Artist statement: Gino Anthonisse (Invest)

As a designer Gino Anthonisse is always on a quest for wonder. He believes that we think we know everything nowadays and this mindset is reflected in our everyday life. Because everything in life is explained and already has a reason. Real wonder is something that hardly exists anymore in our society. Gino Anthonisse reflects on this by bringing his wondrous collages to life. By combining classic garments and ethnic elements together with strange materials and techniques he creates designs that are surprising as well as surreal. Currently Gino Anthonisse is working on a new collection, in which he is combining collages with origami. He invented a way to design clothing without sewing, by only using folding for its construction. Gino Anthonisse is co-founder of Das Leben am Haverkamp, a design collective and creative platform that aims to create a novel context for their individual labels of the participants, and an unrestricted way of working and thinking. In January 2017 Das Leben am Haverkamp showed their collection during the Paris Men's Fashion Week and in July 2017 they will be part of the Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek Amsterdam.

Profile Gino Anthonisse on haagsekunstenaars.nl

www.ginoanthonisse.com

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