NICK KNIGHT & ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Posted on 2015-03-16

Curated to celebrate Knight’s dynamic collaborations with Alexander McQueen, and to coincide with the opening of Savage Beauty at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the exhibition showcases Knight’s arresting re-imaginings of McQueen’s collections.

Similarly daring in their approach to fashion, the pair have been equally revered in their respective fields. In their hands, fashion, flesh and form were as malleable as each roll of fabric, length of film or digital file. Bodies and bodices were slashed, structured and stitched to produce imagery and attire flung from the furthest corners of the psyche.

Knight’s futuristic rendering of Devon Aoki in McQueen for the cover of Visionaire 20 (1997) is one of his most enduring. The young model appears as a wild cyborg one-eyed geisha whose forehead has been sliced open and is held together with a safety pin. In a surreal twist, the wound does not spring forth droplets of blood but flowers with pink cherry blossoms. The following year, the photographer and designer produced an iconic editorial for McQueen’s guest edited issue of Dazed & Confused magazine titled Fashion-Able (1998). Unprecedented within the realm of fashion, the project featured a number of disabled models in order to challenge ideas of what can be considered beautiful. In Knight’s striking compositions, dancer David Toole’s pose is one of pure strength and agility while athlete Aimee Mullins’ alabaster skin merges with fibreglass prosthesis in a display of pure ardour, accomplishment and allure. They signalled the forging of a future in which human value and aesthetic beauty are not determined in comparison to a myth of a perfect norm.

Exhibition runs through to June 5th, 2015

SHOWstudio Shop
19 Motcomb Street
London
SW1X 8LB

showstudio.com

  

MOMMY

Posted on 2015-03-16

A passionate widowed single mom (Anne Dorval) finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her unpredictable 15-year-old ADHD son (Antoine Olivier Pilon). As they struggle to make ends meet, Kyla (Suzanne Clément), the peculiar new neighbor across the street, offers her help. Together, they strive for a new sense of balance.

In theatres March 20th, 2015

mommythemovie.com

  

WILD TALES

Posted on 2015-03-16

A story about love deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the undeniable pleasure of losing control.

In theatres March 27th, 2015

www.relatos-salvajes.com

  

VANS – PROPELLER SKATE VIDEO

Posted on 2015-03-16

Coming May 2015. PROPELLER, A Vans Skateboarding Video.
Featuring the Vans Pro Skate team (Elijah Berle, Rowan Zorilla, Kyle Walker, Jason Dill, Geoff Rowley and Anthony Van Engelen)

offthewall.tv

  

THE SIGNAL

Posted on 2015-03-16

Nick and Jonah are MIT freshmen with a passion for hacking. While driving cross-country through Nevada with Nick’s girlfriend, Hailey, they follow rival hacker Nomad’s clues to a location 180 miles away. After a confrontation with Nomad in the middle of the desert, the trio regain consciousness in captivity. Struggling to comprehend the true nature of their confinement, they discover they are part of a plot much larger than themselves.

In theatres March 27th, 2015

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ANGUS FAIRHURST – BODIES

Posted on 2015-03-16

This is the first exhibition dedicated to Fairhurst’s animations, a key thread in his early practice. Comprising a fourteen-minute cycle, the works trace the evolution of his distinctive iconography and tragicomic spirit. Hand-drawn gorillas and free-floating anatomies appear in repeating, uncanny gestures. Suspended on luminous fields of colour, they gyrate, morph, or snarl up indecipherably – setting in motion the imagery found in many of Fairhurst’s drawings, for which he used artists and various friends as his original models.

In Strange Loops – Stripping, 1995, we witness a gorilla endlessly peeling the skin away from a human figure to reveal another, identical skin. The action of going back to scratch, over and over, wryly evokes a world in which everything changes but nothing does. Strange Loops – Dissecting, 1996, from the same series, depicts a human figure in a gorilla suit splitting into anatomical cross-sections which dissolve, in turn, into patterned strata (akin to the abstract schemes found in a series of paintings of the same year) – a clunky cartoon rendering of figuration’s passage into abstraction.

In a corpus that resisted categorisation and traversed multiple media, animation and video occupied a central place. Produced using elementary software, Fairhurst’s animations often served as the backdrops to musical performances by his band Low Expectations, active between 1995 and 2001. In these, samples of music were repeated over and over and progressively superimposed, while the performers mimed in a parallel to the visual loops and overlaps. The animations are here presented on a correspondingly large scale that accentuates the contrast between the fitful vignettes and the bright, unchanging fields of colour against which they play out.

Exhibition runs through to March 21st, 2015

Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street
London
W1B 5QN

www.sadiecoles.com