LORAINE JAMES – RUNNING LIKE THAT

Posted on 2021-05-17

Loraine James follows up 2020’s Nothing EP with Reflection, her second full length for UK institution Hyperdub. Written during the lockdown summer of 2020, it explores themes of isolation, introspection and hope across eleven tracks. Technicolour, futuristic pop productions meld with R&B, drill and bass spectrum elements; a sonic exploration of contemporary black and queer narratives. For the Hyperdub collectors the crunchy eskibeat of ‘Self Doubt’ will no doubt be a welcome trip, with more wistful melancholic moments to be found on ‘Reflection’ and the Baths collaboration ‘On The Lake Outside’. There’s a backbone of club pressure throughout too, with ‘Let’s Go’ primed to be deadly a big soundsystem.

hyperdub.net

  

MICKEY MOUSE (MOSAIC ART STYLE) BY DISNEY X MILK

Posted on 2021-05-17

Hong Kong-based MILK continues its large-format Mickey Mouse (Mosaic Art) vinyl art toys with two new colorways— Red and Macaron. Officially licensed from Disney, the the 15.75″ figures feature the iconic mouse with an abstract, mixed-color mosaic tile style face. The Red edition features a blend of red, pink and white while Macaron offers a mix of lavender, pink and yellow hues.

Numbered editions of 299.

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NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN – MISFITS

Posted on 2021-05-17

For two decades, Nairy Baghramian has been conducting rigorous formal and conceptual research, investigating the relationship between architecture, object and the human body. In her reflection on the political potential of the sculptural form, she focuses on the importance of the physicality of the work, which embodies ideas and theoretical assumptions through its specific formal, material and presentational features.

Opposite – Misfits M, 2021

Exhibition runs through to July 24th, 2021

Marian Goodman Gallery
79 rue du temple
75003 Paris
France

www.mariangoodman.com

  

LA BOHÈME

Posted on 2021-05-17

To celebrate his gallery’s 30th anniversary in 2016, Alfonso Artiaco invited artists, collectors and friends in San Carlo to the opening night of La Bohème. The famed Puccini opera, created in 1896, depicts four artists (a poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher) who live in Paris in a garret overlooking rooftops, under very frugal circumstances that at heart are only the décor for the passionate life they decided to spend on the margins. Living differently with an unshakeable joie de vivre, carefree and a little bit outlandish, driven by their art day by day, in one word, they are magnificent.

The exhibition curated by Eric Troncy at Alfonso Artiaco gallery is built on the tremendous suggestive power of that term, La Bohème, and celebrates artists for their capacity to conjure up whimsy and fantasy. Wackiness is a classic attribute of contemporary artworks, but whimsy is more rare, a fantasy within which freedom, childlike wonderment, unencumbered creativity and an abundance of mischief toward formal and social conventions find plenty of room to be expressed.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to September 4th, 2021

Alfonso Artiaco
Piazzetta Nilo 7
80134 Napoli
Italy

www.alfonsoartiaco.com

  

JW ANDERSON X TOM OF FINLAND

Posted on 2021-05-17

Following the sold-out success of the brand’s 2020 edition, JW Anderson drops their 2nd limited-edition Tom of Finland capsule. The capsule collection for 2021 expands on the accessories offered previously with an assortment of ready-to-wear options featuring an untitled image by the artist.

“We had such a good time working on the first collection and working with the Foundation was a pleasure,” said Anderson about the second round of the capsule. “As a gay man and a designer, Tom of Finland has always fascinated me. I collect all types of art including his drawings. To be able to use them in a JW Anderson collection is so exciting. I am really proud of this year’s collection and love that we were able to expand it to include ready-to-wear.”

www.jwanderson.com

  

SARAH ENTWISTLE

Posted on 2021-05-17

Sarah Entwistle (b. 1979) works across multiple forms and often with found ready-mades to develop sculptural arrangements that recall interior still-lives.
These assemblages take their visual and conceptual cues from the informal archive of her late grandfather, architect Clive Entwistle (1916-1976) a manipulative figure whose numerous female lovers were drawn into often masochistic dynamics. In her first solo exhibition in Berlin Entwistle continues with the practice of spoliation in its expanded form, of borrowing and adaptive re-use of material from earlier constructs.

Her extended practice, a form of inter-generational processing both literal and metaphysical, is presented here through the accumulation and assembly of sculptural elements, video, figurative sketches, and woven tapestries. A collection of metal offcuts, industrial scrap, and crushed steel shelving units sit in still-life together with hand woven tapestries, ceramics and lighting elements that allude in scale, form, and composition to a domestic interior arrangement. A recurring motif of hands, seen as the conduits for caring and the cat’s paw knot as the allegorical structure of inter-generational exchange are explored in the video work, The dupe of another, and in figurative studies on paper.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2021

Galerie Barbara Thumm
Markgrafenstrasse 68
D-10969 Berlin
Germany

bthumm.de