AJUKAJA & ANDREVSKI – LEVELS-004
2015-05-18Pronounced ah-uu-kaɪ-ya and an-drev-skee, The Estonian pair return upon Jon Rust’s Levels label.
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2015-05-18Plush Rug with Sewn Edges.
Available in 2′ x 3′ (closet size) and 4′ x 6′ (full size).
2′ x 3′ – Limited run of 100 – $149.00.
4′ x 6′ – Limited run of 50 – $249.00.
Individually Numbered.
Stain Resistant.
No-Slip Vinyl Backing.
Made in the USA.
MALCOLM LE GRICE – NO IDEA
2015-05-18Forty years ago Malcolm Le Grice’s seminal film exhibition opened at the legendary Arts Lab Drury Lane and then at the Kölnischer Kunstverein. For the young filmmaker this marked a turning point in his career: forty years on a presentation encompassing the last fifty years of his work at Richard Saltoun Gallery marks another – the first solo exhibition of his work in a commercial gallery. Including new and newly worked films and installations, Le Grice has titled the exhibition ‘No Idea’, intentionally refusing to create an exhibition ‘concept’.
Le Grice’s early multi-screen and multi-media works took as a nexus the moving image: combining film with performance and installations that comprise both found and made objects. Moving away from the 2-dimensional screen and picture plane he destroyed the limits of the gallery space, forcing his audience to reconsider their own physical relation to the screen and thereby the viewing experience. This new method of inquiry was revolutionary and the term “expanded cinema” was quickly adopted in reference to it.
Opposite – Berlin Horse, 1970
Exhibition runs through to July 10th, 2015
Richard Saltoun Gallery
111 Great Titchfield Street
London
W1W 6RY
KAREN KILIMNIK
2015-05-18Karen Kilimnik has created a group of small-scale paintings based mostly on appropriated images, many of these from traditional Delftware, which she suffuses with her own imaginative preoccupations. The resulting body of work, made over the past two years, expresses the artist’s enduring qualities of openness and precision, elegance and humour.
Opposite – London taxicab at Dukes Hotel London, England, 2007
Exhibition runs through to June 20th, 2015
Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EJ
ETHAN COOK – DE BEAUVOIR CRESCENT
2015-05-18Taking its title from a street of East London where the artist collected the images depicted in the works, the exhibition combines organic sculptures with wall reliefs, exploring the relation between the object and its image, as between an idea and its formal representation.
Large in scale, the five fiberglass reliefs in the show are the result of a new methodology of working. In the effort to investigate the relation between iconography and formalism, the playfulness of a parrot, the sacred monumentality of a statue of Mary, and the bold cheerfulness of a boy and girl playing and smiling have been photographed by the artist. Scaled up to human size, and sculpted in relief out of high density urethane, clay and plaster, these original images are then bonded onto a proportionally sized panel, cast out of fiberglass and finally painted using a durable, cleanable white house paint.
The white surface reduces the image to its primary form, deleting any excessive ornamentation. Their perspective is determined by the when and where the photographs have been shot. Through the use of reliefs mediated by photography, re-sculpting and molding, Cook reduces everything to pure symbol or readymade. Exposing the representational or memorialising aspects of the image through the triviality of common objects, these pure forms of contemporary relics supersede the originality of their presence as physical objects, concrete images or cultural memes.
Opposite – Ethan Cook, Boy, 2015
Exhibition runs through to July 17th, 2015
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Via G. M. Crescimbeni 11
00184 Roma
SPY
2015-05-18Melissa McCarthy (Susan Cooper), Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Allison Janney, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Miranda Hart, and Jude Law
Film Rating
In theatres June 5th, 2015
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