STEVE SPACEK – NATURAL SCI-FI

Posted on 2018-12-10

Thirteen years on from his debut solo LP and Steve Spacek finally follows it up. Work on Natural Sci-Fi actually began around the time that 2005’s Space Shift was released, but as momentum picked up on Spacek’s various other projects (Africa Hitech and Black Pocket to name but two) the record was shelved for some time. We’re so glad he’s managed to rally and complete the album – this collection of underground soul jams is more than worth the wait. Backed by neo-soul beats that show off strong influences of J Dilla and Bilal, Spacek slips between tenor and falsetto with the command one associates with a soul singer extraordinaire like Omar.

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BLUE VEIL – NATURAL BOUNDARY EP

Posted on 2018-12-10

Danny Clancy’s new project assembles four measured and characteristic tracks on the “Natural Boundary” EP.

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JOAN LYONS

Posted on 2018-12-10

The exhibition features nine of Lyons’ pivotal photographic projects. This is the first gallery solo exhibition of the artist’s work since 2013. Lyons’ groundbreaking work freely combines feminist theory and personal experience. Her work is intimate and introspective, questioning the indexical quality of photography.

Over the past six decades, Lyons has employed a variety of difficult and obscure image-making processes. Her work spans a broad range of media including archaic photographic processes, pinhole photography, offset lithography, Xerography, screen-printing, and photo-quilt making. In the 1960s and 1970s, Lyons was one of the earliest artists to adopt xerography as an artistic practice and was recognized as an innovator in the use of Haloid Xerox drawing as an image making process. In a 1982 artist statement Lyons said “I work with what is available, a variety of optical devices. I work through complexity, to something simple and direct. This distillation process becomes more evident as time goes on. I work at those things that are evident; how I see, not conventions of seeing.”

Opposite – Untitled (from the Polaroids series), 1979

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2018

Steven Kasher Gallery
515 West 26th Street
New York
10001 NY

www.stevenkasher.com

  

JEREMY SHAW – I CAN SEE FOREVER

Posted on 2018-12-10

I Can See Forever is a pseudo-documentary set approximately 40 years in the future. It is presented as an episode of a documentary television series about “The Singularity Project”– a failed government experiment that aimed to create a harmonious synthesis of human and machine. The film exposes the story of the only known survivor, 27 year-old Roderick Dale. Born with an 8.7% Machine DNA biology and uninterested in the virtual reality-trappings of his time, Dale has committed himself to a life immersed in dance. During his unique, virtuosic activities, he claims to be able to “See Forever” – a multi-layered and contentious term that he defines as the ability to transcend to a digital plane of total unity while maintaining a corporeal physical presence. His rather hermetic life is devoted to studying ballet, modern, and various subcultural styles of dance on television. Candid scenes of a solitary Dale traversing empty civic spaces confirm the fact that ordinary denizens prefer to privately absorb themselves in The Unit – an advanced virtual reality device that has replaced spiritual experience in humans.

Opposite – Representative Measurements ( Control/Love/Ectasy ), 2008 – 2015

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2019

König Galerie
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

ABELARDO MORELL – AFTER MONET

Posted on 2018-12-10

For After Monet, made in France during the summers of 2015 and 2016, Morell employed his Tent/Camera, a device unique to the artist that utilizes a “periscope-like” mechanism to bring nearby views onto the ground within the tent. Shooting in Monet’s Gardens in Giverny, Rouen, and other regions along the Normandy coast where Monet painted, Morell investigates the creative spirit of the artist in a series of romantic and impressionistic large-scale landscapes.

Opposite – View of Monet’s Gardens with Flowers on the Ground, Giverny, France, 2015

Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2018

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
30305 GA

www.jacksonfineart.com

  

FXXKING RABBITS X FRAGMENT DESIGN

Posted on 2018-12-10

The Japanese label Fxxking Rabbits has called up Hiroshi Fujiwara‘s fragment design range of collaborative goods. Comprised of three different colorways in red, white and black, each features a special “Fragile” logo with fragment’s thunderbolt insignia emblazoned in the center. “#FR2” and “fragment design” motives are also featured running alongside both the left and right sleeves. Short- and long-sleeved shirts will also be included.

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