Flying Lotus presents “See Thru To U”, a new song from the upcoming album “Until The Quit Comes”. The song features Erykah Badu. Official release of the album on October 2nd, 2012, on Collectors Edition 180g Vinyl, Double Vinyl, CD & Download.
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Densely hung across the walls, the drawings involve Pettibon’s characteristic integration of disparate imagery and fragments of handwritten text lifted and adapted from myriad sources. His style shifts fitfully within and between the works, ranging from graphic line drawing in charcoal (for instance, a rapidly crosshatched Bible) which invokes his early cartoons, to expressionistic and painterly forms executed in combinations of gouache, acrylic and crayon.
Pettibon’s chaotic agglomerative method is equivalent to the ‘cut up’ technique adopted by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs in their book The Third Mind (1977). In an extension of this methodology, certain of Pettibon’s recent works literally employ collage. In No Title (Re-up periscope), pornographic excerpts from different drawings mass together into a bustling orgy, while a scribbled cartoon of a gun being discharged provides a comic superscript.
Exhibition runs through to November 17th, 2012
Sadie Coles
9 Balfour Mews
London
W1K 2BG
Irvin has chosen Fidelio as the title, for a number of reasons. There is his fidelity to abstraction, a consistent abstraction in which, over the decades, the artist has been careful to eschew figuration in any form. A S Byatt observed in a text on the artist, ‘It is art about experiencing the world’, adding, about the paintings’ titles ‘They are both arbitrary and not, a kind of notation of his life, street-names of London where his studio is… which have a resonance of their own’. Irvin has often referred to the grounding of his practice in the material circumstances of his own life. In an interview given in Dublin, Irvin said : “I don’t want to depict or describe appearances – I want to make a kind of painting that is about the world rather than of it.”
Fidelio is a musical evocation, echoing Albert Irvin’s love for and great knowledge of the classics. Synthesising the proximity of music to painting, Irvin comments: “Music brought me to the realisation that it was possible to say what it feels like to be a human being without having to paint noses and feet.”
Opposite – Fidelio, 2012
Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2012
Gimpel Fils
30 Davies Street
London
W1K 4NB
Suspended Disbelief, is a group exhibition featuring work by Marco Breuer, John Chiara, Yvonne Estrada, Dana Melamed, Antonio Murado, Mark Sheinkman, Joseph Stashkevetch, Allyson Strafella and Melanie Willhide.
The exhibition asks its audience to put its disbelief aside. Assembling works by nine contemporary artists, the exhibition challenges its viewers to accept a basic, though unlikely, premise about each piece in the show in order to fully engage in the work. Dana Melamed’s wall piece uses unconventional materials to create a sprawling urban landscape that couldn’t possibly exist in reality. Marco Breuer’s one-of-a-kind photographs are made without a camera or negative, while Joseph Stashkevetch’s detailed drawing is difficult to imagine as anything but a photograph. John Chiara and Antonio Murado offer their own unique take on landscape as Yvonne Estrada and Allyson Strafella’s intricate, abstract drawings are created using tools not often associated with the medium. Mark Sheinkman makes paintings with graphite, further blurring the medium’s boundaries with his subtractive, rather than additive, process. Melanie Willhide’s photographs of 50s pinup girls which once read like straight photography are now digitally sliced, mirrored and repeated in a playful demonstration of photography’s capacity for the inauthentic.
Opposite – Melanie Willhide – “T and V, Mesa Elks, 2008”, 2011
Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2012
Von Lintel Gallery
520 W, 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
In this exhibition, Green explores a reduction of cartoon imagery into modular sections and the evocative potential of their recombination. The works evoke the explorations of De Stijl and Mondrian crossed with the expressionism of his contemporaries like Joe Bradley, Ben Jones or André Butzer. Green’s architectural inspirations range from Gaudí to Hundertwasser and many paintings specifically reference high density housing, water towers and airports.
Many of the designs are set upon a planar grid. Adhering to the horizontal and vertical laws of the grid – and with their evocation of eyes and mouths – they represent a fusion of the Neoplastic and animist ideologies.
Exhibition runs through to August 25th, 2012
The Hole
312 Bowery
New York
NY
10012
