Saturday, 12 December 2020, 6:11 am
A new exhibition with the WOW factor has opened at Te
Papa, offering an up close view of wearable art from around
the world.
World of WearableArt – Up Close (Ao
KākahuToi – Kia Tata) is a brand-new exhibition
featuring garments from World of WearableArt, the world’s
leading wearable art competition, founded right here in New
Zealand.
The blockbuster summer exhibition opens at Te
Papa on Saturday 12 December 2020 and closes on Sunday 14
February 2021.
Local creators with garments in the
exhibition joined WOW founder Dame Suzie Moncrieff for an
opening party on Friday night to start the exhibition’s
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World of WearableArt designer and 2019 Aotearoa section winner Dylan Mulder with his design, Natural Progression, which was co-designed by artificial intelligence. The exhibition features garments that have appeared in the world’s most significant wearable art competition, usually presented as a stage show which was this year cancelled due to Covid-19. Instead, visitors can now experience the intricate detail in an intimate display, from today until February 14. Visitors will enter a series of unique environments, filled with colour, light, and sound, featuring the garments as they’ve never been seen before.
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Many of Mulder’s successes have come off the back of WOW, and his achievements at the competition; an internship with Cirque du Soleil, for one.