ANNA BJERGER – SILENCE

Posted on 2019-04-01

Bjerger’s search for motifs begins with piles of books, magazines and old photographs. Redundant images get a new life in Bjerger’s universe. There isn’t a typical Anna Bjerger painting. People see the themes they want to see. To some, she paints forests and mountains, to some it’s paintings of girls. Bjerger’s subject matter is wide ranging. She paints portraits and landscapes but she also paints toilet rolls. When she does paint sunsets or other seemingly easily accessible subjects, it’s probably for a very different reason than we imagine. It can be a detail or a whole that catches Bjerger’s attention, whether it’s a tennis ball or a landscape it’s always painted with equal respect. For Bjerger’s exhibition Silence she used a square format as a starting point. The format has been essential for Bjerger’s search for both subject and composition through the series.

Opposite – Rock, 2019

Exhibition runs through to June 15th, 2019

Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
Flæsketorvet 85 A
DK-1711 Copenhagen
Denmark

www.bjerggaard.com

  

MIRCEA SUCIU – HOTEL EMPATHY

Posted on 2019-04-01

Suciu not only uses a wide range of graphic techniques to compose images, but he also resorts to various types of images. He often recycles images that are part of our collective memory or that seem familiar, ranging from a Campbell soup can to an identifiable character of a baroque painting. Through this seemingly eclectic choice of imagery he strives for iconicity in a world that is constantly being overwhelmed by all sorts of images. Suciu is interested in the mechanisms behind an image – how the impact can be immediate and how an image can be deceiving or rather emancipating. By working in series, he tries to exhaust certain motifs and to reach the essence of an image. The images could be seen as echoes that become more real through repetition, making it harder for one to escape them.

Opposite – Bazaar (2), 2018 – 2019

Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2019

Zeno X Gallery
Godtsstraat 15
2140 Antwerp
Belgium

www.zeno-x.com

  

SAINT LAURENT – DENIM #YSL23 BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO

Posted on 2019-04-01

Art Direction: Anthony Vaccarello
Photographer and director: Gray Sorrenti
Models: Kaia Gerber, Simona Kust, Martina Boaretto, Mads Mullin, Rebecca Leigh Longendyke, Dakota Lindvall, Najib, Rai Langlois, Dylan Christensen
Music: Maggots Brain by Funkadelic

ysl.com

  

ALIFE GOLDEN BEAR TRUCKER JACKET

Posted on 2019-04-01

Alife has partnered with Golden Bear to drop a trucker jacket in two colorways. The jacket is made from 100 percent cotton twill, featuring a snap front closure, and front chest and side pockets. The made-in-USA silhouette is then branded with a woven label and chainstitch embroidered sleeve branding.

alifenewyork.com

  

SUPREME SPRING TEES

Posted on 2019-04-01

For spring, Supreme will release nine new graphic t-shirts.

Available in-store NY, Brooklyn, LA, London, Paris and online April 4th.

Available in Japan on April 6th.

www.supremenewyork.com

  

RALSTON CRAWFORD – STRUCTURED VISION

Posted on 2019-04-01

Fascinated by the purified geometry of man-made things, Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) worked in a consistently formal, or abstract, manner across a variety of mediums. His photographs provide an essential look at a vital era of abstraction in American art, and at the cultural scenes and subjects from which that creative sensibility arose.

Crawford used the camera as a tool of both documentary and artistic expression. Some photographs served as studies for later paintings or prints. Most, however, were created and appreciated purely as photographs. His subjects ranged from urban and industrial themes to ships and sailing, jazz, the people and culture of New Orleans, bullfighting and religious processions in Spain, and the destructive power of the atomic bomb.

Exhibition runs through to April 7th, 2019

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4225 Oak Street
Kansas City
64111 MO

nelson-atkins.org