Ocula Conversation Pierre Huyghe: The Artist as Director Pierre Huyghe is a producer of spectacular and memorable enigmas, with works that function more like mirages than as objects. Abyssal Plain (2015–ongoing), his contribution to the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, was installed on the seabed of the Marmara Sea, some 20 metres below the surface of the water and close to...
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...
Barthélémy Toguo is a multi-disciplinary artist: he is equally at ease with painting, sketching, watercolour or printing as he is with sculpture, performance, photography and video. After his exhibition at Galerie Lelong & Co. New York last spring, Lelong Editions is presenting in Paris his first series of etchings: all printed in blue, the series includes examples that have been enhanced with watercolours. This addition of fluid colour animates the powerful silhouettes drawn by the artist, with great sensitivity. They bear the names of rivers from his home country of Cameroon.
At the same time, the Le Parvis art centre at Ibos (Hautes-Pyrénées) welcomes the artist within the Of Blood and Water exhibition until 28 September. Part of his installation Vaincre le virus, presented during the Marcel Duchamp prize at the Centre Pompidou, is included alongside new works and installations, including a collection of pirogues and a wall fresco created in situ.Opening on 6 September and on view until 22 September, a show called Terra Incognita in the Archives Nationales in the Hôtel de Rohan in the Marais, will also be on view during the Journées Européennes du Patrimoines, on September 13-15.
