JERRY PAPER – GREY AREA
2018-08-06Grey Area is from the album Like A Baby – Oct. 12, 2018 on Stones Throw Records.
Jerry Paper is the creative persona of songwriter, producer, and performer Lucas Nathan.
TweetGABE GURNSEY – PHYSICAL
2018-08-06Gabe Gurnsey will release his debut solo album, Physical, via Phantasy. He shares the album’s opening track, ‘Ultra Clear Sound’, explaining: “I wanted to write a track that represents the addiction to bypassing reality through technology and nightclubbing, into a future virtual world paradise. An anthem for escapism.” Listen to ‘Ultra Clear Sound’ below.
If you want to know what Gabe Gurnsey’s debut LP sounds like, the first thing you should do is put aside Factory Floor, the group he co-founded 13 years ago. Gone are the cold, lengthy, stripped back deconstructions of no wave electronica and industrial techno, abandoned in favour of something altogether warmer, torrid and succinct.
TweetARCANE DIVINATION 8″ DUNNY FIGURE BY GODMACHINE
2018-08-06It’s time to be seduced by the material world and physical pleasures. To lust for an obsession with money and power. It’s time for The Devil. From the sold out smash hit Arcane Divination Dunny Art Figure Series, Kidrobot is ready to turn a new Tarot card in revealing your future collection with The Devil 8” Dunny Art Figure by Godmachine. Featuring the design and horns from the original 3” Arcane Divination Dunny Art Figure and a tribute to the devil Tarot card of the major arcana, this Dunny art figure stands over 10 inches tall including horns and is sure to hold a formidable place in your collection. Get the Kidrobot.com Exclusive White version (limited to 300 pieces worldwide) and this original black version of this beastly vinyl art figure. Beware “The Devil”… the primal power that seduces and ensnares those who seek out material and lustful pursuits on this mortal coil.
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CHARLINE VON HEYL – NEW WORK
2018-08-06Over the past three decades, von Heyl has made paintings that upend conventional assumptions about composition, beauty, narrative, design, and artistic subjectivity. The new paintings in this, von Heyl’s ninth solo show at Petzel, are composed inventions that function as self-perpetuating visual events; enigmatic presences silently seducing and disturbing the viewer.
Von Heyl’s new paintings shake loose work against language and capture time through dense compositions replete with moody rhythms of color and shape. A number of her effects can unexpectedly dazzle a viewer’s perceptions. The repositioning of one’s body opposite a painting reveals in cross-raked light interference colors that shift in value from pink to green and from yellow to violet. In some cases, paint may bleed through the linen’s verso; in others, shapes are imprisoned under a layer of color as ghost images. Some works, devoid of color, are able to re-energize through stark black graphics. A painting can often begin with a meandering line that loops and snaps into a biomorphic checkerboard. Various images, such as moths, rabbits, heads, and faces have been deceivingly painted as if placed on the surface as a second thought. These sequences unfold slowly while the painting is viewed—overlapping, dissolving, or blending to produce an image that stands for itself as fact.
Opposite – Lady Moth, 2017
Exhibition runs from September 6th – October 10th, 2018
Petzel Gallery
456 W 18th Street
NY 10011 New York
USA
GLENN LIGON
2018-08-06For his first solo exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Glenn Ligon will present a new series of large and small silkscreen and ink marker paintings, based on abstracted letter forms; two figurative neon installations inspired by an uncompleted project of Pier Paolo Pasolini; ten oil stick and coal dust paintings on paper quoting a Gertrude Stein text.
Since the 1990s, Glenn Ligon has been exploring American history, literature and society by turning focusing on words, their meaning and illegibility. Relying on various literary sources such as texts by James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman or Jean Genet to name only a few, his approach gives palpable density and weight to the word. With this new body of work presented in Paris, Ligon takes text to an even more abstract level. Whilst the quotation taken from Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives is covered by coal dust in the Soleil Nègre paintings, hence becoming hardly legible, language is decomposed in the Debris Fields silkscreens into abstracted letter forms, and the universally symbolic image of the hand replaces the text in a neon installation.
Opposite – Debris Field #6, 2018
Exhibition runs from September 8th – October 4th, 2018
Galerie Chantal Crousel
10, rue Charlot
75003 Paris Paris
France
BLACKKKLANSMAN
2018-08-06From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The young detective soon recruits a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), into the undercover investigation of a lifetime. Together, they team up to take down the extremist hate group as the organization aims to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream.
In theatres August 24th, 2018
www.universalpictures.co.uk/micro/blackkklansman
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