WILL BOONE

Posted on 2018-10-15

Will Boone has become recognized for paintings, sculptures, and ambitious installations that draw content from sources outside of art historical contexts. He is particularly interested in subcultures and images associated with the broader American social landscape; these include punk music, bar culture, the automotive industry, horror movies, cattle ranching, and conspiracy theories. Boone mines these sources for iconic forms, borrowing their methodologies and technical processes to render objects full of graphic power and remarkable physicality.
Prominently featured in this exhibition are a group of large-scale Mask paintings in which Boone converts images of emblematic objects and people into imposing, mask-like forms by introducing blank spots that stand in for their eyes. The array of images is as varied as it is surreal, with a milk carton, a Goodyear tire, a playing card, Frankenstein, and a Doberman Pinscher all making appearances. On the one hand, these are exercises in anthropomorphism writ large–Boone channels the instinctual human desire to see faces in everything, as well as the psychedelic, animistic state of seeing a living soul in an inanimate form. But they are also monumental expressions of design, printing, and painting techniques the artist has used since his youth, when he regularly designed posters and t-shirts for punk bands.

Opposite – Bad Milk, 2018

Exhibition runs through to November 24th, 2018

Galerie Patrick Seguin
5 rue des Taillandiers
75011 Paris
France

www.patrickseguin.com

  

MONGRELS – OVER EGGIN’ IT

Posted on 2018-10-15

Kid Acne and Benjamin Hatton aka Mongrels call in the big guns with Sleaford Mods Jason Williamson guesting on this 7″.

With Benjamin’s beats matching the Sleaford Mods for minimalist repetition, it’s arguable that if you close your eyes you will struggle to work out if it’s actually Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn combating the MPC and Mongrels guesting at their studio, either way, it’s a properly wicked session from all involved and should be a first stop cop for all into both the Mongrels, the Mods and all proper hip-hop

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HALLOWEEN

Posted on 2018-10-15

Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Master of horror John Carpenter executive produces and serves as creative consultant on this film, joining forces with cinema’s current leading producer of horror, Jason Blum (Get Out, Split, The Purge, Paranormal Activity). Inspired by Carpenter’s classic, filmmakers David Gordon Green and Danny McBride crafted a story that carves a new path from the events in the landmark 1978 film, and Green also directs.

In theatres October 19th, 2018

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE RULEZ

Posted on 2018-10-15

Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…and they’re about to meet their match. This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations – literally – when a controversial frack site on prized school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole, and an unspeakable horror to be unleashed. Soon a new pecking order will be established as the pupils and teachers alike become locked in a bloody battle for survival…

In theatres October 31st, 2018

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THE GUILTY

Posted on 2018-10-15

Alarm dispatcher Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.

In theatres October 26th, 2018

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MIKE MILLER – CALIFORNIA LOVE

Posted on 2018-10-15

Miller grew up on the Westside, attending Santa Monica public schools. His teen years were impeccably timed, growing up in the early days of punk and hip hop. He went on to graduate from UCLA in the mid-1980s and decamped for Europe, ending up in Paris, where he briefly made ends meet by painting houses. While in Europe, super model Linda Evangelista gave him his first camera, a Nikon F2 passed on from Peter Lindberg. Miller began photographing in earnest and quickly proved gifted for the craft. Within months he was traveling across Europe to shoot campaigns for Cacharel and other major fashion houses.

When Miller returned home to L.A., his fashion work caught the eye of record labels such as EMI and by the late 1980s, he was shooting artists as varied as girl rockers The Go-Go’s and Heart, to jazz players such as Stan Getz and Herb Alpert. Miller, however, grew up a hip-hop fan, listening to 1580 AM, KDAY, the first 24-hour hip-hop station in the country. In 1989, he snapped his first rap-related cover, for the original N.W.A. group member, Arabian Prince along with his debut solo album. This was the beginning of Miller’s long history of shooting the key figures on the West Coast rap scene, thoroughly compiled in his monograph West Coast Hip-Hop and the subject of his in-progress documentary about the influence of this region’s hip-hop culture on the rest of the world.

Opposite – Eazy America, 1990

Exhibition runs through to November 3rd, 2018

M+B Photo
1050 N Cahuenga Boulevard
Los Angeles
California 90038

www.mbphoto.com