Ocula Conversation Pierre Huyghe: The Artist as Director Pierre Huyghe is a producer of spectacular and memorable enigmas, with works that function more like mirages than as objects. Abyssal Plain (2015–ongoing), his contribution to the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, was installed on the seabed of the Marmara Sea, some 20 metres below the surface of the water and close to...
Ocula Report MoMA Expansion: Once the Modern, Always the Modern 29 Nov 2019 : Mohammad Salemy for Ocula In the early decades of its existence, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), founded in 1929, transformed from a philanthropic project modestly housed in a few rooms of the Heckscher Building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, to an alleged operating node in the United States' cultural struggle during the cold war, and one of the...
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...
Kewenig is pleased to announce Sur un terrain étrange, a group exhibition curated by Lóránd Hegyi opening on November 22. The show–spanning the entire first floor of the gallery–will focus on works on paper by five contemporary artists: Veronika Holcová (b. 1973 in Prague, Czech Republic), Juul Kraijer (b. 1970 in Assen, Netherlands), José Antonio Suárez Londoño (b. 1955 in Medellin, Colombia), Barthélémy Toguo (b. 1967 in M’Balmayo, Cameroon) and Sandra Vásquez de la Horra (b. 1967 in Viña del Mar, Chile). A publication will accompany the exhibition.
