Cole Lu will present new work with Herald St at Art Basel Hong Kong 2024.

Cole Lu will present new work with Herald St at Frieze London 2023.

Inpatient Press is pleased to announce their latest publication FIRST PYLON by Cole Lu, a compendium of the artist's vellum illustrations and writing. Melding mythological references with personal history, FIRST PYLON gathers the precursor illustrations to his pieces made of burnt wood panels and linen, accompanied by a corresponding collection of his poetry and writing, tracing what came before the fire and envisioning a new mythos born from beyond the flame. With an introduction by Paul Legault.

Please join Cole and Inpatient Press on 5 October 6-8 pm for the launch party at Mast Books (72 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009), with a reading of Paul Legault, Kim Rosenfield, and Chloe Tsolakoglou, coinciding with an installation at the bookstore.

Reading begins at 7 pm.

Salon Mondialité is an electro-acoustic musical performance and video installation by musician, producer, and vocalist Miho Hatori that explores themes of memory, identity, and colonialism through kaleidoscopic and expansive dream-pop atmospheres and hypnotic rhythms. Hatori combines composed and improvised music, experimenting with the structure of a “talk-show” to create a listening environment where nostalgia for the past and possibilities for the future co-exist. Hatori’s “talk show” substitutes traditional segments with “sound stories” and features onstage collaborations with Hatori's friends and invited guests.

For this performance at EMPAC, Hatori’s guests include musicians Patrick Higgins and Michael Beharie, and cross-media artists Steffani Jemison and Cole Lu.

Find out more about the event here.

The exhibition Back to School will present childhood drawings from a group of New York-based artists, taking them back to the original impulse from which their practice started. Very early works by artists often remain unshown. But while the 'artist as child' might not yet have elaborate artistic skills at their disposal, their first work often reveals traces of themes, forms, and perspectives that prove essential later in their career. The exhibition is a celebration of the passion, angst, curiosity, and freedom of the first pieces by artists who have now made a career from their unique way of looking at the world. What has remained, and what can be regained from reflecting on their earliest creations? This presentation is less interested in the image of childhood as a screen for the projection of adult fantasies or psychoanalytical analysis, and instead offers an artistic perspective, considering what these works meant to their makers."

Participating artists:

Rachel Rossin, Ivana Bašić, Anna K.E., Cole Lu, Florian Meisenberg, Tin Nguyen, and Harry Gould Harvey IV.

On view September 21st–November 11th, 2023 at Plank Road, Ridgewood, NY.

Find out more here.

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Melding historical and literary references with poignant personal experiences, Cole Lu’s work tells stories of dissonance and longing through spiraling odysseys anchored by obscure characters of ancient mythology, a motley assemblage of demigods, daemons, and spirits. First Pylon is a compendium of Lu's vellum drawings which are the precursors to his pieces made of burnt wood panels and linen, accompanied by a corresponding collection of his poetry and writing. With his burned work, Lu returns to the origin of storytelling by writing with fire. In First Pylon, Lu traces what came before the fire and envisions a new mythos born from beyond the flame.

Purchase a copy of the book here.