NEW BALANCE X RICARDO SECO

Posted on 2017-12-04

New Balance is teaming up with Mexican fashion designer Ricardo Seco to release a collection of colorways inspired by Seco’s beloved Mexican heritage. The Ricardo Seco x New Balance 574 Collection features materials never before seen on a New Balance silhouette such as multicolored beading on the upper that displays obvious ties to the rich Mexican culture. Seco has featured New Balance in his runway looks for the past four years and was eager to get the chance to finally collaborate with the brand. He brought his eye for high fashion with the addition of premium nubuck and leather to the 574 silhouette.

The entire four colorway collection will be available from NewBalance.com and global retailers on December 9th

www.newbalance.co.uk
www.ricardoseco.com

  

DAVID NOONAN – A DARK AND QUIET PLACE

Posted on 2017-12-04

Noonan’s first film in over a decade is an experiential reflection on theatre, performance, time and the tension between figuration and abstraction. The film is a durational work comprising of still images that gradually dissolve and shift, creating new connections and juxtapositions. A Dark and Quiet Place montages imagery from Noonan’s extensive archive to create an immersive experience supported by a minimalist electronic soundtrack.

The archival imagery in the film is assembled from disparate sources from the 20th century to the present that are interleaved with oscillating sequences of sculptural neons and geometric visuals. A de-linear sense of time has been a central concern of Noonan’s practice to date. Mirroring methods within Science Fiction, Noonan recycles the past to create an alternate view in the present. In the film’s imagery, performers and set pieces have been removed through photo-editing to expose architectural elements and to create new readings of these theatrical spaces. This editing questions the veracity of archival imagery while reflecting the artificial nature and alternate realities present in stage and set design.

Opposite – Untitled, 2017

Exhibition runs through to January 20th, 2018

Stuart Shave/Modern Art
50-58 Vyner Street
E2 9DG
London

www.modernart.net

  

JOHN BALDESSARI

Posted on 2017-12-04

John Baldessari’s name is synonymous with the art scene in his native West coast. His career as a highly influential artist and venerated teacher has spanned over fifty years and includes a diverse oeuvre of painting, photography, sculpture and video. From his earliest text paintings in the late 1960s to his more recent ‘storyboard paintings’, Baldessari has always reveled in the playful dislocation between text and image, expanded here in this most recent body of work. Created earlier this year, the Emoji paintings focus on the increasingly complex ways in which we exchange and interpret information in everyday life. Emojis’ are a pictograph-specific keyboard that features glyphs in categories such as ‘smileys and people’, ‘animals and nature’, ‘food and drink’, ‘objects’, and ‘flags’. They are increasingly used as a form of electronic communication, but their equivocal nature means that issues of context and cultural specificity often complicate their interpretation by recipients – it is this theme that the artist explores in his paintings.

Opposite – THE DON’S OFFICE – NIGHT PAUL NAW, IT’S ALRIGHT…THANKS…, 2017

Exhibition runs through to December 9th, 2017

Sprüth Magers
5900 Wilshire Boulevard
CA 90036
Los Angeles

www.spruethmagers.com

  

RAGHUBIR SINGH – BOMBAY

Posted on 2017-12-04

Although he lived in Hong Kong, Paris, London and spent significant time in New York throughout his career, Raghubir Singh (1942-1999) dedicated his career to photographing his native India. Singh worked at the intersection of western modernism and traditional South Asian perspectives. He was influenced by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, whom he met in Jaipur in 1966, befriended William Gedney to whom he dedicated his second book on Calcutta (a small exhibition of Gedney’s work in India will accompany the exhibition), and traveled and photographed with Lee Friedlander. He pioneered color photography at a time when it was unpopular in the west, using it to great advantage to show the vibrant intensity of the country’s culture, traditions, and religion. Today Singh’s portrait of India during pivotal decades of social and political change is considered unique and unmatched.

Singh photographed the city of Bombay at a transitional point for the Indian economy. Bombay, the country’s economic capital stood as the metaphor for the broader changes that had begun across the country. Singh’s use of reflections are a revealing expression of this change.

Opposite – Showroom at Kemp’s Corner, Bombay, Maharashtra, 1990

Exhibition runs through to December 9th, 2017

Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York
10022 NY

www.howardgreenberg.com

  

ARKITIP X FACT X NEIL BLENDER

Posted on 2017-12-04

Arkitip and FACT. have announced the third edition of their six-part photography T-shirt series. The next installment pays homage to the original skateboard artist, Neil Blender. Entitled “In The Streets,” the three unique tees are embellished with renowned photographer J. Grant Brittain’s multi-layered graphics with his throwback portrait of Blender serving as the canvas on the front portion.

factbrand.com

  

STENNY – OLD BAD HABITS

Posted on 2017-12-04

New EP drop from Stenny.

A. Stenny – Fortress
B1. Stenny – 3KK-CB Sat
B2. Stenny – Corrupt 506

Out on Ilian Tape.

www.iliantape.de