MICHAEL KREBBER

Posted on 2013-02-18

Would you confirm that ‘painting’ is used / explored by you as a filter?

Might that question ask about a possible programme of ‘painting’? Its application? In that case: painting, as well as any other activity, runs as an application that regularly and constantly changes, from for one person communicating with himself, to two people or more. Like society, here the programme runs wild, everyone might be in a different programme, either actively or passively…

Is ‘painting’ still seen as a controversial activity?


Jack Smith said that buying and possessing art was wrong, it was against the idea of art. Here lies the contradiction. But painting is also qualified as an image of the enemy, it therefore can easily seem to be used as a controversial activity. This became kind of common knowledge for the ‘knowing ones’ and I think I benefit a bit from that. And it is still an open game. Please read my text “Puberty in Painting”.

Do you have to ‘defend’ artistically the use of painting as a medium?


I think “Puberty in Painting” says it all and I do not want to defend or preserve it. 
Instead of ‘defending’, I would prefer to throw in the idea of: identification with the aggressor.

What type of information does your painting contain?

Depends on who will look at it. Mixed in with all kinds of personal issues of mine. This could also become a game, if somebody wanted to play.

Anecdotes, references, social networks have become an integrated visible part in your work. Does it belong to the ‘painting’?


I heard somebody using the term ‘expanded painting’. In his text “Painting beside itself”, David Joselit quotes Martin Kippenberger who said in an interview about a painting, that not only the painting was important, but everything around it too, the people that the painter talked to, his whole network and also the noodles that he ate.

Michael Krebber in conversation, CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France, 2012.

Opposite – MP-KREBM-00073, 2013

Exhibition runs through to March 31st, 2013

Maureen Paley
21 Herald Street
London
E2 6JT

www.maureenpaley.com

  

KIERAN MOORE – GODS & SPACEMEN IN THE ANCIENT WEST

Posted on 2013-02-18

The show’s title refers to a book by W. Raymond Drake, a Ufologist and writer who entertained the notion of the human race being supported in antique times by benevolent aliens [Drake worked in a similar theme to the perhaps better known Erich Von Däniken]. While this is not the overriding theme in Moore’s work, the otherworldliness, the Wheatley-esque suburban occultism and the whiff of the profane conjured by the title are intrinsic aspects of his drawings.

Moore’s work is inspired by diverse sources, ranging from folk-horror movies to the spandex-clad gender confusion of glam rock, and the European elegance and decadence of the soft-focus erotic photography of yesteryear’s Sunday supplement book clubs. It embraces the fantastical world of Medieval Christian mythology; the obsessive attention to detail and interest in the costume of the Flemish ‘Primitives’ and painters such as Ingres; the ambiguous ephebes who populate many paintings produced in post-revolutionary France; and the strains of more recent and contemporary hauntology music.

Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2013

Union Gallery
94 Teesdale Street
London
E2 6PU

www.union-gallery.com

  

VANS X MARVEL

Posted on 2013-02-18

The collection will launch with Iron Man and Spider-Man, each individually depicted on Vans Classic silhouettes, with a second delivery in March featuring the most powerful Super Hero team in the world: The Avengers.

Taking on the signature colors of his red and blue suit, the Spider-Man Sk8-Hi Reissue features an embossed spider web on premium red suede while the Iron Man version includes black leather on the vamp and bolted hexagon eyelets.

The Avengers release includes a Sk8-Hi Reissue and Era, and a Slip-On for tykes. The Sk8-Hi Reissue highlights Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and Thor on each side panel while the Era and Slip-On feature a collage on the front and back panels.

www.vans.co.uk
marvel.com

  

PUMA BY MIHARAYASUHIRO

Posted on 2013-02-18

From the new Puma by MIHARAYASUHIRO Spring/Summer 2013 Collection we present the Multicolor Pop Art Camouflage Pack. Consisting of a low top sneaker, a transformable tote bag and a large backpack, all three pieces feature a colorful camouflage pattern all over.

www.puma.com

  

JUNYA WATANABE CANVAS BOAT SHOES

Posted on 2013-02-18

Junya Watanabe comes a contemporary take on the classic Americana boat shoe. The shoe comes in a navy canvas with a contrasting white stitching on the upper and a white lace up front. An almond shaped toe and textured sole complete the design nicely and a red gingham lining emphasises its Americana style.

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MICHAEL EASTMAN – HAVANA

Posted on 2013-02-18

This magical body of work exposes the colourful and crumbling interiors and exteriors of Cuba’s capital. Eastman is recognized for his large-scale photographs of the world’s most beautiful cities including Rome, Paris, and New Orleans. Inspired by Aaron Siskind, Eastman is transfixed by the textures of architectural decay and the narrative they reveal about the life of a building. This often leads Eastman to abstraction: areas of walls are cropped, reducing them to flat painterly planes of colour. In other instances, he draws us in with expansive perspectives creating inviting depths into rooms and doorways. His exacting technique of long exposure times, no artificial light and a wide angled lens captures a realistic field of vision, authentic light and colour.

“Putting one of his photographs up is like punching a hole in the wall and opening onto a vista of a much grander room than the one you are in”- Vicki Goldberg
It is the details of these pictures which make them endlessly fascinating and poignant: ghostly rectangles of lighter colour on walls where paintings once hung, beach chairs that stand in for finely carved furniture, laden clothes lines hanging amongst chandeliers, above intricately tiled floors.

But these exquisitely deteriorating rooms and facades also tell a larger story: these are the homes of the successful and rich, who were knocked off their pedestals by revolution and whose country, abandoned by its Russian supporters and blockaded by America, still has very little in the way of material goods. While his photographs may provoke nostalgia for the glory days of Havana, Eastman’s emphasis is on the subtle grandeur of these buildings in ruin, the beauty inherent in decay.

Exhibition runs through till March 13th, 2013

Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD

www.michaelhoppengallery.com