ROB MONTGOMERY EXHIBITION OPENING AT KK OUTLET IN LONDON

SOME/THINGS CONTRIBUTOR ROBERT MONTGOMERY WITH LUCY NEWMAN


[After exhibitions in Venice, Paris, Istanbul, Lyon and Berlin in 2011, KK OUTLET is proud to present ROBERT MONTGOMERY's first London solo show in over a year, It Turned Out This Way, Cos You Dreamed It Like This.

MONTGOMERY’s work references the Situationist tradition of capturing the audience’s attention in unexpected ways within the public realm. His heartbreaking and arresting poetry can be seen on hijacked advertising billboards in London, on the sides of trucks in Istanbul, on fire in the streets of Paris and lighting up in the Brooklyn sky at night.

For his show at KK OUTLET, MONTGOMERY will create a series of three large billboard poems on Old Street, which reference the moral failure of Capitalism, the concerns of the Occupy movement, and new ideas of freedom in the city.

Within the gallery there will be a collection of MONTGOMERY’s more subtle drawings and watercolours on show. This quieter collection of work is the perfect contrast to his bolder outdoor pieces and offers a meditative insight into his practice.

On the façade of the gallery MONTGOMERY will present a major new work from his Recycled Sunlight Series, before it moves to the site of the old Tempelhof airport in Berlin April 2012.

In addition to his own work, MONTGOMERY also presents a new work by Goldsmiths graduate David Fryer in the back gallery space and in the bookstore a T-shirt collaboration with East London graffiti artist Krae.]

THE EXHIBITION RUNS FROM THE 3rd until the 25th of FEBRUARY

/ TEXT COURTESY ROBERT MONTGOMERY [www.robertmontgomery.org] & KK OUTLET [www.kkoutlet.com]
















JEFFERSON HACK






ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S IT TURNED OUT THIS WAY, COS YOU DREAMED IT LIKE THIS EXHIBITION OPENING AT KK OUTLET IN LONDON PHOTOGRAPHED BY NAT URAZMETOVA [SOME/THINGS AGENCY]

PREVIEWS OF THE ROBERT MONTGOMERY FEATURES IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE001 & ISSUE002 ARE ONLINE

Y. PROJECT BY YOHAN SERFATY FALL WINTER 2012/2013 BEHIND-THE-SCENES

Y. PROJECT BY YOHAN SERFATY FW2012 PHOTOGRAPHED BEHIND-THE-SCENES BY NAT URAZMETOVA [SOME/THINGS AGENCY] DURING PARIS MEN'S FASHION WEEK

BRADLEY SOILEAU BACKSTAGE AT BORIS BIDJAN SABERI FW2012

BRADLEY SOILEAU PHOTOGRAPHED BACKSTAGE BY NAT URAZMETOVA [SOME/THINGS AGENCY] AT BORIS BIDJAN SABERI FW2012 DURING PARIS FASHION WEEK

NONONSENSE LIMITED EDITION FRAGRANCE LINE BY NICO UYTTERHAEGEN

Belgian designer Nico Uytterhaegen has released a limited edition fragrance line, called NONONSENSE, which comes in handcrafted bottles, wrapped in a handmade leather wallet. They're available as 50ml in EDT strength & can be ordered online from DOWNTOWN

/ PHOTOGRAPHED BY AIGA OZOLINA [SOME/THINGS AGENCY] at SOME/THINGS SECRET

CENDRE NOIRE BY CHAPTER004 CONTRIBUTOR CHARLOTTE BALLESTEROS

A PREVIEW OF THE CHARLOTTE BALLESTEROS & HUBERT MAROT FEATURE IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER004 IS NOW ONLINE

'SUBVERTED' EXHIBITION FEATURING CHAPTER005 CONTRIBUTOR DAVID MAISEL

THE LAKE PROJECT 17 [2002]

[This coming 14 February 2012, IVORYPRESS ART + BOOKS SPACE I is opening Subverted, a group exhibition with artworks by Edward Burtynsky, DAVID MAISEL, Nuno Ramos and Carlo Valsecchi. The show throws a spotlight on the rapport between man and Nature, a relationship whose dynamic has been radically altered over the last few decades.

Our culture’s way of understanding and looking at Nature has experienced a paradigm shift. Until the end of the 18th century Nature was believed to be a manifestation of a mysterious, superhuman force equated with God. From that moment on, it was identified with a quality that exceeds the human dimension, seen as ephemeral and transitory.

In the history of art, Nature is strongly bound to the aesthetic category of the Sublime as formulated by Burke in the mid-18th century and later by Kant and Schopenhauer. Here, nature is much more than a question of form and engages directly with the infinite, while the human is contained and limited. The Sturm und Drang movement was the first to introduce this vision of Nature, which was later adopted by Romanticism in the 19th century as a violent, mysterious and boundless force that transcended human limits.

In our culture today the attributes of both Nature and the human being have been radically subverted. Nature is now perceived as a fragile system abused and exploited by humans. One only has to think of melting glaciers, the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest and climate change in general to get an idea of the tremendous threat looming over the environment. Even natural disasters like tsunamis or great floods are now seen as the effects of man’s actions in a highly vulnerable ecosystem.

Subverted takes a look at the intersection of these two realities from a shared language. Where the hand of God was once seen in traditional representations of Nature, we now see the print of the human being. The devastating environmental and human consequences of the world’s biggest dam in China or the bed of a lake drained dry by the city of Los Angeles are the images proffered by Burtynsky and MAISEL, respectively. Meanwhile, Valsecchi portrays a landscape scarred by human exploitation and industry. Rounding off these three projects is Black and Blue, an installation by Nuno Ramos with over ten tons of sand brought from Brazil, speaking to nature consumed and devastated by progress.

None of these projects is innocent. Each one bears implicit a political charge of activism that borders on the radical, suffused with an unsettling foreboding and an almost elegiac approximation to the landscape.

The images in Subverted are like containers of these two worlds, civilization and Nature, where the conventional attributes of both have been subverted as a sign of the culture of our time. The works by Edward Burtynsky (Ontario, Canada, 1955), DAVID MAISEL (New York, USA, 1961), Nuno Ramos (São Paulo, Brazil, 1960) and Carlo Valsecchi (Brescia, Italy, 1965) are on view at IVORYPRESS ART + BOOKS SPACE I until 14 April.]

/ courtesy IVORYPRESS


SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER005 FEATURES 2 EXTENSIVE FEATURES ON THE WORK OF DAVID MAISEL, INCLUDING AN INTERVIEW BY DEREK THOMSON / PREVIEWS OF BOTH ARTICLES ARE ONLINE

LINDA FARROW BY BORIS BIDJAN SABERI SUNGLASSES

LINDA FARROW | BORIS BIDJAN SABERI SUNGLASSES WORN BY BRADLEY SOILEAU / PHOTOGRAPHED BY MONIKA BIELSKYTE FOR AN EXCLUSIVE PROJECT WE ARE WORKING ON WITH BORIS FOR SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER006

BORIS BIDJAN SABERI | SOME/THINGS BAG

BORIS BIDJAN SABERI | SOME/THINGS BOILED WOOL WITH TAR LIMITE/DITIONS BAG PHOTOGRAPHED BY AIGA OZOLINA [SOME/THINGS AGENCY] AT SOME/THINGS SECRET

/ available exclusively from the SOME/THINGS BOUTIQUE

MICHELE LAMY AT BERCY FOR RICK'S SHOW DURING PARIS FASHION WEEK

MICHELE LAMY AT THE RICK OWENS MEN'S FW2012 SHOW DURING PARIS MEN'S FASHION WEEK / PHOTOGRAPHED BY AIGA OZOLINA [SOME/THINGS AGENCY] ON SITE AT POPB [SALLE DE BERCY CERDAN , PORTE 28, 8 BOULEVARD DE BERCY 75012 PARIS]

'PINA' BY WIM WENDERS NOMINATED FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

'Pina', the 3-D dance documentary directed by WIM WENDERS, has received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature. The film, which includes music by SOME/THINGS ISSUE002 CONTRIBUTOR JUN MIYAKE, is a tribute to the late German modern-dance choreographer PINA BAUSCH, capturing selections of her work performed by members of the Tanztheater Wuppertal.

/ SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE002 / THE BLACK BOOK includes an extensive feature documenting 15 years of PINA BAUSCH'S TANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL with photography by MAARTEN VANDEN ABEELE