JAVIER MARTIN – LIGHTS APPROPRIATION

Posted on 2022-01-03

This exhibition encourages self-reflection. Martin uses sophisticated visual elements to stimulate the viewers curiosity, to let them question what may be hidden behind the lights and what blinds us.
Through excellent artistic skills Martin combines painting and collage in order to detect the transformation of the natural daylight, and places it in a powerful battle with the artificial light. He takes us on a journey from poetic sunsets to sunrises, dark night skies and graceful twilights, and creates new allegories of natural light. These works allow us autocritical questions: How strong is the blindness that comes from favoring unimportant things? Is a clear sight hindered by something or are we intentionally covering our eyes?

Opposite – Blindness Timeless Light 3, 2021

Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2022

PULPO GALLERY
Obermarkt 51
82418 Murnau am Staffelsee
Germany

www.pulpogallery.com

  

HERBERT FEAT. BIANCA ROSE – GOLD DUST

Posted on 2022-01-03

Matthew Herbert announces the final single ‘Gold Dust’ to be taken from his new Herbert album ‘Musca’ – featuring British/Jamaican/Nigerian singer-songwriter Bianca Rose who features on other tracks on the album ‘Chain Reaction’ and ‘Let Me Sleep’.

www.accidental.co

  

WORKING CLASS HEROES HEAVYWEIGHT COLLECTION

Posted on 2022-01-03

The British retailer is no stranger to the outdoors having put the likes of Arc’teryx, Manastash, Holubar Mountaineering and more through the ringer in recent months, thanks to its idyllic north west location.

Now to present its all-new Heavyweight collection, Working Class Heroes heads to the heart of the Lake District to the Britannia Inn. An oversized hoodie arrives in hues of “Heather Grey”, “Natural” and black and is crafted with organic cotton and recycled nylon.

Crew sweatshirts also make an appearance in the same trio of colorways, and too boast an organic cotton and recycled nylon craft, as well as a snug brushed fleece lining.

www.workingclassheroes.co.uk

  

Posted on 2022-01-03

Peter (Charlie Day) and Emma (Jenny Slate) thought they were on the precipice of life’s biggest moments – marriage, kids, and houses in the suburbs – until their respective partners dumped them. Horrified to learn that the loves of their lives have already moved on, Peter and Emma hatch a hilarious plan to win back their exes with unexpected results.

Streamed via Amazon February 11th, 2022

www.amazon.com

  

ANNE-MIE VAN KERCKHOVEN

Posted on 2022-01-03

Zeno X Gallery presents the retrospective exhibition Placenta Saturnine Bercail by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (b. 1951 in Antwerp). Historical and new works illustrate her forty-year collaboration with Zeno X Gallery. A substantial publication presenting an overview of all her exhibitions in the gallery with images from the archive will be released to coincide with this exhibition.
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven has collected a large database of images of women in various stages of undress. The poses, gazes, attributes and camera angles are usually very stereotypical. These clichés are occasions for her to connect the underlying meanings of the images with other, sociopolitical dimensions of society. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven likes to look for the tension between word and image. Since images of women are regularly used to sell certain goods, Van Kerckhoven got the idea to also sell abstract ideas or concepts by juxtaposing them with images of women: “As my alter ego ‘HeadNurse’, I took ninety-six female images from my database and connected them with words from texts on internal self-organization, thermodynamics and knowledge representation. Through the systematic use and reuse of images of women – from the first nude magazines to the sexual revolution– I activated a five-step alchemical process, starting from thinkers in the baroque to Nietzsche.”

Opposite – Spiegel (Mirror), 1987

Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2022

Zeno X Gallery
Godtsstraat 15
2140 Antwerp
Belgium

www.zeno-x.com

  

MEDICOM TOY – REPLICA PROP HAL 9000

Posted on 2022-01-03

Medicom Toy has revealed a replica prop for the HAL 9000 supercomputer, which first appeared in the cult-classic sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

HAL 9000 is the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey series, appearing as an advanced artificial intelligence that controls the Discovery One spacecraft and converses with its crew. HAL features a simple design, seen equipped with a red light camera lens and a speaker. The Medicom Toy replica measures 346mm in height and comes with a black base stand for display.

www.medicomtoy.co.jp