DOUG DUBOIS – IN GOOD TIME

Posted on 2016-03-21

Doug DuBois approaches his work slowly and engages in long-term photographic projects. He tells stories that reveal both a profound humanity and the inexorable passing of time. The Hermès Foundation and Aperture Foundation are pleased to present the exhibition In Good Time, the first mid-career survey of DuBois’ photographs, curated by Cory Jacobs. This retrospective contains three different bodies of work: All the Days and Nights, Avella, and My Last Day at Seventeen.

Family is a recurring theme in DuBois’ work, and his first project on the subject, All the Days and Nights, took over twenty years to complete. In 1984, DuBois began photographing his own family, tracing the complicated and nuanced relationships that unfolded as time passed and events transpired, such as his father’s near-fatal accident, subsequent recovery, and the impact on his family.

Some of DuBois’ photographs are candid; most often he orchestrates scenes, engaging the narrative languages of cinema and literature to give access to the truth and complexity of lived experience.

Opposite – My Mother and Father at the Bar, London, 1990

Exhibition runs through till May 19th, 2016

Aperture Gallery
547 W 27th St
fourth floor
New York
10001

aperture.org

  

WHITNEY HUBBS – BODY DOUBLES

Posted on 2016-03-21

Looking at pictures of women, as seen pulled back toward my eye, I see myself with them. I can’t help it. I parse their bodies, the forms. Not my own and yet familiar.

When I’m in front of the camera, my body is being looked at, is being performed, is being directed and recorded. It is being taken apart and pieced back together.

We repeat and repeat, the same scene, against the same wall, with the same lights. We write the body on a piece of film. Film that’s been pushed and prodded, mishandled and flipped. At a certain point I had to accept a bodily experience. It was pleasurable to look at their rough unpolished states, the bodies simply are: flipping, posing, being coy, arms as arrows, feet as poles, the lens as lover and mirror, the lens always looking back and being looked at, not by the face, but by the breasts, buttocks, heels, toes, shins, spines and throats, unhurried and happy to give that which can’t be taken.

Opposite – Woman no. 1, 2016

Exhibition runs through till May 7th, 2016

M+B
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles
California 90069

www.mbart.com

  

STERLING RUBY – WORK WEAR

Posted on 2016-03-14

WORK WEAR: Garment and Textile Archive 2008-2016 will present for the very first time an eight year survey of the clothing and textile production made by Sterling Ruby.

The garments in the exhibition – coats, ponchos, bags, shirts, and pants – replay, recycle, and echo the remnants of fabrics used to create the artist’s quilts, collages, textiles and sculptures. A sense of recycling and breaking down utilitarian versus aesthetic hierarchies has evolved in the artist’s studio. Collages become quilts, quilts become soft sculptures, and sculptures become clothes. The Bauhaus movement, with its challenge to the design versus high art dichotomy, is an ever present touchstone for the artist and his seemingly inexhaustible forays into craft and design.

Exhibition runs through till April 9th, 2016

Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EJ

www.alminerech.com

  

BRIAN CALVIN – HOURS

Posted on 2016-03-14

“The vice called surrealism is the immoderate and passionate use of the drug which is the image.” (Louis Aragon)



Imagine an exhibition with paintings of Brian Calvin in Paris and during the opening one would follow bits of conversations between guests coming from different worlds. Philip Guston for instance, would explain to Louis Aragon how we inherited ‘back in the future’ the myth of abstract art: “There is something ridiculous and miserly in the fact that painting is autonomous, pure and for itself. Painting is ‘impure’. It is the adjustment of ‘impurities’ which forces its continuity. We are image-makers and image-ridden.” Aragon would agree with the last words, smile and walk further. A number of small paintings with lips, entitled Mouthfeel, caught his eye.

Opposite – Elsewhere, 2015

Exhibition runs through till April 12th, 2016

Almine Rech Gallery
64 Rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France

www.alminerech.com

  

ALAN KITCHING – A LIFE IN LETTERPRESS

Posted on 2016-03-14

This long-awaited monograph documents the work of world-renowned typographer, designer and letterpress practitioner Alan Kitching.

Spanning over fifty years, this lavish volume leads us from Kitching’s first typographical experiments under the auspices of mentor Anthony Froshaug to his most iconic creations at The Typography Workshop. It covers his years designing alongside Derek Birdsall, as well as his time teaching letterpress at the Royal College of Art, and showcases his most colourful and expressive pieces, including his prolific work for The Guardian. Kitching’s work hangs in private collections and galleries but it has also featured on everything from magazine and book covers, postage stamps and theatre posters, to wine labels, billboards and signage.

Alan Kitching A Life in Letterpress will be published in three editions. The Collector’s Edition, is a limited edition, including a hand printed letterpress signed print, numbered and wrapped round the book to form the jacket. Only 200 limited editions of the Collector’s Edition will be printed, priced at £200. The second edition will be the Special Edition with a 3-piece binding, priced at £75. Both the Collector’s Edition and the Special Edition will be released on 7th April.

www.laurenceking.com

  

DAFT PUNK ROBOT RINGS

Posted on 2016-03-14

Daft Punk Official Merchandise and Han Cholo have joined forces to bring you the Daft Punk Robot Rings. The rings are fabricated to the individual specifications of the GM08 and TB3 helmets and include a Daft Punk logo sculpted in relief on the interior. In a word, they’re bad ass! Each ring is made with high quality, hand polished, stainless steel. Also available made to order in vermeil (14k gold plated) and sterling silver. Except no imitations. Quantities are limited, but thankfully so are your fingers!
Sold separately or as a pair.

www.daftpunk.com