EVEREST

Posted on 2015-09-14

Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival. The epic adventure stars Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson and Jake Gyllenhaal.

In theatres September 18th, 2015

www.everest-movie.co.uk

  

ERNESTO CÁNOVAS – ALIENATION PEACE

Posted on 2015-09-14

The title of the exhibition, “Alienation Peace” goes well with our time …
Cánovas develops the themes and techniques he explored in his previous solo exhibitions and demonstrates once again his artistic virtuosity.

His works are highly elegant paintings, as well as glamorous wall-objects.
At first they could remember us glazed ceramic tiles – Cánovas may be culturally influenced by the noble and traditional Iberian – Moorish tile art – before we detect the wood or the aluminium base, of wich the artist uses the textures as abstract patterns or glossy surfaces for his pictorial design.

Cánovas subjects relate to modern history, they are social critic to classy or romantic, his mode of expression is contemporary and belong manly to pop art.
He collects and selects photographs from “all-round sources”, and after he subtly manipulated them virtual, he prints them with a self-elaborated artisanal technique.
By applying alternating layers of resin, painting processes and well-reflected cutouts, the photos become transformed, the subjects gradually anonymised and generalised and also sometimes get completly abstract.
In this way, his works acquire a very strong symbolic power and a visionary quality, they are ahead of the times and belong to the day after tomorrow.

Opposite – Mountain frame, 2015

Exhibition runs through to November 13th, 2015

Ambacher Contemporary
Lothstraße 78a
80799 Munich
Germany

www.ambacher-contemporary.de

  

MICHAEL BAUER – BUTTER BEBOP

Posted on 2015-09-14

Unlike previous works by Bauer in which compositions were restricted to the painting’s centre, his new paintings spread throughout the canvas, and in some cases continue off the edge. Each painting is a conversation illustrated with an endless variety of mark making. In various ways and though countless lines and colours each mark of Bauer’s represents a distinct moment in time, a thought inferred by another thought. Simultaneously abstract, realistic, pointillist and symbolist Bauer creates a conversation for which there is no singular entry point. Impressions that creep into his paintings are an important part of the artist’s process. In this new series there is an unmistakable link to the heathery colourful masses of Odilon Redon’s flower paintings. Bauer explains this further,

‘Sometimes Something materialises and I react. I realise where it might have originated from and I react again. It is about the process of painting, which is a playful and sometimes tunnel-vision activity. When these references appear I don’t focus on romanticizing the memories but instead use them to create a certain artificiality.’

Opposite – Buegel, 2015

Exhibition runs through to October 7th, 2015

Alison Jacques Gallery
16 – 18 Berners Street
London
W1T 3LN

www.alisonjacquesgallery.com

  

ANDREW FLADEBOE – THE SHEPHERD’S REALM

Posted on 2015-09-14

The Shepherd’s Realm is a multi-part photographic series consisting of portraits of working dog breeds set against striking landscapes. The result of extensive international travel, the exhibition features ten photographs taken in New Zealand as part of a Fulbright scholarship, six produced in Norway, and one early photograph from the series taken in Scotland. This is the gallery’s first solo exhibition of Fladeboe’s work and the third installment of Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art’s exhibition series at Site 109 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Inspired by the tradition of British animal portraiture, Fladeboe’s images reference the eighteenth-century paintings of George Stubbs and the nineteenth-century canvasses of Edwin Landseer. The Shepherd’s Realm has much in common with the artistic practices and scientific investigation of the Victorian era. The work draws from the ideals of Romanticism and celebrates the beauty of the natural world through sublime landscapes and embracing the raw experience of nature by emphasizing emotion through aesthetics.

As Fladeboe points out: “The camera is also an instrument of science and facts. I want to illustrate these animals in the way they truly are.” In this manner the series merges the traits of Romanticism with the scientific and documentarian elements of Realism. While this pairing might seem like an oxymoron, it fits with the Victorian era’s pursuit of the wondrous beauty of nature comingling with the scientific: “My work inhabits the realms between the accurate portrayal of nature and the emotional qualities of it,” says Fladeboe.

Opposite – Over the Mountain, 2014

Exhibition runs from October 8th till November 1st, 2015

Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art @ Site 109
109 Norfolk Street
New York
NY 10002

www.phhfineart.com

  

MEGAN CUMP – ATOMS / STONES

Posted on 2015-09-14

Megan Cump’s series ATOMS / STONES is a lyrical atlas made of fireworks, insects, prehistoric rock carvings, night skies, and portraits of sleepers. In Madrid, Cump encountered a 250,000-year-old fragment of a cranium – its interior laced with inky lines, branching like rivers on a map. This led her to a photographic investigation at the intersection of cosmology and cartography.

Charting their paths and patterns in the dark sky: stars, fireworks, satellites, and fireflies plot their coordinates in light. These dots and dashes, made on both a micro and macro scale, collide and scatter like atomic particles, tracing the universe on film. Other photographs are from Cump’s nighttime explorations in Portugal’s Côa River Valley. Here, Paleolithic images of horses, aurochs, felines, and ibex were incised into the rocky terrain over 20,000 years ago; marking the route of late Ice Age migrations and the origins of art-making.

Opposite – “untitled (fireworks I)” 2014

Exhibition runs through to October 11th, 2015

Station Independent Projects
138 Eldridge Street
Suite 2F
New York
NY 10002

www.stationindependent.com

  

CHENG RAN – A FILM IN PROGRESS

Posted on 2015-09-14

The exhibition will focus on works that were conceived during Cheng Ran’s two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Am­sterdam. His main medium is video, but Cheng Ran also works in other media such as installation, photography and sound performance. The exhibition’s title, A Film in Progress, alludes to the artist’s 9-Hour Film, which will premiere at the Istanbul Biennial in September 2015. Cheng Ran has been working on this film since 2013 and created a number of artworks that are directly linked to the process of filmmak­ing. 9-Hour Film is based on three real stories of adventure, exploration, and the pertinacity of enigma. The characters of the three plots are the mountain climber George Mallory, the artist Bas Jan Ader and the crew of the Shandong Lu Rong Yu fishing boat no. 2682. George Mallory disappeared in an attempt to climb Mount Everest for the first time. Bas Jan Ader died during one of his performances. And on Rong Yu fishing boat no. 2682 eleven crewmembers murdered the other twenty-two at sea. Although, in this exhibition, the 9-Hour Film remains a mystery–as A Film in Progress–and is not exhibited, the other works tell us about it.

Opposite – Scenario Hypothesis 2, 2015

Exhibition runs through to October 24th, 2015

Galerie Urs Meile
Rosenberghöhe 4
CH-6004 Lucerne
Switzerland

galerieursmeile.com