Ocula Report Taipei Dangdai Lowdown: Shows to See 11 Jan 2019 : Tessa Moldan for Ocula Founded by the same team behind Art HK—Magnus Renfrew, Tim Etchells, Angus Montgomery, and Will Ramsay—Taipei Dangdai, opens to the public after much anticipation on 18 January 2019 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. Running until 20 January, the fair will feature 90 galleries from around the world, including David Zwirner, Esther...
Ocula Conversation Magnus Renfrew Magnus Renfrew has twice been named by ArtReview as one of the 100 most influential figures in the international art world. In 2008, he came to prominence in Asia's art world and within the wider global scene when he was appointed founding director of Art HK. The fair was subsequently acquired by MCH Group and re-branded in 2013 under Renfrew's...
Ocula Report Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho: News from Nowhere 4 Jan 2019 : Mike Pinnington for Ocula From around 2007, South Korean artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho found that they were increasingly selected to participate in group shows alongside each other. As such, they regularly shared time and space, either in gallery installs or on journeys to or from them. On these and other occasions, they often found themselves chatting about their...
Beyer Projects is a 'concept to completion' publisher of sculpture and artist editions.
We specialise in early-phase engagement with artists, to assist in everything from realising a napkin-sketched idea to replicating fully rendered maquettes. We invest in our collaborations through project funding, extensive research and development, comprehensive production supervision, and placement of works in museums or private collections. Since 1998, our ability to produce technically challenging works on rigorous deadlines has helped artists stretch their practices in new directions.
John BaldessariPenguin, 2018 Polyurethane, stainless steel, acrylic, epoxy resin, and paint
John BaldessariGiacometti with Barrel, 2018 Bronze, resin, stainless steel, and mixed media
Tavares StrachanMatthew, 2012 Plexiglas, digital pigment print with collage and drawing
Ocula Report One belt, one road, one biennale: Yinchuan's stand against cultural desertification 1 Nov 2016 : Sam Gaskin for Ocula Over 70 artists from 33 countries are represented in the inaugural Yinchuan Biennale, which opened amidst scandal on 9 September 2016. Not included is a work by Ai Weiwei, who was invited to take part alongside other art stars Yoko Ono and Anish Kapoor before being disinvited just weeks before the opening.In a tweet, Ai connects the...
Ocula Conversation Bob Rennie Collector In Vancouver's Chinatown, an area wedged between the gleaming office towers of the city's affluent West End and the city’s poorest neighbourhood, Downtown Eastside, is a gallery showcasing work from one of the world’s leading private collections.Housed in a restored iteration of Chinatown’s oldest building, the...
Ocula Report All Hail Xu Zhen: Report From Art021, Shanghai 2014 1 Dec 2014 : Sam Gaskin for Ocula ART021 takes its name from the Shanghai dialing code. The numbers serve as a synonym for the city, but only for people calling from within China—from outside the country, you’d call +8621. Still, 021 make more sense for this fair. Founded in 2013 by local PR director Bao Yifeng and former gallery director Kelly Ying, ART021’s...
Ocula Conversation Richard Armstrong Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York Richard Armstrong is the Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation. As well as managing the foundation he oversees the Guggenheim Museum in New York as well as the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Deutsche Guggenheim and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi due for completion in 2017. Prior to this...
Related Press Heads Roll review – an exhibition for narcissists everywhere The Guardian : 13 August 2018 Portraiture is an enduring art form, thanks to the narcissistic tendencies of the human race.
Related Press Frieze Sculpture 2018: the highlights Wallpaper* : 4 July 2018 Between Wimbledon and the FIFA World Cup, there's been plenty of distractions from London's unusually Mediterranean weather of late.
Related Press Julian Opie: 'It's only when you are bored that you can see' The Guardian : 25 April 2018 I sent two of my assistants out to the park to film people walking and, on reviewing the films, I found that many joggers had run past the camera.Humans are built for running. I have read they can outrun a wolf or a horse over long distances. By drawing one stride with around 30 frames I can set a drawing in motion to run smoothly forever as an...
Related Press Sculptor Anish Kapoor Blasts NRA’s ‘Nightmarish Vision’ Frieze : 13 March 2018 In 2017, the National Rifle Association in the US broadcast a controversial video advertisement, 'The Clenched Fist of Truth', which warns of liberal America's threat to freedom. In it, a brief scene details Anish Kapoor's 2004 steel doughnut-like sculpture Cloud Gate at Chicago's Millennium Park. Now the artist has released an open letter in which...
