TYLER SHIELDS – HISTORICAL FICTION

Posted on 2015-06-08

Historical Fiction was photographed in locations across the United States over a period of twelve months through early 2015. These large-scale color-saturated and black and white photographs are the artist’s powerful interpretations of iconic moments and individual reactions to 1960s American political and pop culture history including the first men on the moon, the disbanding of The Beatles, the Golden Age of air travel, racial violence, and the deaths of James Dean, John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Marilyn Monroe. The series also includes a four-minute video installation featuring Nathan Fillion and Christa B. Allen called Man on the Moon. Historical Fiction reflects on the complicated, controversial, and emotional times of one of the most influential eras in modern history in ways that have never been seen before.

About Historical Fiction Tyler Shields says, “No matter what age you are and no matter where you were, tragic moments in history such as 9/11, JFK, and Martin Luther King, Jr. impact us. Other moments may influence us in a different way and can have a lasting effect, like first time you travel in an airplane, are inspired by art, see a magic trick, or fall in love.” Shields continues, “With Historical Fiction, I have tried to create a narrative of history frozen in time, as if each image were part of a book where the first and last 100 pages have been torn out, and the story is for you to decipher. What happened before and what happened after is only up to the imagination of the viewer, and it’s that viewer that can envision themselves in many of these moments.”

Exhibition runs through to June 30th, 2015

Andrew Weiss Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave
D-4 (Bergamot Station)
Santa Monica
CA 90404

www.andrewweiss.com

  

THE WOLFPACK

Posted on 2015-06-08

Winner of Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, this critically acclaimed documentary follows the Angulo brothers who were locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and discovered about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed the Wolfpack, the brothers spend their childhood re-enacting their favorite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes. With no friends and living on welfare, they feed their curiosity, creativity, and imagination with film, which allows them to escape from their feelings of isolation and loneliness. Everything changes when one of the brothers escapes, and the power dynamics in the house are transformed. The Wolfpack must learn how to integrate into society without disbanding the brotherhood.

In theatres June 12th, 2015

www.thewolfpackfilm.com

  

TOY TOKYO EXCLUSIVE SEEN GRAFFITI SIGNATURE TAG

Posted on 2015-06-08

Two new colourways of seen’s graffiti tag, yellow and silver.

SEEN is Richard Mirando, one of the original New York City subway painters from the late ’70s and early ’80s, and one of the few that have not disappeared into the darkness since. His creativity and versatile skills have kept him relevant all these years, still talked about by young writers for his legendary work and huge full-car train murals. SEEN has since become a successful independent artist and has taken an artform that most used to look down upon, and helped carry it into the white walls of many of todays most renowned galleries.

www.toytokyo.com

  

JURASSIC WORLD

Posted on 2015-06-08

Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining, in order to fulfill a corporate mandate, a new attraction is created to re-spark visitor’s interest, which backfires horribly. Steven Spielberg returns to executive produce the long-awaited next installment of his groundbreaking Jurassic Park series.

In theatres June 12th, 2015

www.jurassicworldmovie.co.uk

  

FRANK NITSCHE – HAPPY DAYS IN MEXICO

Posted on 2015-06-08

Nitsche’s paintings condense the ubiquitous mass media imagery into a distinct language of form. Geometric planes, forms and lines build abstract compositions. Partly overlapping and recurring, these elements create various layers and levels, which unite as single components to a complex construction.

In his works, Nitsche refers to an immense archive of images and icons from pop and consumer culture, product design, news reports and mass media. He collects, arranges, disassembles, recomposes and constructs: An ongoing process of repainting, discarding and releasing.Hybrid structures emerge, depicting the essence of our highly aestheticised present. At times, one seems to recognise comic-like faces and figures, buildings or brand logos, but these images and impressions immediately disappear unverified, rather emphasising Nitsche’s play with our habitualised ways of perception.

HAPPY DAYS IN MEXICO presents a selection of new paintings. While some still indicate a reference to earlier works which were mainly reduced to nuances of grey, most of the new paintings show an intense colourfulness. The colour dominates the image build up and sharpen the contrasting effect of different elements, especially through the use of complementary colour hues. Grass-green next to cerise, deep blue and brash orange – interrupted by graphic lines and frames, these paintings not only refer to current mass media that courts for attention but also an universal, computer-based form of expression.

Opposite – SE-I, 2015

Exhibition runs through to July 18th, 2015

Galerie Max Hetzler
Bleibtreustraße 45
D-10623 Berlin
Germany

www.maxhetzler.com

  

LA FEMME DE TRENTE ANS

Posted on 2015-06-08

The exhibition title La Femme de trente ans (“A Woman of Thirty”) is just an amused wink at the eponymous work by Balzac, a way of placing the exhibition under the auspices of a novel that depicts (from man’s point of view) the not enviable life course of a woman in the 19th century after her thirtieth year. The title of the novel is a contradiction in itself, since it evokes a “type”,
“the” thirty-year-old woman, whereas it extends to the successive stages of a woman’s life through different ages and that it was also initially split into separate novellas, featuring several characters, not just one single woman.
Artists featured in the exhibition, Jean-Luc Blanc, Whitney Bedford, Judith Bernstein, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Lothar Hempel, Celia Hempton, Hedwig Houben, Tatiana Rihs and Walter Robinson.

Exhibition runs through to July 25th, 2015

Art : Concept
13 rue des arquebusiers
75003 Paris
France

www.galerieartconcept.com