2017 January : EXIT

ADIDAS ORIGINALS – EQT ‘ONLY THE ESSENTIALS’

Posted on 2017-01-16

Heralding the next chapter of EQT, adidas Originals presents ‘Only the Essentials’ a short-film documenting the background, evolution and enduring legacy of the brand’s iconic Equipment series.

Starting at the series’ roots in the early 1990s, the film explores the components and circumstances that led to the series’ conception; from an imperative need to find new direction, to an oversaturation of style over substance in the performance footwear industry, to the spirit of liberation reverberating across Germany in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin wall. The film then identifies the EQT series’ enduring legacy and position in contemporary culture, introducing a new approach to the fundamental philosophy, encapsulated by the series’ new ‘Turbo Red’ — the polar opposite to the original ‘EQT Green’ colourway.

Through a visual process of reflection, exploration and progression, the film celebrates the original mantra of EQT, and channels that philosophy into a bold, modern perspective that stays true to the very first objective: Everything that is essential. Nothing that is not.

www.adidas.com/eqt

JOE BRADLEY

Posted on 2017-01-16

At Peder Lund, Bradley will display a closed-form minimalist sculpture. The work calls to mind the artist’s ‘modular paintings’, exhibited at the Whitney Biennial in 2008 – layers of acrylic on cheap pre-stretched Fredrix canvases, mounted to the wall so that they resemble experiments in Minimalism. The single-panelled monochrome paintings were stacked together to depict people, animals, places and objects, and communicate an overall sense of theatre and movement, and almost possess a personality. The sculpture on view shares the modular paintings’ spatial presence. Although both series may seem to be operating in a light slap-dash mode, they in fact reflect a thoughtful attention to the history of art, and particularly the study of colour. They demonstrate the visual range achievable through presenting colours alone or juxtaposing them in infinite combinations. Like a monolith, the sculpture brings this painterly chromatic quality to ground level, facing the viewer directly while powerfully repressing the surrounding space.

Exhibition runs through to February 11th, 2017

Peder Lund
Tjuvholmen allé 27
N-0252 Oslo
Norway

pederlund.no

JEAN JULLIEN – FACE PLATES SET

Posted on 2017-01-16

Artist and illustrator Jean Jullien has designed a series of six porcelain plates for Case Studyo, the Belgium-based producer of art objects made by contemporary visual artists. Each ‘Face Plate’ in the series offers up a different facial expression and comes in a different size and colour.

Off-white : 32 cm
Coral : 30 cm
Blue : 31 cm
Pastel mint : 35 cm
Pink : 27 cm
Light yellow : 35 cm

Edition of 250 sets.

www.casestudyo.com

KARRIEM RIGGINS – HEADNOD SUITE

Posted on 2017-01-16

Second solo album – 29 tracks, instrumental hip-hop.

Karriem Riggins is best known as a jazz drummer and hip-hop producer for artists like Common, Kanye West, The Roots, and Kaytranada, but he doesn’t categorize himself as anything but an artist.

For Headnod Suite, his second album on Stones Throw Records, Riggins expertly builds on his credentials with 29 tracks of pure hip-hop—each track deftly crafted with swing that only a drummer would know. Swing is the weapon. And there’s always a message, be it verbal or instrumental.

www.stonesthrow.com

DAN ATTOE – NATURAL SELECTIONS

Posted on 2017-01-16

In the depiction of the vastness, power, and melancholy of nature’s landscapes, Natural Selections continues to explore Attoe’s signature themes. These new paintings capture the wild and chaotic topography of the Northwest coast of America; some of the imagery is culled from actual locations, others are a total fiction created instead from memory, impression, and a fusion of several environments the artist has traveled to over the years.

Loose brush strokes and prominent drips characterize these landscapes with more soft focused edges as Attoe experiments with the boundaries of freedom and self-control in representational painting. Attoe’s masterly techniques for constructing depth and space come to the fore as the artist commits himself to representing the complexity and subtlety of nature’s tones, in keeping with his ongoing dedication towards blue.

Diminutive human figures look off over infinite expanses of water, drift through the forest or float on the tides, their small and detailed bodies juxtaposed by monumental trees, mountains, or shores. Yet they remain disconnected from their sublime surroundings, instead consumed by interpersonal tensions and anxieties about themselves, speaking lines to everyone and no one at all. It rather seems that these fragile subjects are but ghosts passing through the natural world that engulfs them, their presence and thoughts a fleeting moment. Even in the absence of people, the words ‘Free Time’ and ‘Free Money’ float up from the forest with the fog, two of our troubled currencies set against the mist.

Opposite – Visitor Center with Pines, 2016

Exhibition runs through to February 24th, 2017

Peres Projects
Karl-Marx-Allee 82
10243 Berlin
Germany

peresprojects.com