Raving and cycling fuse in the second adidas Originals by Alexander Wang collection, inspiring the story of a tribe of New York bike messengers fueled by adrenaline and excess, symbolizing a youthful spirit of freedom.
Available worldwide August 5th, 2017.
Tweet“After James Lavelle celebrated the release of UNKLE‘s 1998 album Psyence Fiction by releasing a limited number of resin UNKLE77 action figures, the figures became a collector’s item. This reputation was enhanced by the fragility of the figures, which meant that the majority haven’t made it to the present day. To celebrate UNKLE’s 25th anniversary, Lavelle has returned to the figures and collaborated with San Francisco based art toy manufacturer Super7 to recreate the figures.”
The UNKLE77 figure will come in a life-size UNKLE77 head box that will also contain one of three 7″ records and a clear record adapter that doubles as a display stand. There will be three different box sets: A pink one that contains a single of “The Road” and a pink camo figure, a blue set that features the single “Nowhere to Run” and a blue camo figure, and a green set that comes with a copy of the single “Looking for the Rain” and a green camo action figure. The different boxes will be limited to 500 versions of each. There will also be exclusive Super7 x UNKLE apparel available.
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Longtime collaboration partners ASICSTIGER and Patta have teamed up again to deliver a new take on the 1987 ASICSTIGER classic, the GEL-LYTE.
The original GEL-LYTE runner model set the mark for GEL-LYTE series 30 years ago, featuring many innovations at the time benefitting athletes, including lightweight synthetic fabrics, reflective materials and GEL technology. The GEL-LYTE also functioned as a visual blueprint for the series, with unique ways of colour blocking.
Patta’s take on the sleek ASICSTIGER classic employs a mid grey base paired with dark purple nubuck overlays, accented with ginger honey striping and subtle pink hits on the details, including the striping underlay, lace stays and Patta-branded lace locks. The shoes feature a perforated toebox, soft leather lining, with subtle co- branding to be found on the woven tongue label, embroidered on the heel tab, printed on the insole, and on the aglets. Every pair comes with a custom ASICSTIGER x Patta hangtag and additional sets of pink and ginger honey laces.
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Johnson is one of the more eccentric figures in contemporary art. Born in Detroit in 1929, he attended the legendary Black Mountain College, where he met and befriended many of the leading avant-garde figures of the day. He moved to New York in 1949 and began exhibiting abstract paintings. Within a few years, however, he had rejected painting in favor of collage. That medium’s combinatory principles became central to his art, which grew to encompass performance, conceptual art, and sculpture. By the late 1950s his practice of mailing collages to friends and acquaintances had become a primary artistic focus, directly giving rise to the Mail Art movement.
Johnson’s collage works, which often incorporate celebrity images cut from magazines, are considered among the earliest examples of Pop art. He exhibited them at galleries and museums in the 1960s and 1970s, but starting in the late 1970s, with only a few exceptions, he stopped showing his work publicly. He never stopped working, however, and by 1995, when he committed suicide by jumping off a bridge, he had created an extraordinarily rich and varied body of work.
Opposite – Untitled (Dali/Dear David Smith/Barbra Streisand), 1974-94
Exhibition runs through to August 18th, 2017
Matthew Marks
523 West 24 Street
New York 10011
Softly layered, richly textured, and precisely stitched, the artist’s textile works transform ordinary materials and inspire intimate observation. Anne Wilson’s practice investigates the textile industry’s social underpinnings and the politics of re-use by laying bare fabrics’ previous lives. The new works in “a hand well trained” continue her conceptual deconstruction of textile and material studies, investigation of social and labor concerns, and intersections between text and textile.
In her framed horizontal “material drawings” Anne Wilson scrupulously stitches along the layered edges of found linen and cotton; or in works titled “Draw Out,” she extends a coarse, colored fiber line until it nearly disappears into the cloth like a musical decrescendo. Meanwhile “Body Into Culture,” a large wall installation of tall, slit fabrics with hair and colored stitching, provides a more visceral relationship to the viewer’s body. In two sculptural works, Anne Wilson has laid out strips of cloth with reverse stitching resembling asemic writing; upon close observation, one can detect the individual hands of the artist and her studio assistants within the stitched edges. The manifold works in Anne Wilson’s “a hand well trained” overlay text, textile, and texture to entice viewers with close observation of the visual and social possibilities in the material world around us.
Opposite – Inventory Drawing G., 2017
Exhibition runs through to August 11th, 2017
Rhona Hoffman Gallery
118 North Peoria Street
Illinois
60607 Chicago
Hype Williams debut on Big Dada with Rainbow Edition, billed as the follow up to 2011’s One Nation and the first new recordings from the Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland featuring project since 2012.
Released 25th August 2017
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