あっ、あまりにくだらないことしてるので、一言だけ。ここまでくると、正直呆れますが・・・。服の模様や写真の展覧会だそうです。ただ、それだけですが、採り上げてしまいました。だって＆だって・・・。Psssssssst! 'Da Vinci Dress Code' passes secrets
【以下、原文転載】でも、読む価値はないです。
In a Des Moines bar, everybody's passing on a little secret. Don't worry, it's not about you.
Actually, the sharing of a secret was staged for "The Da Vinci Dress Code," an exhibit of photos and dress patterns on the walls of the Fourth Street bar called the Lift. "The Da Vinci Dress Code" links the title of the popular book by Dan Brown to a modern-day drama involving cell phones, drag queens, bartenders and the making of a jacket.
Michael Lane and Eric Wickes, the creators of the exhibit, sold the concept to Carlos Garza, who will be curating new shows every two months at the Lift for the next two years.
"I'm seeking to change the way art is installed and how it plays within the confines of an establishment," Garza said. "Mind perception changes when environments change."
Lane and Wickes covered the Lift's walls with McCalls and Simplicity sewing patterns. Printed on tissue paper with dotted lines, triangles and numbers, these patterns provide a backdrop like a map that leads nowhere.
Black-and-white photos along the covered walls depict people passing on secrets: bartender to patron, patron to patron, patron to cell phone, cell phone to college girlfriend, etc.
Each person appears in two frames, first receiving the secret, then passing it on. Each seems to be reacting to scandal, like the gossiping that crosses a town in minutes. Photos were taken at the Lift, the Continental, Lucky's, Drake University, the Blazing Saddle and other locales.
"We told (the subjects) to pretend they were telling or hearing some gossip that totally blew their minds," Lane said. "We were looking for dramatic reactions."
The chain of secret-sharers ends with a fuzzy image from Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" and an image of the Mona Lisa shrouded in dress pattern paper. This links it to Brown's book, and the secrets Da Vinci allegedly helped pass on through history.
The concept, Lane said, was to illustrate how history is communicated from generation to generation, person to person. As in "The Da Vinci
Code," it may all start with a secret ・any secret ・whether the secret is about beauty, the whereabouts of the Holy Grail or an embarrassing incident involving a Des Moines resident.
"People have a few beers, and things get distorted. It plays with the whole small-town thing and how secrets circle around," Lane said.
Future exhibits at the Lift will allow more Des Moines artists to express themselves on the walls of the smoke-free bar.
Next up is Tony Carico, who will show his work there from January through February. The artist for March-April is Christine Mullane; May and June will feature the work of Rusty Riley; the late summer 2006 artists are Nicole Krayneski James, Sally Giles, Lori Van Deman and Molly Tierney.
