MARC BAUER – THE DEFAULT BRAIN

Posted on 2022-08-29

For his multi-layered series of works, Bauer takes inspiration from his great interest in cultural-historical developments and our current socio-political affairs. Relevant themes from art, history, science, or geopolitics are fragmented and illuminated from different perspectives through large-scale paintings and detailed drawings that interact with site-specific wall drawings. Although black-and-white drawings with pencil and charcoal continue to play an important role in Bauer’s work, in recent years, colored surfaces with colored pencil, oil paint, and crayon have established themselves as supporting components. The combination of graphic and painterly elements forms Bauer’s characteristic visual language, which translates narrative content into a powerful visual experience. The results are narrative spatial situations whose density and color intensity have an almost immersive effect on the viewer.

Opposite – The Default Brain, Party, 2022

Exhibition runs through to October 14th, 2022

Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Zahnradstrasse 21
CH-8005 Zürich
Switzerland

www.peterkilchmann.com

  

A GIFT OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM JOHN HAGEFSTRATION

Posted on 2022-08-29

Birmingham-based collector John Hagefstration’s gift of close to 300 photographs is an example of one such transformative offering, vastly expanding the Museum’s collection representing the history of photography in the United States and beyond.

In this collection focus installation, you see a selection of the works given to the BMA by Hagefstration in 2020. In 2020 he gave 201 works, building on a group of nearly 100 other photographs he had donated over the previous sixteen years. Hagefstration purchased many of these photographs with the goal of strengthening the Museum’s photography collection. These photographs were made from the early twentieth century to the present. They capture significant episodes in the development of the medium, allowing us to better represent the history of movements, schools of photography, and the work of individual artists in new depth. His collection also expands the diverse perspectives featured in our collection, including new works by Alabama artists, women artists, and LGBTQIA+ artists. Visit this focus installation of fourteen photographs to see how the Museum’s collections have recently grown.

Opposite – Ray K. Metzker, Sand Creatures, 1969

Exhibition runs through to November 1st, 2022

Birmingham Museum Of Art
2000 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd
Birmingham
AL 35203

www.artsbma.org

  

MATTHIAS WEISCHER – MIRRORS AND THINGS

Posted on 2022-08-29

Weischer is one of the most important representatives of the New Leipzig School of figurative painting, which rose to prominence in the decades following the reunification of Germany and emphasizes classical perspective and large-format realist pictures. For his exhibition in Seoul, Weischer has created twelve new oil-on-canvas works.
Each of these paintings depicts an interior space, where straight lines of sight are subject to radical multiplication, often with oblique entry points into the picture’s compositional expanse. These scenes are populated with objects including everyday wares and even other familiar works of art that continue the vertiginous play between the flat surface of the painting and optical recession into an illusory depth of field. This tension between real and depicted space is typical of Weischer’s work and represents one of the most significant contributions to the wider arena of painting in Germany.

Opposite – Last Supper, 2022

Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2022

KÖNIG GALERIE
412 Apgujeong-Ro
Cheongdam-Dong
Gangnam-Gu Seoul

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

PRAYING X ADIDAS SUPERNOVA CUSHION 7

Posted on 2022-08-29

The Los Angeles/New York label centered around a post-Internet aesthetic, drawing from elements of fast fashion, pop-culture, with underlying tones of religion and dogma, launched a countdown for the release of the shoe.

Serving as the label’s first sneaker collaboration, the Praying x adidas Supernova Cushion 7 is defined by its focus on overbranding. The heavy branding serves to reimagine the reissued archival runner, constructed with recycled content generated from production waste.

prayingg.com
www.adidas.co.uk

  

ALL EYES

Posted on 2022-08-29

A disgraced podcast host interviews an eccentric farmer who claims to have a monster living in the woods near his house.

In theatres September 30th, 2022

www.homefrontpictures.com

  

YANN TIERSEN – KERBER (REMIXES

Posted on 2022-08-29

Here Yann Tiersen has now handed over Kerber’s reigns to some of the brightest contemporary voices in experimental electronic music for this new Kerber Remixes EP. Alongside expectedly beguiling versions from Beatrice Dillon, Laurel Halo, and Iku Sakan are two winners of a remix contest hosted on SoundCloud, Sote and Simon Sky. Given nothing but the stems to ‘Ker al Loch’ Sote and Simon Sky beat out over a hundred other entries to land their remixes on the tracklist. It’s easy to see why: Sote’s foreboding mix accentuating the extra terrestrial qualities of the original composition and Simon Sky’s take locking firmly into a driving techno production.

yanntiersen.com