Ocula Conversation Cinga Samson: ‘a different conversation on representation’ By Jareh Das, New York Cinga Samson 's paintings lay bare the complex relationship between contemporary life, African traditions, globalisation, and representation. His strikingly sombre portraits contain similarities to those of contemporary painters such as Toyin Ojih Odutola, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye , Kehinde Wiley , Florine Démosthène, and Tunji...
Ocula Report Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements By Radha Mahendru, Dhaka Seismic Movements , the fifth Dhaka Art Summit, plotted movements, solidarities, and exchanges across the Global South with over 500 artists, scholars, curators, and thinkers.
Ocula Insight At the freshly opened Winsing Art Place in Taipei, works by Vietnamese-Danish artist Danh Vo are being presented in Taiwan for the first time. In this video, the founder of Winsing Arts Foundation, Jenny Yeh, introduces Vo's exhibition.
Paragon Press was launched in 1986 and has since published over 100 projects involving some of the most renowned contemporary artists.
Read MoreThe 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 Miami Beach 2019 'In Art Basel's American show, leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia show significant work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars. Paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, and editioned works of the highest quality are on display in the main...
Ocula Report Sydney Lowdown: Exhibitions to See By Elyse Goldfinch, Sydney 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 By Jareh Das, London 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...
Ocula Report Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019: A Post-mortem By Diana d’Arenberg, Hong Kong 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...
Related Press Paper work – the British Museum shows off its collection of contemporary drawings 4 November 2019, Apollo Magazine Anish Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter. These may not be names that spring to mind when you think of the British Museum, but they all have work filed away in its extensive archive of prints and drawings. 'Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now' lifts a lid on a lesser-known collection at a museum renowned...
Related Press Older, wiser, and still decluttering: Artist Michael Landy on his latest project 28 October 2019, Irish Examiner Everything from his car to his passport to his record collection, all 7,227 objects that he owned, were painstakingly catalogued and shredded in a vacant clothes store in London. Over 45,000 people came to see the two-week installation, which saw teams of workers, clad in overalls, dismantle Landy’s possessions on a factory-like conveyor belt...
Related Press Damien Hirst, Turning In Circles 12 October 2019, Hyperallergic LONDON — It's a hot mid-afternoon in the West End's posh Mayfair district, and Damien Hirst is standing outside the glass double-doors of the White Cube gallery, looking every inch the devil-may-care prankster out of some early Shakespearean comedy.
Related Press The misplaced outrage over Damien Hirst’s dead butterflies 30 September 2019, Apollo Damien Hirst has recently unveiled a new series of his 'butterfly-wing paintings' and the internet is ablaze with debate. Butterflies, dead or alive, have appeared in the artist's work since the late 1980s and he has produced very similar paintings to the ones now exhibited at White Cube in London since the mid 2000s.
Related Video & Audio Inside the Stately Home Exhibiting Damien Hirst’s Most Iconic Works 15 May 2018, AnOther Magazine 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 7 December 2017, British Council Arts 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...
Related Video & Audio Glenn Brown: In conversation 24 August 2016, Frieze 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 24 July 2015, Other Criteria Harland Miller's works switch between being sardonic, hilarious and nostalgic as his own phrases replace the original titles of Penguin books.
