CHARLIE’S ANGELS

Posted on 2019-10-21

Director Elizabeth Banks takes the helm as the next generation of fearless Charlie’s Angels take flight. In Banks’ bold vision, Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska are working for the mysterious Charles Townsend, whose security and investigative agency has expanded internationally. With the world’s smartest, bravest, and most highly trained women all over the globe, there are now teams of Angels guided by multiple Bosleys taking on the toughest jobs everywhere.

In theatres November 29th, 2019

www.charliesangels.movie

  

STERLING RUBY – ACTS + TABLE

Posted on 2019-10-21

In an oeuvre spanning sculpture, ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, video, and garments, Ruby continually returns to themes of societal and art historical friction, generating feelings of anxiety and agitation by contrasting clean lines and recognizable objects with coarse and uncanny forms. ACTS + TABLE lays out Ruby’s critique of the authoritarian, exclusionary ideological underpinnings of Minimalism. He begins with familiar shapes valued by the Minimalists—simple tables and rectilinear blocks—but subverts them by defacing their smooth surfaces and exposing their physical means of production.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to December 14th, 2019

Gagosian
6–24 Britannia Street
London
WC1X 9JD

www.galeriebuchholz.de

  

JOCKUM NORDSTROM – THE ANCHOR HITS THE SAND

Posted on 2019-10-21

Expanding on the characteristic motifs and imaginative spirit that have come to define the artist’s broader oeuvre, Nordström’s light and shadow environments employ a cast of objects within a fantastical and psychologically charged environment that is at once vaguely familiar, evocative, and meditative. They are encountered by the viewer through a veil composed of semitransparent paper (in fact, the same paper used to create his collages); behind which cutouts of buildings, trees, and animal and human forms—recurring motifs in the artist’s work—are suspended between the ceiling and floor by rotating wire mobiles that are illuminated by color wheels, animating the surface of the paper in a whimsical play of light and shadow.

Opposite – Farväl/ Farewell, 2019

Exhibition runs through to December 19th, 2019

David Zwirner
24 Grafton Street
W1S 4EZ
London

www.davidzwirner.com

  

ALEX TIMMERMANS – STORYTELLING

Posted on 2019-10-21

Dutch photographer Alex Timmermans is a storyteller. Known for his use of the collodion wet plate photography process, Timmermans creates enchanting images and like his fairy tale images, the process he employs is the antithesis to predictability; little twists of fate coming together for the final scene. Timmermans is a self-taught photographer who has practiced photography his entire life. However, when the change from analog to digital came about he found with it came predictability and less excitement. For Timmermans, working with the wet plate process made photography inspiring again. In a long tradition of photographers drawn to its unique aesthetic, such as Sally Mann, Joni Sterbach and the Ostermans, Timmermans uses this process to achieve unforgettable images that have a dreamy quality and an aura of mystery.

Opposite – Not My Cup of Tea

Exhibition runs through to December 16th, 2019

Gilman Contemporary
661 Sun Valley Road
Ketchum
83340 ID

www.gilmancontemporary.com

  

BENJAMIN FREDRICKSON

Posted on 2019-10-21

The exhibition will include small scale black and white and color photographs made with paper negatives and traditional large format analog film. Many of the photographs have been created in Fredrickson’s basement studio with lighting alluding to his artistic ancestors George Platt Lynes, The Athletic Model Guild and Robert Mapplethorpe among others.

In this exhibition Fredrickson continues to walk the line between raunch and exquisite beauty. He expresses desire with finely tuned explicit imagery and he explores vanity, fetish, exhibitionism and photographing as an erotic act. He also implicates himself as a blissful observer and participant of erotic play. As this is Fredrickson’s first exhibition since the introduction of PrEP perhaps we see he and his subjects with more emotional and physical liberty and less fear.

Fredrickson also pays homage to centuries of traditional art genres with his models unceremoniously submitting to observation by him and the gallery audience. An astute observer will see references to 19th century photographic portraiture and early European painting. The observer will also be lured to examine seductive bodies contorted and exposed for their consideration.

Opposite – Derek, 2016

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2019

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
508 – 526 West 26th Street
New York
10001 NY

www.danielcooneyfineart.com

  

STANLEY DONWOOD – THERE WILL BE NO QUIET

Posted on 2019-10-21

Best known as the talent behind Radiohead’s iconic visuals or ‘the band’s sixth member’, Stanley Donwood is widely regarded as one of the most important visual artists of his generation. His work spans many practices, from print-making and woodcut-blocking to music packaging and installations; in more than 20 years collaborating with the band, his aesthetic has been ever-evolving.

There Will Be No Quiet, is Donwood’s first major monograph and candid memoir, in which he reveals in his own words the creative process that’s earned him a cult reputation. Featuring his personal notebooks, photographs, sketches and abandoned routes to iconic Radiohead artworks, the book is the first deep dive into Donwood’s visual universe and the artistic freedom afforded to him by working for a major music act. In chapters each dedicated to a major work, he explains, with typical razor-sharp humour and generosity of spirit, the inspirations and stories behind his art and what it’s like to work with the band.

thamesandhudson.com