The artist’s eclectic mix of the unusual and the outlandish is present in his paintings as well. As a teenager, Korine frequented revival theaters, watching classic films by celebrated directors such as John Cassavetes, Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Alan Clarke. For instance, the artist used to mix Polaroids, Super 8 and 35mm, during the making of his legendary film Gummo. We aim at providing better value for money than most. “A lot of people think the things that I say are not true, but they are,” Korine swears, as he takes me upstairs to view his new “Circle Paintings,” which Gagosian will show at one of his London outposts in February. Courtesy of Joe Schildhorn/BFAnyc/Sipa USA/Newscom. The nighttime paintings constitute an example of Korine clearly shooting for something and missing. By that point, however, Korine was descending into a druggy haze. Learn about the artist and see available works for sale. Sep 16, 2018 - Explore Mallory's board "Harmony Korine", followed by 109 people on Pinterest. resence as a kind of memento mori, undercutting Korine’s visions of haute bourgeois bliss. Other works of Harmony, some painted and re-painted over the course of several years, are typically inhabited by mystical creatures reminiscent of Goya’s ghastly Caprices. [2] More recently, in 2009, he directed Pigxote in conjunction with the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and released by Nieves. But he’s scaled back that ambition for now, seeing it function more as a bridge between his punk past and his latest adventures in the art and film worlds, with skate crews hanging with artists and hip-hop stars like A$AP Rocky. When Korine—who directed the 2012 coed crime drama Spring Breakers and wrote the screenplay for Kids, Larry Clark’s 1995 breakthrough film about the debauched lives of New York teenagers—recently snapped up the properties, his fans and local creatives were abuzz with speculation. Find out more about the 2015 exhibition Harmony Korine: Raiders at Gagosian Beverly Hills. A retrospective on the cinema, art, and creative world of Harmony Korine. Accusing him of nihilism or decadence is like arguing with yourself: his work embraces its faults so single-mindedly that they begin to seem like virtues. He also tends to combine shaky footage with precise editing, which creates unusual effects and holds the viewers’ attention to the split second. HARMONY KORINE http://www.widewalls.ch/artist/harmony-korine/ #contemporary #art. He and Korine, adds the gallerist, are kindred spirits. What emerged from that retreat is The Trap, a forthcoming revenge drama about a yacht-robbing crew in Miami that Korine describes as “ultra-violent and very impressionistic.” The film, he says, will star Franco, Benicio Del Toro, Al Pacino, Robert Pattinson, and Idris Elba, and is meant to feel “like a drug experience.” After a rare pause, he explains that he is always trying to visually “assault” the viewer—whether in his films or art, or in his constantly evolving new obsessions that have yet to find a particular medium. Now Korine’s days are consumed with Lefty’s soccer games and his five-mile runs. There's this random tragedy associated with the decline of the vaudeville entertainer, which is a theme in Gummo that I completely stole from vaudeville, claimed Harmony in one of his recent interviews. Harmony’s another famous series entitled Loop Paintings is the result of a process also related to filmmaking. “I’ve really gotten into performative things. He works with materials found at his local Salvation Army in Nashville, Tennessee, including masking tape, squeegees, house paint, and steak knives. Korine’s films of the past twenty years merge reality with fiction. Korine finally hit bottom one snowy night, having spent several years in the company of street gangsters in Europe. In his Starburst series of paintings, the artist sticks overlapping segments of masking tape to the center of the canvas and he also uses a broom to spread primary colors - red, yellow, and blue. “If I try something and it doesn’t work out, what’s the big deal?” he asks rhetorically. It’s a steamy August afternoon and Harmony Korine is sucking on the stub of a cigar while skateboarding figure eights around giant cement pillars in a cavernous factory in downtown Nashville. He works with materials found at his local Salvation Army in Nashville, Tennessee, including masking tape, squeegees, house paint, and steak knives. They finally settled in Nashville, when Korine was 7. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more. Korine’s first show at Painter’s gallery featured a series of reworked projections from his 1997 debut film, Gummo, about redneck youths in tornado-ravaged Ohio. In the story of Korine’s reinvention, Rachel has played perhaps the biggest role. Subscribe today and save up to 33%! The movie turned Rosario Dawson and Chloë Sevigny, Korine’s then-girlfriend, into stars. In 2008 the screenplay for Mister Lonely was released by Swiss publisher Nieves with photographs by Rachel Korine and Brent Stewart. Born in Bolinas, California, to creative parents—his father was a documentary filmmaker for PBS, his mother taught karate and later opened a children’s store—he was raised on a commune, and then moved with his family along the hippie trail to North Africa. There, he attended public school and made his first appearance in the local newspaper as a prepubescent, nonracist Jewish skinhead after a journalist saw him and his gang “in a fight with some rednecks and interviewed us,” he recalls. Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, and Selena Gomez (from left), in Spring Breakers, 2012.