Adidas Originals is set to release a classic from the archives in the shape of the Formel 1 OG.
First released back in 1978, the Formel 1 was classed as a running shoe with its lightweight construction and extensive heel spoiler for added stability. Now, a few decades on, the shoe is back only this time with a black upper made of nylon and suede with a yellow midsole.
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After releasing a collection of vintage-inspired hats alongside Japanese label READYMADE, UNITED ARROWS & SONS return with a Spring/Summer 2016 line of workwear basics. Consisting of a navy-colored denim jacket, the brand’s signature “Sashiko” denim jean, and mandarin-collar shirts in pink and light blue, this is only the first in a multi-part delivery.
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Shot by famed fashion photographer Annie Leibovitz, Moncler’s latest advertising campaign is a re-creation of the story told by Irish author Jonathan Swift in Gullliver’s Travels. Showcasing the brand’s Spring/Summer 2016 collection, an immaculately dressed Gulliver awakens on a beach in a down-filled waistcoat and a pair of culottes surrounded by the Lilliputians, all of whom are wearing Moncler’s electric blue Longue Saison jacket.
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From a crowd gathered in Central Park to solitary figures lost in thought, Dave Heath’s images conjure feelings of alienation and a desire for human connection. Multitude, Solitude highlights the photographer’s black-and-white pictures of the 1950s and 1960s, an intense period of self-discovery and innovation for the artist. During these pivotal years, Heath developed groundbreaking approaches to narrative and image sequence, producing exquisite individual prints, handmade book maquettes, his poetic masterwork, A Dialogue with Solitude, and multimedia slide presentations. His sensitive explorations of loss, pain, love, and hope reveal Heath to be one of the most original photographers of those decades.
This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of Heath’s deeply personal early work. Abandoned by both his parents by the age of four, Heath lived in Philadelphia foster homes and in an orphanage until the age of sixteen. The turmoil of his childhood profoundly shaped Heath and his artistic vision. Just before his sixteenth birthday, he encountered a poignant photo-essay about foster care in Life magazine, and became intrigued by photography’s potential to transcend simple reportage. Almost entirely self-taught, Heath channeled his feelings of abandonment into a body of work that underscores the importance and difficulties of human contact and interaction. Multitude, Solitude reaffirms Heath’s status as a key figure in twentieth-century photography and highlights his deeply empathetic sensibility.
Opposite – Berkeley, California, 1964
Exhibition runs through till February 16th, 2016
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia
PA
19130
Dr. Tasker was the chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in Los Angeles when radiology was in its formative phase. In the late 1920’s inspired by his knowledge of the x-ray image process, and through his developing involvement with Pictorial photography, Dr. Tasker began to record numerous varieties of flowers with the x-ray process.
His results are among the most striking and unique floral images in the history of photography, delicate in their rendering of subtle tones and descriptive in the tracing of the flower’s fragile structure; fulfilling with out sentimentality, Tasker’s statement, “Flowers are the expression of the love life of plants”.
Tasker’s floral x-ray photographs, created in the 1930’s are timeless representations of their subject drawn by a distinct process that marries science and art, situating themselves as forerunners within certain experimental modes of contemporary photographic practice. Dr. Tasker’s modest, yet fully realized radiographs of flowers include a range of species and a wealth of structural beauty that is both inherent to their subject and an effect of the artist’s arrangement within the rectangular field that holds their form.
Opposite – Fuchsia, 1938
Exhibition runs through till February 19th, 2016
Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla
CA
92037
Part memoir and part fiction, Got To Go presents a collection of photographs from across Rosalind Fox Solomon’s life, contrasting a narrative of her own early years with other, urgent images that reveal a wider vision of the world, one outside of the rigid boundaries imposed by society and the home. If biography is a net cast upon us by family and shaped by social codes, Fox Solomon lays bare the limits of the net, as she negotiates the cusp between lived life and her imagination. Describing the work as a “tragicomedy”, full of both humour and pathos, Fox Solomon probes the limits we impose on ourselves, not only social codes but also the inherited tenets which are so difficult to escape.
Got to Go, Rosalind Fox Solomon’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, will include 27 pictures of varied sizes, as well as an audio-visual installation including approximately 40 images. The sound component includes excerpts from Jason Eckardt’s piece, Tongues, performed by Tony Arnold, soprano, and the International Contemporary Ensemble live at Roulette; a funeral chant; and Fox Solomon’s audio texts.
Fox Solomon, an American artist based in New York City, is celebrated for her portraits and connection to human suffering, ritual, survival and struggle. Her work has been shown in nearly 30 solo exhibitions and 100 group exhibitions, and is in the collections of over 50 museums worldwide.
Opposite – Tennessee, 1976
Exhibition runs from February 25th to April 16th, 2016
Bruce Silverstein
535 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
