ON BODY AND SOUL
2017-09-18An unusual love story set in the everyday world, based around the duality of sleeping and waking, mind and matter.
In theatres September 22nd, 2017
TweetTAL R – SEXSHOPS
2017-09-18With their areas of flat, unmodulated colour and deceptively simple compositions, Tal R’s paintings have long questioned our conception of and presumptions about our surrounding reality – what we see and where its meaning and beauty lies. In these new works he brings a quizzical eye to the largely unconscious actions of seduction, desire and gratification. Approaching his subject matter non-judgementally, Tal R sees the sex shop façade as being metaphorically allied to the function of desire within a painting. For the artist, that which is on display is only successful in as much as it activates the imagination, hinting at something tantalisingly out of reach; in the ‘back room’ as the artist says – unseen and unknown. Keeping us on the outside is a deliberate creative strategy. Working from photographs, some sent by friends and acquaintances from around the world, Tal R is on the outside too: shut out by closed doors and frosted windows, which he paints with varying degrees of abstraction in dazzlingly seductive hues.
Opposite – Dirty Dick, 2017
Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2017
Victoria Miro Gallery
16 Wharf Road
N1 7RW
London
EVA ROTHSCHILD – A MATERIAL ENLIGHTENMENT
2017-09-18Treating sculpture as a way to mediate simultaneous forms of presence, Rothschild implicates the viewer in a continuous search for possible outcomes, even from within a “completed” work.
Rothschild’s works frequently occupy the intersection between ritual objects and minimalist formal tradition. Often relying on simple geometric shapes the work engages with these intertwined histories, amplifying the psychological and critical associations they connote. “An Array” (2016) brings together a set of forms from Rothschild’s own lexicon. The sculptures, all black and arranged on a low platform, are realized in Perspex, jesmonite, papier-mâché, and steel, and loosely demarcated via open steel frames. This tableau of objects, with pedestals and partitions acting in diametric tandem, suggests options for various presences and ways of being within a single work in space. The mulitplicity of potential arrangements is both tacit and tangible, as Rothschild’s shapes appear on the edge of transposition, yet are beholden to their parameters in terms of a configured artwork. The implicit opening in perception grants the viewer conscious access to the nature of looking, and how an object can vacillate between active and static depending on how and when it is looked at.
Opposite – Red Sun, 2016
Exhibition runs through to October 28th, 2017
303 Gallery
555 W 21st Street
NY 10011 New York
USA
WADE GUYTON: DAS NEW YORKER ATELIER, ABRIDGED
2017-09-18Guyton is interested in the translations that take place between these tools, transforming three-dimensional space into digital information that is subsequently reproduced on surfaces and in space.
This new exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, entitled Das New Yorker Atelier, Abridged, presents a body of work completed in the past two years. Guyton’s choice of title bears witness to the site of both the first installation of the work, in Germany, and its place of production in downtown Manhattan. It also references Guyton’s encounter with the painting Das Pariser Atelier (1807) by the Swiss artist Hans Jakob Oeri. The studio’s potential, not just as a locus for discussion and production, but as a material in and of itself, is echoed throughout this exhibition.
Guyton’s paintings are printed on to sheets of linen that are folded in half and run, sometimes repeatedly, through large inkjet printers. Inconsistencies surface on the canvas, caused by diminishing levels of ink toner or technical glitches, distorting and disrupting the image, while intentional ‘errors’, such as streaks, creases and misalignments, occur as the fabric feeds – or is pulled – through the machine. Guyton’s works on paper are printed over pages removed from art catalogues, with the artist’s additions obscuring or revealing the original images and text.
Exhibition runs from September 29th through to February 4th, 2018
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London
W2 3XA
CHUNK SPECIAL EDITION DESIGNED BY JIMDREAMS
2017-09-18‘Chunk lives a carefree life by the sea. With sea breeze and booze as his daily does. Always having fun and live each day to the fullest!’ Jimdreams.
Chunk by Jimdreams sits in his melancholy stupor at about 15cm and is cast in soft vinyl.
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CHRISTOPHER THOMAS – LOST IN L.A.
2017-09-18With these atmospheric black and white photographs, Thomas brings his unique style of city portraiture to Los Angeles, originally established in Münchner Elegien (2001–2005), New York Sleeps (2009), Venice in Solitude (2010)and Paris: City of Light (2014). As with his previous series, he transports the viewer to a silent city, devoid of human presence and cars, particularly extraordinary in a portrait of L.A. The exhibition includes classic views and motifs associated with the city, such as the Hollywood Sign, Randy’s Donuts, Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland and Santa Monica Beach, as well as more unexpected pictures of oil pumps, solitary piers stretching into the Pacific Ocean and the nucleus and centre of Los Angeles under the Spaniards. Prestel Publishers has released a new book, Christopher Thomas: Lost in L.A., with the full series of images and text by Ira Stehmann.
Opposite – McDonalds I, Downey, Los Angeles, 2017
Exhibition runs through to October 14th, 2018
Hamiltons Gallery
13 Carlos Place
London
W1K 2EU
