MARRIED TO THE MOB SUMMER 2012
2012-04-16Married to the MOB’s Summer 2012 collection has now hit their online store. The ladies’ label dropped this lookbook featuring Sweet 16 Sarah and Curren$y in support of the drop.
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KENZO X VANS ERA COLLECTION
2012-04-16Kenzo and Vans announce a series of new collections for summer 2012. These ranges of Kenzo and Vans products will be comprised of three installments set to hit stores in May, June and July.The first assortment includes seven colorways available for men and women that feature the bright blue, white, green and red colors seen on the Kenzo Spring 2012 runway.
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JOHN CHIARA – CREATMONT AT CORAL
2012-04-16The exhibited works were primarily shot in San Francisco’s
Potrero Hill, Excelsior, Diamond Heights and Mission districts using
his 34 x 28 inch camera, which he tows around the city on a
trailer. Chiara captures quiet vignettes of urban life – juxtaposing
views of streets and buildings with more scenic vistas that only
subtly nod to their city surroundings. As if physical manifestations
of one’s memory of the landscape, the pictures are evocative,
meditative and brooding.
Chiara’s singular approach combines shooting and darkroom
processing, printing directly onto positive color photographic
paper known as Ilfochrome; as such, they are unique works that
cannot be reproduced. He affixes the paper to the camera using
tape, vestiges of which often mark the picture’s surface to varying
effect. Chiara controls the exposure time instinctively, using his
hand to dodge and burn the image. Due to their large scale, the
prints are developed in capped PVC pipes, a process in which
the chemicals are blindly agitated across the paper, leaving
behind their ethereal, almost painterly traces on the images.
The resulting pictures reflect a sophisticated balance between
Chiara’s dexterity with his tools and the serendipity intrinsic to
his treatment of materials and process.
Opposite – Coral End, 2012
Exhibition runs through till May 26th, 2012
Haines Gallery
49 Geary Street
Suite 540
San Francisco
CA
94108
NADINE ROVNER – SOMEWHERE NOT HERE
2012-04-16In Somewhere Not Here, Nadine Rovner’s scenes of longing, anticipation and hope are formed rather than found by the artist. Rovner works in the tradition of the staged photograph, beginning with a feeling or idea, and creating a scene to portray it. While often associated with contemporary artists, this approach to photography goes back to complex dramas that were made for the camera in the 19th century.
Staged photography is also the foundation for most photographic commercial work, and it has long been a bridge between photography and cinema. Rovner draws from all these precedents, yet her images stand out for their subtlety and understatement. Rather than the harsh irony or hyperrealism that often characterize staged photography, Rovner’s images dwell in a hazy border between reality and memory, hinting at a hidden story, but revealing only fragments. These spare dramas have little overt action, but they contain a palpable sense of tension, like the opening moments in a film, when many things are possible, or the closing sequence where much remains undetermined.
Opposite – One at a Time, 2008
Exhibition runs through till May 5th, 2012
Gallery 339
339 South 21st Street
Philadelphia
PA
19103
RYAN MCGINLEY – ANIMALS
2012-04-16Animals consists of McGinley’s color studio portraits of live animals with nude models. The exhibition is his first made up exclusively of selections from this growing, and ambitious, body of work. The artist visited various sanctuaries, zoos, and rescue establishments across the United States, erecting a mobile studio wherever possible and working with a number of pre-eminent animal trainers. The animals are not mere props in photographs of people; on the contrary, McGinley considers them the subjects of these images. There exists both tension and tenderness between the models and wild animals, as they claw, clutch, nibble, and hug one another.
This body of work has two starkly contrasting sides, epitomized by two of the photographs on view. In the comical Dakota (Marmoset), a tiny monkey hangs from a male model’s pubic hair, partly obscuring his genitals. The human legs and torso are covered in scratches and the marmoset stares directly at the camera, wearing an expression of apparent shock. In Parakeets, a flock of lushly colored birds tears across a blue background while a girl, face obscured by a blurred green and white wing, stretches out her arms in an imitation of flight. The barroom roughhouse of the former and dulcet elegance of the latter act as the exhibition’s counterweights. Where the first piece is grotesque and lascivious, as humorous as it is horrifying, the other – a gushing moment of poetic beauty – strikes a profound emotional and visual harmony.
Opposite – Lemur (Lilac), 2012
Exhibition runs from May 2nd to June 2nd, 2012
Team Gallery
83 Grand Street
NY
10013
ELLES
2012-04-16Anne (Juliette Binoche), a well-off, Paris-based mother of two and investigative journalist for ELLE, is writing an article about student prostitution. Her meetings with two fiercely independent young women, Alicja (Joanna Kulig) and Charlotte (Anais Demoustier), are profound and unsettling, moving her to question her most intimate convictions about money, family and sex.
In theaters September 20th, 2012
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