Trailer for Amon Tobin’s all new, highly ambitious, breathtaking ‘ISAM’ live show. Tobin will be stepping away from previous DJ centric performances, and instead will be providing a large scale live audio/visual experience to select cities around the world.
‘ISAM’ is available now in a variety of formats, including a deluxe 2XLP / Limited Edition CD Artbook (featuring exclusive images and an essay by John Doran) / Digital / T-Shirt package.
Richie Hawtin has been invited by artist Anish Kapoor to perform against the sculpture he has created for the great nave of the Grand Palais.
The event, part of the national Fête de la musique is called Red – Richie Hawtin facing the Leviathan of Anish Kapoor, takes place at 8pm-midnight on June 21 and will see Hawtin perform in “response” to Kapoor’s latest work.
The Grand Palais
Nave of the Grand Palais
Avenue Winston-Churchill
75008
Paris
www.grandpalais.fr
richiehawtin.com
A new print, which follows Donwood’s limited edition screenprint for the festival’s 40th anniversary last year, comes in an edition of 250 lithographs.It is printed on uncoated 200gsm Edixion Challenger stock.
Each print is signed, numbered and stamped with the Slowly Downward Manufactory pointy-toothed bear.
This retrospective features 30 large-format paintings and woodcuts by Franz Gertsch, one of Switzerland’s leading contemporary artists. The exhibition, entitled ‘Seasons’, brings together in the large exhibition gallery his realistic works from the period between 1983 and 2011, culminating in his recently completed ‘Four Seasons Cycle’. Gertsch is one of the most important Swiss artists of the present day. He rose to international fame in the 1970s with his hyper-realist paintings, and works from this period have fetched top prices at recent auctions.
Opposite – Summer , 2009
Exhibition runs through to September 18th, 2011
Kunsthaus Zürich
Heimplatz 1
CH–8001
Zurich
In this new series of works, Levine continues and extends the conceptual trajectory of this act of referencing. Bobcat and javelina skulls cast in bronze recall her 2007 exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, where the artist has made a home, and where she showed a series of cattle skulls in clear reference to paintings by O’Keeffe. Here too the source of the work is a found object, and the artist shows the javelina skulls as a series, six sculptures from the edition in a row. Through this repetition, the sculpture becomes a reference to itself, and calls attention to the seriality central to the artist’s work.
Sherrie Levine came to prominence as one of a generation of artists who, during the 1970s and early 1980s, became known under the label of postmodernism. One of the characteristics of her work that drove critics at the time, Craig Owens in particular, to identify it as such was its use of appropriation. In his influential 1980 essay: The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism, Owens saw Levine’s use of appropriation as a strategy working against the Modernist imperative of originality and artistic genius.
Opposite – Bobcat Skull, Cast bronze, 2010
Exhibition runs through to July 16th, 2011
Simon Lee Gallery
12 Berkeley Street
London
W1J 8DT
Painter, Pundit and Prankster Ron English presents Skin Deep, an exploration of the intersections, discrepancies and synchronicities of personal mythologies on display in our public personas. The exhibition presents multi-layered portraits of some of his most iconic characters, tracing the arc of their inner lives.
Often using his children as models, English chronicles the soul’s sojourn through Pop dioramas of fear and appetite, aspiration and rage. While paying homage to the great art before him, English maintains his very personal point of view, transforming the public to intimate and the universal to specific.
Using a mixture of imagery, medium and process referenced from great masters such as Warhol, Pollack and Picasso, combined with irreverent cherry-picking of populist totems from fast food to cartoons, English creates complex running narratives of his many alter-egos butting headfirst into the Grand Illusion, where unstated cultural norms are exposed and analyzed.
Exhibition runs from June 24th to July 21st, 2011
Lazarides
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
