In 2013 Visit California asked pro skateboarder Bob Burnquist to dream big and try something completely new. After having skated on pretty much every surface imaginable, Burnquist decided that he wanted to build a floating skate ramp. They made it happen and weeks later, Bob Burnquist’s floating skate ramp was ready and launched on Lake Tahoe.
TweetFrom the forthcoming album “E s t a r a” to be released April 8th 2014.
TweetThe LA-based artist, acclaimed for her contemporary and intimate depictions of the nude, takes a new direction in this latest series titled: Acido Dorado. On view will be a selection of photographic works ranging from landscapes, architectural details, reflections and a single figure repeatedly obscured and dislocated.
Set against the backdrop of the Californian desert, and photographed at the golden modernist structure Acido Dorado in Joshua Tree National Park, Kuhn’s photographs playfully combine a number of visual strategies. Patterning, translucency and reflectivity are mixed with the casual closeness between photographer and her subject, Kuhn’s friend and collaborator Jacintha.
Kuhn pushes the effect by introducing metallic foil as an additional surface, in some cases producing purely abstract results. The human figure emerges like a surrealist mirage, fragmented and indistinct, only to be submerged in shadows or over exposed. The building’s facade is glass and mirrors; it serves as an optical extension to the artist’s camera and lens. Light is split into refracting colours, desert vegetation grows sideways, inside is outside and outside in. The exhibition marks Kuhn’s increasing focus on photographic techniques that appear to dissolve the figure into its environment, whilst continuing her ongoing re-interpretation of the art-historical genre of the nude. This time she investigates further, by bringing together the figure, abstractions and landscape into one.
Opposite – AD6016, 2013/14
Exhibition runs from April 4th to May 10th, 2014
Flowers Gallery
82 Kingsland Road
London
E2 8DP
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The animated cut-out drawings that float by in step with the music, was created by Alex Theodoropulos for “The Lens” by Thee Oh Sees from their album Drop, with is out April 19th via John Dwyer’s Castle Face label.
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‘Superscope’ is Clark’s first original music since the release of ‘Iradelphic’ and ‘Fantasm Planes’ in 2012.
“I wanted to make tracks that had subtle depth and longevity but were simple and hooky enough to work on the dancefloor. They’ve been tried and tested many times in different ways at all of my recent live shows. It was also really important to tie the oscilloscope imagery visuals into the art work. All in all I was hoping a singular, potent slab of techno that could be matched with accompanying visuals for the live show.”
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