Beirut have released the new video for “Vagabond”, from their 2011 LP The Rip Tide.
The video, shot at the Greenpoint, Brooklyn hall Warsaw, pictures a group of soldiers and sailors “flirting with nurses and hard-living local girls at a dance,” the directors said. It was inspired by the aesthetic of Milos Forman films from the 1960s.
What’ll It Take is made up of featured moves sent in by 85 fans from 22 countries all cut together by director Ninian Doff.
What’ll It Take is taken from the New Graham Coxon album A+E out 2nd April 2012.
New drop form the OF Tape Vol 2 out March 20th.
Directed By Wolf Haley
Filmed By Luis Perez
Produced Tara Razavi
A ridiculously detailed guide to the semantics of rap names, this widescreen edition print spans over seven square feet contains 636 rapper names as well as some all-time greats illustrated in the background. Print in gold metallic ink. Print size 39″ x 27″ (100 x 70 cm).
Kröner presents new large format coloured ink drawings from his series ‘Cut’ along with a group of much smaller works titled Schnittzeichnungen (sectional drawings).
Although different in size and appearance – the theme of ‘cutting’ unites both bodies of work. Like the editing process in filmmaking, ‘cut’, is used to generate ‘footage’-like material to be used later and determines what will eventually be seen or not.
Kröner’s starting point are two painted sheets of paper: A large backdrop within which a semi-transparent sheet is cut into strips and reversed so both painted sides face one another.
The mirrored painted sides generate a form of osmosis which challenges the artist to discover a new balance between chance and control. Who can know if beauty will (re)appear between the poles of chaos and order. The process allows for little forethought and the results unpredictable – it’s impossible for the artist to envisage what the semi-transparent sheet will produce once flipped. The pieces represent disruption, disorder and chaos that develop into more complex alignments. Kröner is interested in outwitting foresight and challenging the viewer’s perception.
Opposite – Cut #8, 2011
Exhibition runs through to March 24th, 2012
Bernhard Knaus Fine Art
Niddastrasse 841st Floor
60329 Frankfurt
Germany
Anna Bjerger’s fascination is in the construction of an image. She works from photographs. Having found an image it might lie around her studio for some years while she absorbs its essence. The photographs she chose to work from for this show all have an inherent interference, either in the photographic process such as vaseline or coloured filters on the lens, or oil and turps stains from Bjerger’s studio. When painted, these disruptions cause the viewer to rethink the image and take a slower look.
The exhibition will feature a major new work, ‘Filter’, comprising an image of a woman holding a colour chart repainted 24 times on panels hung as a diamond grid. The repetition of a single motif, each treated with the same intensity, makes it impossible to relate to the panels as singular images. Their differences becomes virtues, their mistakes accepted, as it becomes more and more unclear what we are looking at.
Opposite – Inbetween, 2011
Exhibition runs through to March 17th, 2012
David Risley Gallery
Bredgade 65A
DK-1260
Copenhagen
