Kaws’ giant 5-meter high Companion has finally landed at Harbour City Hong Kong. In addition to the figure, Kaws created a mural that lines a nearby staircase. To commemorate the occassion, three Harbour City exclusive Kaws items – a t-shirt, coffee mug and stickers, will be available starting October 3, 2010 at the Harbour City Museum of Art.
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Feng Mengbo’s installation, Long March: Restart is a large-scale interactive video game installation. Long March is a fully functioning video game created by the Beijing-based artist who is known for his long-time engagement with digital technology. Lifting imagery from iconic games like Street Fighter II and Super Mario Bros., along with propaganda motifs from Communist China, Feng invites visitors to direct the hero—a Red Army soldier—via a wireless controller and combat the various enemies in his digital path. Feng Mengbo will be on view in the first floor Painting Gallery
MoMa PS1
22-25 Jackson at 46th Ave
Long Island
NY
11101
USA
Adam Kimmel has teamed up with magician David Blaine for his latest video project, entitled “Dressed For Dinner”. Part of the Move! MoMa PS1 showcase, which brings together a very strong line-up of fashion designers (Proenza Shouler, Terence Koh, Diane Von Furstenberg) on various artistic project, Kimmel has premiered his video this weekend. We managed to pass by and check it out – it turned out great. You see David Blaine dive in full Adam Kimmel outfits, including cigar, together with a bunch of white sharks.
MoMa PS1
22-25 Jackson at 46th Ave
Long Island
NY
11101
United States
Ronzo’s second solo exhibition features a new series of paintings, collages, prints and sculptures showing life in the ‘Ronzo Borough of Crackney’. It is a dark but funny place inspired by the experience of living in London’s East End borough of Hackney. Ronzo’s vision of Crackney is crawling with surreal characters including crack smoking squirrels and a pizza delivering giant cock roach.
Exhibition runs from November 18th to November 28th, 2010
StolenSpace Gallery
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Bricklane
London
E1 6QL
Paul Thek: Diver, a Retrospective is the first retrospective in the United States devoted to the legendary American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988). A sculptor, painter, and one of the first artists to create environments or installations, Thek came to recognition showing his sculpture in New York galleries in the 1960s. The first works exhibited, which he began making in 1964 and called “meat pieces” as they were meant to resemble flesh, were encased in Plexiglas boxes that recall Minimal sculptures. At the end of the sixties, Thek left for Europe, where he created extraordinary environments, incorporating elements from art, literature, theater, and religion, often employing fragile and ephemeral substances, including wax and latex.
Opposite – Untitled (Hand with Ring), 1967
Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2011
The Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. at 75th St.
New York
NY
10021
These two seemingly disparate artists coalesce in this show of sculpture and wall-mounted objects. The idea for this exhibition originated at NADA 2009 where Sarah Braman viewed Peter Alexander’s work for the first time. Her initial reaction and Alexander’s subsequent response to Braman’s work led to enthusiastic plans for this show.
Though Alexander and Braman are from opposite coasts and different generations, their works balance sinuously and occupy space with a shared sensitivity to situation and context. Each artist addresses concerns of perception, light, atmosphere, and spatial orientation, employing color and translucence and resolving their own formal pursuits in ways that are varied yet surprisingly compatible. In doing so, their work becomes a concrete, abstract response to a personal and atmospheric experience.
Exhibition runs through to December 18th,2010
Franklin Parrasch Gallery
20 w 57th street (between 5th and 6th ave)
NY
10019
