DAVID MALJKOVIC – RECALLING FRAMES

Posted on 2011-02-28

David Maljkovic’s latest works, Recalling Frames, are photomontages that interweave still images from Orson Welles’ film The Trial, shot in Zagreb in 1962, with the artist’s own contemporary photographs of the filming locations. Welles’ haunting exploration of the terror of faceless bureaucracy was set against the city’s Cold War-era Modernist buildings, to which Maljkovic returned to carefully photograph the sites from the same dramatic angles shown in the film. Spliced together from black-and-white negative prints, the resulting unique prints conflate five decades of aesthetic and ideological change.

Exhibition runs through to April 2nd, 2011


Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011

www.metropicturesgallery.com

  

DAVID LACHAPELLE – EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERS

Posted on 2011-02-28

The series Earth Laughs in Flowers, which was created this year, refers to art-historical visual traditions but never loses sight of LaChapelle’s own artistic language.
The large-format still lifes in this series, with titles such as The Lovers, Concerning the Soul, Risk or America, seamlessly take up the principle of exaggeration that characterized the portraits of celebrities like Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Michael Jackson, Björk or David Bowie through which LaChapelle himself has become famous since the 1990s. The portraits always contained art-historical references, along with a fear of emptiness, a love of bad taste, an ugly beauty, but David LaChapelle’s recent works now show an explicit compositional affinity to Baroque floral still lifes. Plants, fruits and objects, in place of human bodies, now bear witness to human pride, to the finiteness of life with its obsessions and compulsions, to pleasure and suffering.

Opposite – The House at the End of the World, 2005

Exhibition runs through to May 8th, 2011

Kestnergesellschaft
Goseriede 11
30159
Hanover
Germany

www.kestnergesellschaft.de

  

MICHAEL HESS – BINGO & SOCIAL CLUB

Posted on 2011-02-28

In Bingo & Social Club, London-based photographer Michael Hess opens the doors on this much-loved pastime providing an intimate insight into its gamers and often nostalgic-looking interiors. Candidly capturing the energy and vibrancy inside the often crumbling exterior walls of bingo halls across the country on old classic 35mm black and white film, Hess’ images – taken over four years and in nearly 70 different venues.

Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2011

The Book Club
100 -106 Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4RH

www.wearetbc.com

  

CAVES OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

Posted on 2011-02-28

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

In theaters March 25th, 2011

  

THE CONSPIRATOR

Posted on 2011-02-28

Mary Surratt (she owned a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth planned the assassination) is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life. Directed by Sundance Kid himself Robert Redford.

In theaters April 15th, 2011

www.conspiratorthemovie.com

  

THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH

Posted on 2011-02-28

Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri, has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project’s residents. For screenings check www.pruitt-igoe.com