SARAH SLAPPEY – TIED UP II

Posted on 2020-11-02

The lithograph “Tied Up II” has been produced on this occasion to combine with exhibition, Tenderizer. That was on view at Galerie Maria Bernheim in Zürich.

The sensuality, humor, awkwardness, and grotesque qualities of femininity are encapsulated in the meager tampon string. This little tail is so banal, but also ridiculous, strange and particular to the female experience. Drawing out and expanding upon the string’s absurdity yields a particularly humorous potential: what if it was so long it could become entangled with a fellow tampon wearer? Hands become bound, bodies stuck together, and even more surreal, if the two ends were lit on fire, whose would burn first? The figure’s grace and sensuality are undercut by a feeling of repulsion and crude whimsy, emotional dualities that echo the feeling of living in a female body.

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WES LANG

Posted on 2020-11-02

Over the last several decades, artist Wes Lang has been honing his craft involving, amongst other things, a tireless, obsessive mining of a post-pop American landscape. A great many of the artist’s influences are a function of a distinct autobiographical experience with certain exceptions; the indigenous American as well as other totems of the American West, and painters and sculptors from middle of last century such as Twombly, Guston, Kline, Mitchell, Bacon dove-tailing on up to the more contemporary such as Basquiat, Kippenberger, and Mike Kelley. To date, Lang has made his mark primarily on canvas and paper, though his practice extends to include cast bronze sculpture, collage, hotel stationary, fabric, glass and precious metals, and is known for creating surfaces that sizzle; bombastic mélanges often brimming with elegantly rendered, still rough-around-the-edges imagery of grim reapers, Indian chiefs, fallen country music icons, sultry seductresses, long lost folk legends, dead authors, motorcycles, roses and other flora, birds, horses, all of which jockey for prominence within compositions sewn together (and resolved) by cryptic scrawls with a bittersweet vernacular resonate of Ram Dass and the Tao by way of the edge of the universe.

Opposite – My Mirage, 2020

Exhibition runs through to February 27th, 2021

Almine Rech
64 Rue de Turenne
75003 Paris

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THE DARK AND THE WICKED

Posted on 2020-11-02

On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. Bedridden and fighting through his final breaths, he’s a source of deep sadness for his wife, who’s succumbing to overwhelming grief. To help their mother and say their goodbyes to their father, grown-up siblings Louise (Marin Ireland) and Michael (Michael Abbott Jr.) return to their family farm. It doesn’t take long for them to see that something’s wrong with mom, though—something more than her heavy sorrow. Gradually, as their own grief mounts, Louise and Michael begin suffering from a darkness similar to their mother’s, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over their family.

In theatres November 6th, 2020

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MARY CORSE – VARIATIONS

Posted on 2020-11-02

While the exhibition serves as a timely reflection on our current period in history, with most of the works completed in 2020 in the artist’s studio in Topanga, Los Angeles, the show is also a marker of Corse’s practice to date, with these new works directly referencing different series developed throughout her career. In the presentation, the language that threads through all of the artist’s work can be viewed in variations through history, from the 1960s to 2020.

Opposite – Untitled (Double Cross), 2020

Exhibition runs through to November 7th, 2020

Lisson Gallery
27 Bell Street
NW1 5BY
London

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KINDRED

Posted on 2020-11-02

When her boyfriend dies suddenly in an accident, psychologically fragile mother-to-be Charlotte is taken in by his family – but they seem increasingly obsessed with her every move. Her suspicions grow and panic builds – but just how far will they go in their desire to control her and her unborn baby?

In theatres November 6th, 2020

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RONNIE HEREL PRESENTS NEO SOUL SESSIONS VOL. 1

Posted on 2020-11-02

Cutting his teeth on the 80’s and 90s club scene in London, MOBO nominated DJ and producer Ronnie Herel has been a powerful champion of high-quality soulful music in the UK for over 3 decades. One of BBC Radio 1Xtra’s first signings, Ronnie went on to scout talent for TV show‚ The Voice’ before finding a new home as head of music at internationally renowned station Mi Soul.

Offering up a meticulously selected selection of hip-hop soul gems, Ronnie Herel’s Neo Soul Sessions Vol. 1 shines a light on a number of incredible artists, singers, songwriters, musicians and producers who find themselves in the netherworld between ‘underground’ and ‘overground’: too accomplished to fall into the former category, yet not ‘mainstream’ enough to fall into the latter. “The fact is” says Herel, “there’s a whole world of smokin’ grooves out there that most of the time gets overlooked for radio playlists; the powers-that- be opting for the more manufactured, purpose-built mainstream record.”

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