Ocula Report Havana Biennial 2019: Constructing the Possible 17 Apr 2019 : Federica Bueti for Ocula I first visited Havana in November 2016, a few days after Fidel Castro died, and just under a year before Hurricane Irma hit Cuba in September 2017. Since then, much has changed, including the hand-painted signs that punctuate the journey from the airport to the city centre, which today do not celebrate the revolution so much as the 'Unidad y...
Ocula Conversation Andrew Stahl and Guo Xiaohui The exhibition Beyond Boundaries at Somerset House in London (12 March–2 April 2019) marked the historic contributions of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, on the occasion of their 100th and 150th anniversaries, respectively. Spread across several rooms of Somerset House's...
Ocula Report The National 2019: New Australian Art 13 Apr 2019 : Elyse Goldfinch for Ocula The National 2019: New Australian Art features work by 70 contemporary Australia-based artists split across three venues: the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) (29 March–21 July 2019), as curated by Isobel Parker Philip, curator of photographs at AGNSW; Daniel Mudie Cunningham,...
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.
Keren CytterUntitled, 2017 Markers on reflective solar film light heater film self adhesive mylar mirror contact paper
Rirkrit Tiravanijauntitled 2018 (bring on the lobsters), 2018 Mirror polished stainless steel
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,...
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...
Related Press The Bauhaus and the Black Experience: The Magnificent and Mysterious Robert Reed Hyperallergic : 23 March 2019 In 1973, the artist Robert Reed celebrated openings for three exhibitions in New York: one at the Washburn Gallery in Manhattan, one at the Webb & Parsons Gallery in Bedford, and one at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It was a major year for Reed, a former student of the visionary Bauhaus abstractionist Josef Albers, and also the first and...
Related Press Tschabalala Self’s Avatars of Black Womanhood Hyperallergic : 9 March 2019 SEATTLE — Scraps of bright turquoise, yellow, and salmon fabric encircle a swatch of denim imprinted with a building's image; this delineates a figure's thigh. It is part of up Bellyphat (2016), a textile-and-paint collage by artist Tschabalala Self. Elsewhere in the work, black, pink, and rosewood fabric swatches define the figure's face,...
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 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.
