Ocula Report 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life 15 Feb 2019 : Natalie King for Ocula 'Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.' Marlene Dumas' poetic and sensual refrain accompanies her figurative watercolours on view in Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, the fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) in the southern state of Kerala, India (12 December 2018–29 March 2019).Dumas' new series...
Ocula Conversation Ellen Altfest The paintings of Ellen Altfest are ethereal in their detail. Fields of minutiae come together as pulsating images; small brushstrokes of oil paint accumulate over a series of months to single out seemingly innocuous subjects, such as a hand resting atop patterned fabric (The Hand, 2011) or a deep green cactus reaching upwards from beneath a bed of...
Ocula Report Colomboscope 2019: Cross Currents and Dissonance 8 Feb 2019 : Nada Raza for Ocula On the rooftop of the former Rio Hotel complex in Colombo, it was hard to ignore the high-rise buildings, still under construction, blocking all but a sliver of what used to be an open view over Slave Island, once an island on Beira Lake that housed slaves in the 19th century, and now a downtown suburb. The hotel was set alight during the...
Office Baroque is a contemporary art gallery in Brussels that represents established, mid-career as well as emerging artists with strong institutional support. The gallery was incorporated in 2007 in Antwerp and has relocated to downtown Brussels in 2013 where it occupies the ground floor of a 1909 cast-iron Art Nouveau building. The gallery is owned by Marie Denkens and Wim Peeters who also founded the non for profit Extra City in 2004. Office Baroque represents 22 artists from Europe, America and Asia, focusing on primary market positions. The gallery has participated in Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze London and New York, Fiac Paris, Independent New York and Brussels, Art Brussels, Liste Basel, Miart Milan, Artissima Turin.
Ocula Insight Artist Insight: David Diao By Robert Ayers In a career spanning more than half a century David Diao has conducted a many-faceted exploration of the assumptions and comprehension of contemporary painting, which has been underpinned by vast erudition, a sharp critical intelligence, and a sustained sense of humour. Not surprisingly he enjoys a reputation as an insightful and stimulating...
Related Press Dear diary: photographers get personal at Fondazione Prada’s new space Wallpaper* : 24 January 2017 Critic and curator Francesco Zanot has organised an exhibition exploring photography as the new diary. Give Me Yesterday includes 14 artists born between 1976 and 1993, whose practices document the peaks and troughs of the personal, alongside names names familiar in the art world and popular on Instagram – Ryan McGinley, Melanie Bonajo, Leigh...
Related Press 'What we do for money' Manifesta 11 / Zurich Flash Art : 8 July 2016 Manifesta 11, the latest edition of the roving European biennial, seeks to explore what makes its current host city, Zurich, tick: work. It’s a reductive idea that the curator, artist Christian Jankowski, has chosen for an exhibition titled What People Do for Money.One assumes the curator knows that people everywhere work to financially...
Related Press Manifesta 11 prepares to open Christian Jankowski curated biennial ArtLyst : 2 June 2016 Manifesta 11, opening in Zurich on the 11th of June, with theme curated by Christian Jankowski, What People Do for Money: Some Joint Ventures promises to be the highlight of the Spring/Summer European art season. 30 new artworks have been produced, and they will be contextualised by a historical exhibition co-curated by Jankowski and Francesca...
