Ocula Conversation Artist Taloi Havini and Ruth McDougall, curator of Pacific art at Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, discuss Havini's first Australian solo exhibition, Reclamation .
Ocula Report Sydney Biennale Connects Here with Everywhere By Soo-Min Shim, Sydney 'This year's Biennale of Sydney seems like a corrective,' writes Soo-Min Shim, 'prioritising autonomy in an international exhibition format that has all too often omitted or sidelined First Nations artists.'
Ocula Insight Hell is a Place on Earth: P·P·O·W Looks to History in Context of Covid-19 By Stephanie Bailey, London In the United States, parallels have been drawn between the HIV/AIDS crisis and what is unfolding with Covid-19. These connections feed into P·P·O·W's online exhibition, Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head .
Ocula News London Auction Sales Down Despite $30m Hockney Splash London, 18 February 2020 The third highest price fetched by Hockney at auction contributed to over US $500 million in sales.
Ocula Photolog West Bund Art & Design 2019 'The fair provides a platform for international exhibitors to showcase the finest quality of modern and contemporary art in Shanghai. With exhibitions and art events offered by museums and galleries in the city, West Bund has made November's Shanghai a permanent fixture on the global art calendar.' –West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai (7–10...
Ocula Insight Frieze Sculpture 2019: See the Contemporary Art in London’s Regent's Park By Ocula IGTV For three months, Frieze Sculpture (3 July–6 October) transforms Regent's Park, London , into an open gallery with sculptures by artists from all over the world. This year's edition is again curated by Clare Lilley, director of programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park since 1992 and curator of Frieze Sculpture since 2012. This video, created for...
Ocula Insight Samuel Levi Jones at Galerie Lelong, New York By Brienne Walsh At first glance, Burning all illusion , an exhibition of works by Chicago-based artist Samuel Levi Jones , looks like it contains fairly straightforward canvases in the vein of colour field abstract expressionism. The twelve works are hung in two rooms. In the main gallery, each piece features a dominant colour scheme—blue, orange, green...
Ocula Conversation Sean Scully By Elliat Albrecht, Guangzhou Already recognised in the Western art historical canon, 71-year-old Irish-born, American-based artist Sean Scully ’s oil paintings are characterised by their geometric constructions and painterly expression. These two disparate modes marry in the artist’s canvases and act as a retort to the rigidity of last century’s hard...
Ocula Photolog The most searched artists on Ocula now A selection of this week's most searched artists on Ocula.com
Ocula Insight Zilia Sánchez at Galerie Lelong, New York In the 1950s, on a Havana rooftop and reeling from the recent passing of her father, Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926) had an epiphany. A gust of wind blew a hanging laundry sheet (the very one her father had been lying on when he died) against a pipe and a wall, and in its resulting form she discovered an entirely new approach to her work....
Ocula Insight Petah Coyne and Kathy Grove at Galerie Lelong, New York By Katie Fallen In a recent group show at Galerie Lelong in New York, Narrative/Collaborative , an exhibition of photographic works generated through collaborative practices, Petah Coyne and Kathy Grove debuted their project The Real Guerrillas: The Early Years . Both American-born contemporary artists living and working in New York, Coyne and Grove...
Ocula Conversation Katerina Gregos By Stephanie Bailey, Brussels Those who know Art Brussels know that it has built up its own niche of difference in the admittedly pretty homogeneous landscape of art fairs.
Ocula Conversation Adeline Ooi By Diana d'Arenberg, Hong Kong Art Basel Hong Kong has started early this year. I don't mean just the dates, which have been pushed forward from May to March. I mean inboxes are already flooded with invitations for previews and dinners taking place well ahead of the March 22 VIP preview. There are more events, more exhibitions, and certainly more collectors descending upon Hong...
Ocula Report Mad Times: A Report from ArtInternational 2015 By Stephanie Bailey, Istanbul According to a report by The Art Newspaper, this year's edition of ArtInternational (which opened in Istanbul on 05 September) opened one day later and ran one day shorter because of sustained pressure from the 14th Istanbul Biennial curator, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. It was reported that Bakargiev had made "no secret of her...
Ocula Conversation Serge Tiroche By Anna Dickie, Hong Kong With an ultra slick website that enables easy navigation of its 400 plus artworks from many of the leading artists of today, the Tiroche DeLeon Collection is unique in its focus and ownership structure. Established in 2011 by Serge Tiroche and Russ DeLeon, the collection is focused on artworks by both recognised masters, and emerging talent from...
Ocula Conversation Jannis Kounellis By Anna Dickie, London and Hong Kong Born in Greece, but living in Italy since 1956, Kounellis has been a major figure in contemporary art for over fifty years. The artist is often referred to as one of the forefathers of the Arte Povera movement – a movement that arose in the 1960s and played a central role in redefining artistic practice with radical and highly original...
