BEAMS X COLUMBIA FW20

Posted on 2020-10-19

This collection is inspired by the uniforms park rangers wear at Mount Hood National Forest in Portland, Oregon, where Columbia is headquartered.

Featured is a set of weatherized jackets, a fleece zip-up, a scarf, a pair of socks, bucket hats and a small bag. The palettes have been kept relatively minimal — black, brown and various earth-tones. One noteworthy piece is the Bugaboo jacket that comes in colorways of brown and black. A small “Columbia” patch logo is stamped at the upper left chest, complemented by two large waist pockets near the hem. The jacket also comes with a removable neckwarmer that’s been detailed with a bold Realtree camo print. This pattern also appears on the capsule’s fleece zip-up, scarf, socks, bucket hat and shoulder bag, while the black and brown bucket hats round off the concise assemblage.

www.beams.co.jp

  

ALIFE REEBOK ZIG KINETICA

Posted on 2020-10-19

Alife and Reebok team up to give you an ultra-branded sneaker inspired by the urban landscape of NYC, the Reebok Zig Kinetica, in hues of primary colors yellow, red, and blue. The Alife Zig Kinetica is a multicolored design contained within a translucent zigzag midsole, with Alife branding on the outer medial side of the sneaker, as well as co-branding on the outsole and tongue. The revolutionary Zig Kinetica cushioning propels you forward with springy responsiveness and an energy-returning feel.

alifenewyork.co.uk

  

POLAROIDS – STEVE KAHN (1974-77)

Posted on 2020-10-19

Casemore Kirkeby presents Polaroids Steve Kahn (1974-77)

Exhibition runs through to November 21st, 2020

Casemore Kirkeby
1275 Minnesota Street, #102
San Francisco
CA 94107

casemorekirkeby.com

  

LINDA STARK – HEARTS

Posted on 2020-10-12

Over the course of three decades, Los Angeles-based Linda Stark has produced a body of painting in which material experimentation and concentrated symbolic energy go hand in hand. The work is visionary, open, and suffused with an unlikely combination of humor and pathos; at the same time, it represents one of the most sustained investigations of the mutable potential of paint—as both a physical medium and a site of rich cultural discourse, in contemporary art.

As the exhibition’s title suggests, the paintings in Hearts frequently address varied iconographies associated with this most resonant of forms. Hearts occupy the literal and figurative centers of human and animal life, but they also appear in a wide range of social and narrative contexts. Emphasizing the sculptural qualities of paint as much as its visual or color-based ones, Stark creates objects that refle­­ct the multivalent potential of the heart as vessel and beacon, biological organ and mystical source. In so doing, she reveals a broad array of interests, notable for their historical depth and up-to-the-minute urgency alike.

Opposite – Feminist (with pool), 2011

Exhibition runs through to October 24th, 2020

David Kordansky Gallery
5130 W. Edgewood PL.
CA. 90019
Los Angeles

www.davidkordanskygallery.com

  

YOSHITOMO NARA – 123 DRUMMING GIRLS’ FIGURE SET

Posted on 2020-10-12

Hong Kong-based art toy dealer How2work is gearing up to launch an open edition series of figures designed by Yoshitomo Nara. Titled 123 Drumming Girls, the pieces feature Nara’s recognizable child-like characters in playful drummers’ uniforms with the numbers 1,2, and 3 embellished on their respective caps.

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UGO RONDINONE – NUNS + MONKS

Posted on 2020-10-12

The recent sculptures nuns + monks by Ugo Rondinone take their rightful place in the continuity of a narrative introduced by the artist thirty-two years ago. A narrative composed of chapters that would never cease to interact with one another throughout a trajectory made up of intertextual questions, back-and-forths, survivals, displacements, and reinventions of shapes and attitudes, or of interrogations that are constantly being renegotiated. This narrative originated in 1988 with the death of Manfred Kirchner, then Ugo Rondinone’s partner, from an AIDS-related illness. ‘In the midst of the AIDS crisis, I turned away from my grief and found a spiritual guard rail in nature, a place for comfort, regeneration and inspiration. In nature, you enter a space where the sacred and the profane, the mystical and the secular vibrate against one another.’

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to October 17th, 2020

Esther Schipper
Potsdamer Strasse 81E
10785 Berlin
Germany

www.estherschipper.com