Ocula Conversation Zac Langdon-Pole: Lines of Flight Over the last few years, New Zealand-born Berlin-based artist Zac Langdon-Pole has cultivated a practice of elegant, if at times uncanny, elisions. His recombinations of objects, words, and images—poetry, meteorite fragments, literary translations, furniture, photographs, mollusk shells—emphasise, with a fine-tuned lyricism, the...
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...
For the 2018 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, de Sarthe presents an exciting selection of Western and Asian art including works of Modern Masters like Chu Teh-Chun, Zao Wou- Ki, Auguste Rodin and Astuko Tanaka, as well as new work by emerging contemporary artists including Wang Xin, Andrew Luk, Ma Sibo, Lu Xinjian, Wang Guofeng, Mak Ying Tung, Lin Jingjing, Liang Ban and Double Fly Art Center.
Among our contemporary program, new work by Andrew Luk and Wang Xin are highlights. Luk develops his Horizon Scan series into the shape of a unmanned military drone's crosshairs, and Wang Xin, in her signature rose pink color, designs a garment version of her critically reviewed interactive artwork, Unknown Artists Agency.
