DAVID RENGGLI – SCARAMOUCHE

Posted on 2013-08-19

David Renggli, in some respects a prodigy of the Swiss art scene – has repeatedly aroused the curiosity of the public for more than ten years thanks to a unique mixture of themes and forms, of spectacle, humour and poetry. An unexpected combination of various everyday materials and motifs characterises the artist’s heterogeneous repertoire consisting of sculptural objects, installations, photographs and reverse glass paintings. He frequently creates what appears familiar but which on closer examination reveals itself as surreal, absurd and grotesque. The moment of surprise is thus again and again the main aesthetic principle in David Renggli’s work.

The Swiss artist is on the one hand interested in details to mark out what is special and enable a deeper insight but he is not afraid of grand gestures such as recently seen at the exhibition «The Charm of Ignorance» at Museum Bellpark Kriens (2012): Renggli filled all the museum walls with more than 2,000 collaged pictures in Petersburg hanging. His constant experimentation with classical museum displays as well as with art genres and motifs is a repeated theme in his work.

Exhibition runs through to October 27th, 2013

Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
Davidstrasse 40
CH-9000
St. Gallen
Switzerland

www.kunsthallesanktgallen.ch

  

NIKE LUNAR LDV SNEAKER BOOT

Posted on 2013-08-19

Lunar LDV Sneaker Boot dros in three colorways. The mid top sneaker comes with an cut-out design on the upper, featuring suede overlays for comfort, durability and reduced bulk. The contrasting Lunarlon mid-sole is both a great design accent and of course a solid performance and comfort feature.

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HURLEY X HAZE

Posted on 2013-08-19

Continuing Craig Stecyk’s Printing Press project with Hurley comes the Hurley x Haze capsule collection, a limited run of t-shirts and hats designed by NYC legend Eric Haze and printed on the Hurley Printing Press.

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PUMA RS100 ANIMAL

Posted on 2013-08-19

The PUMA RS100 runner may have been laying low for a while, but now it’s back in a colorway that’s impossible to ignore. The “Animal” features suede, mesh, leather, and faux fur in an amalgamation of bold colors and black-and-white zebra-print panels.

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NAOYA HATAKEYAMA – BLAST

Posted on 2013-08-19

“Blast” is one of Hatakeyama’s best-known series and it has been frequently exhibited in museum exhibitions. The current exhibition, however, will comprise a new selection of prints including images that will be shown publicly for the first time.
Hatakeyama began photographing “Blast” in 1995. The series was shown in the exhibition “Aspects of Contemporary Photography – another reality” held during the same year at the Kawasaki City Museum. Since then, Hatakeyama has continued to work on the series and it has been presented in numerous exhibitions in Japan and abroad. For Hatakeyama, who has created works that carefully and poetically examine nature, the cities that we have built, and the philosophies that give them form, the photographing of “Blast,” which is coordinated with an explosives expert who accurately predicts where the shrapnel from the blasted boulders will fly, has been an invaluable experience that has allowed him to reexamine photography’s appeal and the foundations of its technology.

After the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, Hatakeyama felt that he could no longer continue to make photographs in the way that he had in the past. His decision to take stock of the “Blast” in the current situation marks an important event requiring long-term analysis.

Exhibition runs from August 20th to September 7th, 2014

Taka Ishii Gallery
1-3-2 5F Kiyosumi, Koto-ku
135 0024 Tokyo
Japan

www.takaishiigallery.com

  

WILLIAM EGGLESTON

Posted on 2013-08-19

Eggleston began to experiment with colour in the 1960s. At that time, colour photography was principally associated with commercial industries such as advertising, and was considered unsuitable for fine art photography. In 1972 he began making prints using a highly complex and expensive process called ‘dye transfer’, which allows various colours within a photographic print to be printed as separations. Each colour is printed in its richest form, maintaining strong red and green tones within a single image. The prints are also extremely durable and will not fade.

Mostly shooting in and around his hometown of Memphis,Tennessee, Eggleston depicts the banal and everyday. This room draws upon two series. Chromes is a selection of images from 1969-74 using Kodachrome or Ektachrome film, while Election Eve was taken during the run-up to the 1976 presidential election, and records a road trip around Plains County and Sumter County, Georgia, where Jimmy Carter’s campaign headquarters were based. The ten images from 1976 depict life in what often appears an abandoned and outmoded corner of the country at a moment of high tension and anxiety on the national stage.

Both series include characteristic elements of Eggleston’s style, such as bold colourful interiors, cars and gasoline stations, and portraits of individuals known to Eggleston as well as strangers encountered in the street. Eggleston pays close attention to the complexity of the formal organisation of the frame, often employing strong diagonal lines and reflections, but he also relishes the strength of strong contrasts in colour with vivid reds, blues and greens.

Exhibition runs through till May 11th, 2014

Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG
United Kingdom

www.tate.org.uk