DOLDRUMS – HOLOGRAPHIC SANDCASTLES
2013-05-27Taken from the album Lesser Evil, out now. Directed by Winston Hacking.
TweetSHIT ROBOT – FEELS REAL
2013-05-27Shit Robot’s new single featuring The Rapture’s Luke Jenner, and a lot of mouth close-ups.
TweetBOARDS OF CANADA – REACH FOR THE DEAD
2013-05-27Reach for the Dead is from Tomorrow’s Harvest, the fourth studio album by the Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada, due to be released on 10 June 2013.The music video for “Reach for the Dead” was directed by Neil Krug, a Los Angeles-based photographer and director who had previously created an unofficial music video for the Boards of Canada song “In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country”.
TweetFLIP SKATEBOARDS X IVAN MINSLOFF
2013-05-27Flip Skateboards have released a new deck series going by the name of “Odyssey” featuring the graphical work of Los Angeles artist Ivan Minsloff. Geoff Rowley, Arto Saari, Ali Boulala, Luan Oliviera and David Gonzalez have decks between 7.75 and 8.25 in width.
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JAC LEIRNER – HARDWARE SILK
2013-05-20The title ‘Hardware Silk’ derives from Leirner’s obsessive accumulation of ordinary ‘found’ objects and ready-mades that become materials for her art. Specialist nautical ropes, colourful climbing clips, chains, steel cabling, domestic curtain rings or precision instruments such as spirit levels and rulers, are all items that Leirner uses and objectifies in her interventions and reconstructions. Leirner adopts a formal rigour and aesthetic to the way she collects, arranges and assembles, evident in this exhibition, which includes sculptural wall reliefs, a group of watercolours and a single, 19 metre-long installation that divides the lower-ground floor gallery.
In Portuguese, cigarette rolling papers are called ‘papeis de seda’ which translates into English as ‘silk papers’. Leirner has been an avid smoker for most of her life and through this habit, has come into contact with the various types, colours and formats of these papers. She subsequently became fascinated with the minimal and insubstantial nature of this material for the same reasons that she adopted the incidental ephemera of the museum world – its artwork labels and business cards – in previous work. In the lower-ground floor gallery, Leirner has gummed single Rizla papers directly on to the wall in row upon row to form grids, creating a diaphanous monochrome or minimalist painting that flutters and transforms as the viewer walks past. Titled ‘Skin’ (2013), the installation references both the habitual, repetitive activity of rolling papers and the physical, tangible nature of this material: a delicate and translucent syphon used to smoke tobacco and pot.
Opposite – 10 bamboo levels, 2013
Exhibition runs through to July 6th, 2013
White Cube
25 – 26 Mason’s Yard
London
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SCOTT CAMPBELL – THINGS GET BETTER
2013-05-20Campbell’s new work consists of a series of ink wash paintings on paper that realistically illustrate novel objects and improvised tools. The subject matter of these detailed watercolors explore notions of invention and reinvention, or more accurately, human ingenuity.
While working on a project in Mexico City several years ago, which involved documenting aspects of prison tattoo culture, Campbell discovered an array of devices, imaginatively pieced together by inmates. Using a motley combination of items, they had recreated specific mechanisms by appropriating materials that were readily accessible, such as electric razors, guitar strings, and toothbrushes. These reinventions replaced equipment otherwise unavailable to them, exemplifying perseverance over restrictions.
Motivated by this experience – how limitations can engender creative thinking – Campbell conceived his own adaptations of similar mark-making instruments, depicted in this series of paintings. Rather than fabricating “tools” for practical use, he arranged them as studies, imaging ingenuity as an art form. In doing so, this work synthesizes artistic method and invention, visually conveying the science of problem solving as an aesthetic process. Through his plain use of black ink, along with a definitively applied brush technique, Campbell creates work that accurately reproduces his subjects, while also capturing its true essence. This laborious and unforgiving artistic practice requires focus – once a stroke is painted, it cannot not be changed, hidden, or erased.
Opposite – 409, 2013
Exhibition runs through to June 22nd, 2013
OHWOW Gallery
937 N. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90069
