Ocula Conversation Pierre Huyghe: The Artist as Director Pierre Huyghe is a producer of spectacular and memorable enigmas, with works that function more like mirages than as objects. Abyssal Plain (2015–ongoing), his contribution to the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, was installed on the seabed of the Marmara Sea, some 20 metres below the surface of the water and close to...
Ocula Report MoMA Expansion: Once the Modern, Always the Modern 29 Nov 2019 : Mohammad Salemy for Ocula In the early decades of its existence, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), founded in 1929, transformed from a philanthropic project modestly housed in a few rooms of the Heckscher Building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, to an alleged operating node in the United States' cultural struggle during the cold war, and one of the...
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...
Related Press STUDIO INVESTIGATIONS | A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PAINTER JUDY MILLAR Verve Magazine : 13 October 2018 Having just had the Guardian list her latest UK show at Fold Gallery as one of the top five in London, Judy Millar is undoubtedly one of New Zealand's most successful international painters. Her work is part of Australasia's compendium of contemporary painters and is scattered throughout museums, galleries and private collections worldwide.
Related Press Three Judy Millar Paintings EyeContact : 19 April 2018 'Gesture' and 'gestural' are vastly overused words in talking about abstract painting but remain unavoidable in talking about Judy Millar's work. As Kundera intimates above, perhaps gestures perform us, rather than the other way around, memes proliferating like living things. Perhaps art is merely a long war to determine who is in charge.
Related Press Judy Millar: The Sinew of Space Contemporary HUM : 12 February 2018 It's frustrating to her, Judy Millar tells me from the West Coast of Auckland as we discuss her exhibition in Zurich, Swallowed in Space, that people are so rarely asking 'what does painting do to us?' [1] . An affective painting, after all, is something we want to go and see, and revisit, and make part of our wider experience. I wholeheartedly...
Related Press Artist's New Year honour: 'We don’t value the arts highly enough' Stuff : 30 December 2017 Julia Morison didn't need to give much thought to whether or not to accept her latest accolade. The Christchurch artist has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours, arguably the highest recognition of a 40-year career.'Anything that promotes the arts is a really good thing,' she said.'We have so much but we...
Related Press Honolulu Biennial in 2017 to spotlight local and international contemporary artists The New York Times : 23 February 2016 Hawaii has a population of more than 1.4 million people but not a single museum is dedicated to contemporary art, said Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, a co-founder of the first Honolulu Biennial, which will open in spring 2017.“We can both highlight our tremendous local talent as well as bring in national and international contemporary artists...
Related Press A Conversation with Julia Morison EyeContact : 25 July 2015 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of New Zealand artist Julia Morison's first exhibition. Morison studied graphic design at Wellington Polytechnic in 1970–2 and painting at the University of Canterbury in 1973–5. After showing a number of severely formalist paintings she took a break from exhibiting: from this came two very large, multi-part works:...
Related Press Tails of the unexpected Art News New Zealand : 15 June 2015 The Horses Stayed Behind is an exhibition commemorating the thousands of horses that left New Zealand in World War I, of which only four returned. The centrepiece will be a tapestry, five metres by one metre, made of 500 rosettes, intricately woven in the style of the Victorian hair-wreath. Each of them hand-made by Auburn out of horsehair. Each of...
Related Press Other Elsewheres: New Zealand at the Venice Biennale The Pantograph Punch : 12 June 2015 New Zealand's official platform at the Venice Biennale began in 2001, and our formal representation was arguably already overdue at this point. There had been anomalous instances of New Zealanders exhibiting at the Biennale: Frances Hodgkins (she was meant to be in a group show representing Britain, though this was never realised because of World...
Related Press Judy Millar's Soulful and Cerebral Art i-D VICE : 27 May 2015 In the past decade, acclaimed New Zealand artist Judy Millar's varied work has filled a German gallery with Technicolor tidal waves and unspooled wild brushstrokes across the walls of a Renaissance church for the 53rd Venice Biennale.Always a fan of an enveloping spectacle, her latest show Reverse Cinema at Sydney's Sullivan + Strumpf...
Related Press IMAGINE ASIA: New Zealand artists respond to contemporary Asia Pataka Art + Museum : 24 February 2015 Since 2007 the Asia New Zealand Foundation has run a programme of residency opportunities in Asia for emerging and mid-career New Zealand artists. An exhibition of works by artists who have benefited from these residencies will be opened at Pataka Art + Museum in early 2015 as part of the Asia New Zealand Foundation’s 20th anniversary...
Related Press Demons And Dragons: Roger Mortimer Wins Top Prize At Wallace Art Award Linda Herrick for The New Zealand Herald / 02 September 2014 : 4 September 2014 A painting of the coastline around Otago Harbour populated by macabre medieval demons and dragons has won the Paramount Award in last night's annual Wallace Art Awards. Auckland painter Roger Mortimer, 58, was presented with the award at a ceremony at Pah Homestead by Auckland Mayor Len Brown.The Wallace Art Awards, supported by patron Sir...
Related Press Judy Millar. Artist, home & studio, Waitakere, Auckland Freunde von Freunden : 3 July 2013 Setting out to design a house like a boat on the top of a cliff, artist Judy Millar purchased a plot of land outside Auckland on the west coast after graduating from art school. Upon four acres, her home, comprised of found industrial materials, overlooks the black sands of Anawhata beach. Known for its treacherous conditions, the beauty...
