JIM SHAW

Posted on 2017-04-17

Jim Shaw is a Michigan born and Los Angeles based artist that has become one of the most influential American contemporary artists, renowned for his imaginative, inventive and especially diverse practice – that encompasses different media from painting to sculpture. Jim Shaw’s creations are characterized by the artists’ idiosyncratic approach – where obscure iconography meets craftsmanship – to the reality that surrounds him: each work synthesises the vernacular and the exceptional, mysticism and realism, creating a visual aesthetic that challenges America’s puritan and radical underbelly. The artist is like a shamanic puppet master that infuses American cartoons with the pathos of archaic myths and eerie semi-religious energy.

The black and white body of work presented in the exhibition is rooted in the artists’ interest in the erotic content of historic painting and the related aspects of superhero comics. In this new series of ink line drawings Jim Shaw applies the aesthetics of the early 1960’s DC superhero comics (focusing on the expressionist elements of the comics such as representations of explosions, speed and forces of nature) to the notion of heroic paintings with mythological and biblical subjects that vary from the battle between the Egyptian gods Horus and Seth to the parable of Jacob’s wrestling with God and being renamed Israel.

Opposite – Forces of Nature Chaos #2, 2017

Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2017

Massimo De Carlo
Ventura: Via Giovanni Ventura 5
20134 Milan
Italy

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

ADIDAS ORIGINALS EQT SUPPORT RF

Posted on 2017-04-17

Adidas Originals drop two new colorways of the EQT Support RF model. The shoe uses a Primeknit upper with color blocking and is strengthened with an external heel cage and TPU support piece. Elsewhere there’s a EVA midsole with an integrated Three Stripes system that functions as a nod to the shoe’s ’90s roots. Colorways available are frozen green and white/cream.

www.adidas.co.uk

  

PUMA X COMMONWEALTH IGNITE EVOKNIT

Posted on 2017-04-17

PUMA has linked up with retailer Commonwealth for a joint take on the IGNITE evoKNIT. The collaborative sneaker comes with a simple backdrop for the shoe’s detailing, featuring a clean white upper that contrasts against the red, blue and black woven support strap and bright orange heel tab, as well as a speckled IGNITE foam midsole.

Available May 13th from all of the retailer’s stores, as well as its web store.

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OLAF METZEL – PLATTENBAU

Posted on 2017-04-17

For Metzel, the “Platte” (‘pre-fab’; literally: slab) is not only an architectural construction practice and material culture of the former East Bloc, but also a promise of Western postwar Modernist architecture, and similarly it highlights the discrepancy between ideal and reality. If we think of the Grands ensembles in the French banlieues, the Vele di Scampia in Naples or the Gropiusstadt in Berlin, these monuments of utopian Modernism generally stand nowadays as social and architectural historical symbols of urban decay and sociopolitical breakdown. Dilapidation, shattered prospects, cultural decline, criminal networks and social inequalities frequently characterize daily life in these “machines for living”, in which urban life was supposed to manifest itself through density.

Although Lafayette Park in Detroit by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe makes use of the same objective formal vocabulary, it serves urban elites as a site of production and blatantly contradicts the egalitarian function and idea of social residential building.

But even when the accents shift, inherent in these critical architectural movements is a systemic overall dogma: to democratize the housing and therefore the lives of human beings. As architecture parlante, the sculptural buildings of the International Style and Brutalism formulate a visionary belief in a new social order and the participation of art in life.

Exhibition runs through to June 17th, 2017

Wentrup Gallery
Tempelhofer Ufer 22
10963 Berlin
Germany

www.wentrupgallery.com

  

PATTA SPRING/SUMMER 2017

Posted on 2017-04-17

Patta launch their 2017 collection, mixing bold colours and heavy graphics with a toned down, earthy palette.
Key pieces include a football jersey, shell suit and a “Tear down the wall” tee.

www.patta.nl

  

H. DAVID STEIN – TEXTURES AND COLORS

Posted on 2017-04-17

In this series of Stein’s photographs the stars of the show are the textures and colors of the objects being photographed. Some are bright, others subdued. It matters little what the object or structure is, only that we see the unique textures and colors that are being displayed. With the abstraction of these formal elements from the supremacy of the object as subject, we are pulled more deeply into looking at edges, shadows and the smaller shapes that when multiplied form the tactile surfaces. The images Stein has created reinforce the very nature of the photograph as the more concrete object.
When Stein retired as a professor of surgery, he took courses at the International Center for Photography with several well-known photographers in the New York area. As a surgeon trained to look for minute variations of color and texture in the human body together with the inspiration he received from some of the finest artists in this medium, Stein has developed of way of seeing and reacting to the world around him with a unique aesthetic.
Stein prints all the photographs himself to assure consistently high quality images using archival materials to insure the longevity of these photographs.

Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2017

510 Warren Street Gallery
510 Warren Street
Hudson, New York
NY 12534

www.510warrenstreetgallery.com