JAVIER CALLEJA

Posted on 2022-08-22

It’s a little know fact that Javier Calleja’s emblematic characters evolved through experimentation with drawings and the use of non-traditional materials. Starting from the minimalist concepts in which simple pictorial elements were often contrasted against concise textual components, the work was from the beginning consciously revolving outside of traditionally set parameters. In particular, it was the two drops of water resting on a paper surface that prompted the artist to start working with oversized watery eyes, building his entire artistic universe from such a primordial base. And as if continuing the mitosis-like expansion, the new body of work that the Malagan artist is developing is shifting the focus outwards from the protagonist itself, attributing the surrounding elements with similar, almost principal qualities.

Opposite – This is my big night, 2022

Exhibition runs through to September 17th, 2022

Almine Rech
27 Huqiu Road, 2nd Floor
200002 Shanghai
China

www.alminerech.com

  

KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH – HAVE YOU FELT LATELY?

Posted on 2022-08-22

Composer, artist, and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith returns to Ghostly International with Let’s Turn it Into Sound, her most ambitious, intuitive, and inviting work to date. Though ambient and modern new age circles have embraced Smith’s catalog, Let’s Turn it Into Sound favors a more baroque and robust form of avant-pop. The music bursts with vertiginous vocal harmonies and detailed sound design, forming a truly unique sonic vision.

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CHARLES FRÉGER – FABULA

Posted on 2022-08-22

Over the past twenty years, Charles Fréger has built up a vast collection of portraits, first by focusing on outfits and uniforms, then by exploring masked traditions on every continent. His photographs confront us with secular figures, beings with multiple and ambiguous identities on which our imagination is projected. Four series are brought together in this vast exhibition : “Commedia dell’Arte”, produced in Venice and showing the body play of his masked characters ; “Yokainoshima”, in which the photographer explores the ritual figures of Japan ; “Wilder Mann”, a photographic campaign carried out over many years in 20 European countries ; and “Cimarron”, which takes the photographer to Afro-descendant America, from the southern United States to Peru. Embodying strange, comical, sometimes frightening or extravagant animals or creatures, the figures Fréger photographs give a measure of the variety of customs and cultures around the world. By paying attention to the finery and the solemnity of the pose, the artist leaves us alone in front of these masked figures.

Opposite – Wilder Mann, 2010,2011

Exhibition runs through to August 25th, 2022

MBAL Musée des beaux-arts
Marie-Anne-Calame 6
2400 Le Locle

www.mbal.ch

  

BABY STAR X ATMOS X REEBOK

Posted on 2022-08-22

Imbued with flower graphics, the collaboration is inspired by the idea of giving people their flowers while they are alive. Bringing this concept to fruition is a line-style handshake with a flower graphic to symbolize feelings of not only love and appreciation, but the strength in creative collaboration. Consisting of 20 pieces, the offering features fleece hoodies, sweatpants sets, short and long-sleeve pocket t-shirts and more – appearing in shades of clay, navy, light blue, cream and gray.

reebok-babystar

  

LOUIS VUITTON PAINT CAN BAG

Posted on 2022-08-22

Previously available in “Purple,” “Red” and “Orange,” the wildly imaginative accessory has been updated with a fresh slate of colorways inspired by the late Virgil Abloh‘s signature palette.

Now finished in “Lagoon,” “Green” and “Yellow,” the artful (and very realistic) accessory is a collectible for the fashion-minded creative, complete with a chrome LV-embossed metal handle and a ring top that flips open thanks to a leather hinge.

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SEAN WOTHERSPOON X ADIDAS ORIGINALS X HOT WHEELS

Posted on 2022-08-15

Mattel’s Hot Wheels combined with Sean Wotherspoon’s encyclopedic knowledge of classic sportswear and obsession and adidas Originals classic silhouettes make for a dream team collaboration.

www.adidas.co.uk