DOUG AITKEN

Posted on 2015-05-25

Spanning a variety of media encompassing photography, sculpture, happenings and performances, sound, and single and multi-channel video installations, Aitken’s work explores the
modern landscape and posits possibilities for new uncharted frontiers.

This exhibition will feature an installation of new sculptural objects that create an immersive environment where place and time dissolve, and where the individual exists adrift in an
electrically charged space. Viewers are confronted with a series of signs and symbols that at first glance appear familiar but upon closer inspection reveal their foreign nature.

Two internally illuminated light box sculptures hover on the gallery walls. In the shapes of airplanes, the images inside charge the works with a sense of transition, representing the crystallization of an idea captured from the frenetic modern landscape. Both works stamp a portion of the visible world with this shape. While one gazes into a mine dug deep into the earth, the other lifts off and wings up into an expansive blue sky and above the clouds.

A soft light emits from Twilight a cast public pay phone bathed in a luminous glow. Appearing as a relic of a bygone era and removed from its everyday function the work
becomes a vessel emitting interactive light that brightens or dims depending on the viewer’s proximity to its surface.

This show marks the premiere of Aitken’s amazing new soft sculptures. These works are made of photographic images on fabric that create sculptural forms, furniture and social spaces. Slices of the contemporary landscape are re-formed to create a tactile world of concepts and energy.

Opposite – Twilight, 2014

Exhibition runs through to July 24th, 2015

Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Löwenbräu-Areal, Limmatstr. 270
CH-8005 Zurich
Switzerland

www.presenhuber.com

  

IDA APPLEBROOG – THE ETHICS OF DESIRE

Posted on 2015-05-25

The exhibition title ‘The Ethics of Desire’ is a reference to Plato’s philosophical and ethical exploration of the many questions raised by our desires and the ways in which they shape our lives. Entering the gallery, the viewer is confronted by two multi-paneled works from Applebroog’s latest series, The Ethics of Desire. One is a six-panel work depicting nine women marching in a line, identically dressed in thigh high boots and silvery hats but otherwise completely nude. The image calls to mind illustrations of can-can dancers with legs kicked high into the air; but without the expected sensual and bohemian trappings of the can-can genre, Applebroog’s dancers appear rigid and programmed. In stark juxtaposition, the second multi-panel work at the beginning of the exhibition is a triptych portraying three naked women seated and crouched, their sex unabashedly exposed.

Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2015

Hauser & Wirth
511 West 18th Street
New York
NY 10011

www.hauserwirth.com

  

ADIDAS X SNOOP DOGG X UNDFTD

Posted on 2015-05-25

Adidas, Snoop Dogg and Undefeated team up for a sneaker, sock and t-shirt collaboration, which supports Snoop Dogg’s youth football league in Los Angeles.

www.adidas.co.uk
undefeated.com

  

LISTEN UP PHILIP

Posted on 2015-05-25

A complex, intimate, and highly idiosyncratic comedy, Listen Up Philip is a literary look at the triumph of reality over the human spirit. Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman) as he awaits the publication of his sure-to-succeed second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley (Elisabeth Moss), and his indifference to promoting his own work. When Philip’s idol Ike Zimmerman (Jonathan Pryce) offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject – himself.

In theatres June 5th, 2015

tribecafilm.com

  

ELLEN AUERBACH – CLASSIC WORKS

Posted on 2015-05-25

A revolutionary during the era of Germany’s Weimar Republic, Auerbach, in partnership with friend and fellow photographer Grete Stern, broke into the male-dominated field with the collaborative advertising studio “ringl + pit” during the early 1930s. Trained under Walter Peterhans of the Bauhaus school and part of the later-named New Vision movement, Stern and Auerbach as ringl + pit hovered between genres, playing with montage and elements of surrealism to blend commercial intent with fine-art aesthetics. Exemplary works by the duo include the celebrated Pétrole Hahn, 1931, in which a doll’s head is substituted for a model’s to shrewdly disrupt the traditional advertisement pose for cosmetics at the time. This satirical recasting of objects for objectified female figures carries throughout the pair’s images in our exhibition.

Parting ways from Stern, Auerbach with her husband Walter ultimately immigrated to the US after fleeing Germany upon the Nazi takeover. Yet Auerbach continued to travel extensively, one fruit of which was a 1955 partnership with photographer friend Eliot Porter documenting Mexican churches in vibrant color. Additional trips took the artist to Mallorca, Argentina, and Chile, often with a focus on photographing children, a passion which would result in a late-life career as an educational therapist. Closer to home, she captured bathers, wanderers, and fellow noteworthies like Willem de Kooning and Renate Schottelius with a frank grace. Citing the camera as a sort of “third eye,” Auerbach often stated that her intent was to find the central essence of the people and places she photographed.

Exhibition runs through to August 14th, 2015

Robert Mann Gallery
525 West 26th Street
2nd Floor
New York
NY 10001

www.robertmann.com

  

FREDERIC BRENNER

Posted on 2015-05-25

An Archeology of Fear and Desire is Brenner’s contribution to This Place, an epic photographic project he conceived of at his home in Paris in 2005. He imagined inviting artists from around the world to come to Israel ‘neither to praise nor condemn but to question and reveal.’

Now 10 years later, the project is in full blossom. Twelve internationally acclaimed photographers have traveled to Israel between 2009 and 2013, representing the most acclaimed group of artists ever to turn their attention to Israel. A major traveling exhibition is opening at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in May and will travel to the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, in October and to the Brooklyn Museum of Art next February. The exhibition is curated by Charlotte Cotton, an internationally acclaimed curator and the former head of the photography department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Opposite – Hadera, 2013

Exhibition runs through to June 30th, 2015

Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 E 57th St
New York
10011

howardgreenberg.com