2011 January : EXIT

ADAM KIMMEL X CARHARTT

Posted on 2011-01-03

Upcoming collaboration by Adam Kimmel and Carhartt, in which the launch collection encompasses 29 pieces, including outerwear, jeans, plaid flannel shirts and pants in moleskin or cotton twill. Accessories in the line include a duffel and tote bag as well as cotton cashmere beanies.
“Workwear could be found in all of my collections—like the jumpsuit which was inspired in part by the uniform of painters and mechanics. And as I said durability and wearability are also big staples of mine. I’ve always appreciated clothes that you can wear everyday, and I think both my brand and Carhartt supply that. While the AK product is handmade in Italy using very high-end fabric, the Adam Kimmel/Carhartt collection is made in Carhartt workwear facilities. The price point will be somewhere between Carhatt’s and my own.”

www.adamkimmel.com
www.carhartt.com

LEICA M9 – CHROME AND OSTRICH

Posted on 2011-01-03

The Leica M9 has been released with a new limited edition silver chrome and brown ostrich leather body, with Scratch-resistant sapphire glass and a Leica 35mm f/2 Summicron lens. The kit is now available select Leica Boutiques in a limited, numbered run of 50 cameras.

leica-camera.com

PENELOPE UMBRICO

Posted on 2011-01-03

Penelope Umbrico offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images. As Umbrico describes, she works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments—but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.”
Umbrico finds these moments in the printed pages of consumer product mail-order catalogs, travel and leisure brochures, and online sites such as Craigslist, EBay, and Flickr. By identifying and isolating image typologies—candy-colored horizons and sunsets, books used as props—the farcical and surreal nature of the lingua franca of consumerism and recreation is brought to new light.

She presents a unique and challenging approach to quintessential issues of representation in contemporary culture, including how images are used to construct and communicate consumer desire, and whether or not the growing volume of images we view online fosters a critical visual literacy. Her first monograph Penelope Umbrico (Photographs) released in June 2011.

www.penelopeumbrico.net

NAN GOLDIN. BERLIN WORK. PHOTOGRAPHS 1984 TO 2009

Posted on 2011-01-03

The American artist Nan Goldin is a leading exponent of ‘subjective photography’. Her own life forms the focus of her artistic work. Goldin has repeatedly spent extended periods in Berlin since the 1980s. In 1991 she was able to spend an entire year in Berlin as part of the DAAD artist programme. With around 100 photographs, the Berlinische Galerie is presenting a comprehensive insight into her work created in Berlin, whereby it is also drawing on previously unpublished material from the artist’s archive, which has never before been presented.

Opposite – Self-Portrait in my Blue Bathroom, Berlin 1991

Exhibition runs through to March 28th, 2011

Berlinische Galerie
State Museum of Modern Art, Photography, and Architecture
Alte Jakobstraße 124-128
10969
Berlin

www.berlinischegalerie.de

MOUNT KIMBIE – BEFORE I MOVE OFF

Posted on 2011-01-03

Dominic Maker and Kai Campos drop a sweet video for Before I Move Off, from the album Crooks and Lovers.

www.myspace.com/mountkimbie

ADELE – ROLLING IN THE DEEP – JAMIE XX SHUFFLE

Posted on 2011-01-03

Adele’s Rolling In The Deep gets the Jamie xx Shuffle, using the steel drum groove he used in his own tune, Far Nearer, the White Label 12″ is Out Now. Also available for download exclusively on iTunes from Sunday 16th January.