{"id":8234,"date":"2019-05-08T11:48:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insplosion.com\/blog\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:48:50","slug":"explore-extremely-eccentric-met-2019-exhibition-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insplosion.com\/blog\/posts\/explore-extremely-eccentric-met-2019-exhibition-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"EXPLORE THE EXTREMELY ECCENTRIC MET 2019 EXHIBITION ON CAMP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for the funnier exhibition of the year? The \u201cCamp: Notes on Fashion<\/em><\/span>\u201d at the MET Museum<\/strong> will try to give a possible explanation to the elusive concept of camp<\/span>, a quest in which many failed! Preceded by the MET Gala night – a triumph of campy philosophy and eccentric style \u2013 the MET 2019 EXHIBITION ON CAMP<\/strong><\/em><\/span> starts its journey through history from the 1671 Moliere play<\/em> in which the word camp appeared for the first time as a verb (\u201cse camper<\/em>\u201d to indicate \u201cto flaunt or posture<\/em>\u201d) to the 21st<\/sup> century fashion creations focused on this volatile aesthetic: exaggeration, theatricality, parody, humor, artifice, and pastiche are only some the elements that render its description a really hard job. As Italian scholar Fabio Cleto<\/em> said to try to clear our minds: \u201cCamp is a question mark that won’t let its line be straightened into an exclamation point<\/em>\u201d. Its pretentious essence – scattering from fashion items to cultural themes and ideas \u2013 is what you are going to find at the MET 2019 EXHIBITION ON CAMP<\/strong><\/em><\/span>! Do you want to know more? Let\u2019s begin!<\/p>\n

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THE MET 2019 EXHIBITION ON CAMP<\/h1>\n

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From May 9th<\/sup> to September 8th<\/sup><\/strong>, at the Met Fifth Avenue<\/em><\/strong> (NYC), the exhibition \u201cCamp: Notes on Fashion<\/em><\/span>\u201d will be featured in the museum\u2019s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall<\/em>. Andrew Bolton<\/strong>, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, decided to give a concise structure to the exhibition \u2013 an artistic journey in which nothing is explained and pinned down, leaving a total freedom of opinion to its visitors, capable of reaching their own conclusions (or maybe not!).<\/p>\n

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Starting from the first part of the\u00a0MET 2019 EXHIBITION ON CAMP\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span>about the historical contest and the first times and approaches to the camp style<\/span>: from the 17th<\/sup> century European queer culture – in which Louis XIV\u2019s Versailles could be an archetype of camp architecture – explained through sculptures, paintings, and letters, and grounds camp in a pink-painted gallery, to the figure of Oscar Wild, arrested for \u201cgross indecency\u201d. The Irish poet was the inspirations behind Susan Sontag\u2019s essay \u201cNote on camp<\/span>\u201d, used as an explanatory system<\/em> by the curator to give a wider perspective of camp style, right next to the relative fashion items.<\/p>\n

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Camp<\/strong> is the reinforcement of the mass production\u2019s power versus products\u2019 uniqueness, like the Warhol Campbell\u2019s tomato soup printed on a minidress or artifice and exaggeration to the extreme, like a three million feather dress or fashion from the twenties, it\u2019s \u201csuperficial style over content<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The second part of the MET 2019 EXHIBITION ON CAMP<\/strong><\/em><\/span> tries to provide a closer-to-the-truth answer to the question \u201cWhat is Camp?\u201d and consists of a darkened room in which various rainbow-colored display cases are filled with fashion items and accessories. The focus is oriented on these last elements and their value as autonomous objects: \u201cAccessories are camp in themselves. They are such a vehicle for novelty and whimsy<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The essay and other artists\u2019 possible descriptions offer a welcoming framework, useful to provide a cultural and historical perspective<\/span>. But the inspiration of camp models in fashion through decades and the ramification of camp sensibility in cultural and political societies created an extremely fluid and dynamic concept, almost impossible to grasp within our minds. As the curator admitted: \u201cI want people to leave thinking, \u2018What is camp?\u2019 That is the power and the poetry behind camp, constantly trying to define it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Did you enjoy this MET 2019 EXHIBITION ON CAMP<\/strong><\/em><\/span> article? Don\u2019t forget to check out our other articles about art exhibitions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for the funnier exhibition of the year? The \u201cCamp: Notes on Fashion\u201d at the MET Museum will try to give a possible explanation to the elusive concept of camp, a quest in which many failed! Preceded by the MET Gala night – a triumph of campy philosophy and eccentric style \u2013 the MET 2019 EXHIBITION ON CAMP starts its journey through history from the 1671 Moliere play in which the word camp appeared for the first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452],"tags":[612,613,611,614],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational-blog","tag-camp","tag-met","tag-met-2019-exhibition","tag-nyc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEXPLORE THE EXTREMELY ECCENTRIC MET 2019 EXHIBITION ON CAMP | Insplosion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The MET 2019 exhibition on Camp has just arrived. Enter and discover the most fun MET exhibition of the year. 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