Ocula Feature Independent Growth: Art Dubai 2018 By Mohammad Salemy, Dubai It is far too easy to dismiss art fairs, if not the entire commercial art market. By the same token, it is easy to be turned off by Dubai, the most glitzy and commercial of the UAE's emirates. It might take a little longer to appreciate how an art fair staged in a free port like this could benefit artistic production and development—an...
Ocula Photolog Art Dubai 2018 'The 2018 edition of the fair presents an intimate and diverse line-up of 105 galleries from 48 countries, making this year's edition the fair's largest and most globally diverse to date. Alongside 77 returning galleries, the fair welcomes 28 first-time exhibitors from around the world.' –Art Dubai (21–24 March 2018).
Ocula Photolog Contemporary Istanbul 2017 'Notable for its unique position both geographically and culturally, the Contemporary Istanbul art fair prides itself on bringing together galleries, artists and collectors from Turkey, the Caucasus, the Black Sea, Russia and the Middle East, as well as from Europe, America and Asia.' –Contemporary Istanbul (14–17 September 2017).
Ocula Insight Recycle Group at Gazelli Art House, London How did you first meet and start collaborating as artists? We have known each other since childhood, but did our first project together as "Recycle Group" in 2008. Before that we worked separately but always advised each other, after realising that each of us have a role in creating the work and we started to work as a group....
Ocula Feature 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 Feature Must-see exhibitions in London over Summer 2015 By Kostas Prapoglou, London Dr Kostas Prapoglou profiles the best the British capital has to offer this summer.
