For the Patta Fall/Winter 2017 Collection the #SSS team consisting of Violette Esmeralda and Ace Dia have decided to hail back an old friend of the series; Mila van der Linden. Combining her mental videos, the unique musical taste of Vic Crezée and the unapologetic energy of Amsterdam’s own vogue House “House of Vineyard”, they’ve come up with fifty minutes of absolute feast.
TweetWith this show, Baechler continues his explorations of heavily outlined, iconic imagery set against richly textured, layered fields. In many of the new paintings, the field is composed of fabric collage, overlaid with striations and blots of pastel-colored acrylic paint. The forms are thick and solidly rendered; floating untethered within its borders. There is an awkwardness and alienation that infuses his figures, which include sickly looking, moon-headed men; a handcuffed prisoner guided by a police officer’s hand; and a pair of armless, Brancusi-inspired lovers locked in a kiss.
Critically, Baechler has been linked to the Neo-Expressionist generation of painters, but he has also been deeply influenced by the Conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth, and he has listed Cy Twombly, Giotto, and Robert Rauschenberg as the three artists most important to his thinking. Expressive brushwork combined with abstract, formal rigor has defined Baechler’s work from early on, and these paintings, which are deeply embedded in the history of modernist and postwar art, foreground their visual links to artists as different as James Ensor and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Opposite – SEVERED SHADOW, 2017
Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2017
Cheim & Read
547 West 25th Street
10001 New York
Clive Head is widely considered one of the leading realist painters of his generation. In the upcoming exhibition, Clive Head: Zoetic-Realism, Hollis Taggart Galleries will present a selection of works, on canvas and paper, to launch the artist’s association with the gallery. This is the first solo exhibition to bring a substantial body of Head’s recent work together – twenty-four paintings, drawings and etchings will be displayed in the exhibition.
Born in England, in Maidstone, Kent, Head has garnered much acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic over the many decades of his career. This exhibition, aptly titled, bears witness to the way Head capture life around him. His highly complex compositions of human activities are zoetic and energized. And, unlike past Photorealists, Head does not reveal a single moment frozen in time. Instead, with deft ability, he captures multiple perspectives with multiple concurrent timelines, moving through time and space. These fragmented urban depictions, most often with figures are in essence time-lapsed compilations. The compositions are highly engaging and immediately fascinate the observer. Time seems to come to a kaleidoscopic halt on his canvases and his subjects are masterfully rendered.
Opposite – Siddal’s Ferry, 2015
Exhibition runs from November 16th – December 22nd, 2017
Hollis Taggart Galleries
521 W 26th Street
7th Floor
NY 10001
New York
Trivin Fields is Dario’s first solo record in two years.
TweetSwedish artist UBX127 is back on the Figure label. Spanning an arc cross four diverse tracks, the story told is abstract yet full of imagination.
Gently pulsating crystalline opener Void carefully sets a vast open scene, covered in gushes of interplanetary winds. First contact is made on A2, it‘s electro-esque drive and spiky synths hinting at its alien origins. A taste of their mighty technology is given on Watch Out Below, booming with a propulsive punch and constantly swelling in intensity. Relief comes in form of Singularity, a beautiful, long-winding closer, on which soothing arps effortlessly outweigh their beauty counterparts.
TweetNew single, “Need Your Body”, debut album to follow in 2018.
Stimulator Jones is the latest signing to Stones Throw. His music never draws on just one place or time, instead dipping into a range of styles and periods from the 1970s and ’80s to the present day. “American music is the result of a variety of humans from diverse cultural backgrounds combining and sharing their expressions and being free of restrictions,” he says, “Any categorical borders or boundaries are illusions. I was raised in a household where soul, rock, folk, country, jazz, blues, funk, reggae, rap, opera and classical music were all played side by side. To me, the appreciation of such a wide mix of sounds is perfectly natural.”
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