DANNY BROWN – WITLT
2012-10-29Danny Brown got Bijoux Altamirano to whip him up a video inspired equally by .gifs and No Limit cover art.
TweetSINKANE – RUNNIN
2012-10-29Sinkane, aka Ahmed Gallab, collaborator with Caribou, Yeasayer, Of Montreal, has a new video dropping. In the clip, a revolution breaks out. Guns are brandished, rocks are thrown, and, naturally, blood is spilled.
TweetM83 – STEVE MCQUEEN
2012-10-29M83 have turned in a new video for “Steve McQueen” off Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. The piece, directed by Balthazar Auxietre and Sylvain Derosne, conjures an abstract sense of childlike exploration, depicting a boy in a yellow suit, science and engineering experiments, and a pack of roaming animal figurines.
TweetORIGINAL FAKE SNOOPY CERAMIC (KAWS VERSION)
2012-10-29In time for Halloween Original Fake has teamed up again with the Peanuts franchise and presents the Snoopy Ceramic jar ‘KAWS Version’. Snoopy lies on a pumpkin – both the Pumpkin and Snoopy received the Kaws ‘X’ eyes treatment.
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JACKIE GENDEL – COMEDY OF MANNERS
2012-10-22Much of Gendel’s recent work makes contradictory use of two of modernity’s most common conventions of image production; she employs both serial repetition of form and the sequential image of narrative, using them simultaneously to unfold the implied relationship between narrative time and painterly process. This achieves a “Groundhog Day”- like effect in which a scene repeats albeit in slightly altered scenery, and increasingly nuanced but appreciable differences occur in the who, what, when, how, and ultimately, most importantly, “why”.
This peculiar take on the incremental space within and between paintings provides an unlikely connection between Gendel’s recent work and her early work derived from her background in underground comics, a medium of “sequential image” storytelling, which she drew in the late ’90s for an upstart feminist webzine for teenage girls.
But her recent work is also equally established in her approach to easel painting, and specifically her play with the notion of character and historical time developed throughout her first exhibition of speculative portraits at the gallery in 2006, which the artist credits as an important turning point in her work, and has continued in various iterations since.
Exhibition runs through to November 10th, 2012
Jeff Bailey Gallery
625 W 27th St – Ground Floor
11th & 12 Ave
New York
NY
10001
ULF PUDER
2012-10-22His masterly paintings of architectural structures are devoid of human life and hover between abstraction and representation. Puder places chaos and quietude side by side. Symbols of human creation, industrialization and desolation are rendered in extreme perspectives, in front of dimly hued skies. Puder’s scenes induce a sense of calm disorder, or animated stillness, perplexing and haunting as they appear to the beholder.
A member of the Neue Leipziger Schule, Puder gained international acclaim for adding an experimental surrealism to East-German Neo-Realism. In this large-scale work, architectural modules are about to collapse, alluding to turmoil and despair in society. Motif and title both set the link to the iconic The Raft of the Medusa by French painter Théodore Géricault, which depicts the conversion from men into cannibals due to the basic human instinct to survive. Puder’s works pose questions to our society and its relationship with the past.
Opposite – Italienische Landschaft mit Bruecke, 2012
Exhibition runs through to November 11th, 2012
Marc Straus
299 Grand Street
New York
NY
10002
