VISIONIST – VALUE

Posted on 2017-10-23

Visionist morphs back into sight with his immaculately sculpted new album Value, his first for Big Dada. Where his debut Safe used its visceral soundscapes to transcribe the panic and fear that ensures during an anxiety attack, Value expands on this trajectory of strength and vulnerability to examine the borders built up between broader themes of machismo and effeminacy, self-deprecation and self-love, and self-preservation and validation.

Arriving two years on from his PAN debut, Value pushes the envelope of the dystopian grime sound of his previous work by transmitting both himself and us as the listener, deeper into his own psyche. More so than ever before, he approaches his music with a graceful composed elegance that sits side by side with the relentless energy that made his early work stand out so far forward. Value finds elements of neoclassical ambience dropped into the club context of haunted memories and ice rink rhythms that pulsate around the machines that make up this high-gloss soundworld.

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CECILY BROWN – A DAY! HELP! HELP! ANOTHER DAY!

Posted on 2017-10-23

In her new work, Brown presents an allegorical and turbulent vision, drawing from Théodore Géricault’s iconic painting of a shipwreck, The Raft of Medusa (1818-19), as well as those by Eugène Delacroix. Echoing Géricault’s rhythmic system of triangles, Brown composes her packed figures with robust brushstrokes that exacerbate emotional and torsional strain. Included in the exhibition will be Brown’s largest painting to date, a massive triptych of a shipwreck, which introduces burkini-clad women that recall her Madrepore canvases from 2015. Lacking a clear horizon line, space is equivocated through entangled blues, yellows, pinks, and grays, arresting the viewer’s eyes on a compressed surface-substrate matrix. Referencing historical art and literature as well as current political events, these new works recount a retrospective and recursive narrative with contemporary resonance.

Opposite – Sirens and Shipwrecks and Bathers and the Band, 2016

Exhibition runs through to December 2nd, 2017

Paula Cooper Gallery
534 West 21st Street
10011-2812
New York

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PAUL OSIPOW – NEW PAINTINGS

Posted on 2017-10-23

For the greater part of his artistic career Paul Osipow has emphasized abstract and non-figurative painting and is a leading proponent of its development within the Nordic art scene, where he continues to inspire new generations of artists.

Osipow’s exhibitions in the 1990s revealed his gradual movement away from a pure geometric expression to one unrestricted, inspired by pioneers of modern painting with samplings from late Impressionism, Cubism and Fauvism. Throughout, Osipow has maintained a bold approach to abstract and figurative concepts in terms of what and how to paint. With pragmatic distance and profound seriousness he experiments with the medium’s fundamental and constant questions regarding surface, color, space and form; to depict or not, thus creating intriguing artworks and contributing to an analytical criticism of his medium.

In the preparatory works for this new series of paintings one can sense inspiration from Nordic vernacular rag rugs, but in the works to be shown in this exhibition, a connection has also been made with the craft of mosaics reflecting Osipow’s longstanding interest in the ancient Mediterranean cultures. Composed of brick-like horizontal bands of painted dots, the paintings have been crafted with a certain crudeness and delicacy which results in a strong and direct visual language. Osipow includes the left and right margins of the canvas in these compositions – revealing traces and notes like a prisoners graffiti from the disciplined workdays in his Helsinki Studio. The meticulously laid segments form a long line of contemplation on a painterly foundation which Osipow has constantly developed since the 1960s.

Opposite – Untitled, 2017

Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2017

Galleri Riis
Arbins gate 7
NO-0253 Oslo
Norway

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GEORGE CONDO – LIFE IS WORTH LIVING

Posted on 2017-10-23

In his new exhibition “Life is Worth Living”, a title taken from an old note he once sent to his long-time friend Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, George Condo will exhibit works that include paintings and sculpture he made while living in Paris in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s in conversation with his most recent works made in the past year. During this earlier period in his career Condo’s paintings experimented with combining a variety of media and painterly styles simultaneously, such as the use of oil and collage on canvas with very delicate linear forms as seen in Les Quatre Femmes (1989, oil and collage on canvas, 200 x 250 cm). Works such as The Headless Harlequin (1989, oil on canvas, 220 x 189.8 cm) and When the Elephant Says No… (1986, oil on canvas, 206 x 318.2 cm) exemplify Condo’s use of drawing and painting together in a structurally destructive method of working that the artist has employed throughout much of his career to the present day.

Opposite – Back Channel, 2016-2017

Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2017

Almine Rech Gallery
64 Rue de Turenne
75003 Paris

www.alminerech.com

  

THE NORTH FACE – CRYOS

Posted on 2017-10-23

The North Face has dropped a premium range of cold-weather goods called “Cryos.”

Whereas The North Face often produces goods for outdoors trekking, this new offering focuses primarily on city-dwellers. With a focus on maximizing warmth and cold-weather protection, the gear is built to the same high standards of The North Face’s other technical products. Ranging from down jackets to a revised bomber, the monochromatic selection includes an array of accessories, including cashmere gloves, hats and even boots.

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