Ocula Report ‘An Opera for Animals’ at Rockbund Art Museum 19 Jul 2019 : Penny Liu for Ocula An Opera for Animals was first staged at Para Site in Hong Kong between 23 March and 2 June 2019, with works by over 48 artists and collectives that use opera as a metaphor for modes of contemporary, cross-disciplinary art-making. The exhibition's second iteration takes up a large portion of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai (22 June–25...
Ocula Conversation Zoe Butt on the Challenges and Rewards of Curating Zoe Butt is the artistic director of The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Ho Chi Minh City, the first purpose-built space for contemporary art in Vietnam. Founded in March 2016, the Centre was designed by HTAP Architects in an old steel warehouse, with cargo shipping containers added to its structure. Initiated as a social enterprise...
Ocula Report Ocula 报告｜Condo Shanghai 2019 展览看点 11 Jul 2019 : Penny Liu for Ocula 即将于2019年7月13开幕的第二届 Condo Shanghai，联合上海7座画廊/艺术机构与14 家来自全球11个不同的城市，如东京、首尔、雅加达、巴尔的摩、洛杉矶、伦敦、纽约、危地马拉城、利马和墨西哥城，为实验性展览营造了一个更切实可行的国际环境。以下是Ocula的展览看点。周奥，《景观/对象WA》（2016）。橡木上固化油墨打印，左: 55.88 × 147.32 cm，中: 121.92 × 152.4 cm，右: 55.88 × 147.32 cm，图片提供：马凌画廊，上海。马凌画廊 × 80m2 Livia Benavides × LABOR × Proyectos Ultravioleta马凌画廊 |...
Exhibition view: Nunzio: The Shock of Objectivity, Mazzoleni, London (7 June–7 September 2019). Courtesy Mazzoleni, London-Torino.
Mazzoleni was founded in Turin in 1986 and opened a Mayfair-based London gallery in October 2014. Over the past three decades Mazzoleni has organised solo and group exhibitions of more than 150 prominent Italian and international artists from across the 20th century. Recent critically acclaimed exhibitions have included the major Alberto Burri solo exhibition in 2015, Piero Manzoni. Achromes: Linea Infinita, curated by Gaspare Luigi Marcone in collaboration with the Piero Manzoni Foundation, Fontana/Melotti. Angelic Spaces and Infinite Geometries, curated by Daniela Ferrari, Pittura Analitica: Then and Now, curated by Alberto Fiz, Colour in Contextual Play, an installation by Joseph Kosuth, curated by Cornelia Lauf and Joseph Kosuth, UnComfort Zone with Dimore Gallery, Light in motion: Balla Dorazio Zappettini, curated by Elena Gigli, Michelangelo Pistoletto: Origins and Consequences, curated by Alberto Fiz and Equilibrium. An idea for Italian sculpture curated by Giorgio Verzotti. All exhibitions are accompanied by fully illustrated monographs, often featuring newly commissioned research contributing to current critical and art historical discourse. Mazzoleni participates at international art fairs, including London, Paris, Basel, Hong Kong, New York and Miami.
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