Ocula Conversation Jess Johnson: Worlds Within Worlds Geometric patterns, anthropomorphic characters, architectural spatial environments, and relics of the ancient world appear throughout Jess Johnson's artworks.Johnson's solo art-ventures began in drawing, but her long-term collaborative relationship with animator Simon Ward brings her drawings to life in videos and virtual reality. The animator has...
Ocula Conversation Melati Suryodarmo: Performance Art as Trigger In 2012, Melati Suryodarmo opened Studio Plesungan in her native Surakarta, also known as Solo, the historic royal capital of the Mataram Empire of Java in Indonesia. Suryodarmo had returned to Indonesia from Germany, where she studied Butoh and choreography with Butoh dancer and choreographer Anzu Furukawa, time-based media with avantgarde...
Ocula Report Lagos Biennial 2019: Stories from Africa’s most Populous City 15 Nov 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Under the direction of Folakunle Oshun, the second edition of the Lagos Biennial (26 October–23 November 2019) includes works by over 40 Lagos-based and international artists, architects, and collectives. Curated by architect Tosin Oshinowo, curator and producer Oyindamola Fakeye, and assistant curator of photography at the Art Institute of...
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...
The Dep Art Gallery was founded in 2006 by Antonio Addamiano. Addamiano has united a deep passion and knowledge of art to economic expertise, developing an innovative and personal approach to work in the international art world.
Continually growing, in September 2015, Dep Art moved its exhibition activity to the new Via Comelico location. The building, a former school of more than 300 square metres, was specifically modernised to meet the necessities of the gallery’s artists.
Dep Art is a reference gallery for contemporary Italian artists such as: Alberto Biasi, Pino Pinelli and Turi Simeti. Since 2013, Dep Art has been the Turi Simeti archive centre. In 2017, with the collaboration of the art historian Federico Sardella, Dep Art published the Simeti Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Skira.
Moreover, Dep Art is active in the promotion and organisation of initiatives in public institutions and galleries, both in Italy and internationally.
The most important exhibitions include those dedicated to Tony Oursler (2019), Pino Pinelli (2019, 2015), Regine Schumann (2018), Wolfram Ullrich (2018), Alighiero Boetti (2018), Salvo (2017, 2010, 2007), Mario Nigro (2017, 2006), Henk Peeters and Jan Schoonhoven (2017), Alberto Biasi (2016, 2013 and 2008), Emilio Scanavino (2016, 2012, 2008), Turi Simeti (2015, 2013), Ludwig Wilding (2014, 2013) and Emilio Vedova (2010).
Related Press In memoriam: Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019) Wallpaper* : 30 July 2019 Born in Caracas in 1923, Carlos Cruz-Diez discovered a love of drawing as a child, enrolling at age 17 at the city's School of Fine Art, where his peers included Jesús Rafael Soto and Alejandro Otero, who alongside Cruz-Diez would become the foremost Venezuelan artists of the 20th century.
Related Press CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ (1923–2019) Artforum : 30 July 2019 Carlos Cruz-Diez, whose vibrating polychromatic abstractions plumbed the atmospheric and phenomenological effects of color, died in Paris on Saturday at age ninety-five.Born in 1923 in Caracas, Cruz-Diez enrolled at the city's School of Plastic and Applied Arts in 1940.
Related Press Tony Oursler: Exploring Technology's Dark Arts The East Hampton Star : 30 May 2019 For this exhibition, he has been thinking about water and how it has functioned as a vehicle for magical thinking throughout history, from the belief in sea monsters and other early legends to the pseudoscience of water memory used in homeopathic medicine today. Themes of deluge and the environment reveal themselves, and the work explores how...
Related Press Creature Discomfort: Art in the Cycle of History Hyperallergic : 2 March 2017 Creature, a thematic exhibition at The Broad, is one of those shows, like the recently opened Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work at the New Museum in New York, whose meanings and context have been jolted, scrambled, and reloaded by the resistible rise of Donald J. Trump.As it so happens, Creature opened on November 5th, the Saturday before the...
