Ocula Conversation Thao Nguyen Phan: Dangerous Optimism Tessa Moldan, Brussels With Monsoon Melody on view at WIELS, Brussels, her largest solo exhibition to date, Thao Nguyen Phan discusses her transition to film to explore colonial legacies and ecological destruction in Vietnam.
Ocula Report Frieze Los Angeles: Shows to See Tessa Moldan, Los Angeles Los Angeles' art scene has a lot to offer during Frieze Los Angeles, with galleries, non-profits, and museums gearing up for the fair's second edition between 14 and 17 February 2020. In this Ocula Lowdown, Tessa Moldan lists a selection of the city's must-see shows.
Ocula Insight Jaki Irvine's Manifesto on Life at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Apoorva Rajagopal, Dublin Ack Ro' , Jaki Irvine's reflection on the fragility of life at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, is an 'ambitious, holistic installation' staged like a 'wild disarray of interconnected yet fragmented pieces'.
Established in 1988, Kerlin Gallery continues today to provide the artists it represents with multiple platforms to promote and present their work locally, nationally and internationally; by supporting the visual arts ecology and infrastructure in the city of Dublin, from grassroots education to major institutions, the gallery invests in the present and the future. In 2018, Kerlin Gallery donated a major body of over 60 works by national and international artists, collected over thirty years, to the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Kerlin Gallery’s programme continues to be varied and truly international both in the gallery and abroad via five art fairs, incorporating younger generation, mid-career and long-established artists. In recent years, many of Kerlin Gallery’s artists have participated in Documenta, the Venice Biennale, and the Turner Prize, including Dorothy Cross, Gerard Byrne, Willie Doherty, Liam Gillick, Siobhán Hapaska, Callum Innes, Merlin James, Isabel Nolan, Kathy Prendergast and Sean Scully, amongst others. Recent Kerlin Gallery publications include Sean Scully, in association with De Pont Museum, Tilburg; a Brian Maguire monograph in association with Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, New York; Callum Innes, in association with Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence and Merlin James, in association with Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York.
Ocula Insight Jaki Irvine's Manifesto on Life at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Apoorva Rajagopal, Dublin Ack Ro' , Jaki Irvine's reflection on the fragility of life at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, is an 'ambitious, holistic installation' staged like a 'wild disarray of interconnected yet fragmented pieces'.
Ocula Photolog Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 'In Art Basel's American show, leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia show significant work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars. Paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, and editioned works of the highest quality are on display in the main...
Ocula Photolog FIAC, Paris 2019 'FIAC brings together 197 galleries from 29 countries. Coming together from all over the world, the diversity of FIAC's exhibitors and their loyalty year after year reflects the magnetic attraction of Paris in theinternational creative community.' – FIAC Paris, Press Release.
Ocula Report Aichi to Okayama: Art in Japan Looks to the Future Stephanie Bailey, Okayama There has been a flurry of triennial and biennial art activity in Japan this year. The Aichi Triennale opened in Nagoya this August, sparking a national debate about the shutting down of a display of formerly censored works—the result of public backlash against a burnt image of Emperor Hirohito and a statue commemorating the women forced...
Related Press Sean Scully takes up residence in Picasso’s former studio at Château de Boisgeloup 6 November 2019, Wallpaper* 'I'm the Donald Trump of the art world,' Sean Scully jokingly declared in the BBC documentary released in April this year about his art and life as one of the world's wealthiest living artists, in which he jets around the world on his private jet.
Related Press Reconciling Secular Art in Sacred Spaces 20 July 2019, Hyperallergic VENICE — The two most arresting exhibitions I saw among the Venice Biennale's collateral displays were Sean Scully's Human and Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum , curated by Phong Bui and Francesca Pietropaolo for The Brooklyn Rail . Scully's show is a magisterial display of...
Related Press The Best Things to See at the 2019 Venice Biennale 13 May 2019, AnOther The 58 th edition of the Venice Biennale, May You Live in Interesting Times curated by Ralph Rugoff–from London’s very own Hayward Gallery–proves to be as interesting as its title promises. Venice is an easy city to get lost in, and it’s easy to see why Proust dubbed the city’s labyrinth of alleyways a network of 'innumerable slender capillary...
Related Press Sean Scully’s Figurative Leap 9 March 2019, Hyperallergic When I became an art critic in 1981 one of the first artists I met and wrote about was Sean Scully. At that time I was teaching philosophy in Pittsburgh and he, having recently moved to New York, was as yet without a dealer. We are almost the same age, and to some extent we grew up together. When we first met, he had just made the transition from...
Related Video & Audio Ingleby Gallery Callum Innes 23 March 2018, Ingleby Gallery Callum Innes is one of the leading abstract painters of his generation, widely recognised for the distinctive visual language of layering and removing pigment that he has developed over the past 20 years. In this film Innes invites us into his Edinburgh studio and discusses the making of his Exposed Paintings, the series of works for which he is...
Related Video & Audio Callum Innes – 'I'm Curious About Colour' | TateShots 10 February 2011, Tate TateShots travelled to Edinburgh to meet Callum Innes, one of the artists featured in Tate Britain's 'Watercolour' exhibition.
