Intergalactic bounty hunter Boba Fett is the latest subject to receive a KAWS Companion makeover courtesy of Medicom Toy and OriginalFake. Fett’s vinyl rendition mates KAWS signature look with the Mandalarian’s iconic armor; complete with battle damage. The limited edition figure is said to be a Japan exclusive and will arrive at OriginalFake Tokyo on January 26th.
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These raised, sculptural “drawings” suggest following the maxim that common sense is the shortest distance between two points or to recognize the grace in directness. Genovese recreates various, common occurrences of line – an architectural fracture; a hair in the bathtub; the mark of automatic writing; a military line of demarcation; a varicose vein, or a simple fabric seam. He considers where these delineations appear, why they develop, and how they are finally perceived.
With a piece titled Mimesis, 2013, Genovese merges a crack found in a Pompeii fresco with a line from Metallica’s …And Justice for All album cover artwork. By stitching these unrelated strands together, Genovese formulates a new pattern, but one that still reads as spontaneous as chance. The compound of seemingly disparate fissures subsequently reveals self-similar patterns, as in the logic of fractal mathematics. Therefore, variations in contour between unrelated sources are not as far removed from one other as they may first appear, and conceptually framed, what one assumes a chasm may actually serve as a suture.
Exhibition runs January 12th to February 9th, 2013
OHWOW
937 North La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90069
“Ostensibly seductive, the work of Berezovsky can be understood as still life, architectural landscape, but above all as portrait, and as an exterior view of man.
However, the pictorial objects soon prove to be arranged not by virtue of their concrete basis. They operate with the sensuous presence of their painterly composition on the level of symbolic significance.
The outcome of their pictorial metaphors, full of surreal appeal, uses the simplest, archaic, and demotic elements together with a complex metalanguage in a virtuoso combination of ingenious constructions and laboratory processes.
The selective dislocations of color and format serve as augurs of meaning in the narrative of interior visualisation.
The surreal, psychologising pictures of the real self in the works of Berezovsky draw the observer closer to their specificity. These painterly appraisals of existence carried out here are in truth images of thinking about thinking, images of the conditions and limits of thinking about thinking processes, and their resulting (fatal) real effects.
These works are narratives and reports at the same time, not of the reality or irreality of things, but, in fact, of the (self-)generation of realities.
Exhibition runs through to February 2nd, 2013
Emmanuel Post Gallery
Grolmanstrasse 46
10623 Berlin
Germany
This latest body of work represents some of Stashkevetch’s most complex drawings to date. The subject matter, thousands of river-washed pebbles and rocky debris, lacy treetops emerging from the mist and striated mountains covered in snow, is executed with a painstaking level of intricacy and detail.
Stashkevetch develops his large-scale black and white compositions gradually, employing his signature technique. In progressive stages, the paper’s surface is sanded away as the image is built up with conte crayon. The conte bonds to the paper, and the two materials become one. The process, both additive and reductive, creates an atmospheric quality in which light and shadow are in constant play.
Time is palpable in these monumental works. This is owed in part to the imagery, which alludes to the enduring history and cyclical nature of our planet. Yet the subject matter itself, the ‘what’ and the ‘where,’ becomes secondary. Standing before the work, one’s focus shifts instead to the patterns embedded in the surface of the paper and the sheer breadth of Stashkevetch’s compositions. Each mark is emblematic of the artist’s time as the drawings break down and become as abstract as time itself. The imagery, while striking in its beauty, is merely a framework upon which Stashkevetch masterfully builds his effects.
Opposite – Sonata XI Resurrection, 2012
Exhibition runs January 10th to February 16th, 2013
Von Lintel Gallery
520 West 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
Adidas Originals have revived the iconic chocolate-chip desert camo pattern just in time for upcoming Spring/Summer season. The Camo Pack consists of a range of adidas classics, such as the adilettes, the Colorado windbreaker, Torsion Allegra and the Nizza Lo, besides some newer silhouettes including flip flops, espadrilles, a backpack, duffle bag and a mesh cap.
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The Half Cab counterpart to the Vans Era 59 has now also released. A little more bold in design, Vans gave the mid top sneaker a full camouflage upper, only mixed in with a bit of black suede.
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