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 Mandy El-Sayegh: Productive Ambiguity Moving across installation, painting, drawing, and writing, Malaysia-born and London-based artist Mandy El-Sayegh explores the political, social, and economic complexities of humanity, using a mosaic of information—from advertising slogans and pornographic imagery to newspaper articles—that she subjects to processes of layering,...
Ocula Report Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House 5 Jul 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House in London (12 June–15 September 2019) surveys more than half a century of black creativity in Britain and beyond across the fields of art, film, photography, music, design, fashion, and literature.Curated by Zak Ové, works by approximately 100 intergenerational black...
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.
Related Press L’oggettività di Nunzio: la scultura come momento del dubbio askanews : 2 August 2019 Londra, 2 ago. (askanews)–Una scultura potente, capace di riformulare la percezione dello spazio e la relazione chiave con la materia. La galleria Mazzoleni di Londra presenta la mostra di Nunzio The Shock of Objectivity, prima personale dell’artista abruzzese nella capitale britannica. Un progetto vasto, fatto di un approccio alla scultura che per...
Related Press Nunzio: The Shock of Objectivity Studio International : 1 July 2019 The display at Mazzoleni, curated by Kenneth Baker, consists of 16 well-chosen works from the past 30 years broadly divided between sculptures of burnt wood (some freestanding, a few prone, others hanging), as well as quietly burnished lead reliefs. The largest sculpture, Avvoltoio (vulture), was conceived expressly for the gallery and should...
Related Press The Best Things to See at the 2019 Venice Biennale AnOther : 13 May 2019 The 58th edition of the Venice Biennale, May You Live in Interesting Times curated by Ralph Rugoff–from London’s very own Hayward Gallery–proves to be as interesting as its title promises. Venice is an easy city to get lost in, and it’s easy to see why Proust dubbed the city’s labyrinth of alleyways a network of 'innumerable slender capillary...
Related Press Massimo Vitali: Short Stories British Journal of Photography : 22 March 2019 His new series, 'Short Stories', features plenty of beach scenes, often shot in his native Italy. Born in Como in 1944, Vitali studied photography at the London College of Printing and worked as a photojournalist in the 1960s and 70s before becoming a cinematographer for TV and film in the early 1980s.
