2019 January : EXIT

DEATHWORLD WINTER COLLECTION

Posted on 2019-01-21

Following its Fall 2018 release, Earl Sweatshirt‘s DEATHWORLD imprint returns with a fresh array of seasonal gear. The label introduces a selection of winter-ready outerwear and playfully-branded layering pieces, ranging from Dodgers-inspired logos on hoodies to varsity script “DEATHWORLD” prints on tees. Other details include the Korean flag and the brand’s spider logo, which appears on the rear of a color-blocked anorak and near the hem of a striped button-down.

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AMAR KANWAR – SUCH A MORNING

Posted on 2019-01-21

The show features his latest film Such a Morning, a modern parable about two people’s quiet engagement with truth. The work premiered at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel in 2017 is showed here along with seven installations of letters composed of video and light projections on paper. Searching for a way to re-comprehend the difficult times we are living in, Kanwar asks “What is it that lies beyond, when all arguments are done with? How to reconfigure and respond again?” Such a Morning unlocks a metaphysical response to our contemporary reality as it navigates multiple hallucinations between speech and silence, fear and freedom, democracy and fascism. In the 85-minute film, a famous mathematician at the peak of his career unexpectedly withdraws from his life and retreats to the wilderness to live in an abandoned train carriage.

Opposite – Such a Morning, 2017 (film Still)

Exhibition runs through to March 7th, 2019

Marian Goodman Gallery
79 rue du temple
75003 Paris
France

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YOHJI YAMAMOTO X DR. MARTENS

Posted on 2019-01-14

Yohji Yamamoto teams up for another collaborative pair of Dr. Martens. This new joint effort is a new spin on a classic shoe, giving Dr. Martens’ almond toe derby a blacked-out double monk strap makeover. Two adjustable straps are situated across the leather upper to securely strap in the wearer, with the all-black outsole and stitching.

Available from January 30th.

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CAROLE BENZAKEN – LA-BAS…TOI

Posted on 2019-01-14

In her nearly thirty years of rummaging through image feeds in search of snapshots, Carole Benzaken has methodically developed a polysemous and homogenous body of work, while also allowing heterogeneous ramifications to form. The artist questions the sheer profusion and speed at which these images constantly assault us, provoking a feeling of satiation, despite a visual multiplicity that is never quenched.
At the Bourg-Tibourg gallery, Carole Benzaken will present the series Greffes (Grafts), eight paintings of identical format, in which the chromatic variations shift between acid green and the sweetest of pinks. The subject of the work is hidden by the paint, to the point that it is impossible to recognize it, concealed as it is by the fluctuations in speed. A few vertical lines alone mark the frenetic horizontality, punctuating the artist’s unfettered brushstrokes. Eloquently verbal and musical (“I paint like I speak,” says the artist), these paintings take the viewer on a frantic race through space and time.

Opposite – Germe rouge 3, 2018

Exhibition runs through to February 23rd, 2019

Galerie Nathalie Obadia
3 rue du Cloître Saint-Merri
75004 Paris
France

www.nathalieobadia.com

CATHERINE GOODMAN – EVE

Posted on 2019-01-14

Goodman was artist-in-residence at Hauser & Wirth Somerset from January to May 2018 and many of the works in the exhibition were made during her residency. Her practice includes expressionistic landscapes, vigorous sketches, experimental collages and portraits; central to her process is the act of drawing from observation, whether from life, objects or the great masters and their works. She has travelled extensively, working for many years in India and the Mediterranean landscape.
The exhibition is titled ‘Eve’ and the majority of works are vibrant, colourful, landscape based painting occupying the Threshing Barn, Workshop and Pigsty galleries. Goodman describes her residency in Somerset as ‘a quiet, contemplative setting where the idea for this garden grew.’ Although not explicitly representing the ‘Garden of Eden’, these energetic paintings incorporate rich, rural habitats, often with female figures or children merging into the landscape. All of the artist’s paintings begin with drawing from life, which is fundamental to her practice. Whilst on the residency in Bruton, Somerset, Goodman set up and took part in regular life drawing sessions. It was from these sessions that the figure of Eve emerged and subsequently features in several of her paintings.

Opposite – Departed Presence, 2018

Exhibition runs through to May 6th, 2019

Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Durslade Farm
Dropping Lane, Bruton
BA10 0NL
Somerset

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