Stüssy and FORTY PERCENT AGAINST RIGHTS drop a 7-piece capsule collection alongside their collaborative parka for Fall/Winter 2017. The co-branded range includes a hoodie, two short-sleeved T-shirts, a long-sleeved T-shirt and two caps
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Born a couple years back with a diptych release for Berlin-based label Killekill, the collaboration between New York’s very own DJ Spider and seasoned German producer Franklin De Costa proves to be durably fruitful, as confirmed by the pair’s newest instalment on badboys’ haven Berceuse Heroique, ‘F Planet‘, featuring a revamp from droney-techno maestro Shifted on the flip.
TweetAgainst the backdrop of the Modernist Villa Malaparte in Capri, Saint Laurent shot three short films to introduce the Spring 2018 collection. The black and white videos show Kate Moss in an atmosphere reminiscent of the French Nouvelle Vague,
the nefarious charm of Jean-Luc Godard’s movies and the iconic atmosphere of the photogenic Sixties.
In 2002, Pillsbury began photographing friends in parks, rooftops, and fire escapes. “Television,” he has said, was “my favored way of taking a break from reality, and that is what led to my series Screen Lives and the technique of long exposures.” For more than a decade, Pillsbury has been adapting this technique to a wide variety of environments and social situations as he explores the relationship between monuments and gestures, permanence and ephemera, and the photographic habit of slicing into time without actually impeding its forward momentum.
With Sanctuary, Pillsbury returns to the idea of respite, but this time in a more urgent context. “Many of our cities,” Pillsbury writes, act as a “line of defense against an administration whose policies directly threaten rights” he had taken for granted. What had before seemed merely social or recreational has suddenly taken a political context, as some of our most quotidian yet essential activities of assembly and expression, or simply just being here, have suddenly been revealed as contingent rather than inalienable. That many people turn to these activities and these spaces as a respite from the political is only another lay of irony, and underscores their precariousness.
Opposite – Coney Island, July 4th, 2017
Exhibition runs through to November 22nd, 2017
Benrubi Gallery
41 East 57th Street 13th Floor
New York
10022 NY
For his exhibition Barbarian In The Garden, Yanai presents a series of paintings and drawings that capture his alienation to memory and places, flattened and made shallow through solid blocks of color that create the appearance of cut-outs or collage. He creates a mise en scène by the activations of separate vignettes from distant memories such as a painting of George Washington on a horse—drawn from a recollection of when he made a similar drawing for his brother around the age of 7—juxtaposed with paintings of plant life, unoccupied interiors such as a view from his apartment in Tel-Aviv or a hotel in Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer.
Influenced by impressionist masters such as Matisse and Cézanne, as well as contemporary figures like Tal R and David Hockney, Yanai’s personal style mixes the aesthetics of his transcontinental childhood spent between Haifa, Israel and the suburbs of Boston, where he first drew inspiration from scenes of everyday life. In his paintings, the banal is reduced to geometric segments where he then abandons references to the tangible world in favor of a visual experience that is more akin to digital imagery – such as a painting of Palermo as seen through Google Street View.
Opposite – Grey Sofa (Barbarian In The Garden), 2017
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2017
Praz-Delavallade
6150 Wilshire Blvd
CA 90048 Los Angeles
USA
Over the last two decades, Torbjørn Rødland has created a body of images in which precision and critical rigor are finely laced with an improvisational and tactile intensity. Evading the reach of language, his subtly double-edged allegories make visible a broad spectrum of sensory experience, as well as physical and emotional exchange, coalescing at his work’s center the unpredictable physicality of our world.
Each reveling in visual detail, eliciting an almost iconoclastic charge, the works in this exhibition continue to expose layers of pleasure, discomfort, and pain lurking beneath the surface of aesthetic experience. Created not according to—and not to be read according to—a single interpretive framework, Rødland’s images are rather dependent on a willingness to grapple with the diversity of life as a constantly evolving system, where physical phenomena, emotional reaction, and cultural exchange can shift and take precedence over one another at any given moment. Operating between these divergent modes—and between ever-negotiated social contexts—psychological meaning and moral weight rise and fall away from each scene and its meticulous surface.
Opposite – Crossed Confections, 2015
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2017
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
39 Great Jones Street
NY 10012 New York
