Tina Gorjanc turns Alexander McQueen's DNA into leather designs

Central Saint Martins graduate Tina Gorjanc proposed a conceptual range of leather accessories made of skin grown from late fashion designer Alexander McQueen's DNA.

Recently she presented her “Pure Human” project in an exhibition, using products made of pig skin to show what the final items could look like. 

The Pure Human range uses DNA sourced from labels in McQueen's first collection, Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims, which contain locks of the designer's hair housed in perspex.
After extracting the genetic material and implementing it into a cell culture, Tina process involves harvesting the cells into skin tissue. This would be tanned and processed into human leather with the view to using it in bags, jackets and backpacks.

“With the tattoos and manipulation of freckles and sunburning, I wanted to showcase the material. I think that was really important in terms of getting this connection between the jacket and McQueen.”

 "The Pure Human project was designed as a critical design project that aims to address shortcomings concerning the protection of biological information and move the debate forward using current legal structures."
 
"If a student like me was able to patent a material extracted from Alexander McQueen's biological information as there was no legislation to stop me, we can only imagine what big corporations with bigger funding are going to be capable of doing in the future. Furthermore, the project explores the ability of the technology to shift the perception of the production system for luxury goods as we know it and project its implementation in our current commercial system."

Courtesy, http://www.tinagorjanc.com

Navid Nuur - Lube Love at Bonnefantenmuseum

Visitors to the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht can now get  a free tattoo. People do have to choose from over 25 art works appearing in the exhibition LUBE LOVE.
The exhibition LUBE LOVE, of the Dutch / Iranian artist Navid Nuur was opened Thursday.
Stijn Huijts, director of the museum was the first one to get a tattoo. This is his way of showing love and engagement for art.

LUBE LOVE is a solo exhibition on the borderline between art and text, which Navid Nuur has developed especially for the Bonnefantenmuseum.

Navid Nuur's oeuvre comprises a great diversity of works in which text plays a role, ranging from literal applications to a more conceptual approach to words. This variety forms the basis for the exhibition LUBE LOVE, whose dynamics can best be characterised by the term 'freestyle'. Language and text have always played a special role in the life of this artist, in a very personal relationship, which is connected to issues of identity (Nuur is of Iranian/Dutch origin), to his background in the graffiti and skateboard scene, and to his dyslexia.

Navid Nuur (Teheran, 1976) lives and works in The Hague. Around ten years ago, he made the switch from graphic design and illustration to autonomous visual art. In a relatively short space of time, he has developed from a promising talent into a rising star in the international art world. Solo exhibitions by Navid Nuur have been presented in the Matadero art centre in Madrid, Parasol in London and Centre Pompidou in Paris. He has been awarded the Royal Award for Modern Painting (2011) and the prestigious Discoveries Prize at the first edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong (2013).

LUBE LOVE is open from 27 September to 26 January.
http://www.bonnefanten.nl

With this tattoo shop installation, Nuur creates the possibility of an intimate relationship between artwork and the viewer. 

Stijn Huijts, the first to get a tattoo at Bonnefantenmuseum