The Puma R698 Kosma pack is the latest collection from the sportswear giant which now has an official release date. The pack includes three pairs in great looking colourways and are given the winter treatment.The Puma R698 Kosma pack is the latest collection from the sportswear giant which now has... These pairs from the Kosma pack are modified variation of the brands high profile R698 shoes. There three colourways from the pack are- High Risk Red, black and Inca Gold. All of the pairs are crafted with soft leathers with crackled nubuck. The colourways of the shoe resemble dry hair shed from tired trees ready to sprout fresh fros. Each of the pairs include branding on the tongue and insoles. They sit on top of a white midsole and are finished off with dark outsole.The Puma R698 Kosma is scheduled to release on 13th November via the following retailers.The unexpected others group exhibition is on at Berlin’s L’Atelier-ksr, opening May 20 and running to July 16. Featuring Adam Fearon, Vanessa Safavi, Richard Frater, Renata Har and Clémence de La Tour du Pin among others, the exhibition follows last year’s Blue Majik, which aqnb reviewed here as the second iteration a project series exploring “the ongoing dissolution between the biologic and the synthetic.”
This time, unexpected others reflects on “relations existing between organic and non-living entities” by taking its title from Donna Harraway’s 1992 text ‘The Promise of Monsters‘, where the influential writer and theorist coins ‘innapropriate/d others’ while considering “how hard intellectual, cultural and political work these new geometries require”. Other artists also taking part include Adrien Missika, Violet Dennison, Antoine Renard, and Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, along with a written contribution from Elvia Wilk. See the L’Atelier-ksr website for details.** Antoine Renard‘s solo presentation titled Stuff that dreams are made of is on at Paris’ Galerie Valentin, opening May 12 and running to June 25. There is little other information alongside the exhibition announcement —aside from the fact it will be taking in the Project Room —but we might perhaps expect some thinking around death, (re)cycles, dark entertainment, things that perish and, potentially, gore.
That’s especially given the Berlin-based artist’s recent collaborative 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick exhibition with Clémence de La Tour du Pin, for example. Renard works mainly with sculpture, combining explicitly organic and inorganic materials, as well as content in one gesture or work. In fact it is hard to tell whether the deteriorating figure in the image used to accompany the show is real or cast and slightly melted. See the FB event page for (limited) details.** The Plural Melts – Dunmore Caves group exhibition is on at Berlin’s Yvonne Lambert, opening February 20 and running March 5. Organised to run at the gallery throughout 2016, Plural Melts is an intermittent programme of events and performances arranged by artists Zuzanna Ratajczyk and Eoghan Ryan. Dunmore Caves features works by Stephan Backes, Jassem Hindi, Clemence de La Tour du Pin, Andrzej Ratajczyk, Antoine Renard, Daniel Shanken, Andrew Munks & Richard Sides and Viktor Timofeev. There is limited information given with Dunmore Caves, apart from a poster that the gallery have posted in the Facebook event, which outlines a conversation between Darth Vader and a canteen worker -as imagined in Eddie Izzard’s mind.
On February 20 at the opening event, Backes and Timofeev performed in the space and this coming Saturday 27, Hindi and Shanken will perform. It will be interesting to see how these artists, not all of whom necessarily have performance-based practices, will be brought together in live pairings and moments across the event. See the Yvonne Lambert event page for (limited) details** Borrowing their title from a snuff movie called 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick, the joint exhibition by artists Clémence de la Tour du Pin and Antoine Renard’s at L’Atelier-ksr , running September 16 to October 24, 2015, explicitly references the “cannibalistic story of pornographic actor Luka Rocco Magnotta, arrested after killing and dismembering his boyfriend.” The press release also includes a newspaper clipping from the event: “, depicting a naked male tied to a bed frame being repeatedly stabbed with an ice pick and a kitchen knife, then dismembered, followed by acts of necrophilia.
The perpetrator uses a knife and fork to cut off some of the flesh and gets a dog to chew on the body. Intentionally placed within the nauseating reality of a violent murder, the show invites the viewer into a space of aftermath. Everything looks like its decaying from hedonism: rusty steel partitions divide the space into small rooms, setting the scene for a stereotypically horrific encounter. Coffee grounds and other unidentifiable detritus and stains are strewn across the space. A work titled ‘If you don’t like the reflection don’t look in the mirror’ is a tree stump wrapped in PVC rubber sheath on top of a fridge. The freezer door is open creating a makeshift plinth for an aluminium cast of a hand. Sexual party snapshots are stuck to the bottom. Half-empty coffee cups sit quietly on the floor in installation, ‘Life is the flower for which Love is the honey’. The accruing moisture included in the materials list begs for attention. A broken pillow with strewn feathers sits in a corner next to a matrix of aluminium earplugs and wires that vaguely represent the shape of an arm.
Another tree stump titled, ‘Could you juice me again? The colours are starting to fade’, sits in uncomfortable proximity to a steel box used to house toxic liquid. In another ‘unit’, a deep fryer-cum-garbage can is filled with steel tubing and a sneaker. Sculptural figures such as ‘Justin Bieber’ hang down above the scene and suggest a ritual that may have taken place. A red stain bleeds out onto the surrounding floor. The title, ‘I am you, Jun. I’m all you’ll ever need’, feels like an appropriated quote aimed towards a murdered lover. This sanitising of a reference steeped in malaise [through the theatrical nature of an art installation] is perhaps what gives the exhibition its disturbing undertone. An oversized image of a generic sexy avatar girl found in many video games, fills the space of one of the metallic panels. This image immediately brings 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick into the realm of online gaming, darkened by a surrounding narrative that hasn’t seen daylight for months.
The aftermath of excess and entertainment remains open-ended in its obscurity, entangled within the fermentation process of ‘going underground’. Exhibition photos, top right. As part of Berlin Art Week, L’Atelier-ksr is opening a new joint installation by Clémence de La Tour du Pin and Antoine Renard, titled 1 LUNATIC 1 ICE PICK and running at the Berlin art space from September 15 until October 17. The on-site eleven-minute video installation takes as its inspiration the story of pornographic actor Luka Rocco Magnotta, who was arrested after uploading a video depicting him stabbing then dismembering his boyfriend with an ice pick and kitchen knife as part of a snuff film gone real -also the subject of last years 24/7 performance at Berlin’s Schaubühne, MEAT. The installation dives into the world of the dark web, reflecting “its dark spaces of excess entertainment and constant transformation” and drawing attention to our underlining morbid attraction to gore.