Ocula Conversation Pierre Huyghe: The Artist as Director Pierre Huyghe is a producer of spectacular and memorable enigmas, with works that function more like mirages than as objects. Abyssal Plain (2015–ongoing), his contribution to the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, was installed on the seabed of the Marmara Sea, some 20 metres below the surface of the water and close to...
Ocula Report MoMA Expansion: Once the Modern, Always the Modern 29 Nov 2019 : Mohammad Salemy for Ocula In the early decades of its existence, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), founded in 1929, transformed from a philanthropic project modestly housed in a few rooms of the Heckscher Building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, to an alleged operating node in the United States' cultural struggle during the cold war, and one of the...
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...
Catherine Sullivan was born in 1968 in Los Angeles and lives and works in Chicago. In 2015, along with George Lewis and Sean Griffin, she presented Afterword, an Opera at the MCA Chicago. She has had solo or collaborative exhibitions at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago; STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate Modern, London; Secession, Vienna; and Kunsthalle Zurich. Additionally, her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sullivan participated in the 2014 and 2004 Whitney Biennials, the 11th BALTIC Triennial of International Art, and the 7th Gwangju Biennale.
Ocula Conversation Catherine Sullivan Artist Catherine Sullivan's artistic practice crosses genres and histories of art, theatre, movement, and performance, with poetry, literature, sound and popular culture, taking the actor as medium in the process. A former actor herself, Sullivan attended the California Institute of the Arts and the Art Center College of Design where she studied under...
Related Press Catherine Sullivan’s X-Ray Dreams Hyperallergic : 15 September 2018 Catherine Sullivan is a Chicago-based artist whose films and installations have been shown only spottily in New York, and we're the poorer for it. The last piece of hers I saw was Triangle of Need (2007) at Metro Pictures, and that was more than 10 years ago. (Somehow, her 2016 collaboration with the composers George Lewis and Sean Griffin,...
Related Press An Actor Prepares Frieze : 14 November 2005 When asked about the significance of the lighthouse in To the Lighthouse (1937), Virginia Woolf replied that it represented 'nothing'. 'One has to have a central line down the middle of the book to hold the design together' she wrote. Exemplary of mid-20th-century literary Modernism, Woolf's novel conjures a disorientating stream of consciousness...
