Ocula Conversation Bani Abidi: ‘What you see in my films is what I know’ A group of voices accompanies me in the exhibition. They are singing words I cannot comprehend, yet the warm tunes are familiar: folk songs, love songs, songs of longing. There are letters, too. They speak of the quotidian details of a soldier's life: the hardness of the war, sending money to the family, and longing for familiar landscapes, food,...
Ocula Report Aichi to Okayama: Art in Japan Looks to the Future 11 Oct 2019 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula There has been a flurry of triennial and biennial art activity in Japan this year. The Aichi Triennale opened in Nagoya this August, sparking a national debate about the shutting down of a display of formerly censored works—the result of public backlash against a burnt image of Emperor Hirohito and a statue commemorating the women forced into...
Ocula Insight | Video Mark Bradford’s Call for Unity at Shanghai’s Long Museum 16 August 2019 Mark Bradford walks through Mark Bradford: Los Angeles Mark Bradford: Los Angeles at the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai (27 July–13 October 2019) is the artist's largest solo exhibition to date in China. In this video for Ocula, Bradford and Diana Nawi, curator of the show, walk through selected works that convey the artist's concerns with...
From June 20 to September 21, 2019 Dep Art Gallery in Milan (Via Comelico 40) hosts a solo show by Pino Pinelli (Catania, 1938) who presents a series of works made between 1973 and 1976, a time when the artist devoted himself to exploring themes related to monochromes and the potentials of color.
The exhibition, titled Pino Pinelli. Monochrome (1973-1976) Color as Destiny and as Prophecy, curated by Francesco Tedeschi, presents 13 works, including diptychs, triptychs, and a polyptych, based on the use of primary colors and in some cases complementary ones, and a critical interpretation of the shape-painting, that is, bypassing the picture's limit, intended as the canvas and stretcher, as a whole. These works already indicate what would become his practice, the "breakup of the painting" and subsequently its "dissemination," both from 1976.
A monograph (Dep Art Gallery), edited by Francesco Tedeschi, accompanies the exhibition and catalogues a part of the works Pinelli made during those years.
