2022 August : EXIT

PAOLO GASPARINI – FIELD OF IMAGES

Posted on 2022-08-15

Paolo Gasparini is the photographer who has best portrayed the cultural tensions and contradictions of the South American continent. His images convey the harsh social reality faced by a region whose cultural authenticity is unquestionable, and where the past and local traditions parley with a clumsily imposed modernity.

Gasparini creates an oeuvre with its own visual language that always seems to express a criticism of consumer society while at the same time revealing a certain obsession with the way we are seduced by marketing and advertising.

Italian by birth yet Venezuelan in spirit, through his work the photographer has tried to eliminate the ethnocentric visions and stereotypes that have historically defined Latin America, almost always in terms of ‘the other’, fueled by the different populisms and nationalisms the region has endured.

Opposite – Electoral Campaign, avenida Urdaneta, Caracas, 1968

Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2022

Fundacion MAPFRE
Paseo de Recoletos / Barbara de Braganza
28004 Madrid

www.fundacionmapfre.org

ALLEN FRAME – WHEREUPON

Posted on 2022-08-15

Frame came to New York in 1977 and began to photograph his friends in his apartment and theirs — intimately observed, unposed scenes that were influenced by his love of film and theater. After his first solo show in 1980, he found himself cast as Jack Nicholson in Gary Indiana’s play The Roman Polanski Story, starring his friend John Heys as Roman and Cookie Mueller as Sharon Tate. He was suddenly introduced to a world of downtown legends that included Bill Rice, Taylor Meade and Jack Smith. In the exhibition, Whereupon, a haunting photo of Heys and Mueller shows them coming out onto the terrace of Heys’ East Village penthouse terrace. There’s also a photograph of William Burroughs at home in the Bunker on the Bowery. Nan Goldin is seen sitting on Frame’s bed with artist Siobhan Liddell and a friend, their limbs mysteriously intertwined. Many of the same friends who appear in Fever show up in these black and white photographs: a self-portrait with painter friend Charlie Boone; Butch Walker with Charlie and his boyfriend Bill; a morning photo of a young man lying across a mattress on the floor as a young woman crosses the room.

Exhibition runs through to November 5th, 2022

Gitterman Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York
NY 10022

gittermangallery.com

PICTURING NEW YORK

Posted on 2022-08-15

As part of Soho Photo Gallery’s 50th year anniversary celebration, the gallery is proud to present Picturing New York. Current and former members are exhibiting images made over the last 50 years of our home city.

Opposite – Norm Borden, Long Island City

Exhibition runs through to September 11th, 2022

Soho Photo Gallery
New York
NY 10013

www.sohophoto.com

THE JAFFA KID – OLYQU

Posted on 2022-08-15

Running through a variety of braindance-oriented sounds, The Jaffa Kid’s Suction Records debut marks a highlight in his discography. Something clicked for UK producer The Jaffa Kid in 2020, as an avalanche of over a hundred releases began to be unleashed via his Bandcamp page, with equally abundant releases for labels like Withhold, Altered Sense and Deeptrax Records sprinkled into the mix. Marking his debut on Suction Records (where he fits into the similarly ambitious output of the likes of RX-101) The Jaffa Kid shows no signs of slowing down nor dropping in quality, with Passing Signals being one of his most compelling records yet.

jaffakid.bandcamp.com

HUDSON MOHAWKE – BICSTAN

Posted on 2022-08-15

Recorded in his adopted home of Los Angeles, Cry Sugar continues Hudson Mohawke’s recent mission to create aspirational music from the tools of the club, but with an even keener eye towards optimism and sustainability. Cry Sugar also includes even more of Hudson Mohawke’s push-pull between high and low culture: allusions to Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and John Williams rub up against the huge swinging bass of the “trap music” he (deliberately or not) helped codify on his earlier records. That battle of motivation is also played out thematically within the songs themselves. Tracks like ‘Stump’, ‘Expo’, and ‘Some Buzz’ nod towards environmental disaster while ‘3 Sheets To The Wind’ revels in debauchery. Who’s to say which mode is more important to focus on.

hudsonmohawke.bandcamp.com

KH – LOOKING AT YOUR PAGER

Posted on 2022-08-15

Countless questions about track IDs have finally been quenched by Four Tet’s one simple message: “The sample has been cleared.” Under his KH alias, Four Tet releases some of his most highly requested DJ staples with Ministry of Sound Recordings, both revolving around infectiously warped samples of 3LW’s ‘No More’ and Nelly Furtado’s ‘Afraid’, both exhibiting patient yet intense moments of ecstasy. The frenetic optimism of ‘Looking At Your Pager’ translates through shredded bass and sunlit, sparkling synths, while ‘Only Human’ injects organic ice-cracking thunks into percolated rhythms.