Ocula Report 58th Venice Biennale: May You Live In Interesting Times 24 May 2019 : Mohammad Salemy for Ocula The 58th Venice Biennale, May You Live In Interesting Times (11 May–24 November 2019), certainly benefitted from low expectations, given the lacklustre curatorial of the previous edition, when different segments of the show were conceptually framed with titles like 'Pavilion of Joys and Fears' and 'Pavilion of Colours'. Add to this the...
Ocula Conversation Zheng Bo Hong Kong-based artist Zheng Bo's social, ecological, and community-engaged art practice has, in recent years, focused on moving beyond a human-centred perspective to an all-inclusive, multi-species approach. He takes up marginalised plants and communities of people as subjects in his large-scale interventions, which reintroduce wildness into...
Ocula Report Auckland Art Fair 2019: Conversations Extended 24 May 2019 : Sherry Paik for Ocula The weather was clement for the annual Auckland Art Fair (2–5 May 2019), which was again at The Cloud on Queens Wharf. This year's edition was a get-together of 41 galleries, mostly from around Auckland and across New Zealand, with 5 spaces hailing from Sydney and the rest from Cook Islands (Bergman Gallery), Hobart (Michael Bugelli Gallery),...
Trong Gia Nguyen, Despite Your Destination (2017). Acrylic on wood. 96 x 214.5 x 1.8 cm. Courtesy La Patinoire Royale—Galerie Valérie Bach.
After much renovation, La Patinoire Royale – galerie Valérie Bach reopened its gates in September 2012. First, under the glass roof on the Faider Street side. Then in the different spaces of the former royal skating rink, including: the great nave, the street level, and the first floor on the Veydt street side in April 2015. This cultural and commercial room aims to present group and solo shows of artists from various nationalities and generations in a program that's simultaneous and yet diverse.
Alternating solo exhibitions of emerging and established artists, while rediscovering the modern era through retrospectives of a more historical perspective, the gallery makes the most of the monumental and modular space of this historical monument ideally located in the heart of the European capital.
Trong Gia NguyenThe Last Letter Writer’s Last Letter, 2015–2019 Concrete, cable, wood, paper, paint
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