LUKE WILLIS THOMPSON – AUTOPORTRAIT

Posted on 2017-08-14

For his exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, Thompson presents a portrait of Diamond Reynolds. In July 2016, Reynolds broadcast, via Facebook Live, the moments immediately after the fatal shooting of her partner Philando Castile by a police officer during a traffic-stop in Minnesota, United States. Reynolds’ video circulated widely online and amassed over six million views.

In November 2016, with the assistance of Chisenhale Gallery, Thompson established a conversation with Reynolds, and her lawyer, and invited Reynolds to work with him on the production of an artwork. Thompson proposed to make an aesthetic response that could act as a ‘sister-image’ to Reynolds’ video broadcast. Thompson and Reynolds agreed to produce a film together, to be presented in London, and which would break with the well-known image of Reynolds, caught in a moment of violence and distributed within a constant flow of news.

The final work was produced in April 2017. It is a silent portrait of Reynolds shot on 35mm, black and white film and presented in the gallery as a single screen work.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to August 27th, 2017

Chisenhale Gallery
64 Chisenhale Road
London
E3 5QZ

chisenhale.org.uk

  

NAPAPIJRI 30TH ANNIVERSARY

Posted on 2017-08-14

Napapijri celebrates its 30th anniversary with a collection that captures the essence of all four seasons.

The collection is Napapijri’s mainstay, the Rainforest Jacket. Typically available in individual block colors, this special edition multi-colored Rainforest Jacket features a colorful print that represents each season. Other recognizable features such as the spacious front pocket, ventilated underarms, water repellency and adjustable hood remain. The collection also includes a t-shirt and backpack featuring similar digital artwork; each color quadrant on the design represents a different season.

As part of the project, Napapijri have worked with four international musicians on independent tracks inspired by Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.

www.napapijri.com

  

EMMA ELIZABETH TILLMAN – DISCO BALL SOUL

Posted on 2017-08-14

Disco Ball Soul is the culmination of 10 years worth of memories. Consisting of personal photographs, diaries, and collages that combine the two; each piece is the obsessive record of a time and place in the artists life.

The collection started in 2007 in a hand built cottage in rural France. With no running water, no electricity and only a fireplace for heat, Tillman meticulously recorded her rocky experience of stealing potatoes and beet greens from the local fields, scavenging for firewood on the beach and trying desperately to maintain her relationship among the challenges of language, isolation, weather, and being flat broke. With each entry in her diary, Tillman was able to save the memory, to mark the passing of time and make sense of the unreliable thoughts that raced through her mind. By living each day twice, first through it’s experience and lastly by writing it down, Tillman was able to create a world that suited her more than the one outside her own mind. To shape its corners, to fill the pages of her diary with her life Tillman allows herself to experience the color of it again and again and again. She is an island unto herself and the people and places that exist with and around her are elevated to mythic status, imbued with mystery and considered in all their complexity. Her photography accomplishes this same intention. It was on this trip that a renewed interest in photography was sparked. After having learned to work in the dark room at age 14, Tillman had lost the passion for taking and printing photographs by the time she entered college. She focused instead on her writing. But when her boyfriend gave her his grandmother’s Pentax camera for her 21st birthday, her interest was revived. Among the early subjects of this revival was the magnificent desolation of the Arizona desert and Rick, the boyfriend who lived there in a crumbling adobe.

Opposite – At home in the Hollywood Hills, May 2016

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2017

Gallery 46
46 Ashfield St
London
E1 2AJ

gallery46.co.uk

  

KARL LAGERFELD X VANS

Posted on 2017-08-14

Karl Lagerfeld and Vans drop their collaborative collection of footwear and apparel.

The footwear component of the co-branded pack includes six new tweaks on classic Vans silhouettes, including laceless, platform versions of the Sk8 Hi and Old Skool, in addition to bouclé versions, as well as checkerboard Slip Ons

The apparel adheres to the Vans black-and-white aesthetic, used across a range of graphic T-shirts, hoodies and a bomber jacket. A backpack with a quilted leather pattern and a checkerboard cap.

www.vans.co.uk

  

JULIAN LETHBRIDGE – INSIDE OUT

Posted on 2017-08-14

Working in layers of oil paint and pigment stick and employing the vocabularies of abstraction and minimalism, Lethbridge creates an illusion of textured impasto surfaces. The often contrasting palettes contribute to a sense of three-dimensionality and depth, however, closer inspection reveals that the surfaces are, in fact, flat.

Lethbridge’s illusionistic play demonstrates his interest in the materials and techniques of painting, and is also echoed compositionally. Initially appearing chaotic or random. Linear patterns are also incised into the painted surface, interrupting and complementing the soft, swirling organic forms. Through such juxtapositions and formal explorations Lethbridge develops a dynamic visual language and an immersive, cerebral experience of painting.

Opposite – Boreas, 2017

Exhibition runs through to September 9th, 2017

Contemporary Fine Arts – CFA
Grolmanstrasse 32/33
Charlottenburg
10623 Berlin

cfa-berlin.de

  

KYUNGAH HAM

Posted on 2017-08-14

At first glance, Kyungah Ham’s embroidered canvases are beautifully seductive. From afar the works seem to be brightly coloured high-resolution prints. It’s only up close that one sees the tightly woven stitches, like millions of tiny pixels that make up the detailed embroidery. And after a deeper investigation, the stories behind the works begin to surface, washed up by the tides of history.
For her first comprehensive solo exhibition in Europe, Seoul-based artist Kyungah Ham presents three different series: What you see is the unseen / Chandeliers for Five Cities; Abstract Weave / Morris Louis; and the SMS Series. Ham’s Embroidery Project began in 2008 and has unfolded into several different series. Through a complicated, lengthy and dangerous process, Ham uses an intermediary to smuggle the blueprints of works she wants embroidered into North Korea through middle countries where they eventually, but not always, make their way into the hands of the artisans. The process is often fraught with obstacles: the work becomes an abstract embodiment of the tension and conflict between the two sides of the divided Korean peninsula, making a forbidden meeting temporarily possible.

Opposite – Abstract Weave / Morris Louis Alpha Upsilon 1960 NB001-01, 2014

Exhibition runs through to September 9th, 2017

Carlier – Gebauer
Markgrafenstraße 67
D-10969 Berlin
Germany

www.carliergebauer.com