Ocula Report ‘An Opera for Animals’ at Rockbund Art Museum 19 Jul 2019 : Penny Liu for Ocula An Opera for Animals was first staged at Para Site in Hong Kong between 23 March and 2 June 2019, with works by over 48 artists and collectives that use opera as a metaphor for modes of contemporary, cross-disciplinary art-making. The exhibition's second iteration takes up a large portion of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai (22 June–25...
Ocula Conversation Mandy El-Sayegh: Productive Ambiguity Moving across installation, painting, drawing, and writing, Malaysia-born and London-based artist Mandy El-Sayegh explores the political, social, and economic complexities of humanity, using a mosaic of information—from advertising slogans and pornographic imagery to newspaper articles—that she subjects to processes of layering,...
Ocula Report Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House 5 Jul 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House in London (12 June–15 September 2019) surveys more than half a century of black creativity in Britain and beyond across the fields of art, film, photography, music, design, fashion, and literature.Curated by Zak Ové, works by approximately 100 intergenerational black...
Exhibition view: Lorna Simpson, Darkening, Hauser & Wirth, 22nd Street, New York (25 April–26 July 2019). © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Exhibition view: Lorna Simpson, Darkening, Hauser & Wirth, 22nd Street, New York (25 April–26 July 2019). © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Exhibition view: Lorna Simpson, Darkening, Hauser & Wirth, 22nd Street, New York (25 April–26 July 2019). © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Exhibition view: Lorna Simpson, Darkening, Hauser & Wirth, 22nd Street, New York (25 April–26 July 2019). © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Exhibition view: Lorna Simpson, Darkening, Hauser & Wirth, 22nd Street, New York (25 April–26 July 2019). © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Hauser & Wirth is pleased to present Lorna Simpson Darkening, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in New York. Debuting a suite of new large-scale paintings, the exhibition finds Simpson returning to and building upon themes and motifs at the centre of her practice: explorations focused on the nature of representation, identity, gender, race, and history. For more than 30 years, Simpson’s powerful works have entangled viewers in an equivocal web of meaning, drawing upon techniques of collage through the use of found materials, often culled from the pages of vintage Jet and Ebony magazines. In Darkening, Simpson continues to thread dichotomies of figuration and abstraction with vast and enthralling tableaux that subsume spliced photos and fragmented text, abstracted beyond comprehension. Equally arresting and poetic, the paintings engage viewers with layers of paradox, capturing the mystifying allure of an arctic landscape in inky washes of blacks, greys, and startling blues.
Related Press Lorna Simpson Searches for Meaning in the Arctic Ice Hyperallergic : 20 June 2019 In the poem 'Ode to Meaning' by Robert Pinsky, the speaker traverses the sundry terrains in which meaning might be found and sifts through the many guises it might take on. What a reader has to conclude coming to the end of the poem, is that meaning is a fugitive thing, sometimes here, and sometimes there, winking in and out of existence, and...
