Ocula Report Havana Biennial 2019: Constructing the Possible 17 Apr 2019 : Federica Bueti for Ocula I first visited Havana in November 2016, a few days after Fidel Castro died, and just under a year before Hurricane Irma hit Cuba in September 2017. Since then, much has changed, including the hand-painted signs that punctuate the journey from the airport to the city centre, which today do not celebrate the revolution so much as the 'Unidad y...
Ocula Conversation Andrew Stahl and Guo Xiaohui The exhibition Beyond Boundaries at Somerset House in London (12 March–2 April 2019) marked the historic contributions of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, on the occasion of their 100th and 150th anniversaries, respectively. Spread across several rooms of Somerset House's...
Ocula Report The National 2019: New Australian Art 13 Apr 2019 : Elyse Goldfinch for Ocula The National 2019: New Australian Art features work by 70 contemporary Australia-based artists split across three venues: the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) (29 March–21 July 2019), as curated by Isobel Parker Philip, curator of photographs at AGNSW; Daniel Mudie Cunningham,...
Same as before.
Changing, altered.
Difference. Sameness.
Past, present, future.
'Time, time, time, see what's become of me...'1
The same as always.
Different every time.
'round about midnight.²
Portals.
Entrance and exit.
Pathways.
'They laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian, well they're not laughing now.'³
— Notes from the artist, April (2019).
Fergus Feehily, born in Dublin in 1968, currently lives and works in Berlin and Helsinki. He has shown widely, including The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Dallas Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, Tokyo Opera City and Irish Museum of Modern Art amonst others. Feehily is currently professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki.
From 10 till 14 April we will again exhibit at Art Cologne and would be delighted to welcome you at our booth C26, hall 11.2. The next exhibition will open in the beginning of September.
1 'A Hazy Shade of Winter', recorded by The Bangles in 1987, a cover version of the Simon & Garfunkel song, originally.
² The album 'Round About Midnight' was realised by Miles Davis in 1957, it opens with the song of the same title, written by Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen and Cootie Williams.
³ Bob Monkhouse. Monkhouse was a veteran British comedian, and this one of his most famous jokes.
