SCAPE – SPIRIT WORLD
2018-10-22UK born, Philippines based producer Scape delivers two sublime ambient breakbeat epic’s!
TweetBAXTER DURY, ETIENNE DE CRECY – WHITE COATS
2018-10-22From new project B.E.D out on October 26th on Le Label.
TweetGARDAR EIDE EINARSSON – RAWHIDE DOWN
2018-10-22Titled “Rawhide Down” – after the code used on March 30th 1981 by secret service agents to signal that Ronald Reagan had been shot by John Hinckley Jr. – the show consists of paintings depicting state leaders and political figures who have been the subject of assassinations and assassination attempt by shooting. These figures of authority have been shot by assassins (or would be assassins) for reasons that exist on multiple points on a scale of rationality and mental illness. Einarsson’s portraits are based on idealized images, appropriated from various cartoons, of each of the state leaders. Despite coming from different historical eras and countries and to some extent ethnic backgrounds the faces blend together to a kind of non identifiable middle-aged powerful Caucasian man, a non specific face of (perceived) repressive power. With the distance added by the secondhand depiction through a found image and the cartoonish flatness of the way the paint is applied, the paintings are intended not as portraits-as-psychological-study. They are less about the character depicted and more about what these characters represent to the person who goes to the step of making the decision to assassinate them. These portraits become less about an individual person and more about how this powerful public figure is perceived by the world at large and by the shooter in particular – an abstraction away from humanity that would presumably be necessary in order for the shooter to pull the trigger.
Opposite – Real Name: Ronald Reagan, 2018
Exhibition runs through to October 27th, 2018
STANDARD (OSLO)
Waldemar Thranes Gt 86 C
N-0175 Oslo
Norway
SAINE – ACT NATURAL EP
2018-10-22Helsinki-based producer Saine makes his Delusions debut following output on such labels as Voyage Recordings, Odd Socks, Omena and Fina. A producer who can flit from hazy instrumental hip hop through to raw, dusty house at the flick of a switch, Saine has built a solid following amongst lovers of left field leanings we’ve come to expect from the likes of Max Graef, Glenn Astro, Henry Wu and Leon Vynhall.
TweetBETH DOW – PREDICTION ERROR
2018-10-22Throughout her career, Beth Dow has explored the dual nature of the photograph as both an image you see and an object you handle. For her exhibition, Prediction Error, Beth plays with our perception and expectations. Without signals (like flower stems, blue skies, or natural colors) which ground our understanding of the images, we might become uncomfortable. The absence of what we expect to see in a photograph creates a disconnection within our perception that can result in abrupt adjustments within ourselves—physically and mentally. We begin to question our vantage point within the image and, ultimately, the nature of the photograph all together.
Opposite – The Valley 2, 2018
Exhibition runs through to October 28th, 2018
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis
55404 MN
SID GROSSMAN – PHOTOGRAPHY, POLITICS AND THE ETHICAL IMAGE
2018-10-22This exhibition presents a series of humanizing and intimate photographs by Sid Grossman (b. 1913, New York; d. 1955, Provincetown, Massachusetts). Grossman was a founding member of the Photo League (1936–51), a group of primarily Jewish photographers active in New York, who used their medium to shed light on issues of social inequality in the urban environment following the Great Depression. The league ceased to function in 1951, four years after it was blacklisted as a subversive political group during the second Red Scare—a period in American politics and culture that centered on an intense fear of communism.
Grossman focused his camera on his immediate environment. He understood photography as a tool for social awareness, imbued with the moral imperative to provide new ways to see and capture reality. He urged his students from the Photo League to cultivate personal and ethical reflections on their surroundings, encouraging their development of more than just a strictly documentary eye. This personal and political ideology pushed Grossman to produce captivating images portraying the poor and the underprivileged and eventually placed him under FBI investigation.
Opposite – Untitled (apartment windows and wash lines), ca. 1940
Exhibition runs through to October 28th, 2018
Pérez Art Museum Miami PAMM
101 W Flager Street
Miami
33130 FL
