DOUBLE LOVER

Posted on 2018-05-14

When the attractive Chloé falls in love with her psychotherapist Paul, all her problems seem solved. She moves in with him, but soon she realizes that he is hiding something from her. By chance, Chloé discovers that Paul has a twin brother who is also a therapist. Driven by curiosity, she deals with him in treatment and is shocked: Although he looks outwardly his hair, Louis is the complete opposite of his brother – arrogant, cynical and possessive. Nevertheless, Chloé is attracted to him and gets into a dangerous network of desire and deception.

With great enthusiasm François Ozon varies the motive of the doppelganger on all imaginable cinematic levels and beats it with relish over the strings. As usual, he dupes his audience. THE OTHER LOVER is loosely based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates.

In theatres June 1st, 2018

www.derandereliebhaber-film.de

  

MY FRIEND DAHMER

Posted on 2018-05-14

Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. He would become one of America’s most infamous serial killers. This is the story before that story.

Jeff Dahmer is an awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school with a family life in ruins. He collects roadkill, fixates on a neighborhood jogger, and copes with his unstable mother and well-intentioned father. He begins to act out at school, and his goofball antics win over a group of band-nerds who form The Dahmer Fan Club, headed by Derf Backderf. But this camaraderie can’t mask his growing depravity. Approaching graduation, Jeff spirals further out of control, inching ever closer to madness.

In theatres June 1st, 2018

www.myfrienddahmerthemovie.com

  

ADAM MCEWEN – NIGHTHORSES

Posted on 2018-05-14

As McEwen’s title suggests, anxiety resides even in the most common images and objects. His art draws attention to the vestigial dramas of daily life; the forgotten is memorialized, the subliminal laid bare. Narrative flow is tempting to seek yet impossible to find.

The centerpiece of Nighthorses is a series of narrow, perfectly rectangular frames mounted on the wall. Rendered individually in graphite, brass, steel, and phosphorescent resin, they recall the serial geometries of Minimalism—only that the latchkey positioned inside the base of each frame suggests the back end of a truck, pared down to a schema. In another series, images of rumpled beds are printed onto sheets of vividly colored cellulose sponge and thus transformed into scaleless, undulating landscapes. Paired with life-size graphite objects fixed to the surface—an oar, a ladder, a hand dryer, and a lavatory cistern—they generate a sense of psychological dissonance. Moving on from Andy Warhol’s notorious Disaster series, McEwen’s image of the aftermath of a car crash, printed on yellow cellulose sponge and supporting two smooth graphite drum cymbals, offers a perfect visual tautology.

Opposite – Hunter Gets Captured By the Game, 2018

Exhibition runs through to June 9th, 2018

Gagosian
456 North Camden Drive
CA 90210 Beverly Hills
USA

www.gagosian.com

  

ELIZABETH MAGILL – HEADLAND

Posted on 2018-05-14

Elizabeth Magill is one of her generation’s leading painters. Headland will present a body of new work and will introduce her developing practice to a new and established audience. Headland is a touring exhibition, with shows taking place to date at Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA); Wilkinson Gallery, London and the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin.

“A kind of concentrated ambiguity regarding the natural world …. characterizes Magill’s paintings. Throughout her career, Magill has been drawn to the language of painting using nature and landscape. She draws from them a gorgeous and engrossing multiplicity of visual and sensory description” – Declan Long.

Magill’s work is redolent of her sense of place – the Glens of Antrim – which has preoccupied and informed her relationship with her native landscape and her visual response to it. Her approach to painting is always experimental, allowing for previous techniques to give way to newer ones to form an unfolding process.

Opposite – Multi-Storey, 2017

Exhibition runs through to September 23rd, 2018

Ulster Museum
Botanic Gardens
Belfast
BT9 5AB

www.nmni.com

  

TONY COKES – ON NON-VISIBILITY

Posted on 2018-05-14

Since the early 1980s Tony Cokes has developed a precise visual and discursive style marked by videos that feature animated text, found images, solid-color slides, and pop music. In his work Cokes samples and subverts modes of representation and cultural fragments from the media—in particular news, advertising, and Hollywood cinema—reframing the images and ideas that are designed to construct our habits and identities. By extracting source texts from their original contexts and layering elements that often clash, Cokes analyzes media’s operations and the ways in which they manifest power. On Non-Visibility, Cokes’s first gallery exhibition, presents a historical cross section of his practice, focusing in particular on the titular theme.
The earliest piece in the exhibition, Black Celebration (1988), is projected in the gallery’s center room. In the video Cokes pairs footage from the 1965 riots in Watts, Boston, Detroit, and Newark with text by The Situationist International, Barbara Kruger, Morrissey, and Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore, along with music by the industrial band Skinny Puppy. The piece “[introduces] a reading that will contradict received ideas which characterize these riots as criminal or irrational,” Cokes has said.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to June 9th, 2018

Greene Naftali
508 West 26th Street
NY 10001 New York
NY USA

www.greenenaftaligallery.com

  

MODERNICA X SHEPARD FAIREY SIDE SHELL DOWEL

Posted on 2018-05-14

Modernica teams up with Shepard Fairey in presenting a new collection of 500 limited edition Side Shell Dowel featuring college and patterns that have become signature motifs in Shepard’s work.

“When given the opportunity to create my own custom version of this iconic chair, I chose to use the collage and patterns that have become signature motifs in my work which showcase recognizable elements of my imagery but also appeal as a nod to classic home decor pattern design. I’m excited to be a part of the Beyond The Streets show and I think this collaboration exemplifies the philosophy that artwork with origins in the streets can manifest in unexpected places.” – Shepard Fairey.

modernica.net