ADAM BROOMBERG & OLIVER CHANARIN

Posted on 2012-09-03

The title of Broomberg and Chanarin’s new solo exhibition was originally the coded phrase used by Kodak to describe the capabilities of a new film stock developed in the early 80’s to address the inability of their earlier films to accurately render dark skin.

Jean-Luc Godard famously refused to use Kodak film during an assignment to Mozambique in 1977, on the grounds that the film stock was inherently ‘racist’. In response to a commission to ‘document’ Gabon, Broomberg and Chanarin recently made several trips to the country to photograph a series of rare Bwiti initiation rituals, using only Kodak film stock that had expired in the late 1950’s.
Using outdated chemical processes Broomberg and Chanarin succeeded in salvaging just a single frame from the many colour rolls they exposed during their visits. It is presented along side an array of black and white photographic tests, whose parameters were dictated to them by a deceased family friend, an anatomist and amateur photographer, Dr. Rosenberg.
The exhibition centers around a series of these partly exposed, haphazardly cropped proto-images, originally printed as test strips. The grey tones, grain and texture of black and white photographic chemistry are foregrounded in these outsized ‘darkroom’ experiments.

Exhibition runs from September 13th to October 20th, 2012

Paradise Row
74a Newman Street
London
W1T 3DB

www.paradiserow.com

  

SUSUMU SHINGU – BEYOND TIME

Posted on 2012-09-03

The japanese artist returns with an exhibition of eight new mobile sculptures specifically created for the interior, together with a series of watercolours on paper.

A sculptor and researcher, Susumu Shingu creates sculptures that are often monumental, with movements generated by the forces and flows of nature – wind, water, sunlight and gravity. He also works regularly in other artistic disciplines with well-known architects such as Renzo Piano or Tadao Ando, as well as designers like Issey Miyake and choreographer like Jiri Kylian.

Starting out from scientific research on movement, based on observation of the nature of the human body and of nature, Susumu Shingu has created and installed several hundred wind and water sculptures around the world, all of them mobile, dancing, polyphonic and playful.

Exhibition runs from September 15th to December 1st, 2012

Galerie Jaeger Bucher
5 & 7 rue de Saintonge
75003Paris
France

www.galeriejaegerbucher.com

  

ROMAN LISKA – NU BALANCE

Posted on 2012-09-03

Roman Liška’s most recent body of work incorporates excerpts from the Financial Times Weekend Magazine’s “Life & Arts” section, from which it draws headlines including “Wealth Creations”, “Chalet Girls” and “Risqué Business”, as well as passages from “How To Spend It” (HTSI), the publication’s insert that promotes luxury products aimed at the super affluent. In Liška’s practice, advertisements for auctions of blue chip post-war art and the latest fashions from the world́s runways conjoin under semi-translucent, perforated mesh, are treated with spray paint rendered in a tie-dye aesthetic, and gain punctuation through eyelets that unmask layers of black cling film and newsprint bearing traces of the FT’s distinctive rosé hue.The formal determinations of these interventions extend the artist’s investigations into the language of painting – problematising dominant models of the practice’s limits while iterating shape, texture, and haptic engagement as contributors to painting’s ongoing redefinition.

The ephemera of wealth creation, such as the FT and its sub-publication, act as barometers of the obscene logic of late-capitalist models of consumption in which seduction is a principle currency owing to its trade in the unceasing renewal of synthetic desires. It is in this arena that Liška’s work activates an irresoluble tension: existing as an object whose aesthetic qualities contribute to its legibility as a commodity that operates dually in signaling the spirit of the contemporary while elaborating an implied critique of the very systems that sustain its production and distribution.

Exhibition runs from September 13th to October 20th, 2012

Rod Barton Gallery
One Paget Street
London
EC1V 7PA

www.rodbarton.com

  

ERIC YAHNKER – VIRGIN BIRTH ‘N’ TURF

Posted on 2012-09-03

For the past two years Yahnker has been preparing his massive drawings and sculptures for this exhibition, and it represents the culmination of his recent explorations. The works in this show range from meticulous, two-foot colored pencil and graphite drawings to towering ten-foot works on paper; from tiny sculptural interventions to massive three dimensional arrangements. The pieces en masse form a lyrical and disturbing poem – which takes the title Virgin Birth ‘N’ Turf – about the state of the union and our contemporary American moment.

Yahnker is a virtuosically talented drawer who choses to take densely layered political commentary as his subject matter. The often large-scale pieces are visually seductive and can easily be appreciated at the purely superficial level, but after ingesting the title and contemplating the image for a bit, many more upsetting and controversial ideas begin to emerge. The works are elaborately planned and constructed to hold up to even the most intense conceptual scrutiny. There is a wealth of information and excitement to be had the more you meditate on each work.

Opposite – Long Banged Jane, 2012

Exhibition runs from September 4th to October 6th, 2012

The Hole
312 Bowery Street
New York
10012

theholenyc.com

  

AIRWALK X ALREADY FAMOUS TIE DYE T-SHIRT

Posted on 2012-09-03

This signature Already Famous x Airwalk “We Out There” t-shirt is hand dyed in the USA with black/white based tie dye. Printed in Brooklyn, NY by SNKSWM.

airwalk.com

  

PAUL SMITH BLACK LEATHER DEWEY SHOE

Posted on 2012-09-03

New from Paul Smith, a Matte black leather shoe with cherry red trim (described as ‘moccasin’ detailing), and features contrast stitching and a toned down take on the zig zag sole. Part of the Paul Smith Jeans shoe collection. For AW12 Paul Smith Jeans has taken it’s inspiration from the Stonemasters and Yosemite, the location of some of their most remarkable ascents. The Stonemasters were a group of seminal climbers who, through the late seventies and early eighties, pioneered the art of free climbing. They conquered solo first ascents of many of the now famous Yosemite big walls, such as El Capitan, Half Dome, Washington Column and Sentinel Rock.

www.paulsmith.co.uk