Ocula Report ‘An Opera for Animals’ at Rockbund Art Museum 19 Jul 2019 : Penny Liu for Ocula An Opera for Animals was first staged at Para Site in Hong Kong between 23 March and 2 June 2019, with works by over 48 artists and collectives that use opera as a metaphor for modes of contemporary, cross-disciplinary art-making. The exhibition's second iteration takes up a large portion of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai (22 June–25...
Ocula Conversation For three months from 1 June to 1 September 2019, Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong showcases MURAKAMI vs MURAKAMI, a major survey exhibition of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Curated by Tobias Berger, head of art at Tai Kwun, and Gunnar B Kvaran, director of Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, the exhibition spans the three floors of Tai Kwun's...
Ocula Report Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House 5 Jul 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House in London (12 June–15 September 2019) surveys more than half a century of black creativity in Britain and beyond across the fields of art, film, photography, music, design, fashion, and literature.Curated by Zak Ové, works by approximately 100 intergenerational black...
Back in Paris after a year in Italy, the French artist pursues his interest for language and polymorphic objects, in a thorough and sharp research on the irrational.
He presents a body of new sculptures in which plaster, aluminium, wood, metal, leather or textile are combined with everyday objects. Frozen in their new shape, these objects lose their original function entering a metamorphosis. The object-sculpture becomes tense, resists categorisations and opens up to an imaginary dimension, where ghostly presences materialise eluding definitions.
In the labyrinthine walk across the space, plaster masks and faces appear, intertwined ceramic tongues talk to one another, fragments of texts poured into plaster balls are suspended at eye level.
The exhibition unfolds then almost as a declaration of love to existence and to the body beyond the tangible.
David Douard was born in 1983 in Perpignan, France.He lives and works in Paris, France.
His work has been subject of solo exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2016), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014) and Sculpture Center, New York, (2014).
Recent exhibitions including David Douard’s work have been held at Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (2018), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018), La Panacée|MoCo, Montpellier, France (2018), Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2017/2015), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom (2015), Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2015), Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (2014).
David has also been included in Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Civic Center, Gwangju, South Korea (2018), Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan (2014), 12th Biennale de Lyon, France (2013).
