2016 January : EXIT

BAFTA: FOR THE LOVE OF FILM

Posted on 2016-01-04

‘BAFTA: For the Love of Film’ is a special commission for photographer Phil Fisk to produce a new series of portraits of skilled experts working in the craft of filmmaking. The exhibit will shine a light on the industry and will enable visitors to learn about the many different roles involved in making a film from famous casting agents, cinematographers, costume designers and performers.

Portrait subjects range from actors including David Oyelowo (Selma, Interstellar) and Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) to a wide array of behind-the-camera talent including directors Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Tideland) and Stephen Frears (The Queen, The Program), cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar, Spectre), casting director Nina Gold (The King’s Speech, The Imitation Game) and producer Alison Owen (Elizabeth, Suffragette).

As with much of Fisk’s previous work, the images play with the notions of reality and dreams, creating a uniquely surreal perspective providing an insight into excellence in film.

Opposite – David Oyelowo, 2015

Exhibition runs from Saturday 3th0 and Sunday 31st January, 2016.

BAFTA
195 Piccadilly
London
W1J 9LN

www.bafta.org

DAIDO MORIYAMA

Posted on 2016-01-04

Twelve years after his first exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in 2003, the eminent Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama will return to the foundation for a new exhibition that focuses on his recent work. Featuring a large selection of color photographs, Daido Tokyo will shed light on this lesser-known yet ubiquitous aspect of his photographic practice over the last two decades. The Fondation Cartier has also commissioned a new work from Moriyama in conjunction with the exhibition. Entitled Dog and Mesh Tights, this immersive multiscreenprojection of black and white photographs will plunge viewers into the commotion of the contemporary city, capturing fragments of daily life from its unrelenting urban hustle and bustle.

Exhibition runs from February 6th to June 5th, 2016

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
261, boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris

fondation.cartier.com

SEBASTIAN LLOYD REES

Posted on 2016-01-04

Literally speaking, there is much to admire in the London-based, Norwegian artist, Sebastian Lloyd Rees’s ‘hoarding sculptures’: they can be large. But the scale of their vision is weightless, pivoting in delicate balance with their conceptual and practical endeavours, which unexpectedly counter-weights their physical presence and powerful, visceral, visuality (they also hover, like magic, a delicate 11-13cm above the floor). Like barred gateways, similar in conception to Danto’s ‘thresholds’, as troubled, historical passage-points, they act as meeting places of past and future meaning: their determination reaching backwards and forwards simultaneously.
The primary psychological intent of Lloyd Rees’s chosen material of retrieved plywood hoardings, from the old French hourd – meaning palisade or a temporary wooden (shed-like) construction, originally placed on the exterior of the ramparts of a castle during a siege – is clearly about the head-on confrontation of exclusion. In relation to voices of questionable ‘authority’, Sebastian Lloyd Rees is not to be trifled with, he is a natural campaigner and pamphleteer2; the fragments of Americana talk-show legalise, which form the title of his first solo exhibition for mother’s tankstation, might suggest such…alarming…invasive…a violation…lawless…disrespectful…

Opposite – All the News That’s Fit to Print (2001.09.12 – 2015.08.24), 2015

Exhibition runs through to January 15th, 2016

Mother’s Tankstation
41-43 Watling Street, Ushers Island
8 Dublin
Ireland

www.motherstankstation.com

AARON CURRY – STARFUKER

Posted on 2016-01-04

STARFUKER, the exhibition’s title, is a red herring: Given the artist’s long-standing connection to Los Angeles and the fact that this show is taking place here, it would seem to point to the spastic and unsavory mixture of sex, celebrity, and power that are part of the city’s reputation and allure. But the stars that appear in this show are of the cosmic variety, and the images conjured by both the paintings and the sculptures point away from the earthly detritus of popular culture that informed earlier bodies of work and toward the spectacularly generative, even erotic chaos that fills the universe at large and appears with increasing acuity in photography of deep space. Curry’s version of the cosmos, however, is one that is informed not only by recent science; equally important are the speculative horizons that are regularly the backdrops of video games, animated movies, and science fiction both in its kitsch-ridden and more paranoid iterations.

The two new major metal sculptures, each painted matte black, strike an unlikely balance between the archaic monumentality of Richard Serra, the modernist biomorphism of Jean Arp and Joan Miró, and the cartoonish contours of the Tomorrowland attractions at Disney theme parks. One sculpture is composed primarily of a curved wall: 12-feet tall and more than 20-feet wide, this imposing element is also the support for a series of tubular, conical, and spherical forms that inhabit its edges and recesses. The other sculpture is organized around a central, rocket-like tower topped with a knotted, tubular element that appears to be precariously balanced with a chain made from looped segments of welded steel. Utilitarian elements like rivets, bolts, and welds (which Curry also uses to sign each sculpture) play an important role in the overall composition of both works.

Opposite – BEARTH, 2015

Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2016

David Kordansky Gallery
5130 W. Edgewood PL.
CA. 90019
Los Angeles

davidkordanskygallery.com

MARILYN MONROE – MILTON GREENE/DOUGLAS KIRKLAND

Posted on 2016-01-04

Greene’s most noted work is with Marilyn Monroe. They first met in 1953 on assignmentfor Look Magazine. In 1956, they formed Marilyn Monroe Productions together, which produced “Bus Stop” and “The Prince and the Showgirl.” By the end of their four year relationship, he had photographed her in 52 different sittings producing over 5,000 images, some of which have never been published. Many advocates of Monroe consider Greene’s collaboration with her to be the best and most genuine. In recent years his photographs have been exhibited in major galleries, museums and private collections around the world. Greene’s work continues to represent an era in time,

Douglas Kirkland (b.1934) was born in Toronto, Canada. He joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, and later Life Magazine during the golden age of 60’s/70’s photojournalism. Through the years, Kirkland has worked on the sets of over one hundred motion pictures. Among them, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, “2001 A SpaceOdyssey”, “Sound of Music”, “Out of Africa”, “Titanic” “Moulin Rouge”, “Australia” and “The Great Gatsby”.
In 1961, Marilyn Monroe told the 27 year old photographer Kirkland to come into bed with her. The evening he spent with Monroe 51 years ago was sensual, intimate, and spontaneous, and it produced the famous series “An Evening With Marilyn Monroe.” The series consists of Marilyn posing sensually in bed, with only a silk sheet between her and the camera. Kirkland was a novice photographer at the time, nothing compared to his prolific career today, but according to Kirkland, the two of them shared a tension-filled shoot that helped create the stunning photographs. Thinking back on the evening today, he describes their time together as though they “were in a beautiful dance,” with Marilyn leading of course.

Opposite – The Rock Sitting, LA, Milton Green, 1953

Exhibition runs through till February 27th, 2016

The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ

www.thelittleblackgallery.com

GLOBE SPEAKER BOARD

Posted on 2016-01-04

Globe introduces the world’s first-ever skateboard with an in-built speaker. Teaming up with Boombotix, the Australian-born company has incorporated Bluetooth technology and a speaker with 50mm driver so riders can enjoy skating without headphones.