Ocula Conversation Almine Rech-Picasso Goes Global French gallerist Almine Rech-Picasso opened her first space in Asia on Shanghai's historic Bund in July this year, bringing her eponymous gallery's total locations to five. The Shanghai gallery occupies roughly 4,000 square feet on the second floor of the three-storey Amber Building, a beautiful warehouse space, originally occupied by the Central...
Ocula Report From the Gallery to the Streets: Home Works 8 in Beirut 8 Nov 2019 : Nat Muller for Ocula There's an inside joke amongst the team of Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts: that every time an edition of its biennial forum on cultural practices is planned, a national crisis happens. The eighth edition of Home Works was no different: it opened on 17 October amidst the most devastating wildfires that Lebanon had witnessed...
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...
Related Video & Audio Viewpoints | Episode 3 | Leonardo Drew, Larry Ossei-Mensah Galerie Lelong & Co. : 3 October 2019 'In this episode of the Viewpoints podcast, we'll hear from artist Leonardo Drew and curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, two link-minded voices in contemporary art,' says Mary Sabbatino, Vice President/Partner at Galerie Lelong & Co. 'Drew is a Brooklyn-based sculptor known for transforming and assembling varied material in an attempt, as he says, to...
Related Video & Audio Viewpoints | Episode 4 | Samuel Levi Jones, Pamela Joyner Galerie Lelong & Co. : 3 October 2019 'San Francisco-based collector Pamela Joyner, together with her husband Fred Giuffrida, has amassed what has been called the most important collection of African American art in private hands,' says Mary Sabbatino, Vice President/Partner at Galerie Lelong & Co. The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection includes several works by Samuel Levi Jones, who...
Related Video & Audio Viewpoints | Episode 2 | Michelle Stuart, Hans Ulrich Obrist Galerie Lelong & Co. : 10 May 2019 'In this episode of the Viewpoints podcast, we'll hear a conversation between artist Michelle Stuart and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, two friends who share an interest in nature, memory and extinction,' says Mary Sabbatino, Vice President/Partner at Galerie Lelong & Co. 'They spoke on an early morning in April at Stuart's studio in New York,...
Related Video & Audio Viewpoints | Episode 1 | Petah Coyne Galerie Lelong & Co. : 18 October 2018 Galerie Lelong & Co. is pleased to announce its new podcast series, Viewpoints, with Galerie Lelong & Co. The premiere episode features a conversation between artist Petah Coyne and Mary Sabbatino, Vice President/Partner at Galerie Lelong & Co. Their far-ranging conversation covers Coyne's use of colour, her literary inspirations, and...
Related Video & Audio Andy Goldsworthy’s Ephemeral Art and Laborious Process, in a New Documentary Hyperallergic : 9 March 2018 Every article about Andy Goldsworthy tells you he's an artist who works with nature. Very early on in director Thomas Riedelsheimer's new film Leaning into the Wind, his second about the artist (after Rivers and Tides, 2001), Goldsworthy says, 'Why even mention it? Nature is everywhere.' For him, the boundaries between nature and self are...
Related Video & Audio Lin Tianmiao: Protruding Patterns Sinovision English Channel : 11 October 2017 From September 7h to October 21st, the main gallery of Galerie Lelong in Chelsea will be covered with a massive carpet. The bright and colorful carpet is made up of dozens of antique carpets sewn together and invites viewers to walk on it. On top of the carpet are embroidered words written in various languages including Chinese, Japanese, and...
Related Video & Audio Alfredo Jaar: Images are Not Innocent Louisiana Channel : 7 February 2013 Alfredo Jaar was interviewed by Christian Lund at Malmö Konsthall, February 2013.
