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...
Lehmann Maupin will present a solo exhibition of new works by Hernan Bas, ranging from small, intimate paintings on paper to large canvases, as well as a large-scale painted screen. Bas draws from a pool of references found in art, poetry, religion, mythology, film, and literature. Turning his attention to the group of young, bohemian aristocrats that emerged post-World War I, this recent group of works focuses on the day-to-day of society life, debauched nights, and intimate exchanges between imagined players. Later in the month, Bas will also have a gallery exhibition titled Bright Young Things, on view at the 536 West 22nd Street location from March 10-April 23.
