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...
Keith Coventry is widely admired for his work which takes aspects modernism and grafting them on to socio-political issues. He appropriates global symbols of junk culture – the golden McDonald's arch, in particular – and recontextualises them, inviting the viewer to consider these logos afresh in a gallery context.
Coventry was born in Burnley in Lancashire, in 1958 and studied at London's progressive Chelsea school of Art. He exhibited in the legendary 1997 Sensation show at the Royal Academy, and was part of the elite Young British Artists who dominated the UK's visual art scene. Charles Saatchi was one of his first collectors and his work is now owned by Tate, MoMA among other national collections worldwide.
His work is included in collections worldwide, including Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2010 Coventry was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize.
Keith CoventryPure Junk IX, 2016 Carved wood, muslin, beeswax, gesso, glass and wood
Keith CoventryPure Junk Study XI, 2015 Carved wood, muslin, beeswax, gesso, glass and wood
Keith CoventryPure Junk Study X, 2015 Carved wood, muslin, beeswax, gesso, glass and wood
Keith CoventryPure Junk Study IX, 2015 Carved wood, muslin, beeswax, gesso, glass and wood
Keith CoventryPure Junk Study VI, 2015 Carved wood, muslin, beeswax, gesso, glass and wood
