Official video from Karmaloop and Mad Decent for Diplo’s “Express Yourself” featuring vocals by Nicky Da B. Full EP coming in May, along with the release of his new book 128 Beats Per Minute: Diplo’s Visual Guide To Music, Culture And Everything In Between, out everywhere this April.
TweetPaul Weller unveils the trippy new video for ‘Green’, the latest single to be taken from his album ‘Sonik Kicks’.
The ‘Sonik Kicks’ download from iTunes comes with host of extra content including two bonus tracks, seven videos, a track by track guide and interview with Weller.
Grinderman 2 RMX is a collection of remixes, reinterpretations & collaborations released on March 26th (U.S March 27th).
Tracks include “Super Heathen Child” – which teams the band up with legendary guitarist Robert Fripp (King Crimson, David Bowie, Eno); a remix of “Mickey Mouse & the Goodbye Man” by producer/-musician Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age); “When My Baby Comes” by Cat’s Eyes (a duo consisting of Horrors’ front-man Faris Badwan and soprano Rachel Zeffira) and “Evil” reinterpreted by Silver Alert (Grinderman’s Jim Sclavunos) and The National’s Matt Berninger.
Garbage Pail Kids is a series of collectible stickers produced by Topps in the 1980s. They combined spectacular artwork and over-the-top satire. The result was an inspired collaboration between avant-garde cartoonists and humorists including Art Spiegelman, Mark Newgarden, John Pound, Tom Bunk, and Jay Lynch. A new generation of fans continues to embrace this pop-culture phenomenon as Garbage Pail Kids stickers are still being published. Now, for the first time, all 206 rare and hard-to-find images from Series 1 through 5 are collected in an innovative package, along with a special set of four limited-edition, previously unreleased bonus stickers.
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In a collection of new paintings, Holly Coulis presents large scale still-lifes and landscapes in broad and subtle color. She cleverly employs the simplicity of traditional genres as a framework for a complex exploration of the language of painting. The work is simultaneously cerebral and emotional, playfully raising questions about our relationship to images while finding poignant tensions in an idiosyncratic sense of color, line, and material. Colors range from vibrant to murky, paint marks from elegant to gritty, and space from harmonious to awkward; the work embodies an unexpected sense of beauty that encompasses much more than visual affect. In both theme and execution, the levity of her work is always in play with a darker, more serious subtext.
In “Pink Flowers, Red Vase,” the vase appears on the verge of ever so gracefully tipping off the back edge of the table. While the under-painting serves to designate foreground from background, vase from table, the application of subsequent, vibrant layers of complimentary colors works to flatten that space and suspend our belief in the cast shadows. This peculiar push-pull is not uncommon in Coulis’ paintings, which draw upon a mix of influences as varied as cartoons, French painting and Pop. Similarly, the scale possesses both a stark monumentality and playful intimacy; an effect that is heightened by Coulis’ simplified edges and flattened shapes drawn, in part, from the smaller sketches that are her sources.
Opposite – Daisies, 2011
Exhibition runs through to April 28th, 2012
Cherry and Martin
2712 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA 90034
The current exhibition “Color Me Beautiful” marks a turning point for Nana Dix from collage back to painting, an organic artistic development. After years of abstinence from the medium of painting she returns and showcases a developed stage. Whereas the former collages reflected the overflow of images and the unrest of our times, the monochromatic color fields of the current exhibition indicate a ruminant withdrawal, which can be regarded as an allusion towards the abstract paintings of Mark Rothko. Contrary to the latter one the works of Nana Dix also feature an intrusion of aggression into the otherwise harmonic color fields: The pale green color field of the painting “Three Dots” (2012) gets disturbed by three blood red paint splatters, which may remind the viewer of shooting wounds.
The ruminant effect and aesthetic of monochromatic color fields collide with the aggressive potential of action painting. If at first the artists introduces an untouched aesthetic of peace and meditation with the painting “Pale Pink” (2012), she immediately and consequently destroys this impression with the other exhibited paintings that are mutilated with paint splatters and drippings. The imagery Nana Dix has created moves between the poles of human existence, between rest and unrest, between gentleness and aggression, Eros and Thanatos.
Opposite – Three dots, 2012
Exhibition runs through to April 14th, 2012
Andreas Grimm Munchen
Türkenstrasse 11
80333 Munchen
Germany
