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...
Pilar Corrias is a contemporary art gallery in the heart of London’s West End which opened in 2008. The 3,800 square foot gallery space on Eastcastle Street was designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas and is made up of two exhibition spaces.
Since its inception, the gallery has worked with emerging and established artists with the central aim of allowing their work to grow both in terms of production of new projects and the making of new exhibitions. Alongside its internal programming, the gallery places great importance on supporting their artists through fostering relationships with public institutions, private foundations, museums, and commissioning bodies.
Ocula Photolog West Bund Art & Design 2018 9 November 2018 'With a strong selection of returning exhibitors, the 2018 edition welcomes 87 galleries in the Galleries section, among which 39 are participating for the first time.'– West Bund Art & Design (8–11 November 2018).
Ocula Report Shanghai Art Exhibitions to See: The Lowdown 2 Nov 2018 : Sam Gaskin for Ocula There is no official Shanghai Art Week, but the term has nevertheless entered the lexicon of the city's contemporary art community. It's especially apt this year, with the firmly established West Bund Art Fair (8–11 November 2018) and Art021 (9–11 November 2018) taking place the same week that the 12th Shanghai Biennale opens at the Power Station...
Ocula Photolog Frieze London 2018 8 October 2018 'Frieze London 2018 showcases the best of international contemporary art, with a discerning selection of around 160 galleries presenting their most forward-thinking artists and imaginative presentations. Opening for the first time with a two-day preview, Frieze London coincides with Frieze Sculpture and Frieze Masters in The Regent's Park, together...
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).
Related Press Philippe Parreno combines 20 years of footage to create ‘film of films, a seance of cinema’ Wallpaper* : 6 February 2019 When Philippe Parreno was a teenager, he and his friends would sneak their way through the back door of an adult movie theatre in one of the seedier parts of Échirolles, a rough suburb of Grenoble, southern France. The backstreet XXX dive was called Cinema Permanente, because porn played all day, all night.At a public talk at the 2019...
Related Press IAN CHENG with Osman Can Yerebakan The Brooklyn Rail : 5 February 2019 Ian Cheng and I discovered our mutual adoration for dogs within the first quarter of our meeting, a few weeks prior to his exhibition, BOB, at Gladstone Gallery. Through the end of our conversation, I knew why no wonder we—two people who had just met—were exchanging photos of our four-legged friends from our iPhones. Swiping through...
Related Press Painting Tempi. Everyone Else Is a Troll: Sophie von Hellermann Mousse Magazine : 29 January 2019 Go ahead, try to picture artist Sophie von Hellermann at the studio: moving in with speed, loosely, quickly, meeting the canvas, brushes swirling, thoughts soaring, zapping, painting with tempo. Since her earliest work, she has incessantly built a catalogue of paintings, watercolors and murals, committed to the liquefaction of the very medium that...
Related Press Made in L.A. 2018 Art Agenda : 2 July 2018 Not so much a city as an unevenly populated, multi-centered megalopolis, and not so much a year as a point in an escalating concatenation of national and global crises, there might seem to be no possible way to get "Made in L.A. 2018" right.
Related Video & Audio Ian Cheng A Portal to Infinity Louisiana Channel : 17 December 2018 Watch Ian Cheng, a rising star on the art scene, talk about his trilogy of animated live simulation works – Emissaries – which work like a never-ending video game in real time: 'It was a process that was on-going as life is on-going.'Camera: Jakob SolbakkenProduced and edited by: Kasper Bech DygCopyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of...
Related Video & Audio Reflections on Watercolour: Sophie von Hellermann Tate : 23 May 2011 Sophie von Hellermann, one of the artists featured in Tate Britain's Watercolour exhibition, met young people from Archbishop Tenison's School to talk about working in watercolour.
