DAVE HEATH

Posted on 2015-09-28

Dave Heath’s expressive and emotionally charged photographs capture intimate moments of beauty and loss, love and alienation, with lone figures gazing into the distance, soldiers trudging through foreign lands, urban scenes of heightened sensation and faces frozen in time. On viewwill be Heath’s photographs from the Korean War and the Beat Generation era in Greenwich Village, pages from his thematic notebooks mounted with tiny prints, and work that was included in his seminal 1965 book A Dialogue with Solitude, a poignant collection of images that explores the human psyche in chiaroscuro tones. A key figure in 20th-century photography, adept in delineating details and dissolving others, Heath is known as a master printmaker with a deep and atmospheric palette.

Opposite – Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, c. 1960

Exhibition runs through to October 24th, 2015

Howard Greenberg Gallery
The Fuller Building
41 East 57th Street
Suite 1406
New York
NY 10022

www.howardgreenberg.com

  

GISELE BUNDCHEN

Posted on 2015-09-28

Born in the Brazilian countryside, and nearly six feet tall by the age of 14, Gisele Bündchen grew from humble roots into the most successful supermodel in the world. This limited Collector’s Edition celebrates her 20-year milestone in the industry with a unique and spectacular collection of jaw-dropping glamour and intimate, personal insights.

Gisele was just 18 when she made her breakthrough in the S/S 1998 ready-to-wear “Rain” show of Alexander McQueen, who chose “The Body” thanks to her ability to walk in towering heels on a slippery runway. The same year, Gisele secured her first British Vogue cover, and swiftly became the most in-demand cover girl of her generation. The following year, she was chosen for the cover of American Vogue, shot by Steven Meisel, and lauded as “the return of the sexy model” with her bronzed, athletic beauty defying late-’90s grunge. Since then, Gisele has appeared on more than 1,000 covers around the globe, in approximately 450 fashion shows, and in multinational campaigns for the biggest fashion and beauty brands.

With more than 300 photographs, this large-scale Collector’s Edition is curated and art directed by Giovanni Bianco. From her legendary nude portrait by Irving Penn, chosen as the book’s cover, to iconic shots from such industry luminaries as Steven Meisel, Mario Testino, Peter Lindbergh, David LaChapelle, Juergen Teller, Inez & Vinoodh, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott and Corinne Day, it is a unique artistic presentation of the most famous Brazilian export together with Pelé and Senna and the highest-earning model in the world. The breathtaking image collection is accompanied by an introduction by Steven Meisel and tributes from Gisele’s closest friends, family, and fashion leaders, who shed light on how and why she has become one of the greatest models of all time.

Limited to a total of 1,000 numbered copies signed by Gisele Bündchen, this book is available as Collector’s Edition (No. 101-1,000), and also in an Art Edition of 100 copies (No. 1-100 with a print signed by Juergen Teller).

www.taschen.com

  

BROOMBERG & CHANARIN – RUDIMENTS

Posted on 2015-09-28

Broomberg & Chanarin’s debut solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery consists of new photographic, moving image and performative works that collectively explore tensions between discipline and chance, precision and chaos, empathy and the involuntary pleasure of watching the pain of others. Central to the show is a new film work, Rudiments (2015) in which the artists have collaborated with a group of young army cadets at a military camp on the outskirts of Liverpool. Whether Broomberg & Chanarin have staged the scenes we observe or have simply documented the camp’s routine practice remains unclear. The young soldiers-in-training are seen marching, drumming and obeying instructions – enacting a collective, authoritarian form of obedience – with varying degrees of success.

The absurd and disturbing introduction of a ‘bouffon’ – a dark clown whose performance teeters on vulgarity – radically challenges the martial codes supposedly being taught and interrupts their carefully choreographed routines. The children also learn how to pratfall, ‘play dead’ or deliver convincing blows to one another, performing comic actions that are seemingly at odds with the hierarchical structures of the army. Broomberg & Chanarin’s film explores the experience of empathy or the enjoyment of pain in others through formative moments of childhood and innocence of early youth, as well as highlighting the importance of cadets to the armed services and especially the historical role of the drummer boy in battle. The work’s title refers to the 40 rudiments that form the technical foundation of percussive music – including rolls, strokes and paradiddles – while the soundtrack is propelled by a dramatic, improvised score devised for the drums by the American musician Kid Millions (also known as John Colpitts).

Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2015

Lisson Gallery
52 Bell Street
London
NW1 5BU

www.lissongallery.com

  

STANLEY WHITNEY – DANCE THE ORANGE

Posted on 2015-09-28

The exhibition will feature twenty-eight paintings and works on paper created between 2008 and 2015, including the 2013 title work. Following time spent in Italy and then later in Egypt in the mid-1990s, Whitney developed the weighty, almost architectural approach that has now become his signature style. Rhythmic and lyrical, with a combination of pre-ordained structure and improvisation inspired in part by his love of jazz, the square-format paintings arrange rectangles of vivid, single colors in a deliberately irregular grid, with the close-fitting, many-hued “bricks” or “tiles” stacked vertically and arrayed in horizontal bands.

Opposite – My Tina Turner, 2013

Exhibition runs through to October 25th, 2015

Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W 125th St
New York
10027

www.studiomuseum.org

  

ROLAND REISS – 1968

Posted on 2015-09-28

Having taken his MA at UCLA in 1957, Roland Reiss moved to Boulder and joined the art faculty of the University of Colorado. In his studio practice, by the late 1950s, Reiss sought to replace the gestural excesses of ‘action painting,’ in an effort to make his work more dimensional and sculptural. As new materials became available to artists in the early 60s, Reiss began work with acrylic paints and plastics (notably Plexiglas), foams, and resin. He created the work exhibited here – a breakthrough series of fiberglass and resin “paintings” in 1968. With titles like Red Slide and Bent Field, the molded resin surfaces are textured in positive or negative relief hexagons that Reiss sprayed in bright colors like red, green, and orange. The result is an ever -shifting and vibrational color field.

These pivotal works are among the first sculptural resin paintings: produced by Roland Reiss in Colorado, in synchronicity with both the Light and Space and Finish Fetish movements in Southern California. Despite the optical dynamism, there is a minimalism to the work that relates to the monochromatic oil and beeswax panel paintings produced by Brice Marden in New York at the same time. In essence, by 1968, the painting became a perceptual object.

Opposite – Red Slide, 1968

Exhibition runs through to October 10th, 2015

Diane Rosenstein
831 North Highland Avenue
Los Angeles
CA 90038

www.dianerosenstein.com

  

BALLANTINE’S WHISKY ARTIST SERIES LEIF PODHAJSKY

Posted on 2015-09-28

Staying true to his creative origins, this collaboration allowed Podhajsky to connect with Ballantine’s by taking inspiration from the liquid itself as well as the stunning, natural landscapes of Scotland and the whisky journey, resulting in three unique and beautiful limited edition designs.

Each stunning gift pack design tells a story of how Podhajsky was inspired by Ballantine’s, and by the beauty of Scotland itself.

The Ballantine’s Finest Tin captures the movement of the liquid and is inspired by the complexity, depth and gold colour of this renowned whisky blend. The Ballantine’s Neoprene Finest Sleeve, inspired by two of the most vital and natural elements involved in the whisky production process: fire and water. The Ballantine’s 12 year old Tin is an abstract interpretation of Scotland’s stunning scenery; capturing the light of sky, the rugged nature of Scotland’s Highlands region and the country’s flowing streams.

www.ballantines.com