Ocula Report Visions of Brazil: Reimagining Modernity from Tarsila to Sonia 18 May 2019 : Fawz Kabra for Ocula Bridging almost a century of Brazilian art, Visions of Brazil: Reimagining Modernity from Tarsila to Sonia at Blum & Poe in New York (30 April–22 June 2019), hosted in collaboration with Mendes Wood DM, offers a rereading of Brazilian Modernism through the works of artists practising at different times, from the 20th century through to the...
Ocula Conversation Reiko Tomii In 1969, Horikawa Michio, schoolteacher and member of the artist collective GUN (Group Ultra Niigata), filled out the customs paperwork to mail a one-kilogram river stone from Niigata, the proverbial 'backside of Japan', to President Nixon. In return, Horikawa received a thank you note for this 'most unusual Christmas gift'—a muted anti-war...
Ocula Report Yun Hyong-keun in Venice: The Artist Behind the Paintings 4 May 2019 : Sherry Paik for Ocula 'He was not a "political" kind of person. He just wanted to be honest and straight. But it was not easy in Korea to live like that,' writes curator Kim Inhye on artist Yun Hyong-keun. For much of his life, Yun lived in proximity to some of the most tumultuous moments in modern Korean history, from which he emerged as a pioneer of abstract...
Jitish Kallat's works represent mental agony as an artist and anxiety resulted from the current Indian society. While Kallat is conflicted between pop art and agitprop, he tries to solve the survival on human strife and endless narratives. Mumbai, where he lives now, is a place where survival in itself is an adventure and shows the extreme aspects of India. Thus, Mumbai becomes a source of stimulation for his artistic practice. Jitish Kallat shows his passionate works toward the whole world as a stage such as worldly praised exhibition, Thermocline Of Art (2007) of ZKM Museum in Germany, New Narratives: Contemporary Art From India (2007) of Cultural Centre in Chicago, and Gwangju Biennale (2006).
Ocula Report 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life 15 Feb 2019 : Natalie King for Ocula 'Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.' Marlene Dumas' poetic and sensual refrain accompanies her figurative watercolours on view in Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, the fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) in the southern state of Kerala, India (12 December 2018–29 March 2019).Dumas' new series...
Ocula Conversation Serge Tiroche Co-founder, the Tiroche DeLeon Collection With an ultra slick website that enables easy navigation of its 400 plus artworks from many of the leading artists of today, the Tiroche DeLeon Collection is unique in its focus and ownership structure. Established in 2011 by Serge Tiroche and Russ DeLeon, the collection is focused on artworks by both recognised masters, and emerging talent from...
Ocula Report Go East: The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection 5 Jun 2015 : Jane O’Sullivan for Ocula Yang Zhichao’s Chinese Bible is both unyieldingly monumental and humble. In the latest presentation of the work in Sydney, all 3,000 of the diaries he has collected from Beijing’s fleamarkets are placed in neat rows on a large, rectangular plinth. Dated from 1949 to 1999 they record 50 turbulent years in China’s...
Ocula Conversation Gene Sherman & Suhanya Raffel Collector and Curator When Australian collectors and philanthropists Gene and Brian Sherman moved from South Africa to Australia in 1976, Gene says they instantly recognised a “buzz about Asia” that they weren’t expecting.As an academic teaching French literature, the push towards Asian languages also put her out of a job. “I went into...
Related Press Busan Biennale 2016 announces Yun Cheagab as new Artistic Director Art Radar : 25 November 2015 The Busan Biennale Organizing Committee convened on 11 November 2015 after considering the candidacy of eight influential curators from across the world for the role of Artistic Director of the next Busan Biennale, starting in September 2016. The choice fell on fellow national Yun Cheagab, currently Director of How Art Museum in Wenzhou and...
Related Press In Kochi, India, a Biennial Makes Room for Reimagining the Region 1 November 2015 The Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) launched in 2012 and has distinguished itself by the scale of its ambition. Its production values reflect the personalities and ethos of founders Bose Krishnamachari and Riyas Komu, as does the selection of its curators, who have the monumental task of framing the idea of what is contemporary within the context of...
Related Press Unveiling of Jitish Kallat's Permanent Public Sculpture in Austria Ocula : 13 October 2015 In 2012, Jitish Kallat was invited by the Advisory Council of Public Art, Lower Austria to conceive of a large scale public art work to be installed in their public spaces. This commission is the result of collaborative action by the mayors of 10 townships and the Advisory Council constituted by experts of the art world. Rendered...
Related Press Indian Artists Look Westward and Homeward, at the Queens Museum New York Times : 14 June 2015 In 1997, Jane Farver, the farsighted and much-loved American curator who died in April in Venice, put together an influential exhibition called “Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora” at the Queens Museum.It was one of the few surveys of its kind in the United States up to that time, and Ms. Farver was careful...
Related Video & Audio JITISH KALLAT, Covariance, Galerie Templon Galerie Templon : 30 September 2017 Galerie Templon, Brussels 7 septembre–28 octobre 2017 / September 7–October 28 2017
Related Video & Audio Jitish Kallat, The Infinite Episode, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris Templon : 22 September 2015 September 5–October 31, 2015 5 septembre - 31 octobre 2015
