TRACKS

Posted on 2014-04-21

TRACKS tells the incredible true story of Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska), a young woman who in 1977 undertook a perilous solo trek across 1,700 miles of stunning Australian outback. It is an adaptation of Robyn Davidson’s memoir of the same name, chronicling the author’s nine-month journey.

Abandoning city life, Robyn arrives in Alice Springs and declares her ambition to cross the desert to the Indian Ocean to the amusement of the locals. However after months of camping out and working on a camel farm people begin to take her seriously. A chance meeting with National Geographic photographer Rick Smoland (Adam Driver) provides her with the necessary financing for her expedition under the condition that he be allowed to photograph parts of her journey for the magazine. With only her dog and four unpredictable camels for company, she embarks on an inspiring and life changing journey of self-discovery.

In theatres April 25th, 2014

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KIDROBOT X SNOOP DOGG 7″ FIGURE

Posted on 2014-04-21

Lay back and get your blaze on: 7-inch Snoop’s in the muthafunkin hiz-ouse for 4/20!
Loc’d out with his porchfront braids and eased back with a fat roll of endo, the D-O double-G’s been delivering his signature smooth G-funk flow since ’93. Reppin the LBC from shades to his shelltoes.

www.kidrobot.com

  

SIGMAR POLKE – ALIBIS 1963-2010

Posted on 2014-04-21

The Museum of Modern Art presents the first comprehensive retrospective of Sigmar Polke (German, 1941–2010), encompassing Polke’s work across all mediums, including painting, photography, film, drawing, prints, and sculpture. Widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the postwar generation, Polke possessed an irreverent wit that, coupled with his exceptional grasp of the properties of his materials, pushed him to experiment freely with the conventions of art and art history. Constantly searching, Polke studiously avoided any one signature style or medium; his method exemplified the definition of alibi, “in or at another place,” which also suggests a deflection of blame. This exhibition places Polke’s enormous skepticism of all social, political, and artistic traditions against German history and the country’s transformation in the postwar period. Four gallery spaces on MoMA’s second floor are dedicated to the exhibition, which comprises more than 250 works and constitutes one of the largest exhibitions ever organized at the Museum.

The exhibition is organized chronologically and across mediums, ranging from the intimacy of a notebook to pieces that test the architectural scale of most museum galleries. Among the many noted works on view are 13 films by Polke, including eight which have never before been available; a performance made for West German television that was last seen when it aired in 1972; and a group of monumental paintings made entirely of soot on glass that have never been exhibited in the United States.

Opposite – Raster Drawing (Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald), 1963

Exhibition runs through to August 3rd, 2014

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W 53rd St
Midtown East
New York
10019

www.moma.org

  

CHRIS TUBBS – BASKETBALL SERIES

Posted on 2014-04-21

Chris Tubbs is exhibiting an extract from his basketball series; a collection of more than three hundred images from all over the world.
It began ten years ago when Chris discovered a basketball court in a forgotten sports facility in Cuba. From that point they appeared in the most unlikely settings wherever he went.

Visit www.christubbs-gallery.com to see more of the collection.
A  selection of signed and numbered edition prints are available to buy from the website.

An Exhibition at Medcalf, London, runs through to May 30th, 2014

  

BURNT GENERATION

Posted on 2014-04-21

To mark the arrival of the Persian New Year, Burnt Generation will present contemporary Iranian photography – the majority of which has not previously been seen outside of Iran, by eight highly original and intellectually engaged image makers. The exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to move to a place beyond cliché; a moment to forget the stereotypical images of Iran and enter the worlds of the eight artists who have lived and worked there. They include: Azadeh Akhlaghi; Gohar Dashti; Shadi Ghadirian; Babak Kazemi; Abbas Kowsari; Ali and Ramyar; Newsha Tavakolian; Sadegh Tirafkan.

As Martin Barnes, Senior Curator at the V&A, says “some of the most exciting photography being made today is coming from Iran” and the range will reflect reality for modern Iranian society, whether it be coping with the consequences of constant conflict to civilians caught in the middle, conforming to class ideals or colourful celebrations of Shiite rituals.

Exhibition runs through to June 1st, 2014

Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA

www.somersethouse.org.uk

  

MATT LIPPS – THE POPULIST CAMERA

Posted on 2014-04-21

The exhibition consists of intriguing still lives that combine appropriated imagery with personal photographs. Using collage strategies, sculptural tropes and theater staging techniques, Lipps’s series is a requiem for analog image-making, which is relevant to the ubiquity of photography in the digital age.

The source material of Lipps’s series comes from a seventeen-volume set of books called Library of Photography, published in the 1970s by Time-Life. Meant to be a comprehensive how-to manual, the books were illustrated with hundreds of mostly black and white photographs. Lipps has cut out and assembled almost 500 figures from the books, building cardboard structures for them, so they become autonomous, moveable “actors,” representing divergent realities, on a multi-tiered proscenium.

The colourful backgrounds of the series come from 35mm photographs taken by Lipps when he was a photography student. The warm emotional color of the authored photographs contrasts dramatically with the cool distant appearance of the appropriated ones. The combination of authored and found photographs creates a tension between the subjective and objective uses of the medium and its perspectives on history.

Opposite – Camera, 2013

Exhibition runs through to May 10th, 2014

Josh Lilley
44-46 Riding House Street
London
W1W 7EX

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