SANTIGOLD – GIRLS
2013-01-21Santi White better known by her stage name Santigold drops a new video for her song GIRLS!
TweetTY SEGALL – THANK GOD FOR SINNERS
2013-01-21Matt Yoka directed the video for “Thank God for Sinners” from Segall’s new album, Twins.
TweetY-3 MEN’S FRAGRANCE – BLACK LABEL
2013-01-21On January 19th, 2013 Yohji Yamamoto and adidas celebrate ten years of Y-3 with the introduction of Y-3’s first men’s fragrance, Black Label.
“The fragrance opens with a masculine sparkling accord of cardamom and elemi associated with a modern touch of Tagete. The heart reveals an elegant mix of Virginian Cedar Wood and Lavandin supported by the sensual warmth of black pepper.
The wake releases the captivating power of Patchouli, Vetiver and Tonka Bean which gives the fragrance its unique character.”
Black Label will come in a 75ml bottle and will debut in February this year. The fragrance will be available in Y-3 flagship stores and online.
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GERARD BYRNE – A STATE OF NEUTRAL PLEASURE
2013-01-14Renowned for his films installations which re-enact conversations from specific historic moments, Irish artist Gerard Byrne’s work explores the way we understand the present through revisiting the past. Always diverse, his subjects have included the Loch Ness monster, the possible location of Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and the history of Minimalist art. For this exhibition, Byrne’s investigations range from the politics around sexuality to the production and display of the art object.
Premiering in the UK is A man and a woman make love (2012). This multi-screen installation reinterprets discussions about sexuality and eroticism held in the 1920s by the Surrealist group of artists and writers, including André Breton, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy. A thing is a hole in a thing it is not (2010) borrows its title from a statement by sculptor Carl Andre and re-examines seminal moments from 1960s debates around Minimalism.
Exhibition runs January 17th to March 8th, 2013
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
MARIO YBARRA JR. – DOUBLE FEATURE
2013-01-14Over the past decade, Ybarra has developed a practice centered around storytelling. With an eye and ear for the elements of an engaging narrative, accompanied by healthy doses of wit, Ybarra crafts portraits of people, places and communities that are resonant and universal while rooted in the specific. Using the objects and materials that he finds around him and his subjects, he translates personal stories into resonant and multilayered installations that seamlessly blend the languages of art and life. Often, the installations relate the overlooked or unacknowledged; particularly, the lives and dreams of his family, childhood friends, and colorful personalities that make up his community. He makes connections to these local tales for global audiences far from Wilmington, often by relating these individual stories refracted through lenses such as mass media and popular culture.
Double Feature consists of two projects that cull portraits from iconic Hollywood films, mining this deep repository for our collective fantasies. In Universal Monsters, Ybarra finds inspiration in a series of classic horror/sci-fi films produced by Universal Studios in the 1920s-1960s for a series of self-portraits. Simultaneously playful and disarmingly revealing, these works are a psychologically rich exploration of the persona of the artist. Imagining versions of himself filtered through the lens of the creatures of the Universal stable, Ybarra’s multimedia renderings of id build upon our own relationships with these celluloid nightmares.
Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2013
Honor Fraser Gallery
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
90034
DAN WITZ – PRISONERS 2012-13
2013-01-14Dan Witz has been at the forefront of artists working on the street since the late 1970s. Combining digital reproduction with the old master’s technique of illusionism, the artist’s lifelike figures appear as if from nowhere on signposts, walls, windows and manhole covers across the world. Painted and layered over digital photographs, each image is designed to surprise the viewer, taking them aback and from the expected into an alarming state of disbelief.
In those works from his Mosh Pit series, figures intertwine and climb over one another with the pressure, pain and joy expressed at different stages of the mosh. For the adjacent Prisoners, Witz partnered with Amnesty International, the world’s largest human rights organization to gain access to individuals who are subjects of their campaign for rights awareness. As a symbolic reference to their real-life struggles, each of these imprisoned individuals is portrayed with few clothes, masked or with their hands tied.
To coincide with the exhibition, the artist will dispersing his unique stamp on the British streets by painting one of his prisoner’s image onto London phone boxes.
Exhibition runs January 25th to February 23rd, 2013
Lazarides Rathbone
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
