YOUNG FATHERS – IN MY VIEW
2018-02-12Taken from ‘Cocoa Sugar’ released 9th March 2018 via Ninja Tune.
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2018-02-12Belladonna of Sadness aka Kanashimi no Belladonna is arguably one of the most shocking, beautiful and divisive full length animated features ever to be produced.
The 1973 feature film produced by the Japanese animation studio Mushi Productions follows the story of Jeanne, a peasant woman who endures terrible abuse after being accused of witchcraft and her subsequent act of retribution upon her protagonists.
285mm tall
Edition of 50
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RED SPARROW
2018-02-12ominika Egorova is many things. A devoted daughter determined to protect her mother at all costs. A prima ballerina whose ferocity has pushed her body and mind to the absolute limit. A master of seductive and manipulative combat.
When she suffers a career-ending injury, Dominika and her mother are facing a bleak and uncertain future. That is why she finds herself manipulated into becoming the newest recruit for Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people like her to use their bodies and minds as weapons. After enduring the perverse and sadistic training process, she emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow the program has ever produced. Dominika must now reconcile the person she was with the power she now commands, with her own life and everyone she cares about at risk, including an American CIA agent who tries to convince her he is the only person she can trust.
In theatres March 2nd, 2018
TweetFELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES – UNTITLED, 1995
2018-02-12The eighth iteration of Sonora 128 presents the billboard work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled”, 1995. From January through February 2018, a black and white image of a bird soaring through space will simultaneously appear on six billboards located throughout the metropolitan area of Mexico City. Dispersing itself throughout the urban environment in a final parting gesture, the once fixed billboard takes flight in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work, dissolving into the city, in celebration of both presence and absence.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s billboards are mutable works. Following the idea of movement, flux and change, they manifest themselves in multiples across the public landscape, always in at least six locations. The expansive, open nature of this work allows a broad cross section of the population to encounter billboards in different social and economic contexts, allowing its spectators to question notions of urban landscape, as well as how and who can occupy public space.
Throughout his career, Gonzalez-Torres’s involvement in social and political causes fueled his interest in the overlap of private and public life. His aesthetic project was, according to some scholars, related to Bertolt Brecht’s theory of epic theater, in which creative expression transforms the spectator from an inert receiver to an active, reflective observer and motivates social action.
Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2018
kurimanzutto
av. sonora 128, col. condesa
d.f. 11850 Mexico City
Mexico
MARI SLAATTELID – UNLIKE A SYMBOL
2018-02-12The show, entitled “Unlike a Symbol”, gathers a group of new paintings that may vary in terms of formal point of departure but repeatedly return to an interest in the basic structures of language and how language categories limit and determine cognitive categories.
The brass disc in the floor marks the spot. From there one can see the dome rising – tall, ribbed and coffered – converging with the crown and the windows facing the skies above Rome. Looking up, it appears as a crack to the bottom of a cup turned upside down with sunlight seeping in. But unlike its more renowned neighbour Pantheon, the sun has never moved along the interior of the dome in Chiesa di Sant’Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio. Ever since 1685 it has stayed the same and kept on shining with the same luminosity. It would be a miracle of nature if it was not a construction of culture. A dramatic conceit, so to speak.
Opposite – Figured 3, 2017
Exhibition runs through to March 31st, 2018
STANDARD (OSLO)
Waldemar Thranes Gt 86 C
N-0175 Oslo
Norway
ALEXANDER KROLL – MY LIPS ARE BLUE FOR YOU
2018-02-12A New York native, Alexander Kroll fully embraced abstraction and improvisation in painting only after moving to Los Angeles. Though having relocated, he remains a true New Yorker in his heart and soul and personifies, as such, the integration of an East coast spirit into the effervescent Los Angeles art scene.
Opposite – Strings and hollow stones, 2017
Exhibition runs through to February 24th, 2018
Praz-Delavallade
6150 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
CA 90048
USA
