Catharsis, 1983
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Art
Post-Work Society by Lou Cantor
Post-Work Society
Lou Cantor
The Waves of Possibility from The Ocean of Reality and I am Made and Remade Continually, 2018
Courtesy: the artists
In his short story “The Largest Theme Park in the World” (1989), J. G. Ballard describes an alternative vision of the 1990s in which a rich, prosperous continent reaps the benefits of a borderless, free-trade Europe to create a continent of leisure. He writes: “In 1995, the headiest year since 1968, the necessary legislation was swiftly passed by a dozen parliaments, which dissolved themselves and assigned their powers to the European Assembly at Strasbourg. So there came into being the new Europe, a visionary realm that would miraculously fuse the spirits of Charlemagne and the smart card, Michelangelo and the Club Med, St. Augustine and Saint Laurent.”
Lou Cantor is a Berlin-based artist collective founded in 2011 by Jozefina Chetko and Kolja Glaeser, whose main scope of interest is grounded in intersubjectivity and interpersonal communication.
Who’s The Daddy — Wong Ping
Who’s The Daddy — Wong Ping
Distant Universe, 2016 by Colorsuper
Distant Universe, 2016 – 48×48 inches on ( wooden canvas )
48x48inch wooden canvas – 5cm deep. Hand painted and signed 1/1
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Cravings by Colorsuper
Cravings – 24x24inches on ( wooden canvas )
24x24inch wooden canvas – 5cm deep. Hand painted
Signed. 1/1
Sterling Ruby, HRG Suite, 2006
Sterling Ruby and H.R. Giger
KALEIDOSCOPE, Milan / Italy
June 14–July 14, 2019
Spazio Maiocchi
Via Maiocchi 5/7
Milan
Italy
Spazio Maiocchi presents two new exhibitions curated by KALEIDOSCOPE which bring together one of today’s most acclaimed artists, Sterling Ruby (American/Dutch, b. 1972, lives and works in Los Angeles), with one of his creative heroes, legendary Swiss artist and concept designer H.R. Giger (1940–2014).
In the courtyard of Spazio Maiocchi, the visitor is greeted by Ruby’s billboard commission featuring STRIP STRIP (RB) (2016–19)—an artwork from the artist’s “poetic posters” series which reflects his sculptural concerns on the public space, expanding it through the use of poetic language.
In the main gallery, the centerpiece of the exhibition is the European premiere of Ruby’s STATE (2019), a single-channel video projection that the artist has spent the past five years researching and producing, working with a videographer and helicopter pilot to film aerial views of the 35 adult state prisons of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
In the video, a repetitive, structural rhythm is created as the scenes cut back and forth between the landscapes and the sites of the prison grounds, accompanied by a drum track which Ruby himself has composed and performed.
Outside of the video room, leading the viewer onto the next gallery, is Ruby’s HRG Suite (2006), an assemblage of 9 unique collages on paper referencing the sci-fi, dystopian imagery of H.R. Giger and bringing an uncommon, visceral perspective to the oeuvre of the Swiss artist.
Unfolding throughout the space, a selection of works including furniture, prints, paintings and sculptures displays the staggering variety of media employed by Giger across his practice, resulting into a non-linear retrospective exhibition with the immersive quality of a wunderkammer.
As told to Hans Ulrich Obrist and Patrick Frey in the cover story of KALEIDOSCOPE’s most recent issue, the work of the late Swiss artist is a journey from abstract to figurative, from organic to apparatus—culminating in his concept design for Alien, which catapulted to fame his daunting vision of death and futurism.
On the occasion of the opening night, drone metal guitarist and composer Mick Barr aka Ocrilim will perform a monolithic live act of stratified sounds and brutalist abstraction.