Big Red Machine is first proper album by Justin Vernon, Aaron Dessner, and a collective of their friends, as well as the first full-length to be released in partnership with PEOPLE, a not-for-profit streaming platform and musical gathering. For all the voices, hands, and big, progressive concepts involved in the project, it’s astounding how of-a-piece it sounds. Often songs begin with a hurky-jerky programmed drum and end up massive and anthemic.
TweetThis exhibition about scientific and cultural knowledge in the West that arises from a mythos centred on “the ambition of overcoming opposites, including also a synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity”. In the words of the artist: “My intention in these paintings is to unite concepts that come from Western culture with images whose influence is clearly Eastern and to establish relationships, parallels, and corollaries between their meanings. For me, the wisdom, the spirituality, that comes from both cultures is universal as both merge at the deepest level”.
This selection of new paintings speaks eloquently of Yturralde’s creative vitality both through their monumentality and their chromatic sensuality—Fernando Castro Flórez’s terms to describe the work of this painter so crucial to Spanish abstract art. The beauty of light and its variations are central to his reflections about overflowing the limits of painting towards immateriality, and the path of the sublime, the void and the infinite leads us to a creative spirituality which can be associated with the symmetrical resonances of mandalas and the expressive conciseness of haikus.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to September 12th, 2018
Galería Javier López & Fer Francés
Guecho, 12 B
28023 Madrid
Spain
The show will present original fashion photographs by Chris Moore, the undisputed king of catwalk photography. Moore has been at the forefront of fashion for six decades and still today he is capturing all the iconic catwalk moments – in London, Paris, Milan and New York.
The exhibition is an exclusive opportunity to see 200 original photographs, chosen by Moore from his extensive archive, capturing the key moments at legendary fashion shows including those at Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior, John Galliano, Comme des Garҫons, Christopher Kane, Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent and Vivienne Westwood. A selection of original catwalk outfits, as seen in the accompanying photographs, will be lent to the Museum by the world’s leading fashion houses in a unique collaboration.
CATWALKING brings a rare insight into the fashion world, with previously unseen images and glimpses of behind-the-scenes at shows. Charting the startling evolution of fashion over six decades, the exhibition demonstrates the impact that new designers had on fashion, the rebirth of haute couture, and the rise of the supermodel.
Exhibition runs through to January 6th, 2019
The Bowes Museum
Barnard Castle
Co Durham
DL12 8NP
Beyond any sense of fading light or imminent sunrise, paintings by Belgian artist Pieter Vermeersch veer away from seeing the world in simple terms. Instead, they abstract its image through materiality, picturing the world as a series of carefully controlled encounters. Their restlessness and curiosity seek out the unexpected and unknown. Towards the end of Eric Rohmer’s film Le Rayon Vert (1986), a restless Delphine (Marie Rivière) and curious Jacques (Vincent Gauthier) wait for a flash of light said to magically appear as the sun drops behind the horizon. This fading light is briefly exchanged for a moment of genuine connection between the two, while daybreak on the other side of the world creates its own sense of resolve, with Ryunosuke Akutagawa describing the Japanese rising sun as a quieting influence over the restless conflict of sleep. To Sol LeWitt these opportunities picture the world anew. “Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach” … leading, as he says, to new experience. This new exhibition at Perrotin Tokyo, the first solo exhibition for Vermeersch in Japan, reinvigorates the artist’s previous work by applying it to new territory. Paintings move beyond the picture frame and photographic image. Which partially explains why his paintings are not really paintings at all.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to September 12th, 2018
Perrotin
Piramide Building, 1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-Ku
106-0032 Tokyo
Japan
Linet Sanchez Gutierrez investigates memory through the construction and photography of models. These quaint, finely crafted architectural interiors are not renditions of specific places; they are structures built from sensory input, emotion residue, and personal experience. Much like memory itself, each maquette Gutierrez builds is a construct or amalgamation of her lived experience.
Exhibition runs through to September 8th, 2018
Southeast Museum of Photography
1200 W. International Speedway Blvd
Daytona Beach
32114 FL
Charles “Teenie” Harris worked around the clock. As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, as a freelancer at nightclubs, at his portrait studio, as an artist, he was seemingly everywhere. CMOA’s Teenie Harris Archive contains nearly 80,000 examples of Harris’s tireless practice. Teenie Harris Photographs: Around The Clock collects 25 images that reveal how one individual managed to document the experiences of a community. At the Courier, one of the nation’s most important black newspapers, he was out on the beat, covering the day’s news—from civil rights struggles to local politics, from celebrations to tragedies. He was an insider, heading backstage to shoot jazz musicians and sharing candid moments with sports legends. Harris also ran his own portrait studio on The Hill, catering to weddings, social clubs, and churches. On his daily travels around Pittsburgh, Harris captured the vibrant landscape he knew so well. Closer to home, he recorded tender, funny moments with his kids and family. Inevitably, even after covering scenes of nightlife or an after-hours emergency, he returned to his basement studio in Homewood to develop the day’s photos.
Exhibition runs through to September 3rd, 2018
Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh
15213 PA