Ocula Conversation Almine Rech-Picasso Goes Global French gallerist Almine Rech-Picasso opened her first space in Asia on Shanghai's historic Bund in July this year, bringing her eponymous gallery's total locations to five. The Shanghai gallery occupies roughly 4,000 square feet on the second floor of the three-storey Amber Building, a beautiful warehouse space, originally occupied by the Central...
Ocula Report From the Gallery to the Streets: Home Works 8 in Beirut 8 Nov 2019 : Nat Muller for Ocula There's an inside joke amongst the team of Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts: that every time an edition of its biennial forum on cultural practices is planned, a national crisis happens. The eighth edition of Home Works was no different: it opened on 17 October amidst the most devastating wildfires that Lebanon had witnessed...
Ocula Insight | Video 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...
Kamakura Gallery is pleased to announce a retrospective exhibition Sekine Nobuo 1942-2019 from November 9th to December 28th.
Sekine Nobuo is known as a representative artist of Mono-ha and died in May this year.
Mono-ha is an artistic phenomenon made from raw materials and objects that appeared around 1970, occupies an important position in Japanese contemporary art history, and its international reputation is still increasing. Sekine Nobuo was selected as the representative of the 35th Venice Biennale in 1970 after making a shocking debut at the 'Phase-Mother Earth' at Kobe Suma Rikyu Park in 1968.
In recent years, solo exhibitions were held in 2012 and 2014 at the Blum & Poe in the United States, expanding the field of activity both in Japan and overseas.
