WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS – ALL OUT OF TIME & INTO SPACE

Posted on 2012-12-24

Burroughs was an innovative writer and artist in many media. A primary figure of the Beat Generation, Burroughs went on to deeply influence a wide swathe of culture and thought with dozens of books and hundreds of paintings, essays, spoken word performances and multi-media collaborations.

In 1981, Burroughs moved his home to Lawrence, Kansas, where he began to make shotgun art. He went on to develop a wide range of painting techniques. From 1982 until his late years, he prolifically created visual art. Burroughs’ work has since been featured in over fifty international galleries and museums including Royal Academy of the Arts, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art.

Opposite – Venus Rising like a Kansas Sunflower, 1990

Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2013

October Gallery
24 Old Gloucester Street
London
WC1N 3AL

www.octobergallery.co.uk

  

ORIGINAL FAKE ASTRO BOY T-SHIRTS

Posted on 2012-12-24

Another t-shirt capsule collection by Original Fake, the brand created by Medicom Toy from Japan and Brooklyn artist Kaws.

The Astro Boy KAWS Version was just released as a vinyl toy and a cushion, and now they present another series of pocket t-shirts with several new designs of the iconic cartoon character.

These t-shirts will also release on January 3rd, 2013.

www.original-fake.com

  

BENNY GOLD NATIVE HEADWEAR PACK

Posted on 2012-12-24

Benny Gold‘s insanely popular native pattern is back in this exclusive pack. The 5 panel camp hat was made for the good folks over at Newbury Comics and the knitted pom beanie as a Karmaloop exclusive. Both of these pieces were produced in limited quantities and can only be picked up through either of them and Benny Gold online.

bennygold.com

  

ADIDAS ORIGINALS S/S 2013 BASKET PROFI OG

Posted on 2012-12-24

Originally released in 1969, this clean, classic high top has a similar upper to that of the low top Campus shoe, which was released around a year later. One of the first basketball models to be produced with a nubuck upper – a stronger, more supportive material than the commonly used canvas. For Spring/Summer 2013 adidas Originals presents a one-to-one reissue in a premium leather/suede execution.

www.adidas.co.uk

  

ERICA BAUM – NAKED EYE

Posted on 2012-12-24

The exhibition will include new and recent examples from the artist’s acclaimed Naked Eye series.
In this body of work, begun in 2008, the artist photographs the fanned pages of dime-store novels, celebrity biographies, and popular non-fiction books. Her strategic cropping and framing of their illustrations, glimpsed between fragments of text and the turquoise, marigold and vermillion edges of their pulpy pages, evoke new narratives born of each viewer’s own free associations. While Baum’s compositions range from the lushly figurative to more dramatically spliced geometric abstractions, all of the works share a sense of dark romance and a voyeuristic appeal. Featuring a cast of characters that includes political figures, musicians, and stars of 1970s film noir, these flattened images of reimagined stories are created without darkroom or digital alterations.

Exhibition runs through till January 11th, 2013

Jancou
63, rue des Bains
Geneva 1205
Switzerland

www.marcjancou.com

  

JÖRG SASSE

Posted on 2012-12-24

Whether curtains, stairways, radiators, reflections in windows or unique lighting conditions – with an eye for detail Jörg Sasse reveals fragments of our everyday environment. Since the 1980s the artist has photographed seemingly plain everyday objects in private homes, public buildings and shop windows, unimpressive at first glance. Through unusual perspectives and detail, he transfers the preexisting composition into images with a distinct aesthetic quality. The transformation of a rather “simple” objects into a picture-worthy image as well as its form, shift the contextual meaning of the individual picture and their relation to each other.

For the current exhibition 38 Still Lifes from 1984 to 2012 are arranged and presented in four blocks. Through the use of databases the artist categorizes his works, thus being able to examine similarities and differences in order to subsequently compare various constellations to one another. The interaction of materials, shapes and colors reveal interrelations that any viewer can discover and formulate for themselves.

Exhibition runs through till January 5th, 2013

Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Frankfurt
Hanauer Landstrasse 136
Frankfurt am Main 60314
Germany

www.wilmatolksdorf.de