DJORDJE OZBOLT – SING ME A SONG

Posted on 2021-05-10

Sing Me a Song, brings together a suite of eight recent paintings, a group of work chosen for its unifying format of small icon boards, a format he has constantly returned to over the years. Ozbolt imports these boards from his native Serbia were they are used for traditional, religious iconography, for him this is both a deliberate reference but also useful springboard for departure. During lockdown Ozbolt decided to sand down some of his older works on these boards, in doing so he was presented with an unexpected backdrop from which to re-start, these cloudy and monochromatic backdrops can be seen in many of the new paintings.

Opposite – High Anxiety, 2021

Exhibition runs through to May 28th, 2021

Herald St
43 Museum St
WC1A 1LY
London

www.heraldst.com

  

MERYL MEISLER- BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES

Posted on 2021-05-10

Meryl Meisler was photographing her life in and around New York City with the same sense of exploration and possibility as those pioneering Light Work AIRs. Retiring from decades as a public-school art teacher, Meisler began to unearth and rethink her own archive. Part-time capsule of the 70s and 80s and part memoir, The Best of Time, Worst of Times is an invitation to join her for a wild ride—disco nights, punk bars, strip clubs, Fire Island, family, friends and neighbors, and suburban Long Island. Her exuberant celebration of human connection is particularly poignant now, when we can take none of these gatherings for granted. Meisler clearly celebrates with her subjects. These are her people: she is not an outsider but a participant. She depicts our own shared humanity, humor, and joy.

Opposite – Early morning coffee, Harlem, 1974

Exhibition runs through to July 23rd, 2021

Light Work Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery
316 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse
NY 13244

www.lightwork.org

  

UGO RONDINONE – A SKY . A SEA . DISTANT MOUNTAINS . HORSES . SPRING .

Posted on 2021-05-10

“The title of the exhibition a sky . a sea . distant mountains . horses . spring . reads simultaneously as a stage direction and a checklist of archetypes that take into account the watery, fluctuating state of life as it is lived, complete with the fullest range of emotions, desires and dreams. As in dreams, they are visible signs for something invisible. Taken together, they define the intersection of symbolism and spirituality.”

Ugo Rondinone, 2021

Opposite – baltic sea, 2021

Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2021

Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street
W1B 5QN
London

www.sadiecoles.com

  

BROSH X MARVEL

Posted on 2021-05-10

This pomade is characterized by its thick consistency and stickiness. According to BROSH, it will give off the slick quality of vintage pomades with a strong hold made from a combination of gel and wax. The grooming essential comes with the scent of neroli, which is especially fragrant. Furthermore, a retro-inspired design covers the pomade’s packaging, emblazoned with comic-style illustrations colored primarily in red and blue as a nod to the patriotic Marvel character.

broshpomade.com

  

BURIAL – DARK GETHSEMANE

Posted on 2021-05-04

Two enigmatic architects of the UK bass and dubstep scenes world collide, the man of many prefixes teams up with the man who prefers to play his cards closer to his chest. Whilst predominantly working with like-minded dubstep impresario Dust, producer, journalist, DJ, Keysound Recordings boss and long-time Rinse FM radio host Martin Clark aka Blackdown has always shared an orbit with Burial. But after years of trading remixes, Shock Power of Love EP finally matches the two producers’ shared rhythmic, spatial and atmospheric sensibilities on one release.

burial.bandcamp.com

  

VLADISLAV DELAY – RAKKA II

Posted on 2021-05-04

In 2020 Cosmo Rhythmatic released ‘Rakka,’ which presented Sasu Ripatti’s glorious return to his most famous alias: Vladislav Delay. Nonetheless, the album contents made it evident that this eventual comeback was not intended as a revival. Ripatti was reactivating the project and a steadfast evolution in its sound, a new approach to both the emotional and environmental characteristics of electronic composition.

The inspiration for this new course was given to Ripatti by a series of ventures into the wilderness of his native Finland, confronting “The raw, undefined, uncontrolled and uncorrupted power that exists within it.” The result is a hyperbolic, extreme ecosystem of sound populated by fast-moving drones, dense clouds on noise, and tectonic bass rumbles with hints of harmony birthed by harsh tonal contrasts. The sheer intensity of the music was only matched by the rigor of its craft.

2021 sees the coming of the second chapter in that very same journey. ‘Rakka II,’ once more on Cosmo Rhythmatic and made of that very same impassioned matter. Tho while on the first one, Ripatti seemed intent to portray the elemental forces as free, unabashed, and unconstrained by musical structures, here he appears to compile some of it in beats and progressions that have something in common with the wildest sides of dance music. It’s like consciousness tuning in with the non-human after struggling with its apparent distance and hostility, accepting its uncoded structures, and finally finding a common language for reconciliation.

vladislavdelay.bandcamp.com