MONA KUHN – KINGS ROAD

Posted on 2023-05-08

Mona Kuhn’s multidisciplinary Kings Road combines the artist’s characteristic study of form — both human and architectural — with her emerging use of video installation and solarized silver gelatin to create a wholly immersive and partially imagined investigation of Rudolph Schindler’s groundbreaking 1922 residence. Icons pairs influential early fashion photographer George Hoyningen-Huene with one of the most celebrated contemporary photographers within this tradition, Bastiaan Woudt. The influence of Surrealism — direct for George Hoyningen-Huene, who worked with Man Ray and photographed for Elsa Schiaparelli; material for Kuhn, whose solarized prints borrow their method from Ray, Lee Miller, André Breton, and others; and referential for Woudt, in his experimental blending of elements of Surrealist and mid-century fashion photography with 21st century technique — haunts each of the exhibition spaces.

Opposite – ​Dream, 2022

Exhibition runs through to August 5th, 2023

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
GA 30305

www.jacksonfineart.com

  

ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET.

Posted on 2023-05-08

For over fifty years, Judy Blume’s classic and groundbreaking novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. has impacted generations with its timeless coming of age story, insightful humor, and candid exploration of life’s biggest questions. In Lionsgate’s big-screen adaptation, 11-year-old Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) is uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara (Rachel McAdams), who is also struggling to adjust to life outside the big city, and her adoring grandmother, Sylvia (Kathy Bates), who isn’t happy they moved away and likes to remind them every chance she gets.

In theatres May 19th, 2023

www.itsmemargaret.movie

  

RICHARD NAM – TERRIBLE LIZARDS

Posted on 2023-05-08

Nam’s Terrible Lizards present a variety of ancient, monstrous creatures that used to roam the earth two-hundred-thirty million years ago. Through scenic and portraiture gestures, Nam explores these ruling reptiles across both tranquil and apocalyptic landscape, some in motion and others anthropomorphized. Although there are skeletal remnants of dinosaurs around the world, an exact image and how dinosaurs looked and behaved is still a mystery. Inspired by his obsession with paleontology and the history of the earth, Nam creates scenes of how he envisions the time when lizards were in charge.

Opposite – Gallimimus in Desert, 2023

Exhibition runs through to May 13th, 2023

Praz-Delavallade
6150 Wilshire Blvd
CA 90048
Los Angeles

www.praz-delavallade.com

  

DONNA SUMMER: ANOTHER PLACE AND TIME (ZOETROPE PICTURE DISC)

Posted on 2023-05-08

DONNA SUMMER gained prominence during the 1970s disco era, propelled by her incessant and creative driving force behind the genre’s global popularity, rightly earning the title “Queen Of Disco” and becoming one of the most successful recording artists of the entire decade, now having sold more than 130 Million records worldwide. Donna Summer was the first Artist to have three consecutive No. 1 Double-LPs on the US Billboard charts. Donna Summer became the first artist to achieve four No. 1 singles in a thirteen-month period.

Donna’s ‘80s close-out album was 1989’s ‘ANOTHER PLACE AND TIME’, which paired her with multi-hit making, multi-million-selling UK producers Stock Aitken Waterman. The album is widely regarded as the best album they produced, and which was heavily featured in the recent two-part TV documentary Stock Aitken Waterman: Legends of Pop.

The album’s lead single ‘This Time I Know It’s For Real’ was an uplifting, club floorfiller and radio-friendly hit, peaking at #3 in the UK (#7 on the US Billboard Hot 100), giving Donna her highest charting solo single for more than a decade.

Four further singles were released from the album including the two Top 20 hits, ‘I Don’t Wanna Get Hurt’ and ‘Love’s About To Change My Heart’, giving Donna back-to-back UK Top 10 hits for the first time since 1977, as well as remixed versions of ‘When Love Takes Over You’ and ‘Breakaway’.

This special Picture Disc edition has a zoetrope effect on Side 2 that incorporates elements from the ‘This Time I Know It’s For Real’ promo video and which gives a continuous dancing effect. It is best experienced using a smartphone running a third party stroboscope app.

donnasummer

  

D100 MICKEY MOUSE – SAILOR M. BY PASA X KIDROBOT

Posted on 2023-05-08

Celebrating Disney’s 100th Anniversary, Kidrobot has announced its D100 Mickey Mouse – Sailor M. vinyl art toy from Brazilian sculptor Pasa. The new edition features a gleaming electroplated red and silver design. This is the third edition—following the OG and Black Friday Black/Gold editions—of the Sailor M. figure inspired by the iconic character’s pioneering animated voyage as a steamboat captain in 1928. Rocking a small sailor hat and boat wheel logo tee, Sailor M.’s lively pose with a wink, hands in his pockets and poised tail sparkles with the joy Mickey Mouse has brought to so many.

An edition of 500.

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IGNASI ABALLÍ

Posted on 2023-05-08

In the exhibition, which also emanates from the idea of error, the relationship between the concept of one’s own failure and that of defeat is at least as peculiar. The inherent nature of failure makes it impossible to correspond to the reality of defeat. Practically, defeat cannot exist as an entity in its own right; it can consequently only be seen as the result of a process that presupposes realization. Thus, the previously rejected paintings can never be considered as defeats per se, since they, not fully realized, belong to the realm of failure. They hence depend directly on the non-completion of a process and are therefore exempt from presenting any result, expressing any judgment or comment, positive or negative. The essence of failure is on no account synonymous with the concept of defeat, just as giving up during a game of chess excludes its sporting result. Whereas a defeat leads to checkmate and thus to the end of the game, the act of failing translates the chess game into a situation deprived of consequences. A defeat marks, in other words, a conclusion, a negative conclusion, but a conclusion nonetheless, it embodies a process that has reached its logical end. On the contrary, the nature of one’s own failure implies a dysfunction that disrupts the project in its course and development, thereby preventing any conclusion.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to June 17th, 2023

Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Domgasse 6
1010 Vienna
Austria

www.schwarzwaelder.at