Following the creation of his own False Idols imprint and last year’s album of the same name, Tricky returns in the fall of 2014 with a new studio project that shares the name he was given at birth: Adrian Thaws. “Calling it Adrian Thaws is saying you don’t really know me,” says Tricky of his 11th album. “So many times people have tried to put a finger on me and every album I go to a different place.”
‘Adrian Thaws’ is released September 8th, 2014
TweetShown in the past as an element in the artist’s multimedia installations, photo works and video sculptures, this marks the first exhibition focusing on the photographs as individual pieces.
The myth of the modern family is played with and ridiculed, ultimately giving way to dysfunction and beautiful catastrophe. Rose, the heroine and muse of Melee’s depravity is caught in seemingly absurd casual acts including romping naked in the snow, drinking in the bath tub and positioning herself on all fours with pots and pans on her back on the kitchen table, each time intoxicated.
The works featured represent freedom from taboos and a twisting of the human psyche. Unbridled and absurd, Melee’s depiction of domesticity and memory tampers with notions of real life versus theater. The traditional roles of mother and son in the familial bliss of calm are shattered as Melee constructs both punishing and affectionately sensational portraits.
Opposite – Floor, 1999
Exhibition runs through to August 1st, 2014
Higher Pictures
980 Madison Ave
Upper East Side
New York City
10065
The exhibition will comprise a site-specific architectural wrap of Modern Art Oxford’s iconic Upper gallery, alongside an installation of classic 1980s paste-up works and a major film presentation in the John Piper Gallery.
With a career spanning over four decades, Kruger’s instantly recognizable work combines bold lettering, colours and dramatic juxtapositions of text and image, to investigate the machinations of power in popular culture today.
Through ironic appropriation of specific slogans and imagery, Kruger deploys the visual strategies of mass communication in order to challenge the often manipulative logic at work in the language of advertising, television and other media and the role of Western consumerist culture.
Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2014
Modern Art Oxford
30 Pembroke Street
Oxford
OX1 1BP
Andre Saraiva opens his solo exhibition at the Museum of Design in Lisbon, Portugal. The show will be a collection of his work in graffiti, sculpture and painting.
Exhibition runs from June 3rd to July 24th, 2014
MUDE – Museu do Design e da Moda
Rua Augusta 24
Lisbon
1100-053
Portugal
Printed mainly at pharmacies and one hour photo shops by Clark from 1992 – 2010, these unique 4 x 6 in. and 5 x 7 in. colour prints will be on sale to the public priced at £100 each. Visitors will be able to flick through handfuls of snapshots at a time, gaining new insights into his working method as well as having the opportunity to come away with an original Larry Clark.
The photographs in the collection and were taken by Clark on or around the locations of his films from that time – including Kids (1995), Bully (2001), Ken Park (2002), and Wassup Rockers (2005), among others. The pictures document the people, kids and friends he was interacting with during this period, many playing leading roles in his films. The collection of photographs also includes outtakes from a calendar shoot for the street brand Supreme, as well as many unique portraits, self portraits and various snapshots.
Having recently turned 71, Clark found himself faced with the question of what to do with the thousands of unique prints he had accumulated over the years. Instead of gifting to museum archives, or selling at auction, Clark has decided to distribute a large portion of his archive to the friends and fans that have played a central role, sometimes literally, in his career to date. In his words, the sale is for ‘all the kids that come to my shows in their thousands and could never afford 10 to 15 thousand dollars for a print (…) this is a pay back to all the skate rats and collectors who would like a souvenir so I can die happy.’
The sale runs through to July 1st – July 6th, 2014
Simon Lee Gallery
12 Berkeley Street
London
W1J 8DT
