THE BUG – ICEMAN FT. RIKO DAN

Posted on 2016-07-11

Havin’ crossed paths many times over the years, in clubs and at festivals, and mutually admired each other’s destructive potential in the dance, D Double E, and The Bug had spoken for time, about a killer collab, and “Box” is truly that.

Written specifically for Double, by the Bugman, to amplify the mc’s warp factor flow, the producer propels his trademark weight with an off kilter swing. Result is an unusually catchy dancefloor banger, that heads resolutely back to the club, after the moody narrative detours of Angels & Devils.

Released 5th August 2016.

ninjatune.net

  

CARSTEN HOLLER – ZOOLOGY

Posted on 2016-07-04

Trained as a scientist, Höller both echoes and surpasses scientific procedures in his work as an artist. Many of his projects invite viewer participation in order to question the facts and forms of human life. From carousels that reflect and disorient, to winding slippery slides, to vision-flipping goggles, Höller actively interrogates the functions of logic, perception, and entertainment in the larger biosphere.
“Zoology” is a selection of Höller’s recent sculptures, photographs, and prints, made between 2008 and 2016, which consider how different forms of animal life might relate to human embodied awareness. Through taxidermy, casting, molding, and collage, Höller presents beings that cannot be easily categorized: they are animals, but they do not occur in nature; they are the products of anthropocentric will—of mutation, breeding, and grafting. And just as the scientist turns captive birds into hybrids, Höller turns snakes into soft, squeezable curves of neon-pink artificiality.

Opposite – Divisions (Roach and Surface), 2016

Exhibition runs through till August 12th, 2016

Gagosian Gallery
19 place de Longemalle
1204 Geneva
Switzerland

www.gagosian.com

  

BRIAN MAGUIRE

Posted on 2016-07-04

Since the very beginning of his career in the 1970s, Maguire has approached painting as an act of solidarity. He operates a truly engaged practice, compelled by the raw realities of humanity’s violence against itself, and the potential for justice. Maguire’s preoccupations draw him to the margins of the art world—alternative space, prisons, women’s shelters, and psychiatric institutions—making shows in traditional gallery and museum spaces something of a rarity.
The title of this new body of work, Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, is taken from Primo Levi’s If This Be a Man, in turn is quoting Dante’s Inferno. In these paintings, Maguire directly confronts issues of migration, displacement and human dignity in the face of the current global unrest. This kind of work is difficult to accomplish, since narrators of stories of this kind, if they care, have a fear of exploiting grief as they walk the high wire between narrative and voyeurism. With Maguire, however, manipulation is entirely absent from the telling and painting, per se, is to the fore.

Opposite – Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, 2016

Exhibition runs through till August 20th, 2016

Kerlin Gallery
Anne’s Lane
South Anne Street
Dublin 2 Dublin
Ireland

www.kerlingallery.com

  

PULP

Posted on 2016-07-04

In popular culture, the word “pulp” is almost always followed by “fiction.” Director Quentin Tarantino’s landmark 1994 film by that name capitalized on the lurid plots that defined a genre of cheap publications popular in the first half of the 20th century. Pulp fiction, or pulp magazines, were printed on rough wood pulp paper and sold for a few cents per copy as entertainment for the masses.

Today, cheap paper ephemera continues to be produced and distributed on a large scale—daily newspapers, glossy monthly magazines, weekly tabloids, advertising posters and billboards are just some examples of paper products meant to be seen, then discarded. Typically mundane, their content reflects aspects of the cultures they serve, and can offer a wealth of possibilities to artists who analyze those cultures with a critical eye.

PULP also includes photographs in which paper ephemera offer aesthetic rather than critical possibilities, becoming material for abstracted compositions by Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Louis Stettner, or playing a role in personal reflections and explorations in the photographs of Pavel Banka and Gloria DeFilipps Brush.

Opposite – Aaron Siskind, Chicago, 1957

Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2016

Akron Art Museum
1 South High
Akron
Ohio
OH44308

akronartmuseum.org

  

ALASDAIR MCLELLAN & LEV TANJU – THE PALACE

Posted on 2016-07-04

Photographer Alasdair McLellan presents a collection of archive and unseen images of Palace Skateboards’ renowned team and its extended family in the London skate gang, the Palace Wayward Boys Choir (PWBC). McLellan has been documenting the scene around Palace since its launch in 2009.

The exhibition offers a fascinating insight into the characters orbiting the beloved brutalist home of skateboarding on London’s Southbank. This is accompanied by a new video installation from Palace Skateboard’s founder, Lev Tanju. With an idiosyncratically British edge, Tanju’s anarchic videography and McLellan’s tender portraits come together to provide a dynamic picture of London and skateboarding. The show is a celebration of the deep camaraderie found amongst skaters at the Southbank. It is a testament to friendship, non-conformity and a doing-it-yourself attitude.

Opposite – Olly Todd, 2009

Exhibition runs through to July 24th, 2016

ICA
The Mall
London
SW1Y 5AH

www.ica.org.uk

  

WILLIE ANNE WRIGHT

Posted on 2016-07-04

Willie Anne Wright, a Richmond, Virginia native, holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. She also studied photography at the Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport, Maine and the Visual Studies Workshops in Rochester, New York. Her paintings, serigraphs and drawings were exhibited widely until 1972 when pinhole photography became her primary creative medium.

Opposite – Dorothy’s Pool #3, 1982

Exhibition runs through to August 13th, 2016

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
Georgia
GA30305

www.jacksonfineart.com