NANO BOBA – QUICCS X DEVIL TOYS
2018-05-283″ Tall
Made in Vinyl
Limited edition of 150
Exclusive to Strangecat Toys US
Preorder – Ships July 2018
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ANTHONY NAPLES – OTT / ZTL
2018-05-28Anthony Naples keeps things simple with another two-track 12” of functional but inventive club tools for all the DJ’s. OTT revolves around a wiggling synth line and punchy, propulsive drums that will keep the dancers on their toes. We can hear a slight Levon Vincent influence at play here but Naples pulls it off in his own style. ‘ZTL’ on the B sees him in frantic electro mode.
anthonynaples.bandcamp.com/album/ott-ztl
TweetR.H. QUAYTAMN – AN EVENING, CHAPTER 32
2018-05-28The core of this chapter was comprised of twenty-two paintings on two walls spanning 35,56 meters, intersecting at a 45-degree angle. At the apex, where the two walls nearly meet, hung two silkscreened photographic reproductions of 16th century paintings by Flemish artist Otto van Veen (1556-1629) titled “The Persian Women“ and “Amazons and Scythians “The Creation of the Sauromats”. Although An Evening, Chapter 32 was initially determined according to an architectural plan of the Beethoven frieze, the paintings were just as much meant to stand alone. Their unity in that installation was based on three factors: their identical dimension; their unusual installation on two walls in one straight line; and finally the black lacquered wedge that spans eleven paintings on the right.
The struggle to force these paintings into line, so to speak, was difficult and uncertain until the day I finished the installation. I realized that unlike a similar frieze of twenty-two paintings measuring 94,1 x 152,4 cm each that I made for Morning, Chapter 30, at MOCA, Los Angeles, these Secession paintings did not hold together quite as seamlessly as the previous ones had. In An Evening, Chapter 32, each painting would claim its bounded quality and seemed content not to converse with its neighbor. Once the lacquer had been applied I also began to appreciate their individual geometries as constricted by the black lacquer rather than unified by their collective shape discerned from a distance.
Opposite – An Evening, Chapter 32 / An Evening, Chapter 32, 2017
Exhibition runs through to June 2nd, 2018
Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
10719 Berlin
Germany
MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO – RESPECT
2018-05-28This exhibition presents a series of installations “Respect (2016)” and “South China Sea – Love Difference (2005)” brought to Hong Kong from Paris and Italy will be first major appearance of this widely known Italian master in Asia.
In October 20th 2016, Pistoletto staged a spectacular performance in Paris, where the artist used a wooden hammer to smash mirrors and invited the audience to participate in exposing the hidden message behind each mirror. The installation is called “Respect” as after being shattered, each mirror exposed the word “respect” in one out of 23 languages. If some people explain the multiplicity of languages as the fruit of divine intervention intended to “confound” disrespectful humankind (cf. the myth of the Tower of Babel), here they unite to promote, in a symphony of vivid colors, a fundamentalvalue that knows no borders.
Opposite – Respect (Japanese), 2016
Exhibition runs through to June 16th, 2018
Tang Contemporary Art
10/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central
Hong Kong
China
MCQUEEN
2018-05-21A personal look at the extraordinary life, career and artistry of Alexander McQueen. Through exclusive interviews with his closest friends and family, recovered archives, exquisite visuals and music, McQueen is an authentic celebration and thrilling portrait of an inspired yet tortured fashion visionary.
In theatres June 8th, 2018
TweetJEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT DUNNY SERIES BY KIDROBOT
2018-05-21Kidrobot is honored to announce a new collection featuring the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat Dunny Art Figures Series. Partnership done in collaboration with Artestar, which represents high-profile artists, photographers, designers, and creatives. Kidrobot is proud to bring contemporary art into your home with an all-new Jean-Michel Basquiat Dunny Art Figure Series, available today at Kidrobot.com and select retailers world-wide.
Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of the best known artists of his generation and is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His art career spanned the late 1970s through the 1980s until his death in 1988, at the age of 27.
Basquiat works are edgy and raw, and through a bold sense of color and composition, he maintains a fine balance between seemingly contradictory forces such as control and spontaneity, menace and wit, urban imagery and primitivism. The Basquiat brand embodies the values and aspirations of young, international urban culture.
Continuing our celebration of inspirational artists of the 20th century, Kidrobot brings art to life with this new collectible 3-inch tall Dunny art figure series. Each high-quality vinyl Dunny art figure in this series depicts one of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s most iconic paintings throughout his short but prolific art career. Each figure is packaged in a sealed security foil bag and a blind box to preserve the rarity and collectibility of the collection.
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