One of the industry's most prolific and hyped talents just got his own museum exhibition in Chicago:
"Virgil Abloh: 'Figures of Speech'" explores the designer's work in fashion, music and more while shining a light on the "beating heart of inquiry" at the center of it all.Author:Jenny BergPublish date:Jun 10, 2019Updated onJun 10, 2019Though Chicago isn't exactly Virgil Abloh's hometown — he grew up some 90 miles northwest of it, in Rockford, Illinois — it's certainly his town this summer.
Beyond the wall, the first two galleries focus on Abloh's work in fashion. In a room themed "Early Work," a video shows his designs for the 2012 fashion experiment Pyrex Vision, which featured screen-printed designs on mass-produced T-shirts.
A gallery called "Black Gaze" shifts into weightier subject matter and is what Darling refers to as "the meaty part of the exhibition in many ways." On one end of the gallery, there's a neon sign that spells out a line from the film "Pretty Woman": "You're obviously in the wrong place." There are also framed images from Abloh's past fashion campaigns and a new painting that features the Cotton logo with its colors inverted.
The sense of something to-be-continued is echoed in the final gallery, dubbed "The End." According to Darling, "it is in quotes, which makes us think that this is not really the end, and of course it's not for a 38-year-old artist. There's lots ahead of him."
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