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...
Michael Goedhuis will be exhibiting a major solo exhibition entitled Qin Feng: Desire. The exhibition will be held both at Masterpiece and at Michael Goedhuis' Cadogan Square gallery.
Qin Feng is a tough, rebellious, iconoclastic ink artist who has established an international reputation as one of the art-stars of the New Wave of modernist Chinese ink painting. His work has long been recognised and collected by numerous museums both in the West and in Asia and his work has been represented in many of the major international exhibitions throughout the world in the past twenty years.
In the current Chinese cultural environment, where there is a unique concentration of creative effort across all categories- film, music, theatre, philosophy, architecture and design, dance and art itself- Qin Feng stands with the small group of his gifted peers as an artist who is grappling with the challenge of creating a new pictorial language to express the transformation of Chinese society. But in his case, his ambition sweeps beyond China to encompass global aesthetic imperatives and aims to eschew much of the fashionable international mantras of recent years, focusing on making works that do not recoil from taking account of the past in order make sense of the present.
