The previously released Liquorice, drops from her official debut EP 1991 (which is named after the year of her birth). The video, styled by Nicola Formichetti (frequent collaborator with Lady Gaga) and directed by Rankin.
TweetIn conjuction with the DJ Food & Henry Flint exhibition at Factoryroad, the ‘house-that-got-turned-into-a-gallery’, they have produced that most domestic of items, a souvenir tea towel.
Only this one has slightly different qualities in that it can, of course, be used to polish your space helmet, visor or instrument panel, as well as being an excellent tool for removing excess water from recently-washed dishes.
Printed in chocolate brown and coppery gold, it bears the date of the show and comes wrapped in a band showing a monochrome Skullstronaut. Screen printed in Factory Road and hand-sewn.
Also available limited edition ‘Skullstronaut’ giclee print and locally sourced chocolate bars, cleverly playing on the outer space theme and packaged like freeze-dried astronaut food.
factoryroad.bigcartel.com
www.djfood.org
henryflint.wordpress.com
Mairead O’hEocha describes the phenomena of the garden centre as a simultaneously interior and exterior experience where a resultant distortion of the expected colour register occurs. Normal and usually underwhelming forms; pots, plants, ornamental bird feeders, sprinklers and water features, etc. reinstate themselves in visually unexpected ways. In an intriguing and understated manner, they begin to undermine optical-to-intellectual conventions; pulling the rug from under the psychological and emotional implications of lessons learnt from Newton, Goethe and Itten, respectively. If in the real world, the colour wheel impacts upon our comprehension of, and feelings about things, how then does the physical alteration of a poly-dome – an artificial sky, fully worthy of Garcia’s trippiest moments, re-tune the garden centre’s captive surrogates of the natural world, plants, animals, nature, growth, life? What then does this say to us (and about us) as we return and re-populate the greater world – signified here by our almost universal passion for our gardens and the pastime of gardening – with its hybrid mutants, hanging baskets, hi-glazed planters and ceramic frogs?
Exhibition runs through to July 14th, 2012
Mother’s Tankstation
41-43 Watling Street
Ushers Island
Dublin 8
Ireland
Waldemar Zimbelmann´´s paintings shift between painting and drawing, while the characteristics of drawing are of fundamental nature to his work. Sometimes using personal or anonymous photographic images as a point of departure, the artist devises a subtle, sensitive visual language that creates its subjects in an overlap of figuration and abstraction. Zimbelmann´s paintings emerge from a process of overpainting, which is reflected in his themes as the passing of a situation.
At times only hinted at, in Waldemar Zimbelmann´s paintings the silhouettes of people, animals, houses or landscapes lead to a conflation of shape, body, time and space, from which his surreal narratives emerge fragmentarily. Individual or group portraits of persons carrying out a silent (inter-) action in his compositions preside as shining and fading figures, their bodies address a shift between location and rootedness.
The texture of the painting and the three-dimensional paint application is critical to Zimbelmann´s artistic process: Based on different layers of paint, which accrue in the process of overpainting, a superposition of color and color planes develops, from which the artist renders his visual motifs by uncovering parts of these layers. The linear elements, often sgraffito, are finely drawn, almost resembling woodcut hatching, and are juxtaposed with a vigorous, sometimes extensive coloring, which brings vibrancy into Zimbelmann´s compositions.
Opposite – Untitled, 2012
Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2012
Meyer Riegger Karlsruhe
Klauprechtstr. 22
D – 76137 Karlsruhe
Germany
In an age of sound bites sandwiched by social media excess and information overload, Nicole Wittenberg’s paintings are a refreshing antidote. Distilled down to their essentials, Wittenberg’s work – whether her “Skype” portraits, her architectural interiors, or her landscapes, offers up a complicated contemporary universe reduced to a skeletal framework. Its elegant brevity is not dissimilar to symphonic variations on a theme: one frame, presented in a multitude of ways, a sure and pared-down message conveyed as directly and with as much brevity as possible.
Wittenberg’s subject reflects her fascination with, and personal experience of bohemia and high society. In works such as Countess (London on March 19th, 2011) , we are confronted by a decadent mask of aristocracy, gone awry – at once chilling and certainly enigmatic. Her version, as it were, of the classic Bunuel film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie resonates well with viewers familiar with pulped news coverage of Lady Di’s final days; royalty obscured by the paparazzi’s repetitive and blinding flash. Ironic for a figurative painter there is a kind of facelessness here, a distinct remove and distancing from emotion which Wittenberg expertly captures; we cannot read the inner turmoil of her subjects, we can only conjecture.
Opposite – Interior 2 (Rear View), 2010
Exhibition runs through to July 14th, 2012
Freight + Volume
530 W. 24th Street
New York
10011
9FIVE are back with a new video lookbook for the season to shine some light on their new eyewear creations. For Summer 2012 they recruited Rosa Acosta for their lookbook.With collections designed by the likes of Steve Williams, Josh Kalis, Karl Watson, Eli Gold and rising star Jordan Hoffart, 9Five continues to pave an authentic path, creating premium eyewear from its roots, the skate lifestyle culture.
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