Ocula Report Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber 15 Mar 2019 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula In Meiro Koizumi's three-channel video installation, The Angels of Testimony (2019), the central frame features an interview with Hajime Kondo about his time as a solider of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The conversation centres on war crimes perpetrated in China, including the beheading of Chinese prisoners for...
Ocula Conversation Diana Campbell Betancourt Diana Campbell Betancourt is a curator working predominantly across South and Southeast Asia. Since 2013 she has been the founding artistic director of the Samdani Art Foundation and chief curator of the Dhaka Art Summit in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a transnational art event that has grown in size and scale ever since its first edition in 2012. Backed by...
Ocula Report Chinternet Ugly at Manchester’s Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art 7 Mar 2019 : Mike Pinnington for Ocula China, home to 802 million internet users, is subject to sophisticated online censorship. This shrouded state of affairs, unsurprisingly perhaps, serves to reinforce stereotypes around conformity elsewhere. Any realm, digital or otherwise, subject to such strict scrutiny must necessarily be bland and uncritical, right? I was mulling over such...
Founded in 2011, Gallery Baton has grown to become a prominent force in the contemporary art scene. The gallery hosts a unique exhibition program that not only recognizes regional talent but also provides international artists with crucial exposure to a wider global audience. In recent years, Gallery Baton has achieved a vital presence on the global art stage. We are proud to have placed artwork by the talented artists that we represent in renowned private and public collections as well as facilitating highly acclaimed exhibitions in important institutions.
Gallery Baton is committed to discovering and nurturing new talent. Alongside the main exhibition program, Gallery Baton runs two alternative spaces dedicated to supporting emerging and under-represented artists. Chapter II, a nonprofit program, provides studio space, curatorial support and exhibition opportunities while the Observation Deck serves as a venue for video-based works and new media.
Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Hong Kong 2018 29 March 2018 'The sixth edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong brought together a uniquely global mix of galleries spanning six continents, outstanding artworks by established and new artists from across theworld and a singular gathering of international collectors and institutions.' –Art Basel in Hong Kong (29–31 March 2018).
Ocula Insight Djordje Ozbolt at Gallery Baton, Seoul By Elliat Albrecht Serbian-born artist Djordje Ozbolt is known for his use of humour to address social and political issues through eclectic painting, sculpture and drawings. His works are always vibrant, often motley and sometimes sarcastic. No one can accuse him of not knowing his craft: Ozbolt studied architecture in Belgrade before moving to London, where he...
Ocula Insight Max Frisinger at Gallery Baton, Seoul By Laura Thomson Max Frisinger (B. 1980) is internationally recognised for sculptures and installations that stem from a considered observation of ordinary objects which he re-uses and thus re-invents. Ambiguity is what stimulates Max Frisinger, by working the material and form of the sculptures, he underlines their inherent opposites: brilliancy and decay, the...
Ocula Insight Kim Sang Gyun at Gallery Baton, Seoul 8 January 2016 Kim Sang Gyun, who is showing a new series of sculptures and installations at Gallery Baton in Seoul until 20 January 2016, answers five questions on his work. Your works are quite unique in their appearance. Please could you talk through the process and meaning behind your work Pattern?The presented works have a process of...
Related Press Korean galleries bring new stars to Art Basel: In Hong Kong, local artists hope to become next international hit Korea Joongang Daily : 30 March 2018 Visitors to the sixth edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, which runs through Saturday at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, will encounter a huge table with its circular, metal top slowly rotating. On the top are scores of what look like golden and silver miniature towers. Actually, they are dabba or tiffin carriers, in which Indian...
Related Press “High Strangeness” by Peter Stichbury at Gallery Baton, Seoul BLOUIN ARTINFO : 15 November 2017 New Zealand born artist Peter Stichbury is currently presenting his bizarre and uncanny exhibition at the Gallery Baton in Seoul. High Strangeness explores stories surrounding reports of (often fake) disturbances in the aerial world above us. The exhibition runs until the end of November.
Related Press Critic's Guide: Seoul Frieze : 20 September 2017 This huge retrospective of Krzysztof Wodiczko's work presents everything from his early objects concerning censorship under a Polish socialist government to his 'cultural prosthetics' for the homeless and immigrants to his projections on monuments and civic buildings. The artist's lifetime interest in the interventions in public spaces by minority...
Related Press Giardini Pavilion Highlights from the 57th Venice Biennale Whitewall : 11 May 2017 JAPANESE PAVILION, Takahiro Iwasaki: Turned Upside Down, It's a ForestTakahiro Iwasaki has created a multifaceted spatial experience of viewing the Itsukushima Shrine located in Hiroshima, where the artist was born, raised, and continues to work. Viewers can see the site from the perspective of a bird, insect, or fish, skewing the perception of...
