Sigur Rós ‘Valtari’ Mystery Film Experiment: The series of 12 films is launched today with a film to the track ‘Ég anda’ from Ragnar Kjartansson.
Films will then be rolled out every couple of weeks beginning the Monday after album release, & extending through the summer in what will hopefully be a dizzying array of stylistic approaches and end results
TweetKidrobot teams up with Dutch graphic designer Parra to present the artist’s take on romance novel covers with this 10-inch tall figure named Pierced. A couple of Parra’s characters are merged together in an embrace with one character plunging its beak into the other’s neck. These will be limited to 300 pieces and they will release on June 7th.
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It’s the golden age of struggle: occupy everything; lex talionis; welcoming to the jungle. Acceleration and demise go hand in hand; the hamster’s wheel leaves no room for imagination and introspection.
This is what we need and this is what they do. Baldridge’s meticulously composed images assembled from hundreds of digital photographs. “Existing in a state of quivering dementia, swirling somewhere in a sparkling electric reservoir, waiting to be brought into the light of day”, the very personal darkroom of one’s unconscious abyss.
Buhmann’s magnum opus sucks the viewer directly into a narration, full of marvel and wonder, a parallel universe, an alternative reality, full of buskers and jesters, where rivers flow upstream and clocks go backwards, the irrational, the unexplainable. A place “where not only time is out of joint”.
Baldridge’s and Buhmann’s contemplative, at first glance almost unearthly approach to their respective media is very investigative, in subject and form alike. Their struggle is universal, their matters ubiquitous; the artist as the alchemist or the artist as a prophet.
Baldridge and Buhmann oeuvres are deeply rooted within art history. Hieronymus Bosch, as a very early example, where overall composition and detail are in constant dialogue, not only reflecting world views and belief systems, but deconstructing and reconstructing the semantics themselves. Inner urge as their impulse, friction as their motif. Fighting against, fighting with, fighting for. This is VERSUS.
Opposite – Heldenplatz, Bernhard Buhmann, 2011
Exhibition runs through to June 15th, 2012
Carbon 12
A1 Quoz 1, Street 8, Alserkal Avenue
Warehouse D37
P.O. Box 214437
Dubai
United Arab Emirate
The exhibition, curated by W. Todd Vaught, will examine the visual aspects skateboarding, a sport important to contemporary youth culture since the 1970s, by presenting a broad range of styles, imagery, and visual expression in skateboard art.
With a broad focus on skateboard graphics, in particular the styles and methods used to embellish skateboard decks, the exhibition will appeal to a broad range of skateboarders, designers, artists and to Atlanta’s youth in general.
Exhibition runs from June 16th to September 16th, 2012
Museum of Design Atlanta
1315 Peachtree Street
Atlanta
GA
30309
USA
A new series of paintings, works on paper, and a sound piece translate psychological underpinnings through elegantly complex methods. The television static, weak transmissions, and tenuous connections he depicts suggest that somewhere behind all the noise and disrup- tion there is a broadcast confirming our existence and interconnection.
Prominent in the exhibition are a group of large-scale portraits of the artist’s mother, culled from just one second of home video, which documented the final party she threw in the U.S.S.R before the family immigrated to the U.S. Defining a transitional moment of flux, these works illuminate the difficultly of tracing the past and express our elusive connection to the concept of origin. Through oil on linen, Trubkovich visually describes the sensation of relating to a person or physical location that no longer exists, or at least not as remembered, and aims to parse latent recall into a tangible codex.
As a continuation on the portrait series, in the sense that the imagery now becomes even less absolute,Trubkovich moves to embedding profiles of Lenny Bruce or the word “MAMA” onto backdrops of analog noise or “snow.” These monochromatic paintings feel more primal or subconsciously linked, presenting impossible transmissions. Weaving through a personal narrative, the contradictions arising between the seen and unseen serve as a chronicle of his imagined memory.
Opposite – Out of the black and into the white, 2012
Exhibition runs from May 18th to June 23rd, 2012
Ohwow
937 North La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90069
Stussy has introduced its latest collaborator for their Artist Series t-shirts and it is British illustrator Adrian Johnson. Johnson has worked with some great brands in the past including Paul Smith, adidas, Monocle and he can now include Stussy in that list of clients. For this release, 4 surf-inspired graphics are presented on a handful of colorful tees, ready for summer.
www.stussy.com
www.adrianjohnson.org.uk
