
SIGNATURE
Belgium is Design
Hall 7 Booth A40-B39
Open Friday-Monday
9.30am-7pm
Tuesday, 9.30am-6pm
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christophbroich:

CHRISTOPH BROICH Home Project
at    MAISON&OBJET PARIS
Parc des expositions – Paris Nord Villepinte
24 - 28 march,. 2022


SIGNATURE
Belgium is Design
Hall 7  Booth A40-B39
Open Friday-Monday
9.30am-7pm
Tuesday, 9.30am-6pm

CHRISTOPH BROICH Home Project
at MAISON&OBJET PARIS
Parc des expositions – Paris Nord Villepinte
24 - 28 march,. 2022
SIGNATURE
Belgium is Design
Hall 7 Booth A40-B39
Open Friday-Monday
9.30am-7pm
Tuesday, 9.30am-6pm

CHRISTOPH BROICH Home Project
at    MAISON&OBJET PARIS
Parc des expositions – Paris Nord Villepinte
24 - 28 march,. 2022


SIGNATURE
Belgium is Design
Hall 7  Booth A40-B39
Open Friday-Monday
9.30am-7pm
Tuesday, 9.30am-6pm

The Future of Fashion is Now Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL

    

The sculptures of Christoph Broich are an attempt to manipulate proportions and perspective in order to mislead the public and to play with their sense of space. Take his trompe l'oeil - like An Outfit (2002). Broich’s work is an investigation of the history of the materials and movements in today’s art world, which he then combines with references from pop culture, thus creating an entirely unique, idiosyncratic signature. Broich wants to stimulate the public to think about how they relate to the space they are occupying and how the work relates to the art and fashion world.

An Outfit was shown at the exhibition Ptychoseis = Folds and Pleats:  Drapery from Ancient Greek Dress to 21st-century Fashion in 2004 in the Benaki Museum in Athens. It is part of the collection of the Mode Museum in Antwerp. The work is a canvas that is printed on the front and the back. ’An outfit' is sewn to the front of the canvas with a text printed over that. Christoph Broich took his inspiration for the text from the British new wave band XTC and their LP Go2 from 1978. Written on the sleeve of the record is an indictment against the consumption culture. Broich adapted the text to his own views for An Outfit: ’ This is a COLLECTOR’S ITEM. This writing is the DESIGN upon the ITEM’S SURFACE. The DESIGN is to help SELL the ITEM. We hope to draw your attention to it and encourage you to pick it up. Then we want you to BUY it. ’ So An Outfit has to do with the techniques of seduction that are used in the fashion world to convince the consumer to buy something. ‘Luring the victim’ as Broich himself puts it.

Broich exposed the canvas and the outfit to high temperatures and pressures of various intensities. Because each material has its own properties and thicknesses so that it responds to heat and pressure differently, all the materials undergo different degrees of discoloration and shrinkage. The back of the canvas underwent only slight pressure, so the black color printed on it is blurred and has turned green.The result is an X-ray like image. Thus Christoph Broich refers to our outer appearance and the way fashion functions as a façade to clothe the outside and to keep our deepest interior, our soul, hidden.

The Future of Fashion is Now - Catalogue

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CB @ ’The Future of Fashion is Now’ exhibition - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam NL

My works for - BORG 2014 - biennial event for contemporary art

title: - finally - ongoing decomposing - startet in 2006

to see @ Districtshuis Borgerhout/Antwerp

Christoph Broich @ ETAGI, St. Petersburg

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Christoph Broich presents a selection of his work in one of the most exiting venues for contemporary art in St Petersburg today – Loft Project – ETAGI . Broich is best known as an artist for his impressive sculptural installations which take the form of casts or ‘skins’. Steering away from the much-hyped confluence of art and fashion in recent years, Broich’s artwork has received international attention for his ‘Lara’ series as well as his impressive “The Girl Who Sold Her Soul To The Devil And Won”

Before turning to contemporary art, Christoph was an internationally renowned fashion designer. He graduated from the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts and has resided in Belgium’s cultural capital ever since. Christoph Broich has received international attention with sculptural installations that have come to stand for a willful sensitivity to the body and mortality. His work is a manifestation of the complex and unquiet correlation between life and work, material and concept.

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In his Kopf (Head) series, the artist successfully expands his visual vocabulary by creating a cohesive environment around a single element, the head. Cut up iconic items of clothing and fabric are collaged onto busts and then painted with several coats of latex. Upon completion, as with all of Broich’s meticulously made sculptures, the bust is destroyed and the shell (skin) is all that remains.

Broich’s skinned sculptures focus on deterioration and present the reversal of the natural process: skin and flesh decomposing first and the skeleton remaining. Suspended from the ceiling, the heads create an eerie field of beheaded individuals.

Inspired by the Weimar bacchanalia, “Voluptuous Panic” invites the viewer to become part of the action. Understanding the importance of absence as well as presence in the deployment of his sculpted elements within a real space, Broich proves to be a master at orchestration and placement.

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Spatially isolated through perspective techniques, curious manipulated, cast characters populate the weirdly decadent environment. The choice of mannequins, empty, non-threatening ‘everyone’ figures is deliberate, its effect one of alienation. All of the characters in Voluptuous Panic sustain a bland look. They stare into emptiness as they lean on enigmatic moments frozen in space and time, a singular, inexplicable silent moment.

The piece “The Girl Who Sold Her Soul To The Devil And Won” is dedicated to Amanda Lear and her album “Sweet Revenge”. Amanda Lear started her career as a model in the mid 1960s and was also the muse of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalií. She first came to the public’s attention as the fetish clad model on the cover of Roxy Music’s album For Your Pleasure in 1973. She was a multimillion selling Disco Queen from the mid 70s to the early 80s. As from the mid 80s she positioned herself as one of the leading media personalities in mainland Europe, especially in Italy and in France. Since the 1990s her time has been divided between music, television, writing and movies as well as pursuing her career as a painter.

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Loft Project ETAGI is a pioneer of loft-design in the city of St. Petersburg. Since 2007 ETAGI (which means “floors”) has been located in the very centre of the city in an industrial building of previous property of Smolninskiy bakery factory. The interior of the old factory was preserved in many elements, like concrete pillars with metal edges, a drilling machine and equipment for baking bread; and some designer features were added (the original factory floor of cast iron blocks with bright red joints and glass windows in it), as well as some luxury trimming, antique furniture and snazzy details.

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The Girl Who Sold Her Soul To The Devil And Won

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