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...
Paragon Press was launched in 1986 and has since published over 100 projects involving some of the most renowned contemporary artists.
The artists are selected by Charles Booth-Clibborn, founder of Paragon and are invited to create a project in the form of a series or portfolio of prints. Many of the artists have previously had little or no exposure to printmaking.
Paragon works with a number of different print studios both in the UK and on the Continent to suit the artist's requirements. It is intended that the nature of the commission will stimulate a significant work of art in print by the chosen artist.
Paragon has placed its projects with important museums and contemporary art collations around the world.
Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Miami Beach 2018 6 December 2018 'This year, over 200 of the world's leading international Modern and contemporary art galleries display artworks by over 4,000 artists, including paintings, sculptures, installations, photography, film, video, and digital art.' –Art Basel in Miami Beach (6–9 December 2018).
Ocula Photolog Art Basel 2018 15 June 2018 'The anchor of Art Basel's show is its Galleries sector. Art Basel 2018 edition welcomes 16 galleries that join the fair for the first time, further rejuvenating the show and giving younger galleries the opportunity to present their program alongside today's leading established galleries.' –Art Basel (14–17 June 2018).
Ocula Conversation Anya Gallaccio's practice is characterised by the twin notions of control and transition and, in particular, how each can be implemented and represented. Her approach often involves setting in motion a process and then letting go. Her use of materials that innately decay, melt, rot and transform, speak to the mutability of material and place. The...
Ocula Conversation Shirazeh Houshiary Artist Shirazeh Houshiary was born in 1955 in Shiraz, an Iranian city known for its rich literary and art history. She came to London in 1974 to study at the Chelsea School of Art, five years before the Iranian Revolution broke out. It was her sculptural works that first garnered attention in the 1980s, and which also earned her a Turner Prize nomination...
Related Press Michael Craig-Martin on Albers, America, and architecture as entertainment Wallpaper* : 11 February 2019 Somewhere in a maze of picket fences, golf greens and lakes, Vero Beach's The Gallery at Windsor is a remote haven for British art world patricians. It's currently two years into a partnership with London's Royal Academy of Arts, which annually brings a celebrated artist to the Atlantic coastline to exhibit.
Related Press Iranian-born artist Shirazeh Houshiary: ‘Numbers are beautiful to me’ Financial Times : 9 February 2019 The secluded London studio of Shirazeh Houshiary foxes my Uber driver entirely. But I shouldn't be surprised that the Iranian-born artist is off-grid. Among a heap of volumes that litter her studio floor is Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli, the quantum physicist whose luminous texts explain why Newtonian laws of space and time can only...
Related Press Richard Long: The Tide is High Artlyst : 10 December 2018 There can be no doubt that Richard Long is one of the giants of British art. Or so a very impressive curriculum vitae would lead one to suppose. He is now in his early 70s. He made his reputation almost half-a-century ago, as what was then called a Land Artist – going for epic walks, often through very remote locations.
Related Press Antique photogravure process goes modern at Crown Point Press Datebook : 13 November 2018 From across the gallery, the four framed prints of architectural ruins look like vintage black-and-white photographs. But a photograph is just the start for what you are seeing at Crown Point Press.
Related Video & Audio Inside the Stately Home Exhibiting Damien Hirst’s Most Iconic Works AnOther Magazine : 15 May 2018 The notion of 'Britishness' has long been underpinned by a tangle of contradictions; evocative of both the aristocratic establishment, and its countercultural underside.
Related Video & Audio Turner Prize 2017 | Sacha Craddock on Hurvin Anderson British Council Arts : 7 December 2017 The Turner Prize was established in 1984 by the Tate and the Patrons of New Art to broaden visibility for art in the UK.In this film, curator Sacha Craddock tells us about Hurvin Andersoni's Turner Prize exhibition.The exhibition opened in September and runs until January 2018. We headed to Ferens to meet Turner Prize 2017 curators Sacha Craddock...
Related Video & Audio Glenn Brown: In conversation Frieze : 24 August 2016 A conversation between artist Glenn Brown, Bice Curiger, director of Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, and Ger Luijten, director of Fondation Custodia, hosted by Frieze and Fondation Custodia, Paris, on the occasion of Glenn Brown’s exhibition, Suffer Well, at Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, until 11 September 2016.
Related Video & Audio The Making of Harland Miller's print The Me I Never Knew Other Criteria : 24 July 2015 Harland Miller's works switch between being sardonic, hilarious and nostalgic as his own phrases replace the original titles of Penguin books.
