Ocula Conversation Jess Johnson: Worlds Within Worlds Geometric patterns, anthropomorphic characters, architectural spatial environments, and relics of the ancient world appear throughout Jess Johnson's artworks.Johnson's solo art-ventures began in drawing, but her long-term collaborative relationship with animator Simon Ward brings her drawings to life in videos and virtual reality. The animator has...
Ocula Conversation Melati Suryodarmo: Performance Art as Trigger In 2012, Melati Suryodarmo opened Studio Plesungan in her native Surakarta, also known as Solo, the historic royal capital of the Mataram Empire of Java in Indonesia. Suryodarmo had returned to Indonesia from Germany, where she studied Butoh and choreography with Butoh dancer and choreographer Anzu Furukawa, time-based media with avantgarde...
Ocula Report Lagos Biennial 2019: Stories from Africa’s most Populous City 15 Nov 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Under the direction of Folakunle Oshun, the second edition of the Lagos Biennial (26 October–23 November 2019) includes works by over 40 Lagos-based and international artists, architects, and collectives. Curated by architect Tosin Oshinowo, curator and producer Oyindamola Fakeye, and assistant curator of photography at the Art Institute of...
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...
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.
Ocula Photolog FIAC, Paris 2019 17 October 2019 'FIAC brings together 197 galleries from 29 countries. Coming together from all over the world, the diversity of FIAC's exhibitors and their loyalty year after year reflects the magnetic attraction of Paris in theinternational creative community.' – FIAC Paris, Press Release.
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...
Ocula Photolog Frieze Masters 2019 7 October 2019 'Coinciding with Frieze London, Frieze Masters features more than 130 of the world's leading galleries specialising in antiquities, Asian art, ethnographic art, illuminated manuscripts, medieval, modern and post-war art, Old Masters and 19th century, as well as photography and sculpture.' –Frieze Masters (3–6 October 2019).
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.
