SANDRO MILLER – I AM PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Posted on 2019-08-12

Los Angeles based photographer Tami Bahat (1979, Tel Aviv, Israel) will tell you she was born in the wrong era. At an early age, she realized her curiosity and interests were more aligned with the sensibility, formality, and style of dress from the Victorian era. She gravitated to photography as a teenager, “intrigued by the medium’s ability to mold the obvious into the interesting, the commonplace into the comment-worthy.” With support from her parents, who are both in the arts, she rejected the traditional path of art school and learned the history of art from books, museums and family trips, where she was exposed to the paintings of Vermeer, Botticelli and Rembrandt, whose works have had a lasting effect.

Opposite – Aluseki in the Tumbon Costume of the Abelum Tribe, 2016

Exhibition runs through to November 30th, 2019

Catherine Edelman Gallery
1637 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago
60622 IL

www.edelmangallery.com

  

TAMI BAHAT – PAST IS PRESENT

Posted on 2019-08-12

Los Angeles based photographer Tami Bahat (1979, Tel Aviv, Israel) will tell you she was born in the wrong era. At an early age, she realized her curiosity and interests were more aligned with the sensibility, formality, and style of dress from the Victorian era. She gravitated to photography as a teenager, “intrigued by the medium’s ability to mold the obvious into the interesting, the commonplace into the comment-worthy.” With support from her parents, who are both in the arts, she rejected the traditional path of art school and learned the history of art from books, museums and family trips, where she was exposed to the paintings of Vermeer, Botticelli and Rembrandt, whose works have had a lasting effect.

Opposite – The Expectant Mother, 2016

Exhibition runs through to August 30th, 2019

Catherine Edelman Gallery
1637 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago
60622 IL

www.edelmangallery.com

  

ADIDAS SKATEBOARDING LIBERTY CUP SHOES

Posted on 2019-08-12

The Liberty Cup features a white and yellow-green color mix, and comes constructed with a blend of premium leather, suede and knit-mesh. The yellow-green detailing glides down the shoe’s vamp while a teal hue sits contained on the midsole. The vulcanized mid-to-upper and gum sole uses bounce tooling to provide high-impact protection and stability for athletic needs. Finally, the shoe is topped off with a molded Adiprene sockliner and Adituff reinforcement, which are adidas’ prime impact absorption and resistance technologies.

www.adidas.com

  

TAL R – BEAUTIFUL BOY (SMUKKE DRENG)

Posted on 2019-08-12

Tal R’s new exhibition Beautiful Boy (Smukke Dreng) at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard consists of paintings, drawings and two films by Emma Rosenzweig. In the gallery’s west wing exhibition space, one is met with portraits of the people who occupy the painter’s home; the painter’s wife, his children and friends, along with still lives of the objects and things that the painter has picked up along the way; a Ukrainian goat, children’s toys and Chinese souvenirs. After nine years with hare glue and pigments, in this new exhibition Tal R has returned to the oil painting. There is great focus on detail and the paintings appear saturated in their abundance. The paintings have a slow quality and a calm, which gives the viewer the opportunity to linger on the motif and the detail. We experience Tal R’s wife and children resting in private moments with ornamental backgrounds. The boys, who show themselves to us in static poses. The still lives of objects found while travelling or in flea markets. While the paintings are made up of layer upon layer of paint, the fifty drawings in the corridor, in a contrast to this, show another kind of calm. The drawings are rooted in a variety of processes: some are sketches for the paintings, while others act as a study of the finished motif.

Opposite – Vertikalt øje, 2019

Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2019

Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
Flæsketorvet 85 A
DK-1711 Copenhagen
Denmark

www.bjerggaard.com

  

EMILY MAE SMITH – AVALON

Posted on 2019-08-12

The title is an invented word and reflects the main idea of the exhibition. Polypastoraline is constructed of (poly-) many + (pastoral) relating to rural life + (-ine) denoting of or pertaining to. Since antiquity, the theme of the Pastorale has been used in poetry, music, and art to evoke a place or state of mind that embodies the rapture of an undisturbed, peaceful landscape. From the frescoes of Pompeii, to the classical strains of Beethoven’s symphonies and the idealized landscapes of Claude and Poussin, the pastoral subject was used to evoke harmony, reverie and serenity. Over time, as the natural world has become increasingly soiled by human intervention, the ethos expressed by the pastorale has aquired darker connotations, where dismay and a sense of loss loom large over the demise of bucolic sanctity. And given the increasingly rapid pace of toxic climate change, the emergence of new paradigms for thematizing nature is inevitable.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2019

Perrotin
Piramide Building, 1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-Ku
106-0032 Tokyo
Japan

www.perrotin.com

  

MATTHEW RONAY – POLYPASTORALINE

Posted on 2019-08-12

The title is an invented word and reflects the main idea of the exhibition. Polypastoraline is constructed of (poly-) many + (pastoral) relating to rural life + (-ine) denoting of or pertaining to. Since antiquity, the theme of the Pastorale has been used in poetry, music, and art to evoke a place or state of mind that embodies the rapture of an undisturbed, peaceful landscape. From the frescoes of Pompeii, to the classical strains of Beethoven’s symphonies and the idealized landscapes of Claude and Poussin, the pastoral subject was used to evoke harmony, reverie and serenity. Over time, as the natural world has become increasingly soiled by human intervention, the ethos expressed by the pastorale has aquired darker connotations, where dismay and a sense of loss loom large over the demise of bucolic sanctity. And given the increasingly rapid pace of toxic climate change, the emergence of new paradigms for thematizing nature is inevitable.

Opposite – Temple Bell, 2019

Exhibition runs through to October 19th, 2019

NILS STÆRK
Glentevej 49
2400 Copenhagen
Denmark

nilsstaerk.dk