From acclaimed writer, producer and restaurateur Eddie Huang comes his directorial debut BOOGIE, the coming-of-age story of Alfred “Boogie” Chin, a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York, who dreams of one day playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship to an elite college, Boogie must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, high school, on-court rivals and the burden of expectation.
In Theatres March 5th, 2021
TweetElena Tonra of Daughter resumes her Ex:Re moniker to present a reinterpretation of her debut solo album.
Originally released in 2018, Ex:Re (pronounced “Ex Ray” and meaning “regarding Ex”) laid bare Tonra’s unfiltered internal monologue after the end of a relationship. Containing her most personal lyrics to date and brought into being with the help of Stephenson and producer/drummer Fabian Prynn, Ex:Re struck a chord with the broken-hearted and brought closure to a chapter in Tonra’s life.
Ex:Re with 12 Ensemble reimagines and complements its predecessor. It was recorded by Fabian Prynn during performances at Kings Place (the multi-arts venue in London’s King’s Cross neighbourhood) on the 30th November 2019, where Tonra was joined onstage by Stephenson on piano and the 12-piece string orchestra, 12 Ensemble.
Released digitally on 19th February 2021
TweetWorking alongside LESS Taiwan, Nagaba has created a series of playful illustrations that draw equally from Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck’s Roman Holiday and the silhouettes of skater boys on the go.
The resulting illustrations of skating and Vespa riders are emblazoned atop a series of monochrome layering pieces and accessories, emphasizing Nagaba’s clean lines and minimalist shapes over fancy flourishes.
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Stunning, contemporary guitar and synth sessions from Tarotplane, a recent project of US musician PJ Dorsey which has so far appeared on Lullabies For Insomniacs and Aguirre. For the most part, Horizontology’s key is the name. A vision of stillness, ebbing and flowing gently to unhurried atmospheres and creeping arpeggios. ‘Malaysian Forest’ is particularly beautiful, its soothing plucked melody evoking pure calm. ‘Ritual Believer’ is Tarotplane experimenting with more overt rhythms.
TweetJulia Dubsky’s paintings weave a playful web of references to the history of painting and ideas drawn from literature. In a speculative essay ‘M/modesty’ to be published this Spring, she probes the notion of modesty and its application to the ‘feminine’. Her research for this essay coincided with the making of this recent body of paintings focussing on the ‘Fig Leaf’, modesty’s earliest symbol.
The works were made in Wexford, Ireland, and in Dubsky’s studio in Berlin. In both locations there was a fig tree nearby, whose leaves she drew over and over. In each space she also kept to hand an image of the painting Infidelity (1570-75) by Paolo Veronese. The work depicts a fig plant growing in front of a drape that is failing to perform its function as a cover for a woman’s nakedness (As TJ Clark notes in Heaven on Earth, Veronese would have been aware of the representational irony of painting a fig tree in front of a drape so that its decorativeness acts doubly: both imposed like decoration on the cloth depicted and as a decorative painting on stretched canvas.)
Opposite – Fig Rabbit Duck (Kaninchen und Ente), 2020
Exhibition runs through to March 27th, 2021
Amanda Wilkinson
1st Floor, 18 Brewer Street
W1F 0SH
London
Jessie Homer French is a self-taught artist whose paintings emerge from a continuous analysis of places surrounding her and reveal the artist’s personal and profound attitude to a local and transient type of composition. Homer French treats with delicate care existential issues related to death and personal loss, nature and climate changing, rural life and the beauty of wide-open outdoor spaces. In her work, humankind and nature are linked by an indissoluble bond, caught in a sardonic interplay in which
humanity appears as a toxic intruder in a melancholic environment.
The exhibition features nineteen works that range from the late eighties until the present day, all speaking about the lands of the Pacific Northwest and Southern California, where the artist lives and works. The paintings appear as sensitive commentaries on the places surrounding her, and the narrative element of her work is made clear by the titles placed on the recto of the canvases and plywood.
Opposite – Ezra and the Skunk, 1988
Exhibition runs through to April 17th, 2021
MASSIMODECARLO
55 South Audley Street
W1K 2QH
London
