Bruce Asbestos uses AI to create Bauhaus-inspired designs for new fashion exhibitions.

Bruce Asbestos Uses Artificial Intelligence to Create Bauhaus-Inspired Designs for New Fashion Exhibitions – This free exhibition showcases Asbestos’ signature blend of fashion, art, pop culture and technology. It features the artist’s artificial intelligence (AI)-generated fashion designs for his Fall/Winter 2024 collection, presented alongside a curated selection of films from his fashion shows exhibited as large-scale immersive projections.

For its Fall/Winter 2024 collection, Asbestos draws inspiration from its fascination with the Bauhaus movement. The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 as a school of arts and crafts and launched a powerful movement that would change the course of art history, influencing graphic design, architecture, interiors, and furniture design.

Using Bauhaus fundamentals and black-and-white archival images as the basis for his AI suggestions, Asbestos transformed the designs into a veritable fashion show. The resulting monochrome designs are a testament to the lasting impact of the Bauhaus ethos, reimagined for the digital age. Clean lines, bold colours and geometric shapes fuse with cutting-edge materials and 3D printing to create garments that are both timeless and futuristic.

Bauhaus was more than an architectural style; it was a new way of thinking. Many of the Bauhaus designs were not possible at the time because the manufacturing technology was not available until decades later. I am curious to know what the Bauhaus artists would have thought about the possibilities of AI and wanted to channel their ethos of optimism and progress into my work.

says Bruce Asbestos.

Many clothing brands are now using AI to help with design processes, with clothing images generated from input prompts, visualising different materials and patterns. However, AI Hides the Hidden Work of Fashion Design. It creates striking images without considering the structural intricacies of garment construction or even the physical feasibility of certain designs. AI designs don’t show the inside of a garment or explain how it should be assembled. This limitation inadvertently obscures the human effort required to transform these digital concepts into tangible, wearable pieces.

As Bruce Asbestos says,

During the project, I began to think that imperfections in physical fashion designs are somehow a sign that humans have been there.

We are proud to welcome the first exhibition of Bruce Asbestos’ iconic runway shows here at Leicester Gallery.

The exhibition, which includes a film of the final runway show, AW2024, functions both as a dramatic sculptural installation drawing on the aesthetics of high-end retail and as a reflection on the intertwining visual economies of haute couture and contemporary art.

Hugo Worthy, curator at the Leicester Gallery, DMU.

Bruce Asbestos: A/W 2024 August 31, 2024 Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University

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About the artist

Hugo Worthy, curator at the Leicester Gallery, DMU.

“Through his clever use of social media, his personal reworking of global pop culture and his use of new digital technologies, he has established an unmistakable visual identity and a unique brand (complete with logos) to become almost a living work of art.” – Art critic

East Midlands artist Bruce Asbestos graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University, won a scholarship to Musashino University in Tokyo and then attended Hive Business School. He completed a Masters at Nottingham Trent, during which he won a scholarship to RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Exhibitions and projects include Mega Bunny & Friends (SPILL Festival), Bootleg Shreg & Friends (Humber Street Gallery), Eye of Newt 2.0 (QUAD, Derby), New British Informal (Browns East, London), Burple Purple (Recent Activity, Birmingham), Ok! Cherub! (Bluecoat, Liverpool), S/S 2021 (Power, National Justice Museum), S/S 2020 (Bonington Gallery), Bruce Asbestos X Juliana Sissons (Primary), A/W Collection (Kunstraum, London), A/W 2018 (Nottingham Contemporary), an Arts Council International Fund project in New York and Philadelphia, and Bruce Asbestos AB Testing (Concrete, Hayward Gallery, London). Asbestos was also commissioned by EM15 for ‘Sunscreen’ at the Venice Biennale and participated in the Ivan Poe / Reactor project for Plymouth Art Weekender. In 2013/4 he was nominated for the £300,000 Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Fund. Bruce Asbestos’ work has been included in the Government Art Collection and the National Justice Museum collection.

Recent and current projects include The Hooboos at Aviva Studios, Factory International (June 2024), and an exhibition of inflatable sculptures at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (1st August – 8th September). The Hooboos will tour to Rosehill Theatre, Whitehaven, Cumbria (24th – 31st August) and Ah Haa School for the Arts Telluride, Colorado (19th – 21st July).

In 2024, Bruce Asbestos became CEO of his own company Bruce Asbestos Ltd.

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