BEIRUT – PERTH
2016-01-11Beirut frop a video for “Perth,” taken from last year’s album No No No. Directed by Clara Aranovich, the split-screen video was filmed in Yosemite and Santa Monica.
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2016-01-11Tim Hecker’s forthcoming album, Love Streams, is released on April 8th 2016. His debut record for 4AD, the notorious electronic composer today releases the first taste from the album, a track entitled ‘Castrati Stack’.
Inspired by notions of 15th century choral scores transposed to an artificial intelligence-era language of digital resonance and bright synths, Love Streams was assembled gradually, with layers of studio-tracked keyboards, choir and woodwinds being woven into the mix, then molded and disfigured through complex programming. ‘Castrati Stack’ continues to showcase Hecker’s remarkable ability to find balance between the raucous dissonance and a meditative lament that has long marked his works.
Accompanying the release of the track comes a video from Brett Stabler
TweetPRIMAVERA SOUND 2016
2016-01-11Primavera Sound Festival will return to Barcelona from June 2-4. Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, and PJ Harvey are confirmed to perform.
The lineup also includes Tame Impala, Sigur Rós, Animal Collective, Beach House, the Last Shadow Puppets, Brian Wilson (performing Pet Sounds), John Carpenter, Pusha T, Neon Indian, Ty Segall and the Muggers, Julia Holter, Savages, Air, Action Bronson, Vince Staples, Explosions in the Sky, Moderat, Drive Like Jehu, Dinosaur Jr., Deerhunter, Chairlift, Kamasi Washington, Battles, Thee Oh Sees, Holly Herndon, Protomartyr, Sheer Mag, DJ Koze, Empress Of, Beirut, Dâm-Funk, Parquet Courts, Shellac, Hudson Mohawke (DJ), Floating Points, Titus Andronicus, Nao, Freddie Gibbs, U.S. Girls, Black Lips, Evian Christ, Beak>, Jenny Hval, Royal Headache, Car Seat Headrest, Wild Nothing, Mudhoney, Cass McCombs, Tortoise, Suede, Downtown Boys, Alex G, Jay Rock, the Chills, Moses Sumney, Dungen, DJ Richard, White Fence, and many others.
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MICHEL MAJERUS
2016-01-11Although his creative period didn’t last much more than a decade, Majerus produced an extremely impressive body of work which shows, in opposite directions, the way he moved constantly forward while letting the world move through him at the same time. Producing many different elements that can appear one after the other or randomly together in his paintings and installations, he represented a very wide course, quoting and mixing logos, texts, colours, advertising, games, as well as artists like Polke, Basquiat, Warhol and many others.
His versatile motion is already visible in theenlarge-o-ray… on! (1994) wall-installation that occupies a large space in the gallery, with it’s wide wallpainting that seem to quote directly the graphic style of comic strips, only to be contradicted by the small version of a similar style, coming over it on a painted canvas and applying an almost opposite art gesture, underlined by the element of dialogue it contains, which reads: ‘too big… Better switch off’. All that can revolve around an artist at a specific time, as Majerus perceived, is already visible here, just as his refusal to follow any locked down and clearly defined artistic personality.
Opposite – Ohne Titel, 2000
Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2016
Galerie Max Hetzler
57, rue du Temple
75004 Paris
France
THIRTY SHADES OF WHITE
2016-01-11As Stéphane Mallarmé used to say: «Writing consists of putting black on white», and this poetic digression allows me to evoke the colour white, a regal colour that majestically takes centre stage, the chromatic syn- thesis of all the other colours. When considering this exhibition designed to give the artists carte blanche, I thought point blank of a titled, but I won’t say that black is white: perhaps Thirty Shades of White was a rather predictable one.
Each of the artists (some well-known, others less so) applies his/her own artistic vocabulary and colour aesthetics in a subjective or objective personal journey into the world of shades. Is what we perceive not an illusion, a resonance, an emotional light that the artist endeavours to explore? «We do not create light, we portrait it», said Cézanne. White is a demanding colour. It reflects the light that all the other filter, dispersing it by refraction so the other colours can delight us. White sheds light on art itself; Malevitch, Opalka, Lewitt, Newman, Twombly, Ryman, Reinhardt, Manzoni, Kelly and many others brilliantly made use of this colour. White symbolises the unity that precedes diversity, rites of passage, balance, grace and a moment frozen in time just before disappearance, obliteration, renunciation, abdication and bereavment.
Exhibition runs through to January 23rd, 2016
Praz-Delavallade
5 rue des Haudriettes
75003 Paris
France
LEO GABIN – EXIT/ENTRY
2016-01-11The exhibition is a total installation centered around the new film which is entirely composed of footage uploaded by the protagonist herself. From a collection of more than 3,000 videos, Leo Gabin makes a well thought out selection to re-create one typical day in the life of Bonnie. Literally following her from morning to night, they show the viewer, through her lens, what she sees and encounters during her daily routines. While meticulously capturing all activity in her surroundings, she is adding new associations to each banal and seemingly random event. The film shifts between reality and illusion, through a psychological projection of the world’s order. Thoroughly observed, Exit/Entry is oddly savvy. The level of obsession it portrays is utterly fascinating and disturbing, yet it is another mode of isolation prevalent in modern life.
Audio used as a voice-over has been recorded by Bonnie and sent to Leo Gabin to use in the film. Until now they haven’t met in person.
Exhibition runs through to February 6th, 2016
Tim Van Laere Gallery
Verlatstraat 23-25
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
