Ocula Conversation Sandrine Colard on the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the largest Francophone nation in Africa with vast resources and nearly 80 million inhabitants, is a place where commodities play a vital role in the national economy and the country's significance on the world stage. This is the context from which the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale (24 October–24 November...
Ocula Report From 20 to 21 July 2019, Artspace Sydney held a two-day symposium that brought artists in conversation with leading curators, writers, activists, academics, diplomats, and journalists from across Asia. The symposium was the final chapter of the 52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS exhibition, publication, website, and Instagram project. Instigated and...
Ocula News U.K. Election Artist Nicky Hirst Reflects on ‘Fractured and Febrile’ Campaign 13 December 2019 Boris Johnson's Conservative Party won an overwhelming majority in yesterday's U.K. General Election despite the efforts of artists such as Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley , who came out publicly in support of Labour. Official U.K. General Election Artist Nicky Hirst couldn't comment on the result—the role requires her to remain neutral...
Ocula Insight 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...
Formerly The Fine Art Resource, an art dealership established by Usha Mirchandani in the mid-eighties in Mumbai, and a space for modern and contemporary Indian art run by her daughter Ranjana Steinruecke from 1997 to 2003 in Berlin, the gallery has presented exhibitions by leading artists including Bhupen Khakhar, Jogen Chowdhury, Atul Dodiya, and S.H. Raza. They have also curated institutional exhibitions at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
Read MoreGalerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke was established in Mumbai in 2006. It is highly regarded for the young artists it has nurtured since, and the exceptional quality of its program and exhibitions. The gallery represents important and established artists such as Gieve Patel and C.K. Rajan, and several of the most talented new positions to have emerged over the last decade, such as Sosa Joseph, Abir Karmakar, Manish Nai, Ratheesh T., Siji Krishnan and Tanya Goel. The prominence of these artists has grown significantly in recent years through participation in international biennales and acquisitions by important private collectors and museums.
Related Press P R Satheesh’s show starts conversations about the complexities of life’s multiple frameworks Architectural Digest : 21 October 2019 From Munnar in Kerala to Mumbai—an artist takes conventional stereotypes—breaks them and finds ways of creating permutations and combinations that create a synergy of Pollockian canvasses filled with conversations about the complexities of life's multiple frameworks. You get the cramped in convolutions of the brilliant artist P R...
Related Press See the Majestic Displays at India’s First Contemporary Sculpture Park Hyperallergic : 5 September 2019 India's first-ever contemporary sculpture park has launched its second edition. The not-for-profit project, inaugurated in December 2017, transformed the Madhavendra Palace in Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur, into an expansive sculpture gallery. The sculptures are displayed throughout the majestic rooms and grand courtyards of the 18th-century fortress,...
Related Press Indian Art in Paris Frieze : 27 November 2017 In the film I am Twenty (1967) by Indian filmmaker S. N. S. Sastry, the narrator asks a group of young men and women – all of whom were born on 15 August 1947 (the day of Indian Independence) – how they feel about the 20-year-old nation state of India. A young man with a mop-top, unimpressed by the question, replies: 'I don't have any love for the...
Related Press Walk Through A Stranger's Home mid-day : 12 November 2017 While the residents of this home, evidently furnished according to middle-class taste, are never to be seen, the paintings do not seem de-peopled. In fact, there is a sense of intimacy that Karmakar creates through the eight paintings that will be on view at Colaba's Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke Tuesday evening onwards. "You enter...
