Ocula Conversation Bani Abidi: ‘What you see in my films is what I know’ A group of voices accompanies me in the exhibition. They are singing words I cannot comprehend, yet the warm tunes are familiar: folk songs, love songs, songs of longing. There are letters, too. They speak of the quotidian details of a soldier's life: the hardness of the war, sending money to the family, and longing for familiar landscapes, food,...
Ocula Report Aichi to Okayama: Art in Japan Looks to the Future 11 Oct 2019 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula 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 into...
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...
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.
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Related Press In memoriam: Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019) Wallpaper* : 30 July 2019 Born in Caracas in 1923, Carlos Cruz-Diez discovered a love of drawing as a child, enrolling at age 17 at the city's School of Fine Art, where his peers included Jesús Rafael Soto and Alejandro Otero, who alongside Cruz-Diez would become the foremost Venezuelan artists of the 20th century.
Related Press CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ (1923–2019) Artforum : 30 July 2019 Carlos Cruz-Diez, whose vibrating polychromatic abstractions plumbed the atmospheric and phenomenological effects of color, died in Paris on Saturday at age ninety-five.Born in 1923 in Caracas, Cruz-Diez enrolled at the city's School of Plastic and Applied Arts in 1940.
Related Press Joana Vasconcelos thinks big for Jupiter Artland’s tenth birthday Wallpaper* : 16 June 2018 Jupiter Artland – the evocatively named sculpture park nestled in a pocket of rural Scotland – has turned a decade old, and opened a fresh season last month with an ambitious new programme. Sprawling across 100 acres of lawns, meadows and woodland on Edinburgh’s fringe, the park is owned, funded and inhabited by collectors Nicky and Robert Wilson.
