Korean retailer Kasina gets together with Reebok on the ‘Dooly The Little Dinosaur’ Pack. The iconic Korean animated film was created in 1983. Inspired by some of its main characters, Kasina created three sneakers for the pack – the Court Victory Pump ‘Dooly’, the Phase 3 Runner ‘Michol’ and the Top Down ‘DDochi & Douner’.
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The three-brand collaboration between Stussy Deluxe, Undefeated and The North Face has come at no better time as the 2011 fall/winter season gets underway. The ”Back-to-Berkeley” boots are a mid cut design made with a nubuck suede upper and nylon specifications. The classic silhouette takes on a new design with these three contemporary brands reworking today’s outdoor style. Company details include the iconic Stussy Deluxe purple dot, UNDFTD tags, and The North Face branding on the sides and tongue
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Familiar Star Wars characters are the subjects of Levinthal’s most recent series. However, these epic visages are composed of Legos, as Levinthal has in his signature fashion transformed these miniature action figures into powerful action heroes. These photos mimic the cinematic style of the Lucas films, transforming tiny bricks into legendary, larger-than-life Sci Fi stars.
Contrast is central to this series, as the figures are placed in front of monochromatic black backgrounds. The lighting is sharp, resulting in even more intimidating intergalactic machines, weapons, and their famed operators. The black and white walls of the exhibition’s installation further emphasize this contrast. Levinthal’s standard use of a narrow depth of field, soft focus, and the photographic trope of enlargement seen in his close-up shots bring a sense of life to the objects in the foreground. However, he does not attempt to completely remove all traces of the Lego aesthetic, allowing his viewers to see what is at play in his creation and representation of “outer space.” The photos showcase the humanized drama such toys have to offer to the imaginative.
Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2011
Gering & López Gallery
730 Fifth Avenue
Between 56th and 57th Streets
New York
NY
10019
During the past 40 years, photographer Madeleine de Sinéty has worked on several continents, quietly documenting the everyday lives and public events of those who reside in obscure rural corners of the world. This selection of 71 black-and-white and color images will be the first to explore the breadth of de Sinéty’s photographic essays, from her multi-year exploration of traditional French farm families in a small region of Brittany, to village life in Uganda, and finally to the work of a single logger in northern Maine who still uses draft horses to pull this precious natural resource from the woods.
On the lighter side of life in Maine, de Sinéty has also documented the famed photographer and conceptual artist William Wegman, at work in Rangeley making large Polaroid portraits of his dogs. De Sinéty has been a resident of Rangeley, Maine for the past 30 years. This exhibition is the fourth in a series of exhibitions called Circa that explores compelling aspects of contemporary art in the state of Maine and beyond.
Exhibition runs from September 24th to December 18th, 2011
Portland Museum of Art
Seven Congress Square
Portland
Maine
04101
This exhibition features Fischer’s newest large-scale photographs of modern building facades from locales around the world including Munich, Melbourne and Mexico City.
Born in 1958, Roland Fischer is a key figure in contemporary German photography. Photo Technik International named him one of Germany’s top ten photographers alongside Demand, Gursky, Ruff and Struth. His work has been the subject of many national and international exhibitions including a 2003 retrospective at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and more recently a 2011 retrospective at the Museo DA2 in Salamanca, Spain. Roland Fischer’s work is in numerous public collections including the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris (FNAC); Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC); Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; and the Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza, Salzburg. The artist lives and works in Munich and Beijing.
Opposite – Museum Munich, 2010
Exhibition runs through to October 8th, 2011
Von Lintel Gallery
520 W. 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
10011
Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington), a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop DetectiveHeigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims’ mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call “The Killing Fields.” Stars Chloe Moretz and Sam Worthington.
In theaters October 14th, 2011
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