KATE BONNER – THE OTHER SIDE IS THIS SIDE

Posted on 2016-04-25

Kate Bonner’s exciting new photo-based works are anchored in digital processes in dialog with drawing, painting, sculpture and collage. Part photo, part object, the work is generated through a process of making and breaking apart. She folds or cuts found photographs into pieces and then scans them, producing a new image to manipulate with photo–editing software and analog tools.

With a CNC router, Bonner cuts narrow wavy lines and wide vector strokes from the surface of her work. These lines and vectors mimic the hand-produced gestures of finger painting, sketching or erasing. Bonner also uses found and original paintings to add texture to her images. Folded and cut apart, and then scanned, the rolled and crimped paintings create an illusion of depth. These painterly gestures and references to hand work are edited and reproduced through digital means. The digital gesture and the material gesture conspire and vie for attention.

Exhibition runs through till May 28th, 2016

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2635 S. La Cienega Blvd.
90034
Los Angeles, CA
California

www.luisdejesus.com

  

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

Posted on 2016-04-25

After another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps, one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark’s surprising decision to support government oversight and accountability.

In theatres April 29th, 2016

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MOLESKINE X GAME OF THRONES

Posted on 2016-04-25

Moleskine recreates game of thrones opening sequence with 7,600 paper cutouts to celebrate the release of its ‘game of thrones‘ limited-edition collection notebooks. Milan-based video and animation studio dadomani has carefully crafted a model of the fortress at king’s landing with 7,600 individual paper cutouts. turning cogs and gears give rise to a sprawling city of 3-dimensional buildings that mimics the architectural style and open landscape that the fictional world is best known for.

Four themed notebooks with previously unreleased silkscreen prints feature symbolic references to the three dominant families –Stark, Lannister and Targaryen – as well as a collector’s edition box set depicting the Iron Throne. The original cover artwork is created for Moleskine by emerging graphic designer Levente Szabò.

www.moleskine.com

  

LAURA POITRAS – ASTRO NOISE

Posted on 2016-04-25

The title, Astro Noise, refers to the faint background disturbance of thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang and is the name Edward Snowden gave to an encrypted file containing evidence of mass surveillance by the National Security Agency that he shared with Poitras in 2013.

For the exhibition, Poitras is creating an interrelated series of installations in the Whitney’s eighth-floor Hurst Family Galleries. The exhibition expands on her project to document post–9/11 America, engaging visitors in formats outside her non-fiction filmmaking. Instead she will create immersive environments that incorporate documentary footage, architectural interventions, primary documents, and narrative structures to invite visitors to interact with the material in strikingly intimate and direct ways.

Exhibition runs through till May 1st, 2016

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street
New York
NY 10014

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MICHAEL NAJJAR – OUTER SPACE

Posted on 2016-04-25

Outer space explores the latest development in space travel and how it is shaping future life on earth and in near-earth orbit. Informed by Najjar’s training to become the first civilian artist to fly to space, the series of large-scale photographs capture an intense and immersive futuristic world, inspired by cutting-edge aeronautic technologies and the nascent space tourism industry. The potential of the photographic image is pushed to new frontiers as realistic elements fuse with fictitious realities to make visible what is invisible or beyond human perception.

Central to outer space is Najjar’s personal experience with space flight and the performative aspect of the exhibited images. As one of the pioneer astronauts of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, Najjar has been undergoing an intensive, multistage cosmonaut training in Star City, Russia, since 2012, and is scheduled to board SpaceShipTwo in the near future. The artist uses the actual experience of training (zero-g flight, centrifuge training, stratosphere flight, and underwater space walks, to name a few) to create complex and never-before carried out photos that examine vital connections between humans and technology. Reality and simulation are so intertwined that they become indistinguishable, allowing for novel ways of seeing. Video artworks based on Najjar’s extreme training will be shown as part of the exhibition.

Opposite – Europa, 2016

Exhibition runs through till May 14th, 2016

Bonni Benrubi Gallery
521 West 26th Street
second floor
New York
10001

www.benrubigallery.com

  

HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT

Posted on 2016-04-25

When Ilya is asked to show her lover that she truly loves him, she obeys. However, the request is a strange one: to slit her wrists. With only mild hesitation, she does so. Her lover yearns to find out why she did hesitate at all, but he never would’ve guessed that she had a second lover. This second lover never shows his face, never sends her flowers, never asks her out. The second lover’s name? Heroin

In theatres April 29th, 2016

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