Ocula Conversation Sandrine Colard on the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the largest Francophone nation in Africa with vast resources and nearly 80 million inhabitants, is a place where commodities play a vital role in the national economy and the country's significance on the world stage. This is the context from which the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale (24 October–24 November...
Ocula Report From 20 to 21 July 2019, Artspace Sydney held a two-day symposium that brought artists in conversation with leading curators, writers, activists, academics, diplomats, and journalists from across Asia. The symposium was the final chapter of the 52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS exhibition, publication, website, and Instagram project. Instigated and...
Ocula News We Are Our Infrastructure, Argues Newly Announced Shanghai Biennale Chief Curator 13 December 2019 The Power Station of Art will make a fitting location for Andrés Jaque, whose past projects expose the politics concealed by buried pipes and managed cables. Spanish architect, writer, and curator Andrés Jaque has been named the chief curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, which will take place at the Power Station of Art (PSA) from 13 November...
Ocula Insight 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...
Founded in 2005 by gallerist, collector, and curator Pearl Lam, Pearl Lam Galleries is committed to fostering dialogue between different regions and cultures from its three locations in Hong Kong and Shanghai. The gallery’s principles echo the philosophy of the Chinese literati, who supported a non-hierarchical view of art forms, seeking to encourage diversity and neutralise boundaries.
Read MorePearl Lam Galleries is also noted for introducing significant international artists to Asian audiences, among them Leonardo Drew, a New York-based artist renowned for his sculptural wall pieces that often draw on his personal memories and experiences as an African American; and British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE, whose paintings, sculptures, photography, films, and iconic life-size mannequins clothed in lavishly coloured fabrics explore themes of race, class, and colonisation.
Other leading international artists on the Galleries’ roster include Golnaz Fathi, an Iranian artist famous for her reinterpretations of traditional Persian calligraphy that utilize bold colours, intricate line work, and gestural brushwork; British artist Peter Peri, whose drawings, sculptures, and paintings explore the formal qualities of line and volume; and Thukral & Tagra, an artist duo from India who blur the boundaries between fine art and popular culture in their humorous paintings, sculptures, installations, films, and design work.
The gallery participates in a range of international art fairs, including The Armory Show, Art Cologne, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Busan, Frieze Masters, and West Bund Art & Design.
Exhibition view: Hoon Kwak, Halaayt: Passages Of Transcendence, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong (27 September–8 November 2019). Courtesy Pearl Lam Galleries.
Gatot Pujiarto, Embun Upas/Frost (2019). Canvas, textile, thread. 300 x 600 cm (118 1/8 x 236 1/4 in.) Courtesy of the artist and Pearl Lam Galleries.
Ocula Photolog West Bund Art & Design 2019 11 November 2019 'The fair provides a platform for international exhibitors to showcase the finest quality of modern and contemporary art in Shanghai. With exhibitions and art events offered by museums and galleries in the city, West Bund has made November's Shanghai a permanent fixture on the global art calendar.' –West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai (7–10...
Ocula Photolog Frieze Masters 2019 7 October 2019 'Coinciding with Frieze London, Frieze Masters features more than 130 of the world's leading galleries specialising in antiquities, Asian art, ethnographic art, illuminated manuscripts, medieval, modern and post-war art, Old Masters and 19th century, as well as photography and sculpture.' –Frieze Masters (3–6 October 2019).
Ocula Report China’s Post-Intranet Artists Get Personal 27 Apr 2019 : Sam Gaskin for Ocula China's post-80s artists are no longer all that 'young', nor do they much need that moniker. With the oldest of that generation fast approaching 40, to call them young would be misleading given how rapidly many of them rose to prominence during the tail-end of China's foreign collector-powered art boom and subsequent influx of domestic collectors....
Ocula Conversation Thukral and Tagra Over the past 15 years, Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra have developed a collaborative practice of painting, sculpture, design, installation, interactive games, and experimental participatory exercises. Their work spans a range of interests and subject matter: from their early explorations into globalised consumer culture and diasporic Indian...
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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 LEONARDO DREW with Charles Schultz The Brooklyn Rail : 2 July 2019 Leonardo Drew (b. 1961) considers himself an elder statesman of the art world. In his first exhibition, at age 13, he showed a larger than life painting of Captain America. His natural talent for draftsmanship earned him early opportunities to work at prestigious comic book publishers like Marvel and DC Comics, but Drew was after something more...
Related Press Yinka Shonibare at Driehaus Museum Art in America : 1 June 2019 A Tale of Today: Yinka Shonibare CBE inaugurates the Driehaus Museum's exhibition series spotlighting the work of contemporary artists of color, an exciting new direction for this Gilded Age mansion–turned–museum, whose programming has focused largely on art and design from the home's original era.
Related Video & Audio Antony Micallef interview from RTHK: The Works RTHK's The Works : 27 May 2016 Known for his visually charged figure paintings, Micallef has enjoyed international success since he placed second in the BP Portrait Award 2000, hosted at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Other key exhibitions include at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria; the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland; The Royal...
Related Video & Audio Interview with artist Ged Quinn at Frieze Art Fair 2012 VernissageTV : 15 October 2012 At Frieze Art Fair London 2012, London-based Stephen Friedman Gallery presented a solo exhibition with paintings by British artist Ged Quinn, entitled Ghosts and Benedictions. On the Preview day we had the chance to speak with the artist about his work. In this video, Ged Quinn talks about the exhibition at Frieze Art Fair, a painting called...
