DAVID HOCKNEY RA – A BIGGER PICTURE

Posted on 2012-01-23

The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney RA. Featuring vivid paintings inspired by the East Yorkshire landscape, these large-scale works have been created especially for the galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts.

‘David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture’ spans a 50 year period to demonstrate Hockney’s long exploration and fascination with the depiction of landscape.

The exhibition includes a display of his iPad drawings and a series of new films produced using 18 cameras, which are displayed on multiple screens and provide a spellbinding visual journey through the eyes of David Hockney.

Exhibition runs through to April 9th, 2012

Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1J 0BD

www.royalacademy.org.uk

  

STARCOW X REEBOK 25TH ANNIVERSARY

Posted on 2012-01-23

New Reebok collaboration with Parisian boutique Starcow. Inspired by the city of Paris and their passion for skateboarding, the outcome is rather simple looking version of the low top sneaker, yet packed with some great features at a closer look.
“We wanted to propose a classic take on the Reebok Workout shoe. With an upper as grey as the Parisian rooftops & the streets that we skate. Orange as an honor to the classic gum soles.
Since we have our heart in skate culture, maybe it wasn’t a coincidence that the shoe ended up looking something like a skate shoe…
For the materials we wanted something more technical; water-resistant suede for the upper, Thinsulate™ lining & an inner sole with cushion. Easy on the looks but performing for the user.”

The Starcow x Reebok Workout Low Plus 25th Anniversary will release along with the other retail collaborations on February 15th, 2012.

starcow.netreebok.com

  

DIOR HOMME SPRING/SUMMER 2012 BOOTS

Posted on 2012-01-23

Dior Homme presents a rugged, two-tone boot offering for this Spring/Summer 2012 season. The predominantly black brogue-style boots are comprised of calfskin and they feature an indented rubber platform sole that resembles a serrated blade. These boots are currently available at retailers such as colette.

www.dior.com

  

LACOSTE LAB

Posted on 2012-01-23

The Lacoste LAB’s range consists of items such as surfboards, tennis goods, skis, swimsuits, board shorts, helmets, a bike, and of course, polo shirts bearing that world famous crocodile logo. Also the range includes a tech jacket and swimsuit.

www.lacoste.com

  

BERTIEN VAN MANEN – LET’S SIT DOWN BEFORE WE GO

Posted on 2012-01-23

Van Manen’s work is a meditation on human existence, revealing the truth of particular lives. Selected from her travels through Uzbekistan, Siberia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Moscow and Tartarstan since 1990, van Manen’s photographs are characterized by the intimacy she achieves with her subjects, with whom she spent countless hours sitting at their tables, lodging in their homes, immersed in their reality.

Van Manen provides a window into Russian lives following years of struggle under the Communist regime. As critic Ryszard Kapuściński notes in his introduction to van Manen’s 1995 book, A hundred summers, a hundred winters, the artist’s lens penetrates the “most inaccessible of places—the homes of ordinary people—in order to show us how millions of Russians live and sleep, what they eat, what they look like in their everyday life, in their flats, at their tables, in their beds.” In the case of the former Soviet empire, people were conditioned to be fearful and suspicious, long forbidden to exhibit whom they really were to the rest of the world.

Opposite – Beach at Lake Baikal, Siberia, 1993

Exhibition runs through to February 11th, 2012

Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011

www.yanceyrichardson.com

  

MARK POWER – THE SOUND OF TWO SONGS

Posted on 2012-01-23

Made over a period of five years, The Sound of Two Songs offers an extensive and personal photographic survey of Poland.
When Power spent a month in Poland as part of a project instigated by Magnum Photos to document countries joining the European Union that year. Despite having no familial ties to the country, he soon became fascinated by Poland. Over the next five years he made a further twenty visits, often accompanied by Polish photographer Konrad Pustoła who generously shared his knowledge of his native land. Over time Power’s focus shifted from an investigation into the effects of EU membership into a more subjective, poetic and autobiographical response to a country he grew to love.

Alongside a series of portraits of people he met on his travels, the majority of Power’s large format, meticulously detailed colour photographs depict landscapes often featuring surprising or metaphorical elements.

Opposite – Kraków, 2006

Exhibition runs through to March 24th, 2012

Impressions Gallery
Centenary Square
Bradford
BD1 1SD

www.impressions-gallery.com