The video starts by showing Guy and Howard Lawrence performing the track in a simple silhouette. Then, an elaborate lights show kicks in. It also implements the duo’s signature cover art aesthetic. It’s directed by Ben Murray and Ross McDowell.
TweetThe video, directed by graffiti/visual artist Steve “ESPO” Powers, features DOOM himself, initially in his customary mask and then in a covering resembling a security mirror. (Powers also designed the art for JJ DOOM’s album).
TweetTaking inspiration from the Child’s Play series, more specifically the Good Guy doll and his evil alter-ego Chucky. A straightforward reference to the classic cult films, the body is characterized by striped detailing with distinct facial and body detailing for each. The 400% iterations are set for a Japan-only release.
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Venegas continues to investigate the notion of portraiture. This practice was instilled in the artist through the work of her father- a photographer who captures various social events in the Mexican city of Tijuana. As a youth, Yvonne began her exploration of capturing images through photographs that she took of her twin sister Julieta, now a famous pop singer in Mexico.
For her current exhibition, the main gallery features 16 images taken from a body of work titled “Inedito”. Yvonne was on set for select sessions of filming the third season of the Mexican telenovela “Rebelde”. Most of the images are taken either at Televisa San Angel Sound Stage 3, on location at Royal Forest country club or live at concerts in the US. The telenovela follows a group of students from an elite academic institution, as several students create a band. The fictional band created for the show became a national sensation and performed live concerts to thousands of fans around the world.
It is this particular notion of blurred reality that fascinates Venegas. In her images, it is often unclear what is a set, and what is reality. A few images focus on the fans of the band, who seek to emulate the band members by mimicking their school uniform. The irony of fiction juxtaposed with reality becomes crystallized in many of the shots she takes. The process of perception in understanding roles- who is an actor, what is real; is blurred even further in some images, as the subjects of some photos mistake Venegas for her famous twin sister and attempt to capture her image while she is taking theirs. On a larger social scale, the telenovela actors take on huge impact in the culture with their mass popularity. It is suggested that a few of the actors are paired with local politicians in real life as strategy to boost election votes for that candidate. Again fiction runs side by side with reality.
Opposite – Cumpleaños, 2006
Exhibition runs through till August 23rd, 2013
Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue B1
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
CA
90404
Sasnal’s artistic practice creates an archive from the sprawling mass of images that flood contemporary society. His source material is taken from newspapers, magazines, films, the Internet, billboards, his immediate surroundings in Poland and his many travels. This vast diversity of motifs goes hand in hand with Sasnal’s sampling of different painting styles from the 20th century, whether Geometric Abstraction, Tachism, Photorealism or Pop Art.
In his new paintings, Sasnal explores the sensation of losing control through two seemingly disparate subjects: wounded motorcyclists lying on a racetrack after a wreck, and outer space. Using a muted palette of gray, blue and black, he presents the moment when space becomes apparent, both in the physical sense of falling to the ground, as in the paintings of the motorcyclists, and in the more abstract sense of the great emptiness of the universe, as in his paintings of solar systems and space.
Exhibition runs through to July 27th, 2013
Hauser & Wirth
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zurich
Switzerland
Booyens’ work is often described in terms of a struggle between the representational and abstract, the rational and chaotic. An affinity and critical engagement with Modernism is coupled with his relationship to the South African landscape, both social and physical.
For his latest work, Booyens has affected subtle iconographic shift from forms that allude of the art historical ‘landscape’ to those of the ‘still life’. Booyens’s flower like-forms explode in abstract compositions and assemblages of studio detritus, where form and colour fracture and falter in 70s impasto kitch, Stella stripes, colour supernovas and jpeg disintegration.
Exhibition runs through to July 6th, 2013
Blank Projects
113-115 Sir Lowry road
Woodstock
Cape Town
South Africa
