When Zenotek CEO Carol Vanstone (Jennifer Aniston) tries to close the branch of her hard-partying brother Clay (T. J. Miller), he and his Chief Technical Officer must rally their co-workers and host an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save their jobs.
In theatres December 7th, 2016
TweetOne of the most important German artists of his generation, Rehberger regularly straddles the lines between the realms of painting, sculpture, design, architecture and conceptual art. His sculptures, environments and installations principally revolve around the concept of transformation and are always exploring the boundaries between the functional and the aesthetic. In this exhibition the artist surprises with the choice of works: on display inside the gallery are more than 30 differently sized framed works on paper. The drawings date from diverse periods and therewith function as a mini
retrospective on paper. The exhibited works include both watercolours, prints, pencil and crayon drawings. Some works are studies for bigger projects and environmental installations for which the artist is best known and for which in 2009 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the 53rd International Venice Biennial. Others are completed pieces and autonomous works. Even if his work on paper is initially difficult to align with his sculptural work, it fits seamlessly into an oeuvre in which there are no hierarchies.
Opposite – Tous pour les femmes, 2016
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2017
Giò Marconi
via Tadino 20
I-20124 Milan
Italy
Yassin’s work is centred on producing moments of interaction and reflection through consumer culture and mass media. For this show, the artist reconstitutes his personal stories to highlight the development of pop culture in the Arab world and its effect on the collective memory and unconscious.
The way memory is constructed is as complex as the way an album of images constitutes the portrait of a family. In the series Dancing, Smoking, Kissing (2013), Yassin recreates scenes from lost family photographs based on personal recollection, his family’s memory and through his own imagination. Most of the artist’s family photographs were lost over time due to frequent moving and displacement, among other ways. These computer-generated illustrations are embroidered on factory-produced silk fabrics – depiction of personal moment rendered on mass-produced, decorative surfaces – to render intimate scenes of sensibility and domesticity.
Opposite – Mom with Balloons, 2015
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2016
Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde
Street 8
Al Serkal Av. # 17
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Cowboy Tapestry Pietà or the meeting of four virgins and a cowboy played by American actor Fred Gwynne. The portrait comes from a screen shot from the film Pet Sematary, adapted from the -Stephen King novel, and shows its pixelated figure on the wall. Here we have a symbol par excellence of America, especially in its evocation of the Pop culture that has been flowering since the late 1960s. But don’t get it wrong, Thomas Bayrle can’t be pigeonholed: he’s no more Pop than Op! In Bayrle’s new exhibition at Air de Paris our cowboy will be rubbing shoulders with a fictional wooden shopping mall and a series of paintings on card from 2012 whose source images date from the artist’s first visit to Japan in 1978. He spent six weeks in Tokyo back then, walking night and day as he photographed the city.
Another fundamental aspect of the Bayrle oeuvre is the move from one medium to another, from the distortion of a once-artisanal motif to the digitally inflected. We find this happening in his installation Capsel, 68 photographs from 1984–1985 documenting the making of a monumental collage showing a man and a woman in bed. Scrutinising this new work, we find that the distortion of the image was effected by printing it onto manually stretched latex – an easier way of simulating ongoing movement. In its current version Capsel gives an eloquent account of brilliant manipulation and transformation of iconic forms.
Opposite – Pieta Blue Telefon, 2015
Exhibition runs through to January 7th, 2017
Air de Paris
32, rue Louise Weiss
75013 Paris
France
Over the last two years I have been exploring the idea of isolation through observing the lives of those who toil in the far-flung regions of the Earth to make ends meet. Deeply inspired by the lifestyles of the rural working class and informed by the empathetic eye of the Farm Security Administration photographers, namely Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, I set out to create a visual reaction to the hardships and wagers of wheat harvest on the high plains of Northeast Colorado. The work is less of a document and more of a lyrical journey into the deep sense of faith, family, and connectedness to the land that these farmers hold closely.In a time of instant gratification with social media and overnight shipping, I am left spellbound by the foresight, prudence and patience of these remarkable men and women. Society is generally removed from the processes in which bread and hundreds of other products reach our baskets. As a result, farmers – the epitome of the trustworthy, hardworking American – has been increasingly marginalized. We must protect, nurture and celebrate the salt of the earth.s
– Elliot Ross
Exhibition runs through to January 7th, 2017
The Center for Fine Art Photography
400 North College Avenue
Fort Collins
CO 80524
Colorado
American Classics, an exhibition of key works by photographers who emerged in postwar America. On a continuum between artistic vision and documentary investigation, these artists photographed North American people, culture and landscape. Works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Irving Penn, Henry Wessel and Garry Winogrand.
Opposite – Garry Winogrand, 1970
Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2017
PACE London
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET
