The vegetable tanned premium leather upper and Vibram outer sole are a few of the interesting features of the boot. The ripped denim laces are for sure the special addition on these and they definitely give the boot a very unique and refreshing look.
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For Spring/Summer 2012 Supreme worked on a capsule collection with Independent, the maker of skateboard trucks.
The capsule collection features a hoodie, a short jacket, as well as trucker caps. All pieces come in several colorways, featuring a special remixed Independent logo and the slogan of the collaboration – Fuck The Rest.
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Troy Brauntuch cuts up or crops the pictures he has sourced elsewhere. Eerily vague remains of an event are seen against a dark background, his preferred method being to transfer the cropped images to black cotton fabric using white Conté crayons. The works often look like a combination of painting and photography and at first sight one might assume they are dark-toned monochrome pictures. Gradually, on closer study, one can distinguish specific motifs as they emerge out of a spectrum of grays in the almost velvety black picture ground: a woman wearing niqab, her face seen underneath a transparent map of Florida; a window display of variously arranged gloves; soldiers in close combat; or an elegant, black-and-white dotted coat.
Except for works that reference violence or stills from thrillers, most of Brauntuch’s pictures – especially the photographs – are unspectacular and slow to reveal their surprisingly mysterious and at times understated subject matter. Having chosen to devote himself to the visual arts, the artist simultaneously draws attention to what a picture does not contain, thereby destabilizing the relationship between pictures and their alleged meaning. He accentuates that relationship by switching back and forth between personal photographs and found images that have been made public.
Exhibition runs through to April 21th, 2012
Mai 36 Galerie
Rämistrasse 37
CH-8001 Zurich
Switzerland
Hirsch’s unaffected documentary-style and linear narrative structures are sometimes at odds with the questionable nature of the actions performed on film. In “50 Blue,” Hirsch’s brother pushes his father in a wheelchair through a rugged terrain towards a destination the audience only comes to know at the end – a destination that seems anti-climactic at best. After having been hoisted up onto a high structure along the water’s edge, the paraplegic father is left to appreciate a view (obstructed by a horizontal bar) of the shoreline.
In this sense, Hirsch toys with the very idea of accomplishment, interrogating the assumption that whatever was suffered through, despite the effort, was worth it. While something has indeed been achieved, and a certain amount of exertion has resulted from the completion of a particular task (in this case laboring to bring a man in a wheelchair to the top of a lake-side tower), its significance seems unsure.
Exhibition runs through to April 15th, 2012
Thierry Goldberg Gallery
103 Norfolk Street
New York
NY
10002
Mitch Epstein’s new work features the idiosyncratic trees that populate New York City, underscoring the importance of trees in urban life and their complex relationship with the city’s human dwellers.
Trees have long been a leitmotiv in Epstein’s projects, especially in his series American Power (2003-2008). After five years of photographing the manifestations of energy production and consumption across the United States, Epstein decided to make pictures that reflect how he, “would like to see the world, not simply how I have inherited it.”
Epstein began this yearlong project in search of designated Great Trees, as deemed by the Parks Department in 1985. Finding these trees was less important to Epstein than the pursuit of them, which led him to discover and photograph numerous unofficial “great” trees with remarkable qualities of their own.
From Parsons Boulevard, Flushing to Sprague Avenue, Staten Island to Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Epstein returned to photograph the same trees through changing light and seasons. The resulting photographs invert people’s usual view of their city: trees no longer function as background or landscape, but, instead, become the focus of the image, dominating the human life and architecture around them.
Opposite – White Oak, Raoul Wallenberg Forest, Bronx 2011
Exhibition runs through to April 14th, 2012
Sikkema Jenkins & Co
530 West 22nd Street
New York
NY
10011
Wrath of the Titans is the sequel to the 2010 film Clash of the Titans.
Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world.
In theaters March 30th, 2012
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