GIANNI BERENGO GARDIN

Posted on 2021-06-21

Gianni Berengo Gardin is an Italian photographer who has worked for Le Figaro and Time Magazine. Considered an artistic heir to Henri Cartier-Bresson, like Bresson he has long used and admired Leica rangefinders. His work has been published in more than 200 photographic books and shown in the most prestigious galleries and museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Now in his 90’s, Gardin boasts a personal archive of more than a million pictures.

Opposite – Lido Di Venezia, Venice, 1959

Exhibition runs through to August 7th, 2021

Peter Fetterman Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue Gallery A1
Los Angeles
CA 90404

www.peterfetterman.com

  

KODAK X KNICKERBOCKER

Posted on 2021-06-21

New York’s Knickerbocker has just released a full capsule dedicated to the founding years of The Eastman Kodak Company.

Referencing vintage ads, the collection goes deep into Kodak’s rich archives for a number of items designed with the brand’s modern fashion sensibility combined with a photographer’s need for utility. Arriving in the form of camera club jackets, park polos, camera shorts, camera vests, caps, and T-shirts, the capsule sees the original logo from the ’30s and graphics inspired by magazine clippings and the soccer jersey pattern worn by the 1921 Camera Work’s Soccer Team.

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MIKA ROTTENBERG

Posted on 2021-06-21

Considered one of the most significant figures working in the video medium today, Argentina-born and New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg is devoted to a rigorous practice that combines film, installation, and sculpture. Exploring ideas of labour and the production of value in our contemporary hyper-capitalist world, Rottenberg shrewdly blends factual documentation and studio-built fiction to reveal the hidden dynamism of everyday systems and economies. For the artist’s first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, Rottenberg’s most recent and acclaimed video work, ‘Spaghetti Blockchain’ (2019), which debuted at New Museum in New York, will be on view at the Zurich gallery. In addition, Rottenberg will show for the first time three kinetic sculptures and new drawings made in the last year, which will be shown alongside video work ‘Sneeze’ (2012) and mechanical sculptures ‘Finger’ (2019) and ‘Ponytail (Gray)’ (2019).

Opposite – Spaghetti Blockchain, 2019


Exhibition runs through to August 27th, 2021

Hauser & Wirth
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zürich
Switzerland

www.hauserwirth.com

  

THOMAS DOWNING – PAINTINGS

Posted on 2021-06-21

Downing was one of the most preeminent artists of the Washington Color Field Movement, along with Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Howard Mehring (with whom he shared a studio), and Sam Gilliam, among others. He is known for his use of dots, a motif that he used in his work throughout the 1960s and 70s in different series, such as the Rings and Dials (Untitled, c. 1964 below). As with other members of the Washington Color Field School, Downing’s painting technique consisted of letting the paint be absorbed by the by unprimed canvas, as, in his own words, “There is no better way to get full benefit of the resonating depth of a color than by saturating a piece of cloth with it. Any color which is soaked into fabric will be much more luminous than if it is painted on top of the fabric.” He also worked with shaped canvases (Untitled, 1959 is included in the exhibition) earlier in his career and again in the 1970s, in which he kept exploring with color, this time fully painting the canvas to the edge, giving the impression of an expanding, open space.

Opposite – Untitled, c. 1964

Exhibition runs through to September 10th, 2021

Mignoni
960 Madison Avenue, Second Floor
NY 10021
New York

www.mignoniart.com

  

ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Posted on 2021-06-21

It’s not where you go. It’s what you leave behind . . . Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?), this unflinching look at Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.

In theatres July 16th, 2021

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JOE BELL

Posted on 2021-06-21

The drama is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men) from a script by the Brokeback Mountain duo of Diana Ossana and the late author/scribe Larry McMurtry. It veers from Wahlberg’s wheelhouse. He plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying. The themes of tolerance and listening to your children are timely topics.

In theatres July 23rd, 2021

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