KAREN O – TRENT REZNOR – IMMIGRANT SONG

Posted on 2011-12-19

Official visuals for Karen O, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross’ cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” from David Fincher’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, featurs three hours of new music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, is available to download direct from the NIN website or from iTunes. You can also pre-order the album in a 3-CD package or a 6-vinyl deluxe limited edition.

www.nin.com

  

VANS WAFFLE IPHONE 4 CASE

Posted on 2011-12-19

The legendary brand uses its iconic waffle patterned sole and timeless “Off the Wall” logo for a surprising product, an original case bearing the classic image of the brand. Vans took their iconic waffle patterned sole and fittingly placed it underneath a white “midsole.” They also applied the red Vans Off the Wall tag, a navy foxing stripe around the border of the screen, and they even put a toe bumper to top it off.

www.vans.com

  

SHARON HARPER

Posted on 2011-12-12

The works continue to investigate and experiment with the phenomenon of “seeing” within the framework and with the aid of the photographic medium. She continues to point her lens towards the sky and outwards towards the landscape, presenting the potentials of the photographic medium from both scientific and aesthetic points of view; on one hand, a tool to document and record visual evidence, and on the other, a palette that taps into the sublime to create imagery that evokes dreamlike fantasy.

“One Month, Weather Permitting” is a series of photographic images of the night sky over Banff, Alberta in Canada. Utilizing multiple extended-exposure photographic techniques over several consecutive nights, Harper records the movement of the stars and allows the randomness of the marks made by the light trails they leave on film to highlight “chance” as an important aspect of the photographic process itself. What results is imagery that is “technological seeing”, so to speak; views of the night sky visible to the human eye only with the aid of the camera and the film media.

Opposite – Night Sky over Banff, Alberta, September 12 – October 10, 2007

Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012

Galerie Stefan Röpke
St.-Apern-Str. 17-21
50667 Köln
Germany

www.galerie-roepke.de

  

PEDRO CABRITA REIS

Posted on 2011-12-12

In his work, Pedro Cabrita Reis uses building materials (brick, fluorescent tube, electric cable, double glazing…) as well as “found” items (doors, windows, benches, ladders…), that he brings together and assembles into sculptures. The essence of Pedro Cabrita Reis’s work is to be found in the very act of construction. Although he always initiates a dialogue with the spaces he inhabits, his goal is not to suggest new architectural forms. His sculptures act as vectors for emotions: they create imaginary territories, evoking familiar architectural landscapes, of which only traces seem to remain. Faced with his work, the spectator experiences feelings of absence and silence, characteristics which run through the whole of the artist’s oeuvre.

While Pedro Cabrita Reis is perhaps best known for his sculpture, the artist has defined himself through painting: “I see myself as a painter, in the classic sense of the word….It is as a painter that I relate to the world.…All that I have ever done are paintings; some of them lighter, hung on walls, then heavier ones, set on the ground, and even some that encompass whole spaces.

Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012

Galerie Nelson – Freeman
59 rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France

www.galerienelsonfreeman.com

  

JONATHAN YEO – YOU’RE ONLY YOUNG TWICE

Posted on 2011-12-12

For his first UK show since 2008, Yeo makes a departure from his renowned portraits and collages to explore the fast-growing phenomenon of cosmetic surgery. Over the last 18 months, Yeo has been observing the work of leading cosmetic surgeons in the UK and US to produce a collection of work that uncovers the processes and results of pre and post-operative procedures on women.

Surprisingly gentle in his depiction, the artist shuns controversy in favour of the physical transformations and the black ink lines the surgeons draw directly onto the body prior to such operations. The result is a series of scientific images seen through a painter’s eye which pose questions about our aspirations, vanities, the lengths we will go to in the pursuit of perfection, and the role of surgeons as 21st century sculptors of the physical form.

Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012

Lazarides
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR

www.lazinc.com

  

OMID DELAFROUZ

Posted on 2011-12-12

Omid Delafrouz builds his images through a meticulous process. They are charged with references tied to our age and more particularly to the young generation that grew up during the last twenty years of 20th century, in a popular culture obsessed with images, surface and consumption. His detailed images are filled with time-markers, where every individual element relates to other parts of the work and jointly create layers of meanings and narratives.

A fundamental idea for Omid’s work is an attempt to express the zeitgeist with its own means. He depicts people and places in his own surroundings with the same means and tools as the types of images his generation grew up with.

Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2011

Andréhn-Schiptjenko
Hudiksvallsgatan 8SE-11330
Stockholm
Sweden

www.andrehn-schiptjenko.com