Church’s delivers its Stratford shoe in special colorways for the 2012 games. 17 total variations on the Stratford shoe will be available from the Church’s London Regent Street store beginning in mid July. Every pair is numbered as special for the Olympic Games.
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As part of their Summer 2012 Collection, New York brand Supreme presents a new collaboration of t-shirts with Daniel Johnston.
Born in Sacramento California in 1961, Daniel Johnston is an artist, singer, songwriter and musician. Mr. Johnston’s music has appeared in several films including Kids, Where the Wild Things Are, and the award winning documentary about his art and life The Devil and Daniel Johnston. His songs have been covered by numerous musical artists including Beck and Pearl Jam, amongst others. Mr. Johnston’s artwork and illustrations are straightforward expressions that are often connected to his own fears and desires.Available in-store in NY, LA, London and online on June 14th. They will drop in Japan on June 16th. If you are not familiar with who Daniel Johnston is check out the 2005 Documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston.
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The photographs of Edgar Martins go beyond the mere image and referent on which they are based. By becoming reflexive and self-critical, they escape the scope of the purely photographic without relinquishing its essence. We can consider them to exist in a hybrid terrain, with affinities not only to painting (apparent in the idea of tableaux and the importance that he grants to composition) but also, to cinema ( plateaux ) and even to sculpture, through the way in which they establish themselves as images-objects. This last characteristic causes them to resemble characters in a quasi-absurd or nonsensical narrative and recalls the ready-mades of the Dadaists and Surrealists. The elements of the bizarre that we discover in these images (in which humans and animals rarely appear) are proof of this theory, helping to establish a sense of distance in the observer, who distrusts what he sees but surrenders to it through a sort of suspension of disbelief (Coleridge) that raises questions in his mind: “Is this a real place or one fabricated by the artist? Could we be immersed in an F for Fake kind of world?”
The theatricality and artificiality of these images, which oscillate between the real and the imaginary, bring them closer to the notion of the fantastic via a certain familiar strangeness that imbues the episode in front of us with suspense . Rather than being random images, chosen according to chance, they stem from a process of conceptual idealization undertaken by the artist, who, like a scientist, makes a prior and careful study of the arrangement of the elements, which are placed in a highly elaborate compositive order.
Opposite – Failure to Launch, 2009
Exhibition runs through till July 11th, 2012
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art
Rua Santo António à Estrela, 33
Lisbon
Portugal
This exhibition includes major photographic projects, including early work such as Concrete Visions, 1967; an important project made on Dartmoor while visiting the UK with her husband the late Robert Smithson over forty years ago, Trail Markers, 1969; a series of photographs of dilapidated graves in the American west, Western Graveyards; and photographs by the artist of her most famous work, Sun Tunnels, 1973 – 76 among others.
For more than four decades, Nancy Holt has created an extensive body of work comprised of audiotapes, videos,photographs, site-specific installations, artist’s books and major sculpture commissions around the world: most famously the Sun Tunnels, four large concrete tunnels, 18ft long and 9ft in diameter, based in the Utah desert in the US. The tunnels are aligned in pairs along an axis of the rising and setting sun on a summer or winter solstice; they act as viewing devices for the sky, the surrounding landscape and each other. Holt’s primary aesthetic and social interests converge in this work: they reflect her determination to ‘connect people with the planet earth’, to bring ‘the sky down to earth’ and to render the vast spaces of the desert ‘back down to human scale’. Her work draws attention to the cyclical time of the universe, the daily axial rotation of the Earth and its annual orbit around the sun.
The key themes throughout all her projects are memory, perception, time and space. She uses the natural environment as both medium and subject. Photography has always played a central role within her work, both as a way of engaging with the landscape and as a way of documenting site-specific projects.
Exhibition runs through till August 25th, 2012
Haunch of Venison
103 New Bond Street
London
W1S 1ST
The solo exhibition featuring more than 60 photographs gives insight into the impressive body of work of the artist who, together with Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus and others, is among the seminal historic figures who shaped the New York photography scene. Without a doubt, Ralph Gibson is one of the groundbreaking exponents of photographic art and is known above all for his visual mixing of different styles within the medium of photography.
The exhibition will show works from the photographic oeuvre of Ralph Gibson that have been created over a period of 40 years – from the mystic-surrealistic photographs taken from the world-famous series The Somnambulist and works from his series Deja-Vu and Days at Sea, to his recent nudes. Within Ralph Gibson’s body of work, the connecting characteristics of his visual concepts are a pronounced use of powerful black and white contrasts and a distinguishing graininess of the silver gelatine prints. The diversity of motives and subjects does not dampen the mysterious aura inherent in the photographs, blurring the lines between realism, surrealism, expressionism and metaphysic imagery.
Opposite – Untitled, 1968
Exhibition runs through till August 4th, 2012
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
Fast Girls charts the rollercoaster journey of a British female sprint relay team in their quest to win gold in the Women’s 4x100m Relay. The film stars Lenora Crichlow, Lily James, Noel Clarke, Bradley James, Tiana Benjamin, Rupert Graves, Philip Davis, Lorraine Burroughs, Lashana Lynch and Dominique Tipper.
In theaters June 15th, 2012
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