Ocula Conversation Almine Rech-Picasso Goes Global French gallerist Almine Rech-Picasso opened her first space in Asia on Shanghai's historic Bund in July this year, bringing her eponymous gallery's total locations to five. The Shanghai gallery occupies roughly 4,000 square feet on the second floor of the three-storey Amber Building, a beautiful warehouse space, originally occupied by the Central...
Ocula Report From the Gallery to the Streets: Home Works 8 in Beirut 8 Nov 2019 : Nat Muller for Ocula There's an inside joke amongst the team of Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts: that every time an edition of its biennial forum on cultural practices is planned, a national crisis happens. The eighth edition of Home Works was no different: it opened on 17 October amidst the most devastating wildfires that Lebanon had witnessed...
Ocula Insight | Video Hans Hartung and Art Informel at Mazzoleni London (1 October 2019-18 January 2020) presents key works by the French-German painter while highlighting his connection with artists active in Paris during the 50s and 60s. In this video, writer and historian Alan Montgomery discusses Hartung's practice and its legacy.Born in Leipzig in 1904, Hans...
Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie aims to present international contemporary art to a larger public. The program emphasises non-objective art, conceptual art and derivatives of minimalism. We are strongly focused on American and European artists. Young and mid-career artists who are already established in the United States as well as internationally known artists are an integral part of our programme.
Ocula Report Art Basel Lowdown: Shows to See 6 Jun 2019 : Tessa Moldan for Ocula To coincide with Art Basel 2019, which opens to the public from 13 to 16 June, galleries and institutions across the city are presenting a range of stellar exhibitions. From Rebecca Horn at Museum Tinguely to Geumhyung Jeong at Kunsthalle Basel, here is a selection of what to see.William Kentridge, Dead Remus (2014–2016). Charcoal on found ledger...
Ocula Photolog Frieze Masters 2017 9 October 2017 'With over 130 of the world's leading galleries specialising in antiquities, Asian art, ethnographic art, illuminated manuscripts, medieval, modern and post-war art, Old Masters and 19th century, as well as photography, sculpture and wunderkammer, this year's highlights include extraordinary art objects and pioneering 20th-century artists at the...
Ocula Conversation Doryun Chong Chief Curator, M+, Hong Kong Doryun Chong is Chief Curator at M+, Hong Kong’s super museum for visual culture. Prior to joining M+, Chong was Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and prior to that, he was a curator in the visual arts department at Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center from 2003 to 2009. At MoMA, Chong...
Ocula Conversation Doryun Chong Chief Curator, M+, Hong Kong Doryun Chong is Chief Curator at M+, Hong Kong’s super museum for visual culture. Prior to joining M+, Chong was Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and prior to that, he was a curator in the visual arts department at Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center from 2003 to 2009. At MoMA, Chong...
Related Press Wirklichkeit ist, was wir aus ihr machen. Und Künstler sein heisst Fragen stellen Neue Zürcher Zeitung : 14 June 2019 Vielleicht ist Kunst der Dampf, der entweicht, wenn sich der Alltag aus der Wirklichkeit zurückzieht. Oder eher die Schlacke, die liegen bleibt, wenn der Dunst sich verzogen hat? Für Stephen Willats wäre das keine Frage: Schlacke, klar. Aber Kunst? Davon würde Willats lieber nicht reden. Ein Künstler wollte der 75-jährige Brite eigentlich nie sein....
Related Press Your Guide to the Best Shows in Basel Frieze : 11 June 2018 Bruce Nauman, 'Disappearing Acts'Schaulager17 March – 26 AugustThe Schaulager enjoys immense resources; its founder, Maja Oeri, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a major donor to its collection, is honoured with a MoMA gallery in her name. Bruce Nauman's detailed survey exhibition, created in collaboration with that New York...
Related Press Minoru Onoda, Circle Master from Japan’s Gutai Group HYPERALLERGIC : 17 June 2017 Beyond the orgy of art-world hype surrounding the annual Art Basel fair, the gallery scene here in its host city and its environs is as varied as it is compact; operating in the shadow of the venerable Kunstmuseum Basel, the repository of some of Europe's finest modern and medieval art collections, including the vast holdings of drawings,...
Related Press 'The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence' from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi museum collection: a transcultural perspective on art since the 1960s Art Radar Journal : 15 May 2017 The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence brings together over 18 artists from the 1960s until now. Held at the Manarat Al Saadiyat Cultural District in Abu Dhabi, the second exhibition from the collection brings together more than 25 artworks ranging from installations to works on paper and paintings.
