2023 August : EXIT

JULIA BORNEFELD – SUSTAINED GESTURES

Posted on 2023-08-07

In addition to the titular film work (in cooperation with Luca Formentini and Michael Beyer), new figurative sculptures as well as ink works on canvas and paper will be shown. Sustained gestures plays with the contradiction of unstable equilibrium, triggered by a slight change in the position of the body left to itself.

Opposite – temporale II, 2023

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2023

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Maria-Theresien-Straße 34
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

www.galeriethoman.com

FARRELL HUNDLEY – CHORUS

Posted on 2023-08-07

Chorus,a solo exhibition of Farrell Hundley, a collaboration between William Farrell and Elliott Hundley. This marks the LA-based design duo’s first collaboration with the gallery and their debut presentation in Los Angeles. Through their practice, the pair explores mythological symbolism from ancient civilizations. The works on view are allegories that meditate on the rise and fall of empiresand the poetic power of these fragmented narratives. The exhibition title, Chorus, refers to “the first group characters in traditional Greek plays and stories that set the stage of the storythat’s to come,” states Farrell.
Rejecting notions of an idealized form, this exhibition debuts new typologies for the duo and their largest scaled works to date. Through their signature technique of lost-wax casting, the pair has honed their distinct visual vocabulary by uniting discordant objects and furnishings. Reflecting on human evolution and adaptation, imagery of branches and twigs is a key component to their work.

Opposite – Set Floor Lamp, 2023

Exhibition runs through to August 12th, 2023

Friedman Benda
8260 Marmont Lane
CA 90069
Los Angeles

www.friedmanbenda.com

LAUREN QUIN – SALON REAL

Posted on 2023-08-07

“Salon Real” is the opening sequence to a series of knots. One inferred meaning of this phrase connotes the original Paris Salons and the reactionary Salon d’Automne. These traditional exhibition forums united and established a throughline for the canonical discourse forged by generations of artists, Fernand Léger and Marcel Duchamp among them, whose influences have elliptically swayed pictures composed by Quin.
Resisting a stable, fixed definition, the poetic word pairing conjured by the artist describes a method of determination through synchronicities. Self-aware as models for visual indulgence, the paintings—like the exhibition’s title—scavenge, pluck, and layer symbols, forms, mediums, and gestures from throughout art history. Like a back-logged inventory of visual culture, imagery, styles, and colors are reinvented, layered,
and combined to staggering effects.

Opposite – Solar Hole, 2023

Exhibition runs through to August 10th, 2023

Blum & Poe
1-14-34 Jingumae, Shibuya
150-0001 Tokyo
Japan

www.blumandpoe.com

MUSES & SELF: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALLEN GINSBERG

Posted on 2023-08-07

This exhibition of Ginsberg’s personal photographs balances our understanding of the public, outspoken poet and most prominent figure of the Beat Generation. At his core, Allen Ginsberg was a witness and chronicler of the world; his profound admiration for the beauty of the vernacular, intense observation, and celebration of the present moment guided his photography and poetry. The photographs included in this exhibition are joyful, often tender, sometimes profound while at other times humorous – and capture Ginsberg’s numerous meaningful relationships.

Opposite – Ai Weiwei, St. Mark’s Place, September 3, 1988

Exhibition runs through to September 23rd, 2023

Fahey/Klein Gallery
148 North La Brea
Los Angeles
CA 90036

www.faheykleingallery.com

SCRAPPER

Posted on 2023-08-07

Following her mother’s death, a resourceful 12-year-old girl, Georgie, continues to live alone in their London-outskirts flat. She makes money stealing bikes with her friend, Ali, and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. It works like a charm until Jason shows up. Apparently, he’s her father, so long estranged that she doesn’t recognise him. Sizing him up as a rubbish dad (absent, messy, can’t cook), Georgie wonders why he’s suddenly taking an interest. Especially when she’s doing just fine on her own, thank you very much.

In theatres August 25th, 2023

www.madman.com.au/scrapper

THEATER CAMP

Posted on 2023-08-07

The eccentric staff of a rundown theater camp in upstate New York must band together with the beloved founder’s bro-y son to keep the camp afloat.

In theatres August 25th, 2023