Joel and Ethan Coen write and direct Hail, Caesar!, an all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Starring Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Channing Tatum, Hail, Caesar! follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
In theatres March 4th, 2016
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Using the gallery as their studio during the month of January, Reames and Lerma have created a group of paintings and sculpture whose centerpiece is a pair of monumental paintings (composed of two triptychs) that measure 10 x 24 feet each (over 3 x 7 meters). It started with Josh Reames painting a single palm tree and quickly evolved into a metaphorical landscape inspired by the Cayman Inlands – a Caribbean paradise and tax haven with a history of piracy.
Responding instinctively to each other’s mark making and personal choices, this improvisational group portrait mixes the characteristic styles of 18th century political and social satire (James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson) with the artists’ bold, individual styles and penchant for visual satire among other iconography that characterizes their personal work.
Populated by the likenesses of persons who visited the artists during their residency – collectors, curators, museum directors, artists, students and the occasional passerby – the paintings employ the grand scale of European history painting, presenting a pseudo history through a chaotic, unorganized battle being waged in a 21st century virtual reality that references the world’s most notorious tax shelter.
In addition to these two central paintings, the artists have also collaborated on a sculptural installation featuring a mirrored door-cum-disco ball that plays with notions of access and reality. They have also contributed their own individual paintings and drawings.
Opposite – Untitled I, left panel, 2016
Exhibition runs through till March 5th, 2016
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2635 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles
CA 90034
Stallinga is both a visual artist and a designer. Although he does not consider his product designs to be fine arts parts thereof are often transformed into conceptual multimedia installations and sculptures. A minimalistic visual language, light, sound and movement are recurring elements in them. The exhibition consists of the light installation Lumen Balance, the series Breathe In Breathe Out, wherein paintings are combined with lamps, and the installation A Couch to Match the Painting.
The concepts behind Stallinga’s works are often based on our awareness of the everyday world around us. This involves concepts like sense of time, sonorous and visual perception and experience of energy in the form of light, heat or movement. The observer is often left surprised or even optically deceived by Stallinga’s works in which everyday phenomena are presented in a different context.
Opposite – Breathe in, Breathe out
Exhibition runs through till March 11th, 2016
Gerhard Hofland
Bilderdijkstraat 165-C
NL 1053 KP Amsterdam
Netherlands
Panos Papadopoulos work is a mixture of conceptual, minimal, abstract and expressionist art. Departing from his earlier works – text-populated, noisy, post punk abstract oil paintings -, Papadopoulos here allows space to emerge, creating interiors and replacing the text with objects; yet the objects still hold on to their linguistic potency, often acting as symbols of language. It is the empty space, the sound of silence that adds tension to these objects. Basically, he turns drawings into paintings, leaving the viewer with the impression of the absent, the incomplete, the unfinished. Is their appearance deceiving; is there more than meets the eye?
“Often people ask me if my oil paintings are finished or why do they look so empty,” says the Athens-born painter. “My previous works of art were dense and intense; they had lots of layers and were full of text and information. So I started to abstract from the… abstract. I like to take advantage of the whiteness of the canvas in order to highlight the things that matter the most”. In his new works, he takes away the “noise” and a lot of other paint elements, in order to emphasize on the power of color and the brushstroke itself. “It is interesting to see how people react to minimal paintings, especially in a world were they are used to wanting more. But there is a lot of tense in the drawing and the color composition, you just have to look closer”, he explains.
The title of the exhibition “Narcissism-Masochism-Fetishism” is inspired by a collection of essays by Sigmund Freud. Those concepts are related to the thematic of the works and the process of their creation. The result is a series of interiors and urban environments, full of irony, humor and hidden meanings. The more you look at them, the more you see. White space does not necessary mean nothing; an empty space can produce strong presences and can create an effective impact on our senses. He provides an interesting counterpoint in his work by creating worlds bordering the real and the imagined, inspired from everyday life while his paintings function psychotherapeutically as a reflection on the personal experiences of the artist.
Opposite – “All the world’s a stage”, 2015
Exhibition runs through till March 19th, 2016
Eleni Koroneou Gallery
Dimofontos 30 & Thorikion 7
Thission
11851 Athens
Greece
Lush are to reunite for their first shows in 20 years. They’ve also announced their first new recordings since the release of 1996’s “500 (Shake Baby Shake)” single. The Blind Spot EP, recorded last summer with Jim Abbiss and Ladytron’s Daniel Hunt, is out April 22nd on the band’s own Edamame label.
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