Ocula Conversation Emi Eu: ‘We have to look at Southeast Asia as one market’ Stephanie Bailey, Singapore STPI's Emi Eu reflects on S.E.A. Focus, an STPI project platforming artists and galleries from Southeast Asia, in the wake of Art Stage's decline in 2019 and ahead of the launch of Singapore's new art fair, Art SG, in October 2020.
Ocula Report New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata: Shows to See Kanika Anand, New Delhi With India Art Fair set to open amid nationwide protests, Kanika Anand introduces shows in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata that express shifting socio-political identities, modes of resistance, and explorations of place-making.
Ocula Insight Images from Abroad: Lada Nakonechna at Galerie EIGEN + ART Phoebe Blatton, Berlin Images from abroad , Lada Nakonechna's solo exhibition at Galerie EIGEN + ART in Berlin, considers the barriers that exist between depictions of conflict and their viewers.
MASAHIRO MAKI GALLERY was established in 2003 in Tokyo, Japan, under the name Sakurado Fine Arts, with the aim of promoting the works of Japanese artists who played seminal roles in the avant-garde art scene of the 1950s and 1960s.
Read MoreWhile focusing primarily on Japanese masters who shaped post-war and contemporary art, the gallery has gradually developed an ambitious program that introduces contemporary artists from overseas to Japan and brings an international audience to Japanese artists.
The gallery changed its name in early 2019 to reflect this strong desire to engage with domestic and overseas contemporary artists, while continuing to specialize in post-war Japanese art. The program increasingly includes artists of different generations and practices, encouraging dialogue and stimulating discussion around contemporary art.
Located in Omotesando, an area which continues to inspire artists and creatives, the Tokyo gallery holds a variety of solo shows and other curated exhibitions across its two-floor space throughout the year. The gallery opened a second space in the Opéra neighborhood of Paris in 2012.
Anne Kagioka Rigoulet, Element, Masahiro Maki Gallery, Tokyo (24 January–15 February 2020). Courtesy Masahiro Maki Gallery.
Ocula Report At Art Taipei, Galleries Adapt to Regional Politics Sam Gaskin, Tapiei In Taipei , the artwork that said most about the contemporary art market's fraught situation in East Asia was not at the 26th Art Taipei (18–21 October 2019), but across town at the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, a publicly funded art park established in Taiwan's former Air Force Command Headquarters in 2018. Chin Cheng-Te's Tender Soul –...
Ocula Report Daido Moriyama: The Erotics of Photography Tianyuan Deng, Tokyo In a documentary video published by Tate Modern to accompany its exhibition William Klein + Daido Moriyama in 2013, Moriyama, one of the most influential avantgarde photographers to emerge out of postwar Japan, roams the urban streets of Shinjuku equipped with a compact digital camera. Dressed in a low-key black jacket, his gait is relaxed but...
Ocula Report Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019: A Post-mortem Diana d’Arenberg, Hong Kong Although Art Basel in Hong Kong is the youngest of the Art Basel fairs, and a relative newcomer to the international art fair circuit, it has now become a major attraction for collectors and galleries from around the world. The seventh edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong saw thousands of art courtesans and benefactors kick off the week with a...
Ocula Report In Memory of a Free Public: Harbour Arts Sculpture Park Hera Chan, Hong Kong It was at Tamar Park that the initial sit-ins took place around the Legislative Council in Hong Kong , sparking the Umbrella Movement in 2014. Thousands of students advocated for universal suffrage in the response to electoral reforms enacted on Hong Kong by China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. It was here, on 26...
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Related Press Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Narcissus Garden’ Is Coming to the Rockaways 18 June 2018, The New York Times Art lovers and Instagram fanatics will both have a good reason to head to the Rockaways this summer: Yayoi Kusama's shimmering Narcissus Garden will be installed there starting July 1. The work is made up of 1,500 mirrored stainless steel spheres placed in the imposing confines of Fort Tilden, a former Army base on the beach in Queens. The...
Related Press Japanese Gutai in the 1950s: Fast and Fearless 14 June 2018, The New York Times In the 1950s, the artists of the newly formed Gutai group of Japan worked fast and fearlessly, changing styles and mediums at will, staying abreast of the latest postwar developments abroad. The mood of this band of innovators was eclectic — and electric — as demonstrated by "Gutai: 1953-1959," an ambitious show at Fergus...
