66°NORTH SS22

Posted on 2022-02-28

Icelandic label 66°North returns for Spring/Summer 2022 with an array of outerwear engineered to cope with all weather conditions.

Summer on the North Atlantic island can often be as harsh as British winters, so the Icelandic outfit decided to craft a SS22 collection that can be worn all year round, no matter the climate. Uncompromising in quality and consciously streamlined, this season is a celebration of 66°North’s core products which have been refreshed in a variety of colors.

www.66north.com

  

EMPIRE – IMPRESSIONS FROM CHINA

Posted on 2022-02-28

30 female-identifying artists from 20 different countries diversely explore the female-identifying gaze in this exhibition centered on the naked body in contemporary photography.

NUDE is a collection of images that portray the body through beautiful, disruptive, and experimental lenses, seeking to subvert the historically predominant male gaze and celebrate the human form.

Opposite – Lunch break, Shanghai, China, 1995

Exhibition runs through to March 19th, 2022

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

www.souslesetoilesgallery.net

  

BIG THIEF – DRAGON NEW WARM MOUNTAIN I BELIEVE IN YOU

Posted on 2022-02-28

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief. To truly dig into all that the music of Adrianne Lenker, Max Oleartchik, Buck Meek, and James Krivchenia desired in 2020, the band decided to write and record a rambling account of growth as individuals, musicians, and chosen family over 4 distinct recording sessions. In Upstate New York, Topanga Canyon, The Rocky Mountains, and Tucson, Arizona, Big Thief spent 5 months in creation and came out with 45 completed songs. The most resonant of this material was edited down into the 20 tracks that make up DNWMIBIY, a fluid and adventurous listen. The album was produced by drummer James Krivchenia who initially pitched the recording concept for DNWMIBIY back in late 2019 with the goal of encapsulating the many different aspects of Adrianne’s songwriting and the band onto a single record.

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FAIRYTALE MEMI BY ABAO X UNBOX INDUSTRIES

Posted on 2022-02-28

From the morbid mind of Abao comes the latest spider child hybrid horror. The Fairytale Memi vinyl art toy produced by Unbox Industries features a bright, colorful version of the five-eyed, six legged Memi.

Holding a bright red heart, Fairytale features half and half pink + black hair with a diamond pattern, blue shirt and blue bow. Is that you, Alice? In her pursuit of the creepy heart character, the spider child seems to have walked through puddles of white and black part. The release follows Abao’s Wonderland-inspired Fairytale Kiiti.

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THE BATMAN

Posted on 2022-02-28

When the Riddler, a sadistic serial killer, begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city’s hidden corruption and question his family’s involvement.

In theatres March 4th, 2022

www.thebatmanmovie.net

  

MICHAEL HILSMAN – MAN ON BED

Posted on 2022-02-28

“Man On Bed” the work from which this exhibition takes its name, is deceptively flat in both form and title. Like an analyst’s couch, the titular lounger is a device for day-dreaming. Its pink upholstery is a ground upon which Hilsman has rendered – with unsettling detail – a man’s feet protruding from beneath a blanket. Light glints off each nail and the second toe on the left foot bends at the tip, revealing a broken phalanx. Bony and elongated with sallow skin, these alien appendages are a metonym of modern man’s estrangement from his own body, a corpus increasingly objectified and pathologized. They illustrate what Hilsman describes as his effort to “foreground the physical in order to highlight the unseen.”

Opposite – Figure With Flowers And Spoon, 2021

Exhibition runs through to April 23rd, 2022

Almine Rech
18 avenue Matignon
75008 Paris
France

www.alminerech.com