Alberto Biagetti

The figures designed by Alberto Biagetti and Alessandro Guerriero appear to exist in a state of "permanent continuity", or in other words, in a sequence moving forward to infinity. And in effect, the formula adopted in their creation allows for this. These are designs carried out alongside and around the "surfaces" of a number of naked bodies with results far removed from what would normally be described as "clothes". These garments, despite their fantastical nature, are nonetheless objects of apparel: possibly sculptural and theatrical costumes that are linked to the bodies in questions because they are objects in movement with the form and structure of clothing.

Analogously in Cubist, Futurist and Bauhaus performances, with their rigid costumes that are part and parcel of the stage scenery, the aim is to create a rhythmic relationship between the attired body, movement and the image expressed by a figurative form of clothing. However, where the dynamic succession of Yoox's "dressed nudes" are concerned, the approach is completely different.

The de-eroticised bodies are almost brushed against, untouched by the sequences of networks and symbolic signs that abstractly float before and around them, as if to create the idea of a frigid lack of contact between their parts that appear as immobile holograms. Everything is still. The bodies night be models, but nobody knows, the clothes might be virtual, but nobody can be sure. Everything is pretense - a bit Magritte, with garlands around the body, part illusion, part Egyptian mummy.

A virtuoso game with no limits and where the graphics rule supreme. A project centering on an alphabet of signs is effectively the key to understanding these pseudo-clothes. Shapes that float like the mist, or slither like jelly-fish around bodies artfully awaiting to receive them, as if in a distant, aesthetic, frozen, and dis-emotional ritual.

- Alessandro Mendini