KATE BUSH – MISTRALDESPAIR
2011-11-28Official animation to accompany a segment from the new Kate Bush track “Misty”.
“Misty” is the third track from Kate’s 10th studio album, 50 Words For Snow.
THE WEEKND – THE KNOWING
2011-11-28The Knowing video (a track off the Weeknd’s debut mixtape, House of Balloons) has been directed by Mikael Colombu.
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2011-11-28Richard James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin, was commissioned to compose a series of short pieces for the European Culture Congress in Poland. He came up with the idea of controlling a 48 piece string section and a 24 strong choir by remote control, using midi controllers, lots of headphones and some remote visual cues. The performance which took place on September 10th at the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw, Poland, and included members the AUKSO chamber orchestra and OCTAVA ensemble+.
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MIRIAM CAHN
2011-11-21This exhibition will focus on Cahn’s painting practice spanning three decades. A beloved and historically significant voice in Switzerland, Cahn represented her home country at the 41st Venice Biennale in 1984.
In Drawing Room Confessions Issue #3, a journal published on the occasion of Cahn’s current solo exhibition with the David Roberts Art Foundation in London, Cahn describes how her investigations in film, drawing, books, and performance inevitably led to making paintings. Growing up with black and white television and experiencing art history through books with black and white plates brought Cahn to rule out color as an unnecessary complication in her early career. Color signified wealth since few could afford to print in color.
Years later, Cahn began producing paintings in color for the first time. Cahn’s psychosomatic color palette is generational, influenced by the hyperreality of color experience depicted in artificially colored films like Michelangelo Antonioni’s, Il deserto rosso (1964). The idiosyncratic quality of her paintings can be seen as an intentional confusion of perception with reality. The figure, animal, or landscape becomes reduced to a few brutal performative gestures in some paintings while areas of sensitive but deliberate rendering exist in others.
Opposite – Lächeln, 1996
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2011
Elizabeth Dee Gallery
545 West 20th Street
New York
NY
10011
JR – ENCRAGES
2011-11-21The first major solo show by JR, after displaying his work in the biggest Museum of the world, the walls of the cities, JR faces the walls of the Gallery.
JR creates monumental photographs that he pastes around the world, infiltrating in urban life anonymous portraits, witnesses of the present and the past : Women are Heroes, in Rio de Janeiro, Jaipur, Nairobi, (2008-2010), which gave its title to JR’s movie that was selected at the Festival de Cannes in 2010 ; The Wrinkles of the City in Carthagena, Shanghai, Los Angeles (2008-2011).
JR reveals art by action, displaying his gigantic prints over the suburban buildings of Paris, on walls in the Middle East or in the United States, on broken bridges in Africa or in favelas in Brazil.
Never-seen before artwork and films will be shown, as well as a pasting on the facade of the Gallery.
Committed art, street art, participative art, ephemeral art… Beyond any category, JR makes us think by inviting on stage anonymous heroes, displaying the faces of humanity, multiple and one at the same time.
Exhibition runs through to January 7th, 2012
Galerie Perrotin
76 Rue de Turenne
75003
Paris
France
