NIGHT IN DAY

Posted on 2014-07-14

Since the invention of photography, artists have looked to the night as a rich subject for photographic exploration. Between sunset and sunrise, when the responsibilities of the day give way to the autonomy of the night, the world takes on a mysterious glow that is rich with metaphor and innuendo.

The exhibition title, Night in Day, references a poem by Joseph Stroud that reflects on those slivers of the night that punctuate our days, literally and symbolically. This exhibition includes a wide range of photographic nocturnes from a southwest moonrise to an impossibly bright Antarctic midnight, from a silhouetted figurative sculpture to the piercing eye contact of a costumed reveler, and a misty landscape that assumes the look of midnight through the use of infrared film. Selected from LACMA’s collection and spanning the last 100 years, the exhibition includes work by Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Larry Clark, Florian Maier-Aichen, Edward Steichen, Karl Struss, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, among others.

Opposite – Lewis Baltz, Night Construction, Reno, 1977

Exhibition runs through to August 24th, 2014

LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90036

www.lacma.org

  

F__K__U

Posted on 2014-07-14

The exhibition’s title echoes Tupac’s last words recalled by a police officer in a recent Buzzfeed article. Each artist’s work in this exhibition focuses on abstracted text and master signifiers assigned to popular icons, historical incidents and trends. When Tupac said “Fuck You” it took on a more ethereal and true sound… Was Tupac just saying “Fuck You” to the cop asking “Who shot you?” or was it a bigger statement? Should we ask his hologram?

Focusing on our changing relationship to text due to the information mega-stream of the internet, the participating artists create work that relates to how language is used, manipulated, satirized and omitted. Photo based non-narratives like scrolling through Facebook, sarcastic layering of corporate imagery and slogans, complicated authorship, and familiar statements mixed with ubiquitous symbols of identity such as Infinite tie dye, spikes, and rubber.

While using visual puns, cryptic language, made up correspondence, and every day phrases each artist has a distinct approach and sensibility while sharing a similar kind of attitude.

Opposite – Sandy Kim, Untitled, 2013

Exhibition runs through to August 1st, 2014

KRAVETS | WEHBY
521 West 21st Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011

www.kravetswehbygallery.com

  

JOHN HEDGECOE – VIVAT! VIVAT! MY ENGLAND!

Posted on 2014-07-14

One of Britain’s leading post-war portrait photographers, Hedgecoe was also the world’s best-selling writer on practical photography, having sold some 9 million books worldwide. As a student at the RCA he first photographed Henry Moore in 1953. In 1957 Hedgecoe joined Queen magazine as staff photographer, under the editorship of Jocelyn Stevens. In 1965 Hedgecoe founded the Photography Department at the Royal College of Art, and was Professor of Photography from 1975–1994.

VIVAT! VIVAT! MY ENGLAND! presents a selection of 34 of Hedgecoe’s most iconic photographs, some of which will be exhibited for the first time.

Exhibition runs through to August 5th, 2014

Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London
SW7 2EU

www.rca.ac.uk

  

GILBERT & GEORGE – SCAPEGOATING PICTURES

Posted on 2014-07-11

For nearly five decades the art of Gilbert & George has created a visceral and epic depiction of modern urban existence. At its centre are always the artists themselves, who have dedicated their adult lives to their calling as ‘Living Sculptures’ – witness participants within the moral and vividly atmospheric world of their vision, as it is revealed in their art.

The ‘Scapegoating Pictures’ unflinchingly describe the volatile, tense, accelerated and mysterious reality of our increasingly technological, multi-faith and multi-cultural world. It is a world in which paranoia, fundamentalism, surveillance, religion, accusation and victimhood become moral shades of the city’s temper. Gilbert & George take their place in these ‘Scapegoating Pictures’ as shattered and spirit-like forms – at times masked, at times as grotesquely capering skeletons, at times dead-eyed and impassive. These ‘Scapegoating Pictures’ consolidate and advance the art of Gilbert & George as a view of modern humanity that is at once libertarian and free-thinking, opposed to bigotry of all forms and dedicated to secular realism.

Dominating the Scapegoating Pictures, becoming almost the imagistic signature of this new group of pictures, are images of the sinister bomb shaped canisters used to contain nitrous oxide, also known as ‘whippets’ and ‘hippy crack’ – recreationally inhaled to induce euphoria, hallucinations and uncontrollable laughter. Gathered by the artists on their early morning walks from the side streets and back alleys that surround their home, the presence of these canisters, mimicking that of ‘bombs’ pervades the mood of the Scapegoating Pictures to infer terrorism, warfare and a stark industrial brutality

Opposite – Sweet Air Sweet Air, 2013

Exhibition runs from July 18th to September 28th, 2014

White Cube Bermondsey
144 – 152 Bermondsey Street
London
SE1 3TQ

whitecube.com

  

HAUSER & WIRTH – SOMERSET

Posted on 2014-07-11

The new gallery and arts centre located in Bruton, Somerset, will be inaugurated with a solo exhibition of site-specific sculptures by Phyllida Barlow.

‘We are hugely excited to be opening this important gallery and arts centre in Somerset. Our inaugural exhibition is new works created specially for the gallery by Phyllida Barlow. Phyllida is one of the most significant British sculptors working today and continues to be an inspiration to generations of younger artists and students. The exhibition, and the programme of events and learning activities that accompany it, will rejuvenate these incredible farm buildings which have stood empty for a long time.’

– Alice Workman, Director, Hauser & Wirth Somerset

With free admission to the public, the gallery will be open six days per week and the core exhibition programme will focus on new work by Hauser & Wirth artists. In addition, a landscaped garden designed for the gallery by internationally-renowned landscape architect Piet Oudolf will launch in mid- September and will include a perennial meadow that sits behind the gallery buildings. An exhibition of Oudolf’s drawings will be on display until October. An active artist residency programme is underway and Mark Wallinger will begin a six-week residency at the end of July.

Hauser & Wirth Somerset open to the public from Tuesday 15th July 2014.

Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Durslade Farm
Dropping Lane
Bruton
Somerset
BA10 0NL

www.hauserwirthsomerset.com

  

ADIDAS X MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Posted on 2014-07-09

Adidas presents its collaboration with performance artist Marina Abramović, unveiling an original, short video celebrating the brand’s partnership and support of the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ in Brazil. The three-minute film captures the first ever re-staging of Abramović’s iconic 1970s performance “Work Relation”—which focuses on commitment, teamwork and the strength found in togetherness—reimagined through the lens of the 2014 FIFA World Cup™. This marks adidas and Abramović’s first project together and demonstrates the many parallels that exist between the artist’s piece and the play of any team sport.

Based on the original “Work Relation” by Marina Abramović and Ulay, 1978

Creative Director: Marco Brambilla
Director: Dustin Lynn
Director of Photography: John Schmidt
Editor: Akiko Iwakawa
Audio Mix: Elizabeth McClanahan

www.adidas.co.uk
www.immaterial.org