OVERBOARD

Posted on 2018-06-04

Overboard focuses on “Leonardo” (EUGENIO DERBEZ), a selfish, spoiled, rich playboy from Mexico’s richest family and “Kate” (ANNA FARIS), a working class single mom of three hired to clean Leonardo’s luxury yacht. After unjustly firing Kate and refusing to pay her, Leonardo falls overboard when partying too hard and wakes up on the Oregon coast with amnesia. Kate shows up at the hospital and, to get payback, convinces Leonardo he is her husband and puts him to work – for the first time in his life. At first miserable and inept, Leonardo slowly settles in. Eventually he earns the respect of his new “family” and co-workers. But, with Leonardo’s billionaire family hot on their trail and the possibility of his memory returning at any moment.

In theatres June 22nd, 2018

www.overboard.movie

  

HOWARD HODGKIN – LAST PAINTINGS

Posted on 2018-06-04

The canvases are composed of meticulous straight lines drawn by rulers and pencils in different degrees of hardness, exploring the space conceived by the distortion from two-dimensionality to three-dimensionality. As the fundamental tool for drawing, pencil has been utilized by the artist across his oeuvre for over a decade. He is fascinated with the metallic reflection of light by the graphite, which is the key component of pencil. The subtle reflections enhance the perceived space, especially when the works are viewed from various angles. The notion of time and space are central to Liu’s artistic output. There is no doubt that the artist found inspiration from Minimalism, which also has deep associations with Eastern Zen philosophy. He considers his daily practice of drawing as a meditative process of inner self-emptying. Each pencil line is a tracing of time, and repetition is an action of self-cultivation. Zen philosophy and its focus on being present in everyday life is embraced by the artist in creating his works.

Opposite – Over To You, 2015-2017

Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2018

Gagosian
20 Grosvenor Hill
W1K 3QD
London

www.gagosian.com

  

LIU WENTAO

Posted on 2018-06-04

The canvases are composed of meticulous straight lines drawn by rulers and pencils in different degrees of hardness, exploring the space conceived by the distortion from two-dimensionality to three-dimensionality. As the fundamental tool for drawing, pencil has been utilized by the artist across his oeuvre for over a decade. He is fascinated with the metallic reflection of light by the graphite, which is the key component of pencil. The subtle reflections enhance the perceived space, especially when the works are viewed from various angles. The notion of time and space are central to Liu’s artistic output. There is no doubt that the artist found inspiration from Minimalism, which also has deep associations with Eastern Zen philosophy. He considers his daily practice of drawing as a meditative process of inner self-emptying. Each pencil line is a tracing of time, and repetition is an action of self-cultivation. Zen philosophy and its focus on being present in everyday life is embraced by the artist in creating his works.

Opposite – Untitled, 2017

Exhibition runs through to July 17th, 2018

Pearl Lam Galleries
9/F H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central
Hong Kong
China

www.pearllam.com

  

LOVE BY BEN EINE

Posted on 2018-06-04

LOVE by Ben Eine

2018

30” x 30”

6 color screen print

deckled edges

signed and numbered by artist

edition of 200

love-by-ben-eine

  

LYNN HERSHMAN – ALTER EGO: ROBERTA BREITMORE SERIES

Posted on 2018-06-04

This exhibition will showcase Lynn Hershman ’s representative and critical series of works of Roberta Breitmore in 1973-1978. The works examine the relationship between individuals’ “real” and “virtual” identities – a topic that is still very much relevant in this day and age of consumerism; when issues such as Facebook’s data breach and mass surveillance in everyday life forces us to reevaluate the balance between privacy, security, and convenience; and an environment where technology is increasingly intertwined with our lives.
The fictional persona, Roberta Breitmore was first played by the artist herself, and during the fourth year of the performance, Roberta Breitmore multiplied into three other people appearing in her guise. The creation of Roberta Breitmore is the existence of “another self”, or Lynn Hershman’s alter ego, consisting not only of the appearance transformation through makeup, wigs and dressing which occupied all the role-playing, but a full-fledged, socially constructed identity in the real world and over a period of time, with authentic and reliable evidence: from a driver’s license and credit card to letters from her psychiatrist. The accumulation and reproduction of these fictional traces is an awakening process to the artist’s self-awareness and identity. As she notes, “Although I denied it at the time and insisted that she was ‘her own woman’ with defined needs, ambitions and instincts, in retrospect we were linked.

Opposite – Roberta’s Construction Chart #2, 1975

Exhibition runs through to August 16th, 2018

ShanghART
9 Lock Road, #02-22, Gillman Barracks
108937 Singapore
Singapore

www.shanghartgallery.com

  

JUNO CALYPSO – WHAT TO DO WITH A MILLION YEARS

Posted on 2018-06-04

For this exhibition Calypso has produced an accompanying limited edition booklet drawing on the found printed materials alongside her own photographs. That this house even exists is a far-fetched fantasy that even Calypso could not have possibly imagined, proving once again that truth is indeed eternally stranger than fiction.

Opposite – Subterranean Kitchen, 2017

Exhibition runs through to June 23rd, 2018

TJ Boulting
59 Riding House Street
London
W1W 7EG

www.tjboulting.com