NIKE ENGLAND NSW COLLECTION

Posted on 2013-06-10

To celebrate the launch of the new England National Football team kit, Nike Sportswear (NSW) has created a premium lifestyle collection featuring customised versions of two iconic sportswear styles, the NSW Destroyer Jacket and the Nike Air Max 1.
The England NSW Destroyer Jacket, accompanied by a premium carry case, sees the classic 1950s varsity style modified in homage to the home of the beautiful game.

The special edition jacket transforms a modern Nike icon with rich English heritage design cues including sleeves and pocket trims crafted from the finest rainproof British Millerain waxed cotton. In addition, the zip lining of the England NSW Destroyer features embroidery reading ʻ1863ʼ and ʻ2013ʼ, in acknowledgement of the historic 150th anniversary of the English Football Association.

The understated black-on-black version of the Air Max 1, complete with a special edition box and certificate, features discreet details that reference the history and culture of football in England. Linking to the NSW Destroyer Jacket, a gold star has been embroidered onto the back of the shoe while the eyelet features in bold red, in honour of the St. Georgeʼs Cross.

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CHLOE SELLS – SENESCENCE

Posted on 2013-06-10

Using the stylized and archetypal format of the still life, the objects within the body of work are symbolic surrogates, coordinates embedded with notations of exploration and movement. Relics of archaic civilizations, organic matter in varying states of decay, elements of the quotidian, the utilitarian, the exotic and the occult constitute the carefully-constructed totems. Without conferring a specific history, the objects summoned together within each image create rather than re-create narratives. Sells’s arrangements become less a document of an actual place, and more an allegory of her relationships to those places.

Each of the works is a unique analogue C-type print, handmade by Sells, using conventional negatives overlaid with colour and patterns in the darkroom, subverting the tradition of the meticulously created tableaux. The darkroom process itself is physical, dynamic and time-consuming, constituting a further mapping of the journey. The artifice created through unusual colour and warped light is used to heighten tension between the familiar and the exotic. Image fragments and oddly cut prints have been sketched and painted upon so that each outcome is unique.

Exhibition runs from June 21st to August 31st, 2013

Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD

www.michaelhoppengallery.com

  

UNDER MY SKIN – NUDES IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted on 2013-06-10

Mona Kuhn curates a group exhibition titled “Under My Skin” exploring the role of the nude in contemporary photography. Artists include Adou, Jeff Bark, David Dawson, Maciek Jasik, Nadav Kander, Malerie Marder, Geir Moseid, Mariah Robertson, Alec Soth, Bill Sullivan, Spencer Tunick and Shen Wei.

Opposite – Alec Soth, Las Vegas, 2011

Exhibition runs from June 20th to July 27th, 2013

Flowers
529 West 20th Street
New York
NY
10011

www.flowersgallery.com

  

NORTHERN IRELAND: 30 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted on 2013-06-10

Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography, an ambitious exhibition featuring almost 200 photographs. Since the 1980s Northern Ireland has produced a distinctive body of photographic work by photographers from within and outside Northern Ireland. Many of the photographers to be included in the exhibition have established global reputations, but have not previously been considered in any sustained way as group of photographers interacting with each other’s work. The exhibition focuses on the growth of new, fine-art documentary practices, more often produced for the gallery space and the photo-book rather than for a press or media context.

Taking a historical and thematic approach, Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography begins with the media imagery of the Troubles that compelled photographers and artists to intervene in the flow of press photography that dominated a global, visual portrayal of Northern Ireland in the 1970s. From this response, and influenced by wider, international trends in contemporary photography, an engaged and often polemic aesthetic emerged, individual to each photographer but also shared across diverse photographic practices. With the Peace Process in the 1990s a new dynamic entered the scene which required photographers to think about the social and political past and future of Northern Ireland, and which also offered new opportunities for exhibiting and publishing work.

Opposite – Victor Sloan, Belfast Zoo III, 1983

Exhibition runs through till July 7th, 2013

Belfast Exposed
The Exchange Place
23 Donegall Street
Belfast
BT1 2FF

www.belfastexposed.org

  

STUCK IN LOVE

Posted on 2013-06-10

Meet the Borgens. William Borgens is an acclaimed author who hasn’t written a word since his ex-wife Erica left him 3 years ago for another man. In between spying on Erica and casual romps with his married neighbour Tricia, Bill is dealing with the complexities of raising his teenage children Samantha and Rusty.

Samantha is publishing her first novel and is determined to avoid love at all costs – after all she’s seen what it has done to her parents. In between hook ups, she meets “nice guy” Lou who will stop at nothing to win her over. Rusty, is an aspiring fantasy writer and Stephen King aficionado, who is on a quest to gain ‘life experiences’. He falls for the beautiful, but troubled Kate and gets his first taste of love and a broken heart.

In theaters June 14th, 2013

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Posted on 2013-06-10

Leonato (Clark Gregg), the governor of Messina, is visited by his friend Don Pedro (Reed Diamond) who is returning from a victorious campaign against his rebellious brother Don John (Sean Maher). Accompanying Don Pedro are two of his officers: Benedick (Alexis Denisof) and Claudio (Fran Kranz). While in Messina, Claudio falls for Leonato’s daughter Hero (Jillian Morgese), while Benedick verbally spars with Beatrice (Amy Acker), the governor’s niece. The budding love between Claudio and Hero prompts Don Pedro to arrange with Leonato for a marriage.

In the days leading up to the ceremony, Don Pedro, with the help of Leonato, Claudio and Hero, attempts to sport with Benedick and Beatrice in an effort to trick the two into falling in love. Meanwhile, the villainous Don John, with the help of his allies Conrade (Riki Lindhome) and Borachio (Spencer Treat Clark), plots against the happy couple, using his own form of trickery to try to destroy the marriage before it begins.

In theaters June 14th, 2013

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