SIMEN JOHAN

Posted on 2013-10-14

New work from Simen Johan’s ongoing series of photographs and sculptures, Until the Kingdom Comes, which he began in 2005, depicts a natural world that is at once familiar and otherworldly.Most, but not all, of the images are intricate digital constructs incorporating elements the artist photographed in various geographical locations. Towering giraffes, shot in various U.S. zoos, populate a hazy, desolate landscape created from images taken in Turkey, Bali and Iceland; spectacular Javan peacocks from Asia are camouflaged within a Spanish pepper tree; and the interior of an Icelandic volcano forms the setting for a gooey tar pit where Peruvian yellow-hooded blackbirds nest.

Each image confuses the boundaries between opposing forces such as the natural and the artificial, the beautiful and the eerie, the known and the unknown. These dynamic tensions reflect internal conflicts and contradictions inherent to human nature that fuel Johan’s work.

Exhibition runs through to December 7th, 2013

Yossi Milo Gallery
245 Tenth Avenue (between 24th & 25th St.)
New York
NY
10001

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JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE – BIBI

Posted on 2013-10-14

The exhibition focuses on photographs from the 1920s that depict Lartigue’s marriage to Madeleine Messager, known as Bibi, his first wife and the mother of his only child. This is the first international showcase of the exhibition following its unveiling earlier this year in Les Rencontres d’Arles.

Bibi features dozens of black and white photographs including images from the couple’s visit to London. The photographs trace Lartigue and Bibi’s relationship from their early days as a loving couple and glamorous socialites – to subsequent upheavals and calamities which eventually led to their separation.

Exhibition runs through to January 5th, 2013

The Photographers’ Gallery
6 – 18 Ramillies St
London
W1F 7LW

thephotographersgallery.org.uk

  

MACHETE KILLS

Posted on 2013-10-14

Machete Kills is an action-packed thrill ride about the adventures of legendary secret agent Machete Cortez (Danny Trejo). In his latest mission, Machete is recruited by the U.S. President (Carlos Estevez) to stop a crazed global terrorist (Mel Gibson) from starting a nuclear war. With a bounty on his head, Machete faces death at every turn from an all-star cast of deadly assassins.

In theaters October 11th, 2013

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LE WEEK-END

Posted on 2013-10-14

The third feature collaboration between Roger Michell and writer Hanif Kureishi (after The Mother and Venus), Le Week-end sees Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg Burrows (Lindsay Duncan) return to Paris, the city of their honeymoon, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. Designed as a weekend to rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage, we follow our couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

In theaters October 11th, 2013

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WE ARE WHAT WE ARE

Posted on 2013-10-14

The Parkers, a reclusive family who follow ancient customs, find their secret existence threatened as a torrential downpour moves into their area, forcing daughters Iris and Rose to assume responsibilities beyond those of a typical family. It is a remake of the 2010 Mexican film of the same name.

In theaters October 25th, 2013

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HAROLD HUNTER FOUNDATION X SKULLCANDY

Posted on 2013-10-14

In honor of this year’s Harold Hunter Day, which starts NOW at L.E.S. skatepark, Skullcandy and the Harold Hunter Foundation have released 100 hand numbered collaborative Harold Hunter Aviator headphones. With Harold’s iconic face over a simple white casing, the headphones go for $200 with all proceeds benefitting the HHF’s youth programs. Harold would be proud.

haroldhunter.org