New York Sunshine has been making the most out of isolation, the contemporary art and fashion collective led by John Margaritis recently shared a new film called Repent or Perish. Set against varying locations in the east end of Long Island in New York, the four-minute video stars “Crazy Chris” who robs a muscle car and sets out on a wooden row boat fitted with a basketball hoop with a bunch of debauchery and bad decisions in between.
“The film is an allegory about running away from your problems and people until ultimately you end of completely alone. It’s a series of bad decisions that ends up spiraling out of control leaving him stranded out to sea,” said co-director Jordan Hall.
The 750-pound row boat itself took approximately 500 hours of labor to create. “It took us over a month and a half. Most of the stuff I’ve built or design starts as an idea that I can’t get out of my head until I can actually see it in front of me. There was no real use for it, no reason for it at all actually – I just wanted to build it,” said Margaritis to HYPEBEAST.
Hall said that once the boat was made, the crew began piecing together the rest of the film during the COVID-19 pandemic: “We knew we wanted a robbery to start the film with a bang and set CC in motion,” he said. “I was in london for quarantine and would write out the scenes in order, eventually turning it into a script and send it over to Sunshine to read through. We went back and forth on ideas, getting on the phone for hours every few days to discuss things, adding scenes or deleting them from March up until we shot in mid July.”
Phillips will soon launch its 20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York City. Leading the lots is a rarely seen landscape painting by David Hockneytitled Nichols Canyon which the late artist painted back in 1980. The work currently has a pre-sale estimate in the region of $35 million USD.
“Nichols Canyon is one of Hockney’s greatest masterpieces—and unequivocally the most important landscape by the artist in private hands. Marking the beginning of his decades-long panoramic landscapes series, it was one of only two monumental works Hockney executed following his return to painting from a brief hiatus spent exploring photography in the 1970s; the other, Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio, is held in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,” described Phillips in a statement.
Nichols Canyon is considered to be Hockney’s first mature landscape that features a modern depiction of Los Angeles. From his swimming pools of 1960s to the lifestyle of the 1980s, the artist championed Los Angeles as a prominent muse in his prolific oeuvre, and Nichols Canyon marked the beginning of his renowned body of richly-painted panoramas of the city.
“The moment you live up here, you get a different view of Los Angeles. First of all these wiggly lines seem to enter your life, and they entered the paintings,” Hockney expressed. “I began Nichols Canyon. I took a large canvas and drew a wiggly line down the middle which is what the roads seem to be. I was living up the hills and painting in my studio down the hills, so I was traveling back and forth every day, often two, three, four times a day. I actually felt those wiggly lines.”
Phillips’ 20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York will commence on December 7. Visit Phillips’ official website to learn more.
As they’re busy preparing for their immersive installations at the emerging Superblue Miami Experiential Art Space, the talented troupe of new media artists at teamLabhave mounted a new permanent public artwork in New York City’s One Vanderbilt. The work entitled Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity II, Grand Central Terminal features striking visuals of flowers that “are born, bloom, wither, and die all with the flow of real time,” described teamLab in a statement.
With this new work, teamLab wants to shed light on the importance of preserving the world’s green spaces and mankind’s responsibility to tend to mother nature’s needs as natural environments continue to be pivotal sources for our collective livelihood. “Nature brings us both blessings and disaster, and with the progress of civilization, there are benefits and negative implications: nature and civilization are always connected,” said teamLab. “There is no absolute malicious intent or universal beauty. There is no easy way to understand this relationship and no simple way to arrange our feelings and our sensitivities towards it. Nevertheless, we want to affirm that we are alive regardless of the situation. Life is beautiful.”
Get a closer look at Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity II, Grand Central Terminal in the slideshow above and learn more about the work by visiting teamLab’s website.
Elsewhere in art, Damien Hirst’s personally-owned t-shirt is being sold on eBay for over $300K USD.
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UPDATE (October 19, 2020): Banksy has taken to his Instagram account to officially confirm that he was the artist behind the street art located outside a beauty salon in Nottingham, England. The work, which is now vandalized, portrays a girl hula-hooping with a tire beside a real, damaged bicycle locked to a lamppost with its rear wheel missing.
ORIGINAL STORY (October 16, 2020): A work of street art in the style of Banksywas recently spotted outside a beauty salon in Nottingham, England. Although the elusive artist hasn’t authenticated the work on his Instagram account or other means, visual elements of this newly stenciled piece are very similar to the ones in the artist’s prolific oeuvre. The graffiti portrays a girl hula-hooping with a tire beside a real, damaged bicycle locked to a lamppost with its rear wheel missing. The Nottingham City Council were set to place a temporary covering over it on Thursday, but the work had already been vandalized with white spray paint.
The salon’s shop owner, Alex Mitchell, claimed that he saw the artwork being made on Tuesday when a van “with blacked out windows” pulled up to his storefront, as per the BBC. “I only saw the driver. I didn’t know what was going on or whether I should call the police. He pretended like he had broken down but he was there for at least two hours.” At some point the anonymous man came into Mitchell’s salon and purchased two drinks. “I asked him ‘who is the artist’ and he just winked at me,” he said.
Nottingham currently has the highest coronavirus infection rates in the UK. ”Nottingham needs something like this right now – something to talk about rather than coronavirus,” said neighborhood resident, Josinya Powell, to BBC. “If it is Banksy that’d be amazing – I’d say to him ‘thanks babes’.”
Banksy had recently disguised himself as a London Underground cleaner to put up his latest artwork, If You Don’t Mask, You Don’t Get, that scurries a public service announcement to wear a face mask and play one’s part in the fight against COVID-19. As people have been trying to find this artwork that the elusive British artist has recorded on his Instagram, it is now confirmed that it was accidentally removed by actual London Underground cleaners as reported by the Evening Standard.
“We appreciate the sentiment of encouraging people to wear face coverings, which the vast majority of customers on our transport network are doing,” commented a Transport for London spokesman. “In this particular case, the work was removed some days ago due to our strict anti-graffiti policy. We’d like to offer Banksy the chance to do a new version of his message for our customers in a suitable location.”
It is also apparent that the cleaner who removed the artwork had no inclining of its significance, with a source claiming that “When we saw the video, we started to look into it and spoke to the cleaners. It started to emerge that they had noticed some sort of ‘rat thing’ a few days ago and cleaned it off, as they should.” Nonetheless, its erasure has been receiving polarising comments on social media, with some outraged, and others saying that Banksy should have known better.
View Banksy’s If You Don’t Mask, You Don’t Get artwork below.
In other art news, Takashi Murakami reveals lottery for prints benefitting justice organizations.
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