Art
Studio Lemercier Reveals Nature’s Power in ‘Lightfall’
Superblue Miami will debut Lightfall, a new installation by Studio Lemercier with music by Murcof, on October 28, 2024. The multisensory experience immerses visitors in darkness, where mist and shifting volumes of light are projected through water droplets. The installation highlights natural elements like air, water and light in constant motion, creating a dynamic, ever-changing environment.Studio Lemercier, known for blending technology with nature in their works, uses Lightfall to focus on the raw power of these elements. The Brussels-based duo, led by Joanie Lemercier and Juliette Bibasse, aims to create an immersive experience that forces viewers to pay attention to the subtle forces around them.Lightfall is part of Superblue’s ongoing series of experiential art installations. Known f...
Through the Lens: Theo Cottle
Theo Cottle’s images are rooted in reality, but altered to project a hallucinatory state — an “authentic” documentation, he tells Hypeart, of some of the world’s hard-to-access areas and underworlds, from the drum of Havana’s boxing clubs to the onsens frequented by Japan’s Yakuza.The Bristol-born, London-based photographer looks to “explore the unseen and the unheard,” whether in client work for adidas and C.P. Company to passion projects in Naples’ raucous alleyways. Cottle’s proclivities stem from early war photographs his father showed him as a child, such as the work of British photojournalist Don McCullin, as well as cultural pioneers like Larry Clark, whose films and photographs explore themes pertaining gender and masculinity — motifs that Cottle touches on within his own portfolio...
Ed Ruscha’s ‘Standard Station’ Painting Expected to Fetch $50 Million USD at Auction
Ed Ruscha's Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, the last privately owned large-scale painting he created in the 1960s, will be hitting Christie's auction with a pre-estimated cost of $50m USD. The 1964 artwork recently appeared in the touring retrospective, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, which went on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art afterwards. It's being brought to auction by owner Sid R. Bass, a Texas oil heir who first acquired the work in 1976 through a trade for another Ruscha painting.Widely considered as the father of LA contemporary art, Ruscha first moved to the City of Angels from Oklahoma in 1956 to attend Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts), using banal freeways, low slung buildings a...
ICA Miami Expands with $25 Million USD Building Purchase
The Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (ICA) has acquired a new building for $25 million, effectively doubling its space. The building, previously home to the de la Cruz Collection, adds 30,000 square feet to the museum, allowing for expanded exhibitions and programming. ICA's artistic director, Alex Gartenfeld, credited donations from individuals like real estate mogul Craig Robins for making the purchase possible as per a report by Artnews.Before opening to the public, the building will undergo renovations. The de la Cruz Collection, founded in 2009 by Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, was a prominent Miami art space until it closed earlier this year following Rosa’s passing. Carlos later auctioned off several works, including pieces by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Ana Mendieta, sparking controv...
Francis Bacon’s Turbulent Relationships Shape ‘Human Presence’
Francis Bacon’s work doesn’t pull punches. His portraits—distorted, raw and brutally emotional -- are on full display at the National Portrait Gallery’s Francis Bacon: Human Presence. The exhibition spans Bacon’s career, from his early 1940s portraits to his self-portraits and deeply personal works in the 1960s. It’s a study of how Bacon tore apart traditional portraiture, using his personal anguish as fuel. The influence of his relationships is glaring -- most notably, his long-term partner Peter Lacy, whose vulnerability is captured amidst chaos. Bacon’s use of the triptych format reveals the collapse of their relationship, faces twisting into something monstrous. And when his lover George Dyer died by suicide just before a major show, Bacon’s grief turned inward. A 1973 self-portrait sh...
Jonas Wood Flattens Daily Life in New Gagosian Exhibition
Everyday is an adventure in Jonas Wood's vibrant paintings. The American artist is globally recognized for flattening the banality of daily life into wondrous compositions that incorporate his passions across sports, plants and virtually any subject that piques his interest. On view at Gagosian London is a new solo exhibition of paintings that explore how Wood conflates often competing elements. Housed at the gallery's Grosvenor Hill location, the eponymously titled show presents some of Wood's most chaotically patterned works to date. Wood likes to play with perspective, shifting the flattened plane of the canvas through repeating patterns, like the texture of a wall or couch, with competing colors, shapes and decorative elements, such as a distant skyline in Robot and Bear (2024) or a di...
IDEA Spotlights Pinot’s Pixelated Creations in New Book
Wahyu Ichwandardi aka Pinot isn’t your typical animator and illustrator. A quick scroll through his Instagram feed and you’ll encounter drawings and animations in his signature, pixelated style. Although the Indonesian artist employs traditional tools such pen and paper to create quirky visuals of cats, dogs and even Steve Jobs, Pinot is acclaimed for using unconventional devices to create a slew of meticulous animations such as crafting a rainy New York City scene using Mario Paint in the Nintendo SNES. He’s able to create on anything that is programmable including Nokia phones, PalmPilots, ZX Spectrum and vintage Apple Mac computers. The artist is prolific with these devices, having created hundreds of these illustrations that depict bustling city life, nostalgic avatars and familiar pop...
Jammie Holmes Explores Flower Power in ‘Morning Thoughts’
Marianne Boesky Gallery presents a new solo exhibition by Jammie Holmes. For his second show with the gallery, the Dallas-born artist summons a new body of large-scale paintings that captures narratives of Black families and Southern tradition, exploring the potency of love and loss in a series of lush floral scenes.Morning Thoughts marks a departure from the artist’s signature style of portraiture; rather, he turns an inquisitive eye towards the symbolic power of flowers. Flecks of his more familiar motifs are peppered throughout the works, though the few human subjects of the exhibition appear as opaque silhouettes or faces engulfed in a massive bloom.The exhibition calls on still life traditions in a bouquet of fiery daylilies and rich, regal morning glories. Holmes was drawn to these f...
Martine Syms Explores the “Theatre of the Everyday” in New Paris Exhibition
"What if we were all actors in a film in perpetual production?" asks American artist Martine Syms. "What if “reality” was written by images?" Total is a new solo show that embarks to answer these existential questions through a series of objects-turned-editions that replicate the artist's Los Angeles-based studio.On view at Paris' Lafayette Anticipations, the show marks Syms' first retrospective exhibition in France, and will present a meditation on consumption as a form of performance and performance as a means of consumption. By transforming her own studio objects as editions available for purchase, Syms probes into the ways in which material objects act as extensions of identity, as well as the mechanisms that drive these desires. The show is mapped out across shopping bags, t-shirts, f...
Hayao Miyazaki’s Pre-Production Illustrations To Be Showcased in New Book
A new book from Japanese publisher Iwanami Shoten is set to feature the image boards of Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki.The upcoming title will highlight both publicized and never-before-seen image boards of several Ghibli films, and will include an interview with Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki. Each volume will focus on a single Studio Ghibli film and will showcase the early pre-production illustrations that serve as the basis of the films' strong visual components. In order to retain the magic of these image boards, the pages will be measured at a whopping 12.8 by 10.1 inches.As per SoraNews24, the volumes will seemingly be published in the order of movies' release dates, kicking off with Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Laputa: Castle in the Sky followed by My Neighbor Totoro.The Ha...
KAWS Curates Over 350 Drawings From Personal Collection in ‘The Way I See It’
The Drawing Center in New York City recently opened a monumental exhibition entitled The Way I See It that features over 350 artworks curated by KAWS. Culled from his immense, personal collection of over 3,000 works on paper, KAWS selected a diverse coterie of pieces by an estimated 500 artists. The presentation continues The Drawing Center’s programming that solely focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary, while offering viewers a glimpse into the personal tastes of diverse collectors from across the globe.Covering the 20th-21st centuries, The Way I See it encompasses works on paper that touch on distinct genres including comics, commercial illustrations as well as pages torn from graffiti black books. It includes pieces by Abstract Expressionist Willem de K...
Jun Takahashi Presents ‘Peaceable Kingdom’ Solo Exhibition in WKM Gallery Hong Kong
Jun Takahashi is set to present his first-ever solo art exhibition, Peaceable Kingdom in Hong Kong this month.Takahishi is a highly acclaimed figure in the fashion sector, whom most know of as the founder of UNDERCOVER. While this is his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, the designer has been creating paintings outside of his fashion work for decades. In 2023, Takahashi finally presented his artwork to the public and was even featured on the cover of Hypebeast Magazine last fall.Going deeper into Takahashi’s dark and surreal universe, Peaceable Kingdom will showcase the three canvases that inspired the motifs in the designers’ SS25 Men’s collection. A new body or paintings will also be unveiled at the exhibition, all tied in with a running concept of portraying “the conflict between the...
