Ocula Report 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life 15 Feb 2019 : Natalie King for Ocula 'Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.' Marlene Dumas' poetic and sensual refrain accompanies her figurative watercolours on view in Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, the fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) in the southern state of Kerala, India (12 December 2018–29 March 2019).Dumas' new series...
Ocula Conversation Ellen Altfest The paintings of Ellen Altfest are ethereal in their detail. Fields of minutiae come together as pulsating images; small brushstrokes of oil paint accumulate over a series of months to single out seemingly innocuous subjects, such as a hand resting atop patterned fabric (The Hand, 2011) or a deep green cactus reaching upwards from beneath a bed of...
Ocula Report Colomboscope 2019: Cross Currents and Dissonance 8 Feb 2019 : Nada Raza for Ocula On the rooftop of the former Rio Hotel complex in Colombo, it was hard to ignore the high-rise buildings, still under construction, blocking all but a sliver of what used to be an open view over Slave Island, once an island on Beira Lake that housed slaves in the 19th century, and now a downtown suburb. The hotel was set alight during the...
Related Press Precarious Cut-Stone Sculptures Convey a Sense of Delicate Balance The Creators Project : 2 January 2017 Like a post-minimal graveyard, Kishio Suga’s cut stones and wood planks lend an existential air to the exhibition space at Dia:Chelsea. The Japanese artist’s first solo museum show in the United States gives a nod to Suga’s legacy as one of the founding members of Japan’s School of Things (Mono-ha), by featuring, alongside newly commissioned works,...
Related Press Dansaekhwa and Korean Abstraction at Boghossian Foundation in Brussels Blouin Artinfo : 21 February 2016 Opening at the Boghossian Foundation’s Villa Empain in Brussels this weekend is When Process Becomes Form: Dansaekhwa and Korean Abstraction, the first exhaustive exhibition of the Korean Dansaekhwa movement in Belgium, featuring some fifty works by seven of its leading proponents: Chung Chang-Sup, Chung Sang-Hwa, Ha Chong-Hyun, Kim Whanki,...
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...
Related Press Kishio Suga wins Mainichi Art Award Art Asia Pacific : 29 January 2016 Japanese Mono-ha (“School of Things”) artist Kishio Suga was announced the winner of the 2016 Mainichi Art Award on January 28. The prize, which was first established in 1959 by the leading Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, recognizes the contributions of outstanding figures in visual art, literature, theatre, music and film.
Related Press Solitary Soul: Lee Ufan Apollo Magazine : 17 November 2015 'For over 40 years I have been a kind of déraciné’, says Lee Ufan, ‘and I’m really still continuing on a pilgrimage around the world.’ We are sitting in the artist’s Paris studio on a brilliant early autumn day. A few minutes away is rue Victor Massé, where Degas lived in his later years, and a short walk uphill...
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...
