Ocula Report Beatriz González at KW Institute for Contemporary Art: In Focus 14 Dec 2018 : Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein for Ocula Retrospective 1965–2017, Beatriz González's exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (13 October 2018–6 January 2019), presents a selection of 120 works that bear witness to Colombia's political and social upheavals of the last 50 years. Throughout, the link between González's practice and the sociopolitical context it references...
Ocula Conversation Ingrid Schaffner Curator, 57th Carnegie International Founded by industrialist Andrew Carnegie as part of the Carnegie Institute in 1895, Carnegie Museum sought to 'bring the world' to the city with a grand building housing a natural history museum, a library, and an art museum operating as a fluid space for knowledge exchange. In its 123-year history, the institution has built up a world-class...
Ocula Report Extra States: Nations in Liquidation at Kunsthal Extra City 8 Dec 2018 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula The nation-state—a nation (a people) presided over by a governing body with jurisdiction over a defined territory (the state)—is either going through a renaissance or demise, depending on one's perspective. There has been talk about the nation-state's end for years—from a 2013 United States National Intelligence Council report...
The gallery programme began in 1984 in a Victorian terraced house in London’s East End. Initially named Interim Art the gallery changed its name to Maureen Paley in 2004 as a celebration of its 20th anniversary. Since September 1999 the gallery has been situated in its present location in Herald Street, Bethnal Green. From its inception the gallery’s aim has remained consistent: to promote great and innovative artists in all media.
Maureen Paley was one of the first to present contemporary art in London’s East End and has been a pioneer of the current scene promoting and showing art from the USA and continental Europe as well as launching new talent from the UK. Gallery artists include Turner prize winners Wolfgang Tillmans, 2000, and Gillian Wearing, 1997, and Turner Prize nominees Liam Gillick, 2002, and Rebecca Warren, 2006. AA Bronson, General Idea and Peter Hujar have recently been added to the gallery’s roster along with Morgan Fisher and Tim Rollins and K.O.S. All of the gallery artists have exhibited widely in the UK and abroad.
Maureen Paley, the gallery’s founder and director, was born in New York, studied at Sarah Lawrence College, and graduated from Brown University before coming to the UK in 1977 where she completed her Masters at The Royal College of Art from 1978–1980.
Together with running the gallery Maureen Paley has also curated a number of large-scale public exhibitions. In 1994 she organised an exhibition of works by Felix Gonzales Torres, Joseph Kosuth and Ad Reinhardt at the Camden Arts Centre. In 1995 Wall to Wall was presented for the National Touring Exhibitions and appeared at the Serpentine Gallery, London, Southampton City Art Gallery and Leeds City Art Gallery showing wall drawings by international artists including Daniel Buren, Michael Craig-Martin, Douglas Gordon, Barbara Kruger, Sol Lewitt, and Lawrence Weiner. Maureen Paley also selected an exhibition of work by young British artists in 1996 called The Cauldron featuring Christine Borland, Angela Bulloch, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Steven Pippin, Georgina Starr and Gillian Wearing for the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust which was installed in their Studio space in Dean Clough, Halifax.
Felipe BaezaI open against my will dreaming of other planets
I am dreaming of other ways of seeing this life, 2018 acrylic, cut paper, twine, egg tempera on paper
Felipe BaezaEn mar abierto, lejos de la tierra, en este lejano exterior salado naufragó mi cuerpo pero nunca fallecio, 2018 Ink, acrylic, twine, gel medium, cut paper, egg tempera, glitter on paper
Felipe BaezaEn mar abierto, lejos de la tierra, en este lejano exterior salado naufragó mi cuerpo pero nunca fallecio, 2018 Ink, acrylic, twine, gel medium, cut paper, egg tempera, glitter
Felipe Baezaluz en lo oscuro (study), 2018 Graphite, acrylic, cut paper, watercolour, flashe on paper
Felipe BaezaEn una oscuridad cósmica, growth ruptures between the cracks, 2018 Twine, cut paper, acrylic, gel medium, egg tempera, glitter on paper
Felipe BaezaI have sprouted against unnatural boundaries, 2018 Graphite, acrylic, interference powder, cut paper, egg tempera, flashe on paper
Felipe BaezaTronco de luces, 2018 Graphite, acrylic, woodcut on mylar, cut paper, interference powder on paper
Felipe BaezaI open against my will dreaming of other planets I am dreaming of other ways of seeing this life, 2018 Acrylic, cut paper, twine, egg tempera on paper
Ocula Photolog Frieze London 2018 8 October 2018 'Frieze London 2018 showcases the best of international contemporary art, with a discerning selection of around 160 galleries presenting their most forward-thinking artists and imaginative presentations. Opening for the first time with a two-day preview, Frieze London coincides with Frieze Sculpture and Frieze Masters in The Regent's Park, together...
Ocula Photolog Art Basel 2018 15 June 2018 'The anchor of Art Basel's show is its Galleries sector. Art Basel 2018 edition welcomes 16 galleries that join the fair for the first time, further rejuvenating the show and giving younger galleries the opportunity to present their program alongside today's leading established galleries.' –Art Basel (14–17 June 2018).
Ocula Photolog Frieze New York 2018 4 May 2018 'Providing vital insight into artistic practice worldwide and across art history, Frieze New York brings together top-tier international programs andgrowing participation from galleries across the Americas and the world. The fair showcases an extraordinary cross-section of work by international artists, from newly discovered talents to the most...
Ocula Conversation Lawrence Abu Hamdan Artist, Beirut Contemporary art seldom deals with the significance of sound in the sphere of human interaction—the tradition of prioritising images over other sensory information continues to define our perception of the world. The work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan challenges viewers to re-evaluate this image-centred paradigm by offering a different set of...
Related Press Strange Days review – fishy kisses, naked prancing and ribald revenge The Guardian : 3 October 2018 Strange Days: Memories of the Future is overwhelming: complex, at times annoying and confusing, repetitive, uplifting and baffling. Like life, really. Films and videos by 21 artists are spread over three floors of the Store X on London's Strand.
Related Press Home is where the art is: what Paula Rego, Lubaina Himid and other artists hang on their walls The Guardian : 26 August 2018 Art is more often a conversation than a monologue. Great and not-so-great artists have always wanted to surround themselves with paintings and objects that can speak to their own creative efforts. The most famous example of this desire perhaps is Henri Matisse, who as a young and struggling painter bought a small canvas by Paul Cézanne, Three...
Related Press Making the Transformative Power of Words Concrete Hyperallergic : 3 July 2018 There is something utterly majestic about block letters — even more so at a staggering height of 12 feet. Such is the case of the letters 'IM' in the painting "Invisible Man (after Ralph Ellison)" (2008) by Tim Rollins & K.O.S.
Related Press Pipe dreams: Oscar Tuazon emulates LA's aqueducts in his latest body of work Wallpaper* : 12 June 2018 Who would have thought a story about an aqueduct could be so salacious? Riddled with corruption, intrigue and drama, the story of the first aqueduct in Los Angeles - completed in 1913 and led by William Mulholland - is well known, thanks to Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown. Now it has piqued the interest of architect/artist Oscar Tuazon, who is...
Related Video & Audio /Dialogues: Visibility | Invisibility — Sculpture in Everyday Space EXPO CHICAGO : 14 September 2017 Nina Beier (Artist, STANDARD (OSLO), joségarcía, mx), Tom Burr (Artist, Bortolami Gallery). Moderated by Stephanie Cristello, Director of Programming, EXPO CHICAGO and Editor-in-Chief, THE SEENWhat is the responsibility of formalism in the twenty-first century? This panel will trace the work of contemporary artists whose diverse sculptural...
