ARCTIC MONKEYS – EVIL TWIN
2011-10-31The new video for Arctic Monkeys’ Evil Twin, directed by Focus Creeps. Evil Twin” is the B-side of the “Suck It and See” single, out October 31 on digital and vinyl formats via Domino.
TweetR.E.M. – WE ALL GO BACK WHERE WE BELONG
2011-10-31We All Go Back to Where We Belong is the final single from R.E.M. Michael Stipe, along with director Dominic DeJoseph, have created two simple black-and-white visuals to go along with the songs. One features actress Kirsten Dunst; the other features poet & performance artist John Giorno.
TweetMODESELEKTOR X THOM YORKE – SHIPWRECK
2011-10-31Post apocalyptic.
Zombies.
German Mastiff
Batteries
KRINK X UNIFORM EXPERIMENT
2011-10-31Krink is to release a special project with Tokyo’s uniform experiment. Krink has created a special collection to celebrate the world-famous brand’s 12th anniversary.
KR hand-painted 12 tote bags with his classic drippy style. In addition to the bags, Krink designed two custom t-shirts. Both shirts and bags will be available in Japan this November.
LEA ASJA PAGENKEMPER – THE LOVER AND THE MAGICAN
2011-10-24The exhibition “The Lover and the Magician” presents the latest works by Baselitz master student L. A. Pagenkemper. Her paintings focus on symbolically charged landscapes which, beyond any realistic illusionism, are committed to moments that lyrically render the atmosphere.
The artist places iconic elements from daily life in utopian landscapes. This is done to symbolically present human situations of love and Eros, magic and disillusion, excess and decay. In addition to these references to the painting of a Munch or Gauguin, Pagenkemper’s simplified and original manner of representation discloses a quest for expression and feeling that resists the deceptive illusionism of (media) reality, to ultimately put forth a different option, that of a changed subjectivity.
Opposite – The Magican, 2011
Exhibition runs through to November 30th, 2011
Galerie Jette Rudolph
Strausberger Platz 4
D- 10243 Berlin
Germany
KATHARINE KUHARIC – POUND OF FLESH
2011-10-24Taking stock pictures (“unsolicited images” from junk mail, newspapers, magazines and other sources) Kuharic meticulously re-collages images to create reconfigured histories. Her paintings are multi-layered, hyper-real, and highly keyed to an almost hallucinogenic pallet making them overwrought, sensual, and alluring. Seventeen distinct works highlight investigations into American celebrity, pop and suburban culture as well as her personal angst.
In both Jack’s Original and Ladue News, Kuharic takes residents of St. Louis and Ladue respectively and has them reposed on absurdist constructions. In Jacks Original, the grouped figures are given extra girth and she gives them a gesture of shame by having each person cover their genitals and waistlines. The people represented in Ladue News are from a society magazine with the same name. The posed pleasantness amidst the collapsing structure creates a despotic tension.
Pound of Flesh is an ongoing series where Kuharic tracks her weight loss and gain through repeated symbols and motifs. The years accumulate in yellow eggs laid across the bottom of the painting and her corresponding weight is recorded in red balloons above. In the center of the painting is a tangle of holly hocks, the symbol of female ambition. In addition to the measure of weight, these paintings also show the lost possibility of fertility and represent all that is fecund. Flora and fauna are depicted throughout as well as graphics of the Weight Watchers frozen dinners. This contrast of nourishment and hollow, empty food is the key metaphor for the painting.
Exhibition runs through to November 12th, 2011
P.P.O.W.
535 West 22nd Street
3rd Floor
New York
NY 10011
