#SAATCHISELFIE COMPETITION

Posted on 2017-03-06

Saatchi Gallery and Huawei have joined forces to offer artists, photographers, and enthusiasts around the globe a chance to show their most creative selfies internationally, and have their work exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery as part of the #SaatchiSelfie competition.
This international competition offers a chance to be part of a worldwide cultural phenomenon and for entrants to express themselves, by exploring and advancing the creative potential of the selfie today.
Entries must take the form of a photographic selfie. They encourage entries that are experimental and innovative that take the selfie in exciting new directions.

Saatchi Gallery and Huawei are delighted to announce the judges for the #SaatchiSelfie competition are Tracey Emin, Idris Khan, Juergen Teller, Juno Calypso and Saatchi Gallery CEO Nigel Hurst.

The competition closes on Sunday 12th March.

Opposite – A selection of entries from the #SaatchiSelfie competition.

Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York’s HQ
King’s Road
London
SW3 4RY

www.saatchigallery.com

  

LARRY SULTAN – HERE AND HOME

Posted on 2017-03-06

This major retrospective examines the work and career of Larry Sultan (American, 1946–2009), an internationally renowned photographer with deep ties to the Bay Area as both an artist and an educator. Sultan’s often intensely personal images — many drawn from his own family’s history — blend documentary and staged elements in their explorations of storytelling, family, and domesticity.

Larry Sultan: Here and Home explores the artist’s 35-year career through more than 200 photographs, a billboard created with conceptual artist and frequent collaborator Mike Mandel, a film, and Study Hall — a room offering a unique glimpse into Sultan’s exploratory process. Works on view include Sultan’s early collaborative projects of the 1970s, made with Mandel, as well as his later work including Pictures from Home (1983–92), The Valley (1997–2003), and Homeland (2006–09).

Opposite – Boxers, Mission Hills, 1999

Exhibition runs from April 15th through to July 23rd, 2017

SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco
CA 94103

www.sfmoma.org

  

MICHEL MAJERUS – ALUMINUM PAINTINGS

Posted on 2017-03-06

The exhibition features seven works from 1996 and 2000, painted on aluminum panels approximately four by eight feet in size.

Majerus, who died in a plane crash in 2002 at age thirty-five, was one of the earliest painters to address how digital technology is changing the visible world, and was perhaps the first to prepare his imagery using Photoshop. Until 1996 he transferred this sampled and layered imagery onto canvas by hand. With these paintings, however, he began screen-printing it directly into the composition, a leap that would irrevocably change the course of his work.

Installed together, as the artist intended them, for the first time in over twenty years are five paintings with Nintendo’s Mario character printed in the lower-right register. At the time they were made, Mario had recently been the subject of the first movie based on a video game (Super Mario Bros.) and, according to one survey, was more recognizable to American children than Mickey Mouse. Majerus himself was a dedicated Nintendo player, which may explain some elements of his artistic approach — a playful take on action painting infused with kinetic energy and a vivid color palette.

Opposite – Untitled, 1996

Exhibition runs through to April 15th, 2017

Matthew Marks Gallery
523 West 24th Street
New York
NY 10011

www.matthewmarks.com

  

MICHAEL SAILSTORFER – HITZEFREI

Posted on 2017-03-06

Berlin-based artist Michael Sailstorfer presents two uniquely paired works — Brenner (2017), a new, large-scale sculptural installation, and the video Traenen (2015). Both works consider not only their relationship to one another, but above all their respective placement within the gallery, making full use of the distinctive spatial possibilities afforded by St. Agnes. In a characteristic manner, Sailstorfer’s works in Hitzefrei demonstrate his unique understanding of the vocabulary of sculpture, formalizing and transforming known materials or mechanical systems into objects that readily and thoughtfully transcend their original purpose. At once solemn and darkly humorous, these works are imbued with a captivating tension, hinting at notions of destruction, transformation, and change.

Exhibition runs through to March 12th, 2017

König Galerie
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

JAMIE BETTS – LEFT BEHIND

Posted on 2017-03-06

For the past ten years, Betts has documented abandoned places found across Virginia and beyond. Like stepping into a time capsule, these photographs tell the stories of their past inhabitants. Peeling wallpaper, crumbling brickwork and personal artifacts reveal traces of human presence and the inevitable effect of time. Derelict hospitals, farmhouses, barns, churches and other forgotten places appear to decay and crack before our eyes. Nature slowly begins to invade them as moss, stalactites and vegetation take hold.

Opposite – Reclamation. Abandoned Home Rural VA, 2015

Exhibition runs through to April 16th, 2017

Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
2200 Parks Avenue
Virginia Beach
Virginia
VA 23451

www.virginiamoca.org

  

ELLE

Posted on 2017-03-06

Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle’s life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game—a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.

In theatres March 10th, 2017

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