LAURENT GRASSO – FUTURE HERBARIUM

Posted on 2021-04-05

The exhibition, Grasso’s first solo presentation with Perrotin in Hong Kong, is titled after his latest investigation into the idea of exploring the contemporary world anew. Key to these ongoing studies is his recently debuted film Artificialis, which was produced in collaboration with the Musée d’Orsay, in dialogue with its exhibition, The Origins of the World: The Invention of Nature in the 19th Century. In parallel to his monumental installation Artificialis at Musée d’Orsay, Grasso developed Future Herbarium, a body of painted and sculpted flowers executed in the manner of nineteenth-century herbariums, shaped by observations of different species of flowers that mutated after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.

Exhibited alongside Future Herbarium, Solar Wind, a video installation also presented at the new Jeonnam Museum of Art, South Korea in March, explores concepts of science, belief, illusion, and fiction, based on the artist’s interest in solar storms and space meteorology. Inspired by his permanent light installation on the outskirts of the thirteenth arrondissement in Paris, Solar Wind visually renders in real time, in the form of colored undulations, the activity occurring on the surface of the Sun.

Opposite – Solar Wind, 2020

Exhibition runs through to April 24th, 2021

Perrotin
807, 8/F, K11 Atelier Victoria Dockside
18 Salisbury Road
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Central Hong Kong
China

www.perrotin.com

  

CHRISTIAN NEWBY – THE DRUM, THE CHIME, THE SCRAPE, THE SPLASH, THE JERK

Posted on 2021-04-05

Newby incorporates techniques from industrial textile production into a drawing practice that aims to subvert the assumptions pertaining to value and skill within fine and applied arts practice, as well as challenge the design principles and craft rhetoric commonly associated with carpet tufting.

The works on display are made using a handheld industrial carpet-tufting gun and created through a process of improvised drawing. He is currently looking at the carpet-tufting gun as a case study in how the roles of artist, artisan and fabricator are determined by terminal belief systems in productivity and commodification. His unique technique of ‘drawing with carpet’ redirects the manufacturing function of the gun and instead explores its capacities as a mark-making tool, while observing it as a fundamental equivalent to the pencil, spray can, paintbrush and tattoo needle. His works carry an awareness of the anonymity of globalized commercial production and mass labour, in direct contrast with the skilful mastery equated with artisanal handicraft.

Opposite – Raspberry-Jail, 2020

Exhibition runs through to May 29th, 2021

Patricia Fleming Gallery
80 Nicholson St
G5 9ER
Glasgow

www.patricia-fleming.com

  

LANVIN CURB TRAINERS

Posted on 2021-04-05

The sneaker’s oversized tongue and chunky construction reference its 1990s skateboarding influence, and particularly a nod to the Osiris D3, while the laces on each pair are inspired by woven accessories used with Japanese kimonos.

Lanvin creative director Bruno Sialelli said, “I want to create characters and dress them in their imaginary everyday lives. For the Winter 2020 collection, I imagined skateboarders as they were captured in Hugh Holland’s photos. These sneakers were, in my opinion, the most evident and relevant pieces to correctly represent and understand these characters.”

www.lanvin.com

  

ROMAN FLUGEL – ANIMA EP

Posted on 2021-04-05

New EP by Roman Flügel on Running Back. Prolonging 2020s Garden Party euphoria, D.I.S.C.O. is available in full glory and as a dub version, while Anima and Eating Darkness foreshadow his up and coming long player. Following boldness with enchanting sobriety, rigorous sound design and minimalist beauty, one works on and the other off the dance floor.

runningbackrecords.bandcamp.com

  

GHOST WARRIOR – MEET AT INFINITY

Posted on 2021-04-05

Across 4 tracks the ‘Meet At Infinity’ ep is clinical, stark, cold beats delivered with measured finesse and perfect balance. Everything that we have come to expect from Ghost Warrior production are here in plentiful supply.

wellstreetrecords.bandcamp.com

  

ROOMS THAT RESONATE WITH POSSIBILITIES

Posted on 2021-04-05

When we think of rooms most of us draw on mental pictures of predictable spaces that are very familiar and give us a sense of security. We tend to see, and live in a fixed and predictable diurnal environment. But for many photographers rooms or interior spaces have often presented themselves as challenges and invitations to see creatively and not be hemmed in by social conventions. A room, as a subject, can resonate with potential possibilities. It can metaphorically be akin to an artist’s palette waiting to be brought to life through a new creation. The photographs of Karen Knorr, Massimo Listri, Sandy Skoglund, Michael Eastman, John Dugdale and Bernard Faucon present new approaches and unique visions to picturing space.

Opposite – Karen Knorr, Emptiness no Other than Form, Obai-in, Kyoto

Exhibition runs through to May 8th, 2021

Holden Luntz Gallery
332 Worth Avenue
Palm Beach
FL 33480

www.holdenluntz.com