PAUL GRAHAM – A1 – THE GREAT NORTH ROAD

Posted on 2020-10-19

A1 – The Great North Road was Paul Graham’s first book, published in 1983. Uniting the tradition of social documentary with the fresh approach of new colour, A1 – The Great North Road was transformative on photography in the UK and paved the way for a new generation of British colour photographers to emerge. Spanning the full length of England and into Edinburgh, Graham travelled repeatedly along the ‘Great North Road’ with a large format camera, to record the people, buildings, and landscape of early 1980’s Britain. Now 40 years old, this book is as much art as it is a historical document of the years of Margaret Thatcher’s government and the UK’s declining industrial base.

To coincide with the book’s republication, an exhibition of vintage prints from the series will be on show from October at Huxley-Parlour Gallery.

Originally self-published, MACK Books have published a new edition of the book which celebrates the seminal series.

Opposite – Café Assistants, Compass Café, Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, November 1982

Exhibition runs through to December 18th, 2020

Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts
183 Main Street
Brattleboro
VT 05301

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GOOD SAD HAPPY BAD – SHADES

Posted on 2020-10-19

Previously known as the moniker Micachu and The Shapes, Good Sad Happy Bad named themselves after their last album Good Sad Happy Bad.

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YAN PEI-MING – AGAINST THE LIGHT

Posted on 2020-10-19

Yan Pei-Ming’s new series of works explore the complexities of current global developments and their multilayered impact, on a societal as well as a personal and emotional level. While in recent years Yan Pei-Ming’s practice has been characterised by his engagement with the works and legacies of other painters, including Gustave Courbet, this exhibition marks the artist’s return to the self. Created during the last few months, the self-portraits and still-lifes of this exhibition are pervaded by feelings of constriction and solitude experienced during the artist’s confinement. In these diverse paintings, Yan Pei-Ming examines the unprecedented inner conflicts of the present moment in an intimate and piercingly direct way.

Opposite – Self-portrait with Mask, 2020

Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2020

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Villa Kast
Mirabellplatz 2
5020 Salzburg
Austria

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RICHARD TUTTLE – THESTARS

Posted on 2020-10-19

Titled TheStars, Tuttle’s new body of sculptures for Modern Art were made during the summer of 2019 at his home and studio in Mount Desert, Maine. The works are small in scale, each sculpture’s spontaneous construction belying an unparalleled potency and elegance. As such, TheStars bears a clear resemblance to some of Tuttle’s early work from the 1970s, such as his iconic Rope Piece (1974), which came to typify his bold approach to scale. As well as in their size, the modest, simple materials employed in TheStars share the same essence characteristic of the sculptural language used throughout Tuttle’s career. Made predominantly from plywood, paint, paper and metal wire, each work sits atop its own hand-made shelf, annotated by Tuttle with its particular title, and secured to the wall with a single nail. Thus in scale, material and formal arrangement, TheStars marks a new stage in the continued evolution of Tuttle’s distinctive vocabulary whilst also reflecting something of its origins. This new series – like all Tuttle’s work – remains deeply sensitised to the interplay between the most granular, material experiences and a sense of an immense, perhaps cosmic, ambitious unknowability.

Opposite – I’m Thinking Of How The Winter Looks, 2019

Exhibition runs through to November 21st, 2020

Modern Art
7 Bury Street
SW1Y 6AL
London

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JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE – IMPLICITES & OBJETS

Posted on 2020-10-19

Galerie Chantal Crousel will host a new exhibition by Jean-Luc Moulène which will present abstract figures and human figurations jointly, in volume. In
this exhibition the artist will show an ensemble of unseen concrete sculptures recently produced at the artist’s studio and developed in a tension between body and objects. “What is the role of artists? I’m almost certain that our job is to create figures. But what is a figure? Simply put, it’s a thread that forms a complete loop. Basically, it is a territory, a surface, but one that is defined by its edges, which are closed. This makes the circle the
figure. Without claiming to be a historian, it seems to me that what we remember from the various moments of art relates precisely to figures, which appear and disappear. It was most probably a social and political—or even religious—form of pressure that, at a certain point in time, led to an identification of figure and figuration.” Jean-Luc Moulène

Opposite – Nature Morte – Le Buisson, 2020

Exhibition runs through to November 28th, 2020

Galerie Chantal Crousel
10, rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France

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POWERFOOL BY GRAND CHAMACO X GLITCH

Posted on 2020-10-19

Powered by political satire, the new Powerfool vinyl art toy set by Grand Chamaco x Glitch Network features the inextricably linked leaders of the USA and North Korea: Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Known the world over for their diplomatic maneuvering over North Korea’s missile program, Grand Chamaco presents the two leaders, sarcastically described some as BFFs, speeding towards one another on yes, you guessed it, missiles. The punny name sets the tone for the comedic critique.

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