REENA SPAULINGS – LIFE AT SEA

Posted on 2020-04-20

The high-viz yellow image of two peasant girls is based on a Camille Pissarro painting we used to visit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The anarchist-Impressionist made many paintings and drawings of laborers shown in moments of rest, napping, spacing out, gossiping and just being there in bucolic landscapes. Awkward croppings and intimate angles make these figures of not-working workers float strangely against harsh, multicolored fields. Here, one figure sits wedged in the painting’s lower left corner as the other leans on her hoe.
They are seen chatting together against a tilted rectangle of cultivated land, with the horizon pushed back almost as far as it can go. The empty space between the girls, imagined now as a sort of viral gap, full of potential communication, is echoed by an extra area of blank neon yellow to their right. We named our painting New Models after the Berlin-based website and podcast.

Opposite – New Models (after Pissarro), 2020

Exhibition runs through to April 25th, 2020

Galerie Neu
Linienstraße 119 abc
10115 Berlin
Germany

www.galerieneu.net

  

ARNE MALMEDAL

Posted on 2020-04-20

Since the late 1980s, Malmedal has explored the problems around figure / ground / image / frame in several large paintings that were mainly executed in earth colors with clear references to the natural world. These works were shown at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo in 1994 together with monochrome paintings on fiberglass scrim, canvases framed by a window-like grid, and paintings where a boxy frame structure was fully integrated into the painting. This exhibition manifested his position in the Norwegian art scene as a vital and experimental abstract painter with a playful look at the history of the medium.
In the paintings from the early 2000s, light became an important motif for Malmedal. He was preoccupied with portraying color as pure light, resulting in images where a monochrome field
resides in a spatial arrangement framed by a white surface, reminiscent of American artist James Turrell’s light installations. Several of these works were central to Malmedal’s
retrospective exhibition at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, 2003, demonstrating his delicate treatment of color and its’ associations with nature and light
and its’ own materiality on the canvas.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to April 25th, 2020

Galleri Riis
Arbins gate 7
NO-0253 Oslo
Norway

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GUNS AKIMBO

Posted on 2020-04-20

Nerdy video game developer (Daniel Radcliffe) is a little too fond of stirring things up on the internet with his caustic, prodding, and antagonizing comments. One night, he makes the mistake of drunkenly dropping an inflammatory barb on a broadcast of Skizm, an illegal death-match fight club streamed live to the public. In response, Riktor (Ned Dennehy), the maniacal mastermind behind the channel, decides to force Miles’ hand (or hands, as it were) and have him join the “fun.” Miles wakes to find heavy pistols bolted into his bones, and learns Nix (Samara Weaving), the trigger-happy star of Skizm, is his first opponent.

Released April 28th, 2020, on VOD and DVD/Blu-ray

www.madmanfilms.com.au/guns-akimbo

  

IP MAN 4: THE FINALE

Posted on 2020-04-20

Ip Man 4 is an upcoming Hong Kong biographical martial arts film directed by Wilson Yip and produced by Raymond Wong. It is the fourth and final film in the Ip Man film series based on the life of the Wing Chun grandmaster of the same name and features Donnie Yen reprising the role.

Released April 21st, 2020, on VOD and DVD/Blu-ray

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MY BLOODY VALENTINE/SUPREME

Posted on 2020-04-20

My Bloody Valentine is an Irish/English band originally formed in 1983 in Dublin by Kevin Shields and Colm Ó Cíosóig. They formalized their lineup in London with the addition of Debbie Googe on bass and Bilinda Butcher on guitar and vocal.

My Bloody Valentine set the template for shoegazing, the dreamy, droning subgenre that emerged in its wake. Shields’s experimental ‘glide’ guitar technique is the core of the group’s pioneering sound. Modifying his equipment and using alternative tunings, Shields constructed tracks rich with texture, reverb and feedback. Inspired by hip-hop and deep house — and brightened by Butcher’s ethereal vocals — My Bloody Valentine’s music shape-shifts. It’s hazy, dissonant, abstract, yet rhythmic, sensual and warm.

The band followed its breakthrough 1988 debut album Isn’t Anything with Loveless, considered one of the landmark records of the 1990s. Loveless’s production was famously labored, but its impact was instant. “[My Bloody Valentine] was the first band I heard who quite clearly pissed all over us,” said The Cure’s Robert Smith. “Their album Loveless is certainly one of my all-time three favorite records.” Loveless defied all convention, and with it, My Bloody Valentine has influenced generations of musicians and audiences. The band forged new possibilities in how to make noise music, as well as how to listen to and experience it. In 2013, the band released mbv, its first record in 22 years.

This Spring, Supreme will release a collection featuring original album artwork from My Bloody Valentine’s discography. The collection consists of a Trucker Jacket, Rayon Shirt, Hooded Sweatshirt and two T-Shirts.

Available online only April 23rd.

Available in Japan online only April 25th.

www.supremenewyork.com

  

DENZEL CURRY X KENNY BEATS – UNLOCKED

Posted on 2020-04-20

Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats are both forward-thinking hip-hop artists who love a collaboration, so it was perhaps only a matter of time before the pair joined forces and made a record together. Unlocked, the EP that the Floridian rapper and Connecticut producer have created, is the set of hard-headed joints that fans of the artists would have been hoping for from the duo’s link-up.

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