Ocula Report Beatriz González at KW Institute for Contemporary Art: In Focus 14 Dec 2018 : Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein for Ocula Retrospective 1965–2017, Beatriz González's exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (13 October 2018–6 January 2019), presents a selection of 120 works that bear witness to Colombia's political and social upheavals of the last 50 years. Throughout, the link between González's practice and the sociopolitical context it references...
Ocula Conversation Ingrid Schaffner Curator, 57th Carnegie International Founded by industrialist Andrew Carnegie as part of the Carnegie Institute in 1895, Carnegie Museum sought to 'bring the world' to the city with a grand building housing a natural history museum, a library, and an art museum operating as a fluid space for knowledge exchange. In its 123-year history, the institution has built up a world-class...
Ocula Report Extra States: Nations in Liquidation at Kunsthal Extra City 8 Dec 2018 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula The nation-state—a nation (a people) presided over by a governing body with jurisdiction over a defined territory (the state)—is either going through a renaissance or demise, depending on one's perspective. There has been talk about the nation-state's end for years—from a 2013 United States National Intelligence Council report...
Kamakura Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Kawauchi Rikako, entitled human wears human / bloom wears bloom, to be held from November 10th through December 28th. For Kawauchi, the simple act of eating awakened her interest in her own body and became the stimulus for her work. Yet an inability to utilise the power of mind over body vis-a-vis food caused her to feel that her body was not her own but that of another. This interest motivated her to delve further into the subject and its motifs, both physically and mentally, through eating, sex, the communication between body and mind and the ambiguous interplay among them.
The present exhibition is also Kawauchi's first solo at Kamakura Gallery, and in it the artist is groping for a kind of primal shape that will appear once humans, flora and fauna are stripped of the individualistic facades that conceal their commonality. Kawauchi strives to discover this commonality in abstractness hiding within concreteness, even if it's only reflected in the shape of a leaf and a human hand. This solo exhibition will showcase 40 of Kawauchi's latest works, including large-and small-sized drawings, paintings, and wire sculptures as well as resin sculptures. Her lines, drawn in a manner that conveys a sense of innocence, infuse her works with an intriguing lightness despite the depth and heaviness of the theme. We hope you will enjoy this depiction of Kawauchi's new frontier.
Kawauchi RikakoBody -scone, profitroll, cheesecake-, 2018 Watercolor and pencils on paper
