Ocula Conversation Sunjung Kim’s Real DMZ Project Interrogates the North and South Korea Divide Ongoing since 2012, the Real DMZ Project interrogates the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea through annual, research-based exhibitions that bring together the works of Korean and international artists. Sunjung Kim, the independent curator behind the project, conceived the idea of exploring the DMZ while curating Japanese artist...
Ocula Report Frieze Week Lowdown: London Shows to See 20 Sep 2019 : Tessa Moldan for Ocula London's galleries and museums are gearing up for a lively October, with Frieze London and Frieze Masters running between 3 and 6 October 2019 at Regent's Park, along with 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, taking place across the same dates at Somerset House; and the tenth anniversary of the Sunday Art Fair, showcasing new and emerging artists...
Ocula Insight | Video Mark Bradford’s Call for Unity at Shanghai’s Long Museum 16 August 2019 Mark Bradford walks through Mark Bradford: Los Angeles Mark Bradford: Los Angeles at the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai (27 July–13 October 2019) is the artist's largest solo exhibition to date in China. In this video for Ocula, Bradford and Diana Nawi, curator of the show, walk through selected works that convey the artist's concerns with...
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 Report Sydney Lowdown: Exhibitions to See 6 Sep 2019 : Elyse Goldfinch for Ocula The fifth edition of Sydney Contemporary will take place once again at Carriageworks between 12 and 15 September 2019, with Spring 1883 bringing together a cohort of 27 galleries from across Australia and the region to inhabit rooms at the Establishment Hotel from 11 to 14 September 2019, uniquely presenting contemporary works propped up on...
Ocula Report Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House 5 Jul 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House in London (12 June–15 September 2019) surveys more than half a century of black creativity in Britain and beyond across the fields of art, film, photography, music, design, fashion, and literature.Curated by Zak Ové, works by approximately 100 intergenerational black...
Ocula Report Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019: A Post-mortem 6 Apr 2019 : Diana d’Arenberg for Ocula Although Art Basel in Hong Kong is the youngest of the Art Basel fairs, and a relative newcomer to the international art fair circuit, it has now become a major attraction for collectors and galleries from around the world. The seventh edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong saw thousands of art courtesans and benefactors kick off the week with a string...
Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019 31 March 2019 'Art Basel reinforces its ongoing commitment to showcasing exceptional art from Asia and the Asia Pacific, with over half of the participating galleries having exhibition spaces in the region. The main sector of the show features 196 of the world's leading galleries presenting the highest quality of painting, sculpture, drawings, installation,...
Related Press Finding Joy in an Artist’s Swimming Pool Hyperallergic : 17 August 2019 EDINBURGH — At the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016, one country's pavilion stood out. Presented by Aileen Sage Architects, the insightful and enjoyable offering from Australia was dedicated, as the blurb on the wall stated, to 'a bridge between people ... a well-known public space, where the personal and the communal intersect': the...
Related Press Five Turner winners call on National Portrait Gallery to cut ties with BP The Guardian : 5 July 2019 Five winners of the Turner prize are demanding an end to BP's sponsorship of the National Portrait Gallery, stepping up the campaign against big oil's involvement in the arts.Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Anish Kapoor, Gillian Wearing and Mark Wallinger are among a group of almost 80 leading artists, including winners of the BP portrait award,...
Related Press ‘I am one and the same person’ – Georg Baselitz looks back at a life in art Apollo : 12 June 2019 The exhibition 'Baselitz – Academy' at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice gathers work that goes right back to the beginning of Georg Baselitz's career, when he was still a student in West Berlin in the years around 1960, but is hardly a retrospective. There are long gaps (barely anything from the '80s or '90s, for example), and the focus is on...
Related Press In the Swiss Alps, a Biennial Celebrates the Luxurious Part of the Art World Hyperallergic : 18 February 2019 GSTAAD, Switzerland — Why travel to the Swiss Alps, if not for the benefits of breathing some rareified air? Elevation 1049 is a biennial now in its third iteration, produced by the Luma Foundation, and seeks to gather art world glitterati in the mountain town of Gstaad for a singular art festival experience — this year around the theme...
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.
