RONI HORN – RECENT WORK

Posted on 2021-03-01

Roni Horn has spent the past four decades questioning accepted notions of identity and meaning, thwarting closure and opening up new possibilities of perception through her expansive body of work across mediums. Beginning 23 February, ‘Roni Horn. Recent Work’ will present the artist’s latest achievements in the realm of drawing, a medium she has described as ‘a kind of breathing activity on a daily level.’

Here, intricate works on paper extend Horn’s masterful use of mirroring and textual play to explore the materiality of color and the sculptural potential of the medium. Her preoccupation with language permeates these works; scattered words read as a stream of consciousness spiraling across the paper. In addition to pieces from her series Wits’ End Mash and Yet, the exhibition will present for the first time LOG (March 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020), (2019 – 2020), a new large-scale installation comprised of more than 400 individual works on paper, the result of a daily ritual of art making undertaken by Horn for a span of fourteen months.

Opposite – LOG (March 22, 2019–May 17, 2020), 2019-2020

Exhibition runs through to April 10th, 2021

Hauser & Wirth
548 West 22nd Street
10011 New York
USA

www.hauserwirth.com

  

BALLAHOLIC X ASICS GEL-QUANTUM 180

Posted on 2021-03-01

Streetball-inspired Japanese brand Ballaholic and ASICS have dropped a colorful take on the GEL-QUANTUM 180. Blue and cream are the main tones used, with the former concentrated around the quarter, tongue and heel while the latter is used on the quarter, toebox and collar. A smoky dark gray makes its presence felt on the Tiger stripe, the mudguard and the heel clip, the last of which features a debossed yellow Ballaholic logo.

www.asics.com

  

LUCA YUPANQUI – V2.2

Posted on 2021-03-01

Luca Yupanqui Sounds of the Unborn was made with biosonic MIDI technology by musicians Elizabeth Hart (Psychic Ills bassist) and Argentine producer Iván Diaz Mathé. It’s the expression of life in its cosmic state — pre-mind, pre-speculation, pre-influence, and pre-human. With the MIDI devices hooked up to Elizabeth’s pregnant stomach, the pair translated the electrical impulses produced by Luca and Elizabeth’s bodies into sound using synthesizers. They let the free-form meditations flow without much interference and allowed the recordings to evolve naturally.

This innovative technique propelled Elizabeth and Iván into uncharted territory as musicians. A new language was being created, a new form of communication. It was a music without intellect or intentionality behind it, with no preconception or attempt to create any specific sound or melody. Every note on Sounds of the Unborn occurred naturally.

Out April 2, 2021.

www.sacredbonesrecords.com

  

WENDEL WHITE – MANIFEST

Posted on 2021-03-01

The Manifest portfolio consists of photographic representations of objects, documents, photographs, and books held in various public collections throughout the U.S. These repositories include various elements of material culture such as diaries, slave collars, human hair, a drum, souvenirs, and other objects, some with great significance and others simply quotidian representations of daily life in the history of the African American community. I am increasingly interested in the residual power of the past to inhabit these material remains. The ability of objects to transcend lives, centuries, and millennia, suggests a remarkable mechanism for folding time, bringing the past and the present into a shared space that is uniquely suited to artistic exploration.

Manifest is an effort to seek out the artifacts and material evidence of the American construct and representation of race. The histories of slavery, abolition, segregation, the U.S. Civil War, and the Civil Rights Era are a few of the narratives that emerge in these photographs. The content is remarkable, visual evidence of lives and events; however, I also intend the viewer to consider this informal reliquary as a survey of the impulse and motivation to preserve history, memory and to imbue the remnants of material culture with power.

Opposite – Ambrotype of Frederick Douglass, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC, 2016

Exhibition runs through to March 27th, 2021

Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland
OR 97209

www.blueskygallery.org