TOLKIEN

Posted on 2019-04-29

TOLKIEN explores the formative years of the renowned author’s life as he finds friendship, courage and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including Tolkien’s tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-earth novels.

In theatres May 3rd, 2019

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STYX

Posted on 2019-04-29

ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering.

In theatres April 29th, 2019

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ASTA GROTING

Posted on 2019-04-29

In Asta Gröting’s manifold artistic practices, which she has developed since the mid-1980s, the artist translates sculptural thought in diverse media. Gröting inverts the lexicon of monumental sculpture to draw our attention to absence and the physical and emotional rifts between people and things. Whether addressing family members, friends, lovers, or historical figures, Gröting’s work across media seeks to cast abstract qualities such as thought, intimacy, mourning, conflict, and subjectivity. Her ongoing engagement with gaps, interior spaces, and inner organs questions the social body by taking something away from it and, in the words of writer Deborah Levy, “allows this absence to do the talking.”

Opposite – Not feeling too cheerful, 2018

Exhibition runs through to June 1st, 2019

carlier | gebauer
Markgrafenstraße 67
D-10969 Berlin
Germany

www.carliergebauer.com

  

LAURIE SIMMONS – BIG CAMERA/LITTLE CAMERA

Posted on 2019-04-29

Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera presents nearly all of the artist’s major series, including Cowboys (1979), Family Collision (1981), Color Coordinated Interiors (1982–83), Tourism (1983–84), and Clothes Make the Man (1990–92). In one of the artist’s most well-known series, Walking & Lying Objects (1987–91), Simmons used oversized props as opposed to miniatures. Posing wearing giant props, her subjects hide their faces while showing their legs. The personified objects probe the question of the importance of “props” with respect to humanity by representing the items we rely on to help define who we are.

Opposite – Brothers/Horizon, 1979

Exhibition runs through to May 5th, 2019

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave
Chicago
60611 IL

mcachicago.org

  

ROSIE GRACE WARD – YIELD

Posted on 2019-04-29

A gothic landscape filled with superstition and residual chaos, Yield is a manifestation of the base metaphysical horror of our contemporary moment: that, as Mark Fisher states in Capitalist Realism, “not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it.”
Merging medieval feudal aesthetics with cyberpunk fiction, Rosie Grace Ward forges a world where hopes for a future are eroded into the faintest possibilities. Dreams of a life beyond the current system are dwindling and futures of our past, born in moments of great technological change and environmental catastrophe, are exhumed and re-packaged. The position Rosie Grace Ward presents in Yield is a ghostly yet insurgent reminder of the sociocultural non-place of 21st century neoliberalism, a world of international monocultures, ambiguous foodstuffs and palm oil.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to May 18th, 2019

Hannah Barry Gallery
4 Holly Grove
Peckham, London
SE15 5DF

www.hannahbarry.com

  

FRANK KOZIK X BLACKBOOK TOY

Posted on 2019-04-29

Two plus decades since his debut on a Killdozer gig poster back in ’92, Frank Kozik’s Piggums is set to make another debut, this time time in soft vinyl from BlackBook Toy. The debut Sakura Clear edition of the sailor pig figure stands 7.5″ tall, features five points of articulation, and is cast in translucent pink sofubi evoking the color of Japanese’s celebrated Cherry Blossoms (Sakura).

www.blackbooktoy.com