Uniform

25.01 - 20.09.2020
MAST.GALLERY / FOYER

UNIFORM: INTO THE WORK / OUT OF THE WORK is the new exhibition project of Fondazione MAST. Curated by Urs Stahel, it is dedicated to work uniforms and it shows, through over 600 pictures by great international photographers, the many types of clothing worn by workers in different historical, social and professional contexts. Designed to distinguish those who wear them, on the one hand uniforms signal membership of a category, an order or a corps, without distinction of class or background, on the other hand they can also highlight the wearer's separation from the community. The word "uniform" simultaneously reveals inclusion and exclusion.

UNIFORM: INTO THE WORK / OUT OF THE WORK includes a group exhibition on work uniforms in the images of 44 photographers and a solo exhibition by Walead Beshty that brings together hundreds of portraits of art world insiders, whose extremely diverse, unconventional professional clothing seems to comply with a sort of tacit code of the anti-uniform.

Artists in the exhibition:

PAOLA AGOSTI, SONJA BRAAS, SERGEY BRATKOV, MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO, ULRICH BURCHERT, SONG CHAO, CLEGG & GUTTMANN, HANS DANUSER, BARBARA DAVATZ, RINEKE DIJKSTRA, ALFRED EISENSTAEDT, WALKER EVANS, ARNO FISCHER, ROLAND FISCHER, ANDRÉ GELPKE, WERONIKA GESICKA, BRAD HERNDON, LIU HEUNG SHING, GRACIELA ITURBIDE, TOBIAS KASPAR, HERLINDE KOELBL, HIROJI KUBOTA, L.G. ROSE COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHER, ERICH LESSING, DANNY LYON, DOUG MENUEZ, MARIANNE MUELLER, NASA PHOTOGRAPHS, HELGA PARIS, PAOLO PELLEGRIN, IRVING PENN, ANDRI POL, MARION POST WOLCOTT, TIMM RAUTERT, HERBERT RITTS, JUDITH JOY ROSS, SEBASTIÃO SALGADO, AUGUST SANDER, OLIVER SIEBER, HITOSHI TSUKIJI, ALBRECHT TÜBKE, FLORIAN VAN ROEKEL, STEPHEN WADDELL

VIRTUAL TOUR WITH THE CURATOR
Virtual tour of the exhibition "Uniform", by the curator Urs Stahel

THE EXHIBITION

BENEDETTA BARZINI
UNIFORMED GARMENTS AND MORE. A REFLECTION FOR MAST
Benedetta Barzini, icon of beauty and style of the 60s, muse of international artists and photographers, writer, journalist and lecturer, reflects on the concept of uniformity of clothing and thought starting from the photographic documentation of the exhibition.

THE MAKING OF

THE WOMEN
Among the over 600 photographs on show at the MAST, find women’s uniforms: from the female workers in Paola Agosti’s images of the ‘70s to Roland Fischer’s nun, from the André Gelpke’s dancer to the young sale assistants of H&M clothing company portrayed by Barbara Davatz.

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AS SEEN BY THE ARTISTS
In their photographs, Sonja Braas, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Doug Menuez, Hitoshi Tsukiji, Hans Danuser, Song Chao show workwear that becomes protective clothing.