BABA STILTZ – SHOWTIME
2018-06-18Swedish Baba Stiltz drops his Showtime EP on XL Recordings.
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TweetPHILIP GUSTON – A PAINTER’S FORMS, 1950 – 1979
2018-06-18Guston’s legendary career spanned a half century, from 1930 to 1980. He was widely recognized as a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism before an unexpected return to figuration in the late 1960s, and with it the development of his highly original artistic language of pictorial symbols. His paintings – particularly the liberated and instinctual forms of his last works – continue to exert a powerful influence on younger generations of contemporary painters. The first solo presentation of the artist’s work in Asia since a traveling exhibition in Australia in 1985, this show traces the evolution of Guston’s forms, shedding light on the most prolific three decades of his long career.
Opposite – Febrile, 1976
Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2018
Hauser & Wirth
15-16/F, H Queen’s
80 Queen’s Road Central
999077 Hong Kong
PATRICK NEU – IRIS, JARDIN DES DÉLICES
2018-06-18Patrick Neu’s work reflects on our relationship to time and the fragility of things. Of an apparent simplicity, his works do not preclude ambivalence and double meanings. By using materials as diverse and unusual as glass, soot, and the wings of bees and butterflies, he toys with the unknowns and constraints of material.
The works presented in this exhibition bring into play the relationship between images and the individual and collective memory. Patrick Neu often makes references to art history’s most significant artworks, of which he reproduces the details on glass that has been blackened by smoke. For this exhibition, he found inspiration in Jardin des délices (1494-1505, Prado Museum, Madrid), Jérôme Bosch’s most famous creation. The triptych – which sequentially outlines Adam and Eve’s union in Paradise, humanity’s sin before the Flood and vision of Hell – is famous for its rich motifs and details.
Opposite – Iris (2013/10), 2013
Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2018
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Marais
7 rue debelleyme
75003 Paris
France
FANAKAPAN HI5 CHROME BALLOON SCULPTURE
2018-06-18Fanakapan x Silent Stage Gallery “Hi5” Chrome Ballon Sculpture Measures 12.5 Inches Tall.
Casted in Solid High Impact Resin Mirror Chrome Finish.
Edition of 150 Signed and Numbered.
ZHAO GANG – ACQUIRING IDENTITY
2018-06-18Shaped by his artistic beginnings as the youngest member of the avant-garde Stars Group in late 1970s China as much as the decades he spent in Europe and the United States, Zhao Gang’s paintings freely mix forms and imagery, juxtaposing perspectives redolent of Chinese court portraiture with the techniques of Impressionism, further destabilized by profane, even vulgar, subject matter. Along with new portraits of anonymous figures, “Acquiring Identity” is partially comprised of previously unseen works, featuring semi-abstracted nudes and Stalin’s disembodied head. Just as his previous paintings of failed Chinese revolutionaries dryly referenced his status as a émigré and returnee, here Zhao again deftly captures the condition of the individual captured within social and historical forces.
Opposite – The Women in the Bamboo Forest, 2012
Exhibition runs through to July 10th, 2018
Long March Space & TIMEZONE 8
Restaurant & Bar
Beijing
JK FLESH – WASPLIKE EP
2018-06-18Inner Surface Music is proud to present its next release from JK Flesh, Justin Broadrick needs no introduction fans of hardcore, metal and industrial music will know him from Napalm Death, Godflesh, Techno Animal, Jesu and Pale Sketcher to name a few.
JK Flesh builds upon the foundations of his AnD remixes from 2015 with a full 12″ release on AnD’s Inner Surface Music label.
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