XLarge and Puma have teamed up for their first collaboration. The range features a mostly black color theme on pieces like the revival of the T7 Track Jacket, reversible woven jacket, pullover hoodie and PUMA OG T-shirts in white, black and navy.
TweetDeath Waltz Recording Company drops Jay Chattaway’s chilling, pulsing score to ‘Maniac Cop 2’ on Vinyl for the first time ever, nearly 25 years later after the films release. This limited edition, one time pressing also features the infamous Maniac Cop Rap. Pressed on randomly inserted 180 Gram Black and Fire Coloured (after the incredible Molotov Cocktail scene from the film) Vinyl.
Death Waltz exhume another classic, from the twisted mind of Lucio Fulci comes ZOMBI 2 aka ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS. A notorious gore classic and the poster child for the video nasty generation, the film gently transports the viewer from the concrete jungle of New York City to the mysterious Caribbean island of Matool, with some shark versus zombie shenanigans along the way.
Frizzi is adept at providing a superb musical travelogue, and is brilliant at lulling the listener into a false sense of security with authentic Caribbean sounds before dragging them down to the tenth level of hell via electronics. Synths chug as percussion while dreamy keyboard notes meander – is this a dream or reality? It’s reality, and you’re slowly pulled out of the dream with prog-rock beats and intense drums until that iconic main melody starts and you wake up. You’re not on Matool anymore, you’re back in Manhattan and the apocalypse has begun. Available on clear and grey marble vinyl limited to 1,000 copies.
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Recorded by the duo over 2014, ‘Proto’ is a collection of 10 future-facing club tracks, that also provides a deep and involving experience for the listener.
‘Proto’ focusses on the very brief sparks of innovation when new scenes were just forming and genre rules and paradigm were still grey areas; the early bleep track days when imported American techno was starting to be appropriated by the UK, the 93-94 proto era when hardcore was morphing into jungle and later when the darker sound of tech-step reared its mechanical, dystopian head. All of this is underpinned with “Wot U Call It” grime sensibilities and Mumdance & Logos’ trademark sonic disortientation.
TweetNychos and Mighty Jaxx proudly presents his first ever designer art figure! Based off his iconic painting “Lepus Pellis Os Omentum”, a cutaway dissection of Nychos’ most infamous target, The White Rabbit.
This is the standard edition, the exterior skin will be covered in black felt/flock while the internal parts will be painted in high gloss black.
The 10″ Lepus Pellis Os Omentum by NYCHOS is limited to 200 pieces worldwide.
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This wide-ranging show traces the evolution of Scharf’s diverse artistic practice, presenting a selection of rarely shown early videos and collages. Also featured will be a salon-style installation of paintings from the artist’s new Born Again series, in addition to never before exhibited wall-based assemblages. A fully illustrated catalog will accompany the exhibition.
Though Scharf is best known for his exuberant iconography, his work also contains underlying themes that reflect his ongoing commitment to social and environmental concerns. For Scharf, the embrace of fun is an act of defiance, his considered use of unconventional materials, bright color palette, and playful shapes a protest against restrictive cultural conditions. In his latest body of work, the Born Again paintings, Scharf encapsulates this notion of transforming the mundane by inserting his familiar characters and motifs into found amateur paintings. Akin to his earlier customizations of mass-produced objects like phones, washers, and televisions, here it is the discarded artwork that is repurposed. While still humorously absurdist in tone, some of the works such as FUKISHIMA LANDING and TAR BEACH, with their lurking monsters and dark blobs interrupting peaceful seascapes and nature scenes, also reference the artist’s longstanding themes of anxiety in the nuclear age and the effects of pollution. Also included in this exhibition are the Space Vomit assemblages, where surfaces are embedded with defunct objects, fragments of toys, ads, and other miscellanea collected over the years. Frozen in various states of visual erosion, the surfaces both find inspiration from, and are commentary on the detritus of contemporary American culture.
Opposite – Self-Portrait with Cadillac, 1979
Exhibition runs from February 28th to April 4th, 2015
Honor Fraser Gallery
2622 South La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA 90034
Morris’ work examines the culture and ideology of late capitalism as it effects architecture, urban planning and social bureaucracy, engaging with what writer Bettina Funcke has identified as ‘the hyper-intensity of our time’.* She describes Morris’ paintings and filmmaking, parallel activities within her practice, as a way of investigating, tracing and playing with ‘urban, social and bureaucratic typologies’.
In Morris’ new series of paintings she focuses on the city of São Paulo, drawing her inspiration from a wide range of sources such as the city’s urban typology, its modernist buildings, iconic landmarks and unique geographical landscape.
In these abstract paintings, which are all household gloss on canvas, Morris employs doubling, symmetry and compression to build tension within her compositions, using an evocative palette of violet, orange, canary yellow, azure blue and black in forms that repeat, splinter and fall apart. Like her films, the paintings emerge from an amalgamation of diverse influences and have a sense of energy and restless movement, remaining unfixed entities that rely on notions of language, fluidity and play. Circular shapes seem to proliferate, as if open-ended reflections on urban density either contained within horizontal bands of colour or fragmented and bisected, recalling the patterning of lunar charts. In some works, such as Fura-Fila [São Paulo] (2014), Morris refers to specific aspects of the city – in this case, the experimental and controversial monorail, that for many years remained an unfinished, skeletal presence within the city.
Opposite – Total Solar Eclipse [São Paulo], 2014
Exhibition runs through to March 28th, 2015
White Cube São Paulo
Rua Agostinho Rodrigues Filho 550
Vila Mariana
São Paulo
