TRICKY – LONELY DANCER FEAT. ANIKA
2020-02-17Lonely Dancer, from Tricky’s upcoming EP 20,20 out on 6th March 2020.
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2020-02-17Dreamer presents a series of photographs that collage street scenes from New York with landscapes and details from locations that Kim has visited throughout the country. Using mundane encounters from her everyday errands in New York as her starting point, Kim manipulates her photographs to construct images that convey a kind of surreal escapism, one that is free from the limits or restraints of reality. Due to the restriction of her VISA status, Kim has been unable to leave the United States-meaning she has not returned to her home country of South Korea for over ten years. Instead, she builds photographs to create new spaces and fictional experiences that allow for a sense of liberation and infinite possibility. It’s in the seemingly impossible merging of two or more environments that she finds their spark. Kim thinks of these photographs as paintings, where slight imperfections from the post-production process act as an equivalent to mark-making. She believes that “small imperfections are human; they are what makes people attractive.”
Exhibition runs through to March 7th, 2020
Benrubi Gallery
521 West 26th Street
New York
NY 10001
SAINT MAUD
2020-02-17The debut film from writer-director Rose Glass, Saint Maud is a chilling and boldly original vision of faith, madness, and salvation in a fallen world. Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient’s soul — but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling.
In theatres May 1st, 2020
TweetTHE NORTH FACE REINTRODUCES BLACK SERIES
2020-02-17Led by Head of Global Creative Tim Hamilton, the concept for Black Series was born from the desire to create a collection that embodies The North Face design-led culture with strong influences from the brand’s heritage and innovation. Inspired by The North Face proven heritage on the mountain, Black Series represents the most technologically advanced materials and construction, paired with imaginative fashion-forward silhouettes, delivering a hyper minimalist, modern aesthetic for the city explorer.
To create Black Series, Hamilton brought together a team of diverse designers with experience ranging from haute couture to technical sportswear to create pieces never seen from The North Face. Similar to The North Face’s pinnacle performance collections built for mountaineering, skiing and running, designers sought to create a fashion-minded collection for consumers who seek thoughtful elevated design lines and premium materials while maintaining functionality and authenticity. The team specifically turned to two icons from the brand’s past to build the SS20 Black Series collection around: the innovative construction of the brand’s signature Geodesic Dome, and the Mountain Light jacket, one of the brand’s most popular and recognizable performance pieces.
Designed with a renewed focus on the feminine point of view, the collection will feature women’s-specific styles and ultra-feminine silhouettes as well as gender-neutral and men’s pieces. Members of The North Face’s global athlete team, Margo Hayes and Matty Hong, are featured in the collection’s creative campaign, which includes still photography and a film that pay homage to the brand’s beginnings in California’s Yosemite Valley and demonstrate how nature has inspired this city collection.
The collection will range in price from £50 to £1,220 and will be available first to The North Face VIPeak Rewards members starting February 25 online and in select The North Face stores. The collection will become available to the general public the following day, February 26.
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CRAIG COSTELLO – NEW WORK
2020-02-10Minimalist, experimental, intellectual and primal. Black and white abstraction. Formal and yet technically avant-garde. Vibrant, refined, gestural – in and out of control. Arrested motion. Perfected through repetition, but never perfect. The work of Craig Costello is all about equilibrium. Surface, movement, paint, application and reaction.
Craig Costello, born 1971 in New York City, USA, lives and works in Brooklyn, USA. Recent exhibitions include Beyond the Streets, New York, USA, 2019, Fundamentals, Rouen, France, 2019 and WHQ, agnès b. Galerie Boutique, New York, USA, 2017. Costello is the founder, owner and operator of Krink Inc. – innovating the finest inks, high quality paint markers and specialty artist equipment for interior and exterior use. Costello uses his own paints and tools – modified fire extinguishers, garden sprayers and shoe polish bottles – in his paintings, sculpture and large-scale, site-specific installations.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to February 22nd, 2020
Eighteen
Slagtehusgade 18c
Kødbyen
1711 Copenhagen
SALLY J. HAN – FOREPLAY
2020-02-10Sally J. Han’s acrylic paintings on paper, mounted on panel, are confessions but also secrets. The answer to what they might reveal or conceal rests in a space between the surreal and the earthly. Gazing at the sky, whispering and gossiping, sleeping and bathing, fighting and waiting, resting and walking, smoking, cleaning. All are familiar rituals but what lies beyond the confines of these scenes? For Han, who was born in China but grew up in South Korea, her memories are transformed into culturally specific puncta painted throughout like tiles pieced together creating a mosaic that stands for a history (story): the traditional versus contemporary clothing worn by the painted figures, the colors, the landscapes, walls, objects, and interiors.
Foreplay, the exhibition title, is more than its association to physical activities, like kissing and touching, it can also point to mental and verbal landscapes, like whispering, gazing and gossiping. The settings created by Han could all be said to be in a state of foreplay. Pulling hair, as in the painting Foreplay and A Sneak Peek, tension reigns between faceless figures, as they engage in an act that is both erotic and playful. Hair as relating to our private, involuntary fantasies, thoughts and longings, is being pulled out of its roots.
Opposite – Gossip, 2019
Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2020
Fortnight Institute
60 East 4th St
NYC 10003
