ELLEN VON UNWERTH – DEVOTION!

Posted on 2020-03-09

Renowned German photographer Ellen von Unwerth presents Devotion! 30 Years of Photographing Women, a survery exhibition shown at Fotografiska Stockholm, now significantly expanded for New York. Devotion! explores von Unwerth’s provocative yet playful photography through seven expressions: Play, Gender, Drama, Love, Power, Passion, and Lust. Each image, characteristic of von Unwerth’s style, reflects lively, energetic, sensual style with a slight humorous touch. For the artist, it’s never about objectifying, rather, playing with archetypes and stereotypes, high and low, stirring emotions and creating commotion.

Opposite – “Bathtub,” Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss for Vogue US, 1996

Exhibition runs through to March 29th, 2020

Fotografiska New York
281 Park Ave South/22nd
New York
NY 10010

www.fotografiska.com

  

E.J. BELLOCQ – STORYVILLE PORTRAIT

Posted on 2020-03-09

Thirty-six printing-out-paper prints, made later by Lee Friedlander from Bellocq’s original glass plate negatives, will be on view. E.J. Bellocq (American, 1873-1949) remains an ambiguous figure in history.Following his death in 1949, eighty-nine glass plate negatives of portraits of female prostitutes from New Orleans’ Storyville district were found in his desk. All of the images were taken circa 1912by Bellocq, who wasa commercial photographer practicing in New Orleans. Photographer Lee Friedlander acquired the plates in 1966 and made contact prints of the 8 x 10-inch negatives on the same gold-toned printing out paper that Bellocq used in his rare prints. Friedlander is credited with salvaging and promoting these pictures, the only aspect of Bellocq’s work known to have survived.

Opposite – Storyville Portrait, ca. 1912

Exhibition runs through to March 28th, 2020

Deborah Bell Photographs
16 East 71st Street, Suite 1D
New York
NY 10021

www.deborahbellphotographs.com

  

MARC NEWSON

Posted on 2020-03-09

Few practitioners have occupied the common ground of design and art with such conviction as Newson, for whom the discipline of industrial design presents an inexhaustible opportunity to explore new ways of thinking about form and function, materials and production. Over the past thirty-plus years, he has applied his original vision and technical mastery to innovative items of furniture, from the iconic Lockheed Lounge (1986), which he built by hand from aluminum sections to emulate the world-renowned aircraft, to Extruded Tables and Voronoi Shelf (both 2007), each carved in one piece from a block of marble. The current presentation includes works from several recent series—the Chinese cloisonné, as well as the cast glass and Murrina works produced in the former Czech Republic—all entirely new formal experiments.

Opposite – Cloisonné Blue Chair, 2017

Exhibition runs through to March 15th, 2020

Gagosian
Tarmak 22, Gstaad Saanen Airport
Oeystrasse 29
3792 Gstaad
Switzerland

gagosian.com

  

HIROKI TSUKUDA – THEY LIVE

Posted on 2020-03-09

In reference to John Carpenter’s 1988 cult classic film with the same name, They Live presents a dystopian reality whereby current society has become surreptitiously controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials. Enamored by sci-fi since early childhood, Tsukuda has drawn inspiration from dystopic thrillers, apocalyptic novels, and cyberpunk manga. These fictions have percolated into the artist’s consciousness, transforming his ideas and artistic practice.

Working in the realms of drawing and digital collage, Tsukuda creates multi-dimensional pictures by compositing a profusion of found and created images and coding them with computerized characters and cryptic hieroglyphics. The resulting images appear in states of controlled chaos and organic mutation, edging on a pictorial language that merges cyberpunk fantasy and real-life space exploration. Some of these abstractions hang off of large hollow wooden enclosures while a set of four bionic figures suspend from vacant steel-pipe scaffolds. Rocks, driftwood, and other organic materials are presented on wooden shelves alongside these cybernetic environments.

Opposite – Neon Demon, 2019

Exhibition runs through to April 18th, 2020

Petzel Gallery
456 West 18th Street
New York
NY 10011

www.petzel.com

  

FRED PERRY X BEAMS

Posted on 2020-03-02

Fred Perry and BEAMS team up for a new capsule featuring twists on classic pieces and reinterpretations of the iconic Laurel Wreath logo. Covering polo shirts, T-shirts, tracksuits, trousers and bowling shirts, all pieces feature a repeated Fred Perry logo in blue, orange, green and purple colors inspired by tennis courts.

www.fredperry.com

  

214 – SI VIEW EP

Posted on 2020-03-02

214 back on Cultivated Electronics with his first full release for the label.

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