JAN FABRE – MASKERS

Posted on 2017-10-02

This project brings together some of Fabre’s sculptural work that explores the theme of self-portraits, both as a form of enquiry into human nature and as an attempt to represent and liberate the various personalities that make up a person’s identity.
When looking at ourselves in the mirror, do we really see ourselves? We may think we are able to seize our own image, but it’s not something we are truly able to do. The human body is in a constant state of transformation. The many faces we possess change inexorably over the course of time. Jan Fabre explores the elusiveness of “self” in his Chapters I-XVIII (2010) series of gilded bronze and wax statues – busts in which the artist portrays himself with the addition of animal attributes. The metamorphosis of man into animal and of animal into man is a key feature in all Fabre’s work. Here, in amongst the horns and ears from a multitude of species, the artist assembles a kind of anthropomorphic bestiary in which the perfection of anatomical details and a number of coloured elements conceal meanings that straddle the autobiographical and the symbolic.

Opposite – Chapter IV, 2010

Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2017

MAGAZZINO
via dei Prefetti, 17
00186 Rome
Italy

www.magazzinoartemoderna.com

  

RYAN SHECKLER X OAKLEY

Posted on 2017-10-02

Oakley‘s latest sportswear collection for fall, inspired by its signature Frogskins eyewear. Consisting of four colors, the lineup includes a variety of apparel that is supported by professional skateboarder, Ryan Sheckler.

www.oakley.com

  

GABRIEL OROZCO

Posted on 2017-10-02

For the last year or so Gabriel Orozco has mainly divided his time between Bali, Tokyo and Mexico but he has also pursued projects elsewhere. He makes his work out of where he lives, using local materials and often drawing on traditional artisanal practices but of course art can – and often has – been made in one place but out of another, that is, in imaginary as well as actual dialogues with its own origins. In one sense Orozco continues to animate precisely this entanglement of circumstance and movement. His methods are much more informal – inclining always to the partial and incomplete – than that of an atlas that aims systematically to document a whole world of images. It’s maybe more like a travel notebook of a life (his own), but one that records the circumstantial conditions of life along with the everyday living of it as he moves between different locations. The relationship of his work to place remains porous, exposing a distinctive formal procedure to multiple global image-circuits and economies, pictorial and otherwise.

Opposite – First lady with a black dot, 2017

Exhibition runs through to October 7th, 2017

Galerie Chantal Crousel
10, rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France

www.crousel.com

  

CHRISTIAN MARCLAY – PHONES

Posted on 2017-10-02

On view are two sculptures and a video created by the artist in the 1990s, as well as a selection of photographs and works on paper, exploring the recurrence of telephonic technologies as visual and acoustic material in Marclay’s work. The exhibition will be on view through October 7th. There will be an opening reception on September 7th from 6 to 8pm.

For more than three decades, Christian Marclay has explored the connections between the visual and the audible, creating works in which these two distinct sensorial experiences enrich and challenge each other. Working across a diverse range of media including sculpture, video, photography, collage, and performance, Marclay deconstructs the ubiquity of sound to extrapolate its perceptual limits and examine the increasing prevalence of sonic mediation through technology such as digital recording, mass reproduction, and telecommunication. His installations often employ appropriated objects that merge or reconfigure auditory and visual elements to challenge our ontological understanding of them.

Exhibition runs through to October 7th, 2018

Paula Cooper Gallery
521 West 21st Street
10011-2812 New York

www.paulacoopergallery.com

  

JENNY SAMPSON – SKATERS

Posted on 2017-10-02

Berkeley photographer Jenny Sampson’s portraits, produced via wet plate collodion (tintype, black and white photography) and developed in her portable darkroom, offer a glimpse of the inner lives of skaters she encountered in California, Oregon and Washington skateparks. Some of these images are collected in her book, Skaters: Tintype Portraits of West Coast Skateboarders (Daylight Books), which also includes an essay by Joel Rice

Opposite – Vanessa, Emeryville, 2017

Talk and book signing, Friday, October 27, 2017 – 7:00pm
@
The Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle
WA 98122

www.elliottbaybook.com
www.jennysampson.com

  

BRAINWALTZERA – 9 KURRYTEE [MIDI_2_CV]

Posted on 2017-10-02

Brainwaltzera turns in a stunning debut album of melancholic electronica and head-squashing acid for Film, quite surely the closest grasp to the authentic, original braindance feeling. If you have ever moved to the funky acid stuff of Luke Vibert, taken an extended holiday within the Boards of Canada, or found yourself lost in the throes of a heavy session taking Drukqs than this is THEEE record for you.

Having caused the masses of those plugged into the Film Recs axis to almost break their fingers by hitting the keys on the underground electronica forums so hard with excitement when Film seemingly, out of nowhere dropped the Aescoba EP. Brainwaltzera’s debut makes good on its promises by arriving with all the nostalgic forward motion punch of a Boards Of Canada industrial metal album. Yet make no mistake, the mission here isn’t to look back and pick over the past with a glazed expression and lust for a time long gone. Brainwaltzera is too busy for that, his mission is set on reshaping the present with freshly formed, yet time-proven tools. Lifting elements of what caused those before him to fully realise the vision of an alternative history of electronic music, Poly-ana continues this tradition with a striking complexity and sparkling new take on a classic theme.

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