CAMILLA ENGSTRÖM – MANTLE

Posted on 2022-07-18

Engström’s practice encompasses painting, drawing, and sculpture, operating between colour-rich landscapes and figurative expression. For her exhibition in Berlin, Engström has created five new oil on canvas paintings that showcase her characteristic trippy, hallucinogenic palette and voluptuous curving forms in sorbet-coloured hues.
These new paintings dive deeper into the texture of landscape, abandoning the human form in favour of imaginary settings – brightly lit and undulating with Engström’s curvy lines. The resulting images are sunbathed, from a light source that emanates from somewhere outside the picture frame, as the sun as object is featured in all but one of the paintings. There is a warmth and quiet stillness in all of the works, reflecting Engström’s long-standing meditation practice. She refers to herself as a mostly self-taught artist, having previously studied fashion, making her way to the canvas mostly through drawing.

Opposite – You See You, 2022

Exhibition runs through to September 4th, 2022

KÖNIG GALERIE
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

PLACID ANGLES – 056 (THE LOTUS)

Posted on 2022-07-18

Detroit techno legend John Beltran dusts off his Placid Angels alias once again for a moody and genre-agnostic EP entitled 056 (The Lotus). Beltran’s debut on AD 93, 056 sees him use the always electric Placid Angels project to explore some contemporary sounds somewhat outside his usual frame with a potent curiosity. The neon synths, washed-out vocals, and peppy breaks of ‘Stormy Angel’ scan close to hyperpop alongside its running mate, the soaring hyperactive electronica cut ‘Moonlight Sunset’.

placid-angles

  

MALL GRAB – PATIENCE FEAT. NIA ARCHIVES

Posted on 2022-07-18

2022 heralds a new era for Mall Grab with his debut album where he shows absolutely no signs of slowing down. Mall Grab made waves in the 2010s with his energetic DJ sets for the likes of Boiler Room and Rinse FM, and an overflowing wealth of singles and EPs that haven’t stopped coming since 2015.

What I Breathe is a personal, polished, and versatile debut, exploring “all influences, sounds and sides” of Mall Grab’s many excursions. With several tracks previously teased in live sets and mixes. The album centres on variety, progressing like a DJ set that starts in a sunlit grassy field with daytime festival energy and morphs into an explosive underground party. Mall Grab presents a grab bag of refreshing and adventurous dance tracks, ranging from uplifting house and techno to fiery drum and bass bangers to introspective electronica and a host of guest appearances taking his work into entirely new directions.

shop.mallgrab.world

  

ORBITAL – 30 (SOMETHING)

Posted on 2022-07-18

While the global lockdown kept UK rave gods Orbital off the road for their actual 30th anniversary, the time spent in quarantine proved to be inspirational for the long-running duo. Always a forward thinking project, Orbital schemed a way to connect their past with the future of electronic music by handing over stems from some of their most beloved tracks to a slew of producers currently at the cutting edge of dance. Compiled alongside reworks, edits, and remixes by Orbital themselves culled from the live show that never occurred, Logic1000, Shanti Celeste, John Tejada and others put their own spin on some certified rave classics. The results are otherworldly, as to be expected.

www.orbitalofficial.com

  

SPECIAL PICKNICKER DAMAST LIMITED EDITION 2022

Posted on 2022-07-18

Victorinox’s Swiss Army brand has just announced its 13th Damast edition of the Picknicker pocket knife. This limited edition Swiss Army knife marks the 13th year that Victorinox has released a knife featuring the Damasteel’s unique metal.

This limited edition Picknicker features a pearwood handle that hides a cheese knife, corkscrew, bottle opener, can opener, wire stripper and screwdriver. The main blade comes in the Damast “Baldur” pattern (115 layers of super-resilient stainless steel with a 60 HRC hardness grade) mentioned above which gets its name from the Norse god of light and purity.

Limited to 6,000 pieces

www.victorinox.com

  

DEANA LAWSON

Posted on 2022-07-18

For more than 15 years, Lawson has been exploring and challenging conventional representations of Black life through photography, drawing on a wide spectrum of photographic languages, including the family album, studio portraiture, staged tableaux, documentary pictures, and appropriated images.

Engaging acquaintances as well as strangers she meets in cities across Africa and the diaspora, Lawson uses imagery to build extended families of strangers in living rooms, kitchens, and backyards from Brooklyn to New Orleans, Haiti to Ethiopia, and Brazil to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The artist meticulously poses her subjects in highly staged photographs that weave together narratives of family, love, and desire, creating what she describes as “a mirror of everyday life.” In the artist’s own words, “it’s about setting a different standard of values and saying that everyday Black lives, everyday experiences, are beautiful, and powerful, and intelligent.”

Opposite – Coulson Family. 2008

Exhibition runs through to September 5th, 2022

The Museum Of Modern Art – MOMA PS1
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY 10019

www.moma.org