BE@RBRICK X KRINK 1000%
2020-12-07Krink have released a special edition 1000% sculpture with Medicom Toy’s BE@RBRICK. The large collectible stands at 27.5 inches (70cmm) and features Krink’s iconic silver drip. Limited quantity available.
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STREET. LIFE. PHOTOGRAPHY
2020-12-07The exhibition Street. Life. Photography presents around 220 works by thirty-six international photographers made over the last seventy years. These works present a variety of different perspectives on urban life, while also showcasing the art of taking photographs on the street and in the city. How have photographers viewed the city and its inhabitants both now and in the past? To what extent is our understanding of public and private space and our relationship to our urban environment reflected in their works? How have views of the city – and thus also the genre of street photography – changed over the course of time?
In this exhibition, international contemporary photographers like Maciej Dakowicz, Loredana Nemes and Harri Pälviranta are contrasted with historical positions such as those of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, William Klein, Harry Callahan and Lisette Model. This comparison of historical and contemporary works enables visitors to appreciate key trends and important technical, conceptual and aesthetic developments. The exhibition is divided into five kaleidoscopically arranged sections with different thematic approaches. The specific focuses on Street Life, Crashes, Public Transfer, Anonymity and Alienation highlight surprising and sometimes strange connections.
Opposite – Natan Dvir: Juicy Couture 01
Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2021
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44 + 45
CH-8400 Winterthur
RAPHAELA SIMON – THE FASHION SHOW
2020-12-07Conceived for the capital of fashion, The Fashion Show presents a recent body of work that testifies to the development of the artist’s visual vocabulary. Raphaela Simon shifts towards a simplified and almost analytical figuration. Her large canvases aspire to summarise their subjects rather than describe them in a realistic way. The artist endeavours to produce apparently simple compositions, applying, over monochrome backgrounds, synthetized motifs of familiar objects. Like key words, or icons, provided by the artist for us to decode each canvas, the elementary work titles such as, Pantolette (mule) or Dicker Schuh (big shoe), keep the viewer at a distance. The shoes displayed here thus take on a totemic dimension.
Alongside these large canvases, coexist the life-sized fabric figures of thin fashion show models and their dressers, actively bustling. Having recently appeared in Simon’s work, these meticulously staged, colourful sculptures, develop their own narratives and dialogue with the artist’s works on canvas.
In addition to the glamorous shades and platform shoes, accessories that reflect the pages of fashion magazines, the body of works selected comprises some apparently odd ones out. Some are perhaps even slightly provocative, such as the monumental representation of a Fleischwurst, a German sausage, referencing the popular culture of the artist’s homeland, as well as a gun, a tennis racket and a ski boot.
Opposite – Fleischwurst, 2020
Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2021
Galerie Max Hetzler
57, rue du Temple
75004 Paris
France
THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART
2020-12-07The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart chronicles the triumphs and hurdles of brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb, otherwise known as the Bee Gees. The iconic trio, who found early fame in the 1960s, went on to write over 1,000 songs and have 20 No. 1 hits throughout their career, transcending more than five decades of changing tastes and styles.
Streaming via HBO from 12th December.
TweetPIETER VERMEERSCH
2020-12-07Vermeersch’s artwork feeds on all the antagonisms of the discipline, seeking, for example, to be both !gurative (it always has a photographic source, and these photographs are always made by Vermeersch, even when they are what he calls “accidental”) and abstract (because these “accidental” photographs often only have to o”er a few informal color variations). Even when the canvas is “abstract,” it is paradoxically fabricated as a photorealistic painting, the photographic image being reproduced in it through a meticulous system of grids. Of the canvas, it
sometimes only retains the format, leading it towards other media: in the Paris exhibition, the !rst room includes silkscreen prints on marble and the last room displays a set of oil paintings on fossilized wood, a wood that, as Vermeersch puts it, time has “mineralized.” In the marble silkscreen prints, “matter becomes image” in favor of an “industrialization of pointillism.”
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2021
Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France
THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS: STANLEY KUBRICK PHOTOGRAPHS
2020-12-07During his five years at Look magazine, Kubrick learned to see life through a camera lens, he observed human interactions, developed stories through images and learned to work as a team. This experience helped him build his vision and proved particularly useful when he decided to embark on a career as a filmmaker.
After working on several documentaries without making a profit, Kubrick realised that if he wanted to make a career in film, he had to switch to fiction. He resigned from Look in 1950 and his first feature film, Fear and Desire was released three years later. Twelve iconic films followed, from Paths of Glory (1957) to Eyes Wide Shut (1999) his last feature film. He also directed Spartacus (1960), Lolita (1962), The Shining (1980) and Full Metal Jacket (1987).
Opposite – People Mugging, 1946
Exhibition runs through to January 31st, 2021
Musée des beaux-arts
Marie-Anne-Calame 6
CH – 2400 Le Locle
