L’ORANGE & MR. LIF – STRANGE TECHNOLOGY
2016-10-24From the album The Life & Death of Scenery.
Featuring Akrobatik & Gonjasufi.
ALEX WEBB – LA CALLE
2016-10-24La Calle brings together more than thirty years of photography from the streets of Mexico by Alex Webb, spanning from 1975 to 2007. Whether in black and white or color, Webb’s richly layered and complex compositions touch on multiple genres. As Geoff Dyer writes, “Wherever he goes, Webb always ends up in a Bermuda shaped triangle where the distinctions between photo journalism, documentary, and art blur and disappear.” Webb’s ability to distill gesture, light, and cultural tensions into single, beguiling frames results in evocative images that convey a sense of mystery, irony, and humor.
Following an initial trip in the mid-1970s, Webb returned frequently to Mexico, working intensely on the U.S.–Mexico border and into southern Mexico throughout the 1980s and ’90s, inspired by what poet Octavio Paz calls “Mexicanism—delight in decorations, carelessness and pomp, negligence, passion, and reserve.” La Calle presents a commemoration of the Mexican street as a sociopolitical bellwether—albeit one that has undergone significant transformation since Webb’s first trips to the country.
Opposite – Matamoros, Tamaulipas, 1978
Exhibition runs through to October 26TH, 2016
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street
New York
NY 10001
ODETTE ENGLAND – EXCAVATIONS
2016-10-24Home is the center-weight of Odette England’s artistic practice, with memory and forgetting being the counterbalances. Her photographs are fragile, contemplative and temporal spaces. Throughout her practice, she works with expired film, vintage cameras, damaged negatives and alternative photo processes; exploring volatility of identity, emphasizing the unstable nature of the past/present and the parent/child seesaw. These overall themes continue to be examined with Excavations, which utilizes historical photographs from the artist’s family archive. The 18 color photographs presented in the exhibition, are one-of-a-kind and unique, having undergone a meticulous and labor-intensive process of being partially erased and obscured.
This process of manual manipulation, is evidenced by the trace of the artist’s hand—gestures in the form of lines, sweeping
arches and circular movements, through to dense areas of almost total obliteration of the original image. Across the
artworks, this stripping away of visual information is carefully balanced with glimpses of substantive visual clues—a sitting
figure, a landscape vista, a tree or lamp-post.
Opposite – Excavation No. 6, 2015
Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2016
Klompching Gallery
111 Front St, Suite 206
Brooklyn
New York
NY 11201
TRAIN TO BUSAN
2016-10-24Sok-woo and his daughter Soo-ahn are boarding the KTX, a fast train that shall bring them from Seoul to Busan. But during their journey, the train is overrun by zombies which kill several of the train staff and other passengers.While the KTX is shooting towards Busan, the passengers have to fight for their lives against the zombies.
In theatres October 25th, 2016
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2016-10-24Werner Herzog’s latest documentary, Into the Inferno, heads just where its title suggests: into the red-hot magma-filled craters of some of the world’s most active and astonishing volcanoes—taking the filmmaker on one of the most extreme tours of his long career. From North Korea to Ethiopia to Iceland to the Vanuatu Archipelago, humans have created narratives to make sense of volcanoes; as stated by Herzog, “volcanoes could not care less what we are doing up here.” Into the Inferno teams Herzog with esteemed volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer to offer not only an in-depth exploration of volcanoes across the globe but also an examination of the belief systems that human beings have created around the fiery phenomena.
Released via Netflix October 28th, 2016
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