Ocula Report Ocula 报告｜Condo Shanghai 2019 展览看点 11 Jul 2019 : Penny Liu for Ocula 即将于2019年7月13开幕的第二届 Condo Shanghai，联合上海7座画廊/艺术机构与14 家来自全球11个不同的城市，如东京、首尔、雅加达、巴尔的摩、洛杉矶、伦敦、纽约、危地马拉城、利马和墨西哥城，为实验性展览营造了一个更切实可行的国际环境。以下是Ocula的展览看点。周奥，《景观/对象WA》（2016）。橡木上固化油墨打印，左: 55.88 × 147.32 cm，中: 121.92 × 152.4 cm，右: 55.88 × 147.32 cm，图片提供：马凌画廊，上海。马凌画廊 × 80m2 Livia Benavides × LABOR × Proyectos Ultravioleta马凌画廊 |...
Ocula Conversation Wong Ping: Hong Kong Fables There is something irrepressibly compelling about the lewd animated videos of Wong Ping. Is it their flat surfaces rendered in popping colours? Or their dark narratives that resonate with the deepest recesses of the human psyche? They have been included in an impressive repertoire of group exhibitions in recent years, including One Hand Clapping at...
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...
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Related Press Kishio Suga ArtAsiaPacific : 5 February 2016 Recently I’ve noticed that when I meet people who know my work, they say, “Oh you must be so busy!” I usually reply with something like, “Well, I’m getting by,” which probably gives people the impression that I’m quite reserved. Certainly, in these past three years, I’ve been doing exhibitions unlike...
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Related Press From point, from line, from wind Nicole : 12 October 2015 As soon as one walks into Pace’s gallery space on Burlington Gardens, we are immediately immersed into a space that is distinctively Lee Ufan. Four of his seven major series—From Point (1972–84), From Line (1972–84) From Winds(1982–86) and With Winds(1987–91)—are on show in his third solo exhibition at Pace...
Related Press The pick of the 2015 Biennale - by 15 top art-world insiders The Art Newspaper : 30 April 2015 Melissa Chiu - Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DCWhat/who are you looking forward to seeing at the Venice Biennale this year?I’m looking forward to seeing the dansaekhwa (monochrome painting) exhibition from Korea, one of the satellite shows. This is an historical show bringing together works from the...
Related Press Trauma and tranquility: Anish Kapoor and minimalist Lee Ufan take over London's Lisson Gallery Wallpaper* : 6 April 2015 An impressive double header opened at London's Lisson Gallery yesterday with new shows from Anish Kapoor and Korean minimalist Lee Ufan. More than thirty years on from his first exhibition at the gallery, Kapoor presents new giant resin and silicon pieces - not for the squeamish - that blur the boundary between sculpture and painting and look,...
Related Press Australian adds weight to Art Basel Encounter Visual ArtsHub : 24 February 2015 There is a new encounter in Hong Kong, Australian curator Alexie Glass-Kantor, and her vision captures the zeitgeist of our region. A curated section within any art fair presents an interesting conversation, sitting somewhere between the commercial streams and a rigorous view of now. Encounters is slightly different in that it is dedicated to...
Related Press Post 1989 Japanese Art Survey Opens At Qagoma Darryl Wee for Artinfo / 03 September 2014 : 4 September 2014 “We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989,” a sprawling survey of contemporary Japanese art curated by Reuben Keehan, opens at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) on September 6.This ambitious survey takes a retrospective look at key artists and tendencies from Japan’s Heisei era through a...
