ROME – DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI

Posted on 2011-05-09

3 Dreams Of Black is a groundbreaking interactive film created for the song Black featuring Norah Jones, taken from Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s forthcoming Rome album .

Written and directed by Chris Milk, and developed in conjunction with Radical Media, EMI and Google, 3 Dreams Of Black is set in three dream worlds. The worlds are experienced as 2D drawings and animations, interspersed with interactive 3D sequences in which the viewer becomes an active participant, guiding their own journey through the unfolding narrative. Participants can even create and contribute their own virtual artefacts – the best of which will then be integrated into the experience and become a part of other users’ dreams.

To experience 3 Dreams Of Black head to www.ro.me.

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SWATCH ORIGINALS GENT ZEBRA WATCHES

Posted on 2011-05-09

The first collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced on March 1, 1983 in Zürich, Switzerland. Ever since Swiss watch maker Swatch has unveiled 100’s if not 1000’s of designs. The new line of Zebra print watches includes five Gent Original models with black and white print silicone straps and your choice of Pink, Yellow, Orange, Blue or Green fluorescent dials and transparent coloured cases.

www.swatch.com

  

NOH, SANG-KYOON : CONJURING CONSTELLATIONS

Posted on 2011-05-02

Noh, Sang-Kyoon chooses to follow his personal mythos as a source and driver for his creative process. Covered in thousands of sequins that he threads together by hand, the early sculptures and canvases of Noh, Sang-Kyoon trace their origins to both the ordinary and the spiritual-from the memory of his mother’s spangled bag and the costumes of singers on television, to a near-death childhood experience, when he nearly drowned. He realized then that he “could die in vain, as nobody, as nothing, with no purpose, as if a fish without scales that is doomed to perish.” He later translated these memories into a series of early work where sequins created the shining appearance of life-saving fish scales.

Opposite – Constellation 4 Leo, 2010. Sequins on canvas

Exhibition runs through to June 4th, 2011

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
505 W24th Street
New York
NY 10011

www.brycewolkowitz.com

  

FLORIAN MAIER-AICHEN

Posted on 2011-05-02

With the works in this exhibition, Maier-Aichen continues his practice of picking apart and expanding notions of photographic representation. Many works in the show rely on a fully hybrid model of image production; utilizing practices of photography, painting and drawing in equal measures has allowed the artist to explore the myth of image-making in pursuit of a new form of the ideal photographic document.Through the subtle interventions and a shrewd utilization of the visual / conceptual crossover, the works push toward a simultaenous rejection and embrace of the confines of photographic reality, all the while celebrating the romance of image creation.

Opposite – Untitled, 2011

Exhibition runs through to June 25th, 2011

303 Gallery
547 W 21st Street
New York
NY
10011

www.303gallery.com

  

PAUL MCCARTHY : SELECTED WORKS

Posted on 2011-05-02

Paul McCarthy’s career, spanning over forty years of production, can at once be summarized as chaotic, grotesque, and provocative. His work stems from an adolescence in American popular culture saturated with corn syrup, ketchup, and coca cola, childrens’ toys and Disney – materials and references which act as sweetened and cheapened metaphors for the very most basic elements of human life: sweat, blood, sex, desire, feces.

McCarthy’s world -as represented through his work- is cruel and euphoric but oddly familiar, often taking the form of a skewed allegory or fairytale (Pinocchio or Heidi, for example). His adaptations of these stories methodically predict human excess, spilling proverbial guts and blood to cut to the quick of human tendencies universally recognized but hardly spoken of. Throughout, an insistent question of the role of the artist is posed. Rejecting the idea of artist as mystic, McCarthy plays the parody, repeating and re-interpreting the images he grew up with by approaching their limits.

Opposite – Silver Santa, 2007

Exhibition runs through to October 2nd, 2011

Charles Riva Collection
Rue de la Concorde 21
1050 Ixelles
Belgium

www.charlesrivacollection.com

  

LEICA X UNIFORM EXPERIMENT D-LUX 5

Posted on 2011-05-02

Hiroshi Fujiwara and his brand Uniform Experiment and Leica the German high end camera maker come together over the D-Lux 5. The special uniform experiment edition, featuring a logo placements on the upper, as well as a matching leather camera case, also featuring embossed logo placements.
The camera is to released in Japan on May 11th, and limited to 200 pieces.

www.uniformexperiment.jp
www.leica.com