SUE WILLIAMS

Posted on 2020-11-30

From her early works as feminist provocatrice, to her middle period as tongue-in-cheek expressionist and her more recent paintings that symphonize critiques of American power structures with formal and chromatic experimentation, Williams has attuned herself to the insidious and unavoidable truths that stick in the craw of our supposedly benevolent universe.

In 2020, the brutal reality of living in the waning days of American Empire has allowed Williams to consider how we might have arrived at this point. Her new paintings are suffused with images of colonial times: disembodied Pilgrim clogs, Tudor cabins, horses outfitted with blinders, the literal nuts & bolts that prefigured the industrial revolution, Betsy Ross as a dinosaur. The suggestion that America is founded on violence and manipulation, that the post-truth, post-Trump, post-COVID world is not an anomaly but a continuation of a status quo built over the past 400 years, doesn’t seem far-fetched. A painting titled “Land Of Profit and Coincidence” would resonate equally in 1620 or 2020.

Opposite – Pilgrims Progress

Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2021

303 Gallery
555 W 21st Street
NY 10011
New York

www.303gallery.com

  

ARCHENEMY

Posted on 2020-11-30

Max Fist (Manganiello) claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to Earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster. Together, they take to the streets to wipe out the local drug syndicate and its vicious crime boss known as The Manager.

In Theatres and On Demand December 11, 2020

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KEELEY FORSYTH – PHOTOGRAPH

Posted on 2020-11-30

Keeley Forsyth’s Photograph EP follows her celebrated debut album Debris, which is starting to find its way into the end of year lists, including the prestigious Rough Trade top 100 and Uncut’s albums of year. Photograph suggests a broadening of Forsyth’s musical horizons, with all paths open for where she takes her exquisite avant-pop next.

www.theleaflabel.com

  

ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA – FAMILY SKIN

Posted on 2020-11-30

The theme of the Polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska is the human body – and especially that of the female – as a projection surface. Handed down notions, fantasies, prejudices and alienation are the focus of her series of works. Using photographic and sculptural means, she explores the construction of a physical aesthetic as an ideal image, and also by opposing it with the traces of age and disfigurement.
The human skin-shell is the proverbial surface of that which is visible, and thus oscillates between truth, fiction and elegant illusion.

Opposite – Mama #32, 2018

Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2021

Francisco Carolinum Linz
Museumstr. 14
4010 Linz

www.ooelkg.at

  

ADIDAS ORIGINALS BY NOAH

Posted on 2020-11-30

Building on the convergence of elevated design and sporting heritage established with the previous season’s offering, adidas Originals and Noah have come together to present two striking color updates to the classic Gazelle OG silhouette.

A firm favorite of Noah co-founder Brendon Babenzien, this hand-picked slimmer version of the Gazelle OG pays homage to the distinct aesthetic popular in New York City during the late 80s and early 90s.

The collection’s unorthodox take on the Gazelle offers two executions inspired by the seasonal Noah collection – a canvas shoe with a multicolor camo print; and a pony hair effect shoe with cheetah print.

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UTE MAHLER & WERNER MAHLER

Posted on 2020-11-30

For this series, both photographers toured Europe’s major rivers and streams – the Elbe, Rhine/Waal, Danube, Po and Volga – where social, ecological, political, economic and historical themes become apparent and enable both artists to create a superlative portrait of Europe. In images that are both emotionally powerful and photographically impressive, they depict extracts from life, architecture, and portraits along Europe’s biggest streams. The artists started at the Elbe, the Rhine and the Danube in Bulgaria in 2019.

The Po followed that autumn and in February 2020 they continued on their journey to the Volga. Visits to other rivers – the Rhône, Dnieper and Tagus – are planned. Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler who have been working together for a few years now are photographing the series in black and white with an analogue large-format camera.

Opposite – Ute & Werner Mahler; Po #412 – At the Streams / An den Strömen, 2019

Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2021

Galerie Springer Berlin
Fasanenstr. 13
10623 Berlin

www.galeriespringer.de