Pamela Rosenkranz 'Our Product' @ The Swiss Pavilion

Curated by Susanne Pfeffer, Pamela Rosenkranz’s exhibition for the 2015 Venice Biennale transmutes the Pavilion of Switzerland into a body of a local skin color through fluid, sound and movement. A pigment that originally emerged as the specific product of migration, sun-exposure, nutrition, and any number of other contingent factors is resynthesized as a stock formula, composed of unknown ingredients. You can see Pamela Rosenkranz 'Our Product' until November 22, 2015 at the Swiss Pavilion

A Tour of Artist and Photographer Zoe Crosher's Studio

Zoe Crosher, Founder and President of the Los Angeles branch of The Fainting Club, is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Inspired by the collapse of the image and the imaginary, Crosher explores disconnects between the fantasy of something and its reality. Through her conceptual mappings of identities and self-hoods, both of place (Out The Window and LA-LIKE) and person (The Michelle duBois Project), Crosher is interested in activating the gaps between expectation and misremembering. Recent works have been realized as sculptures and perfumes, billboards and desserts, entropic walls, and fools gold dust paintings, musical compositions and collaborations of all kinds, including curating, publications, and of course, images. Conflating the real and the fake, and concerned with an iterative process, repetition, and multiples that emerge through virtual and real-time, she engages the fiction of documentary and the impossibility of the archive, eschewing any sort of belief in a singular history – aka, the “Imagiatic”. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Zachary Armstrong 'Goodnight Bojangles' @ Night Gallery

In Goodnight Moon, a childlike bunny says good night to the contents of her bedroom one by one: "Goodnight, room. Goodnight, moon." The beloved children's book illustrates a familiar and simple ritual through playful means. Ritual and childhood are Ohio based artist Zachary Armstrong's main points of origin, mined throughout his diverse practice, from wallpaper and neon signs, to lamps and paintings. Most often it is his own early years or those of his son that are referenced. Armstrong does this partly to conjure a more naïve moment in one's life, emphasizing the difference in knowingness between a former and current self and creating a nostalgic distance in his mind as well as in the viewer. Zachary Armstrong 'Goodnight Bojangles' will be on view until May 16, 2015 at Night Gallery. photographs by Lee Thompson

Read Our Interview With Heather Boo and Emma Rose of Beaû →

Click here to read our interview with Native New Yorkers and best friends Heather Boo and Emma Rose who make up the band Beaû. This week saw the release of their self-titled debut EP on the Kitsuné label. In the interview they talk about their music, their new album and how they go their big break in Paris. 

10 Exhibitions You Need to See at the 56th Venice Biennale

What is the Venice Biennale and why is everyone talking about it? – The Venice Biennale is largely considered one of the most important art exhibitions in the world. Located in Venice, Italy, the exhibition is sort of like the art world's Olympics - each country chooses a single artist as a representative and that artist is given a "pavilion" to show their work. This year, there are over 136 artists and 53 countries showing. There are also many satellite and pop up exhibitions.  Here are Autre's picks for the top exhibitions. 1. U.K. artist Sarah Lucas presents 'I Scream Daddio' for the British Pavilion 2. The late Mario Merz will be holding an exhibition, entitled 'Unreal City,' at the Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia 3. The late, great Cy Twombly will have an exhibition entitled 'Paradise' at Ca'Pesaro 4. New York based artist Aurel Schmidt will be showing her series 'New Gods' at Cannaregio 5. Part of the unique Vanhaerents Collection will be on display for an exhibition entitled Heartbreak Hotel at the Zuecca Projects Space 6. Jonas Mekas: Internet Saga at the Palazzo Foscari Contarini 7. Artist Rob Pruitt's unique Flea Market in Venice will be on display at A Plus A gallery 8. Pamela Rosenkranz has been nominated by her country to exhibit at the Swiss Pavilion with an exhibition that averages European skin color 9. At the age of 78, Joan Jonas represents the United States at the 56th Venice Biennale with They Come To Us Without A Word 10. Frontiers Reimagined, a major group exhibition with 44 artists will be on view at Museo di Palazzo Grimani

Julius Shulman 'Modernism Rediscovered' @ Taschen in Milan

Julius Shulman’s photography was instrumental in crafting the image of the midcentury Southern California lifestyle across the United States and around the world. Now a selection of Shulman's limited, signed prints are on display in the gallery of the newly opened Taschen Milan. The amazing floors have been designed by artist Jonas Wood. Julius Shulman Modernism Rediscovered will be on view until April 30th, 2016 at Taschen, Via Meravigli 17 20123, Milan, Italy

Grear Patterson 'Seek and Destroy' @ Depart Foundation

The Depart Foundation and American Academy in Rome to present Grear Patterson: Seek and Destroy, the artist’s first Los Angeles solo exhibition and the Los Angeles sequel to Patterson’s exhibition Forest Theater presented at the American Academy in Rome in 2014. A precocious former member of The Still House Group, New York-based American artist and photographer Grear Patterson, working in a variety of media, creates expressive works suffused with nostalgia for lost innocence and childhood rituals. Summoning many of his most significant formative experiences, he plumbs the pleasures and traumas of adolescence, evoking both personal and collective rites! ! ! of passage. His work, alternating between disclosure and reticence, explores not only the immediacy of reckless experience, violent impulses and erotic yearning, but also the halting emotional and linguistic shorthand used to express those furtive memories and desires. Grear Patterson: Seek and Destroy will be on view until May 30th at Depart Foundation, 9105 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles

Photographer Melanie Pullen @ Paris Photo Los Angeles

While some kids had imaginary friends, photographer Melanie Pullen had a transvestite prostitute who she would speak to from her window as a 6 year old, after her parents went to sleep. These early dialogues with the dangerous world of the night in New York City, beyond her childhood bedroom, built the foundation for the strange and dark worlds of crime scenes and ghosts that inhabit her photographs. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Tour: Pierpaolo Barzan and Valeria Sorci's Private Collection

Italian transplants Pierpaolo Barzan and Valeria Sorci occupy the storied Baxter-Hodiak house, which was built by the oft-misunderstood architect John Lautner for the actress Anne Baxter - the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright. The house exists in the romantic hills behind Sunset Boulevard on a quiet cul de sac between paradise and art utopia. Patrons of the art world as a whole and founders of the Depart Foundation, a non-profit artists institution that supports emerging artists,  Barzan and Sorci opened their home for one night only, for a private tour of their personal collection. Juxtaposed against the mixed modern Tudor-style home with its bricks and sinuous indoor-outdoor couch, the collection is near perfectly curated and provides an intimate arena to enjoy art by everyone from Douglas Gordon to Pryce Lee with his bullet riddled mirror tucked coyly in a guest bathroom. text and photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Part Two: VIP Opening of Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015

Paris Photo Los Angeles returns this year to Paramount Pictures Studios' famous sound stages and New York City backlots. Paris Photo presents a true exploration of classic and contemporary photography and moving images - and everything in between. The fair opens today and runs until Sunday, May 3rd. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Part One: VIP Opening of Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015

Paris Photo Los Angeles returns this year to Paramount Pictures Studios' famous sound stages and New York City backlots. Paris Photo presents a true exploration of classic and contemporary photography and moving images - and everything in between. The fair opens today and runs until Sunday, May 3rd. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Mark Flood's Teaser Video for 'Astro Turf Yelp Review Says Yes'

As usual, Mark Flood has put out another bizarre teaser video for his show, entitled 'Astro Turf Yelp Review,' which opens May 1st at Peres Projects in Berlin. This is the gallery’s sixth solo show with the Houston-based, American artist. In addition to new works from the text and logo series, this exhibition is centered around a new series Aged Paintings, which are exhibited in Berlin for the first time.

Eric Baudart ‘Again, Again and Again’ at Edouard Malingue

Delicately transposed, it's the displaced materiality in Eric Baudart’s works that spurs their contemporary resonance. Millimeter paper, mattress frames, doormats – everyday, commonplace elements are flushed of everyday context and repurposed to create oeuvres that titter on the edge of artifice. ‘again, again and again’ at Edouard Malingue Gallery marks Baudart’s first solo show in Hong Kong and presents a new series of works as well as two installations that introduce how his practice evolves from Duchamp’s readymade, whilst simultaneously devolving from it. The works or situations proposed are not mere found objects but rather reconfigured and repurposed, composed and re-choreographed materials that have been carefully assembled or moulded to mount a delicate ballet of shapes, color and form. ‘Again, Again and Again’ a will be on view at until May 30th, 2015 at Edouard Malingue Gallery, 33 Des Voeux Road Central, Central, Hong Kong

Jaakko Eino Kalevi Releases Music Video for 'Deeper Shadows'

Finnish artist Jaakko Eino Kalevi has shared a new single and video (directed by Charlotte Rutherford) for “Deeper Shadows”, from his forthcoming self-titled debut album, due for release on Weird World on June 16, 2015. Jaakko (pronounced “Yah-koh”), a former tram driver in Helsinki, takes his new album to a wholly new atmosphere that conjures up a sensuous dreamworld soundtracked by synth and cool vocals. You can preorder the album here. 

PART TWO: HIGHLIGHTS FROM SALONE DEL MOBILE 2015 IN MILAN

Part two of our coverage of Salone del Mobile 2015 - see part one here. Every corner of the city - including private palazzos and high end retail establishments – are transformed into an exhibition space showing local and global furniture design. For part two of Autre's coverage, highlights include Armani Casa's unique and classy exhibition feature blueprints from tallest building in the world, street scenes and Tom Dixon's classic furniture pieces floating in space. Full coverage and photos by Juanco Viso for Autre.