HERMANNI KEKO – RAY TRACING

Posted on 2021-10-18

Hermanni Keko’s (b. 1987) new exhibition is named Ray Tracing, alluding to an analog apparatus for perspective drawing invented by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Dubbed Dürer’s door, the device uses threads to transfer three-dimensional objects onto a flat surface by emulating the path of light from the object to the viewer’s eye. The Dürer’s door reference makes a broader metaphoric statement about Keko’s exhibition, for he applies the method in reverse, intuitively tracing rays from the eye back to the object. Keko’s fuzzy, conceptual rays acquire a variety of shapes and forms as he inscribes them on his canvas. The lines dance upon the canvas as the hook that holds together the floating compositional elements, which the artist describes as existing in a state of flux, constantly unfurling in temporary guises of form and color, ever-changing and regrouping in new configurations. This state of flux is like a metaphor for human life and the way our selfhood and personality are constantly moving and changing, whether compelled by inner forces or external exigencies.

Opposite – The Thread, 2021

Exhibition runs through to October 24th, 2021

Galerie Forsblom
Galerie Forsblom Yrjönkatu 22
00120 Helsinki
Finland

www.galerieforsblom.com

  

JULIAN SCHNABEL

Posted on 2021-10-18

Since the late 1970s, Julian Schnabel has sought to transform the possibilities of painting, through the use of unconventional materials, chance-based processes, large formats, gestures and charged pictorial grounds. His works marked a departure from painting as conventionally understood and were pivotal in the reemergence of painting in the United States, with his infuence still visible today.
Featuring eleven new works, all painted with a large Japanese calligraphy brush, in a visceral red ink, the exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler sees the artist experimenting with liquids, how things dry, and the power of the artist’s mark—how images come out of other things: ‘There’s always been this investigation’, he explains, ‘into how the paint sits on the surface and how to get a certain kind of painted reality to coexist with another one.

Opposite – The Second Version of the Tower of Babel II, 2020

Exhibition runs through to October 30th, 2021

Galerie Max Hetzler
Goethestraße 2/3
10623 Berlin
Germany

www.maxhetzler.com

  

CHANEL N°5 THE CALENDAR HOLIDAY 2021

Posted on 2021-10-15

A complex fragrance blend, a streamlined bottle, a number for a name. When Gabrielle Chanel invented N°5 in 1921, she created a fragrance unlike any other, instantly ushering the fragrances of the era out of fashion. With N°5, Mademoiselle broke free of convention and revolutionized the world of perfumery.

Shaped like an enormous bottle of N°5, this holiday calendar was designed as a work of art and is available in limited quantities. Far from conventional, the calendar includes 27 boxes numbered from 5 to 31. 5 for the perfume, 31 for the mythical address. Everything makes sense.

It contains some of the CHANEL House’s most iconic products. Among its many surprises are a limited-edition ROUGE ALLURE lipstick inspired by N°5, LE VERNIS in a new shade of red, and a bottle of N°5 Eau de Parfum, as well as a bracelet bearing the number 5, a one-of-a-kind snow globe, and a host of other accessories dedicated to the fragrance and designed just for the occasion.

www.chanel.com

  

MARMOT MAMMOTH PARKA

Posted on 2021-10-11

Originally designed as a basecamp coat and later coined the “Big Boy” due to its oversized look, the coat has remained a huge staple of New York fashion and returns in six new shades. In fact, when it first resurfaced in a 2019 Opening Ceremony collaboration, the demand outpaced production and buyers would have to resort to scouring resell sites like eBay and Grailed and purchase it for triple the retail value. The jacket — which is ideal for East Coast winters given its GORE-TEX weather protection — remains highly coveted for its style and utility.

The latest iterations of the Marmot Mammoth Parka range from bright colors like vibrant cherry tomato/solar, clear blue/team red to neutrals like Crocodile/Scotch and Black/Citronelle.

www.marmot.com

  

HOW SHE SEES

Posted on 2021-10-11

Inspired by exhibition: The New Women Behind The Camera, the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art jointly curated with the National Gallery of Art, How She Sees: Several Exceptional Women Photographers 1919 – 1970, seeks to highlight several female artists that all made significant contributions to the field of fine art photography and the art world as a whole. With works ranging from the early 1900’s up to the 1960’s, each of these women created compelling bodies of work: some revolutionary in changing the often predictable aesthetics of their time, while others opened doors and inspired many artists who came after them.

Opposite – Elisabeth Hase, Badeszenen, 1932-33

Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2021

Robert Mann Gallery
14 East 80Th Street
New York
NY 10075

www.robertmann.com

  

GOTTFRIED JÄGER – INTERSECTION OF COLOR

Posted on 2021-10-11

Known as one of the greatest figures in German photography, Gottfried Jäger (b. 1937, Burg near Magdeburg) is an exper-imental artist who, over the years, redefined the term “photography”. In breaking the boundaries of what the camera can accomplish, Jäger reexamines the objectivity of the photographic process. In 1968, during the movement of Concrete Art, Jäger developed the concept and theory of Generative Photography. In his words, it consists of “finding a new world inside the camera and trying to bring it out with methodical and analytical methods.”

Opposite – Multiple Optics 4.52, 1980

Exhibition runs through to November 27th, 2021

Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
16 East 71st Street
New York
NY 10021

www.souslesetoilesgallery.net