Ocula Report Art Taipei 2018 10 November 201810 Nov 2018 : Diana d’Arenberg for Ocula 'There is nothing more boring than the story of decline,' a journalist remarked at an art criticism panel I attended the evening before making the trip to see Art Taipei (26–29 October 2018). As I attended the opening night of Asia's oldest art fair, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, those words rang in my head. Wandering up and down...
Ocula Conversation Charwei Tsai Taiwanese artist Charwei Tsai's memorising and compulsive writing of the Heart Sutra—a Buddhist scripture that distills the wisdom of impermanence—is at the heart of her practice. Over the past ten years, Tsai has moved from writing to drawing, photography, and film—a selection of which is being presented at the Centre for Chinese...
Ocula Report Crush at Para Site: What if you couldn’t have it? 10 November 201810 Nov 2018 : Hera Chan for Ocula Drawn on paper by Oscar Chan Yik Long in gestural black ink strokes, Cupid (2015) greets visitors with a sinister toothy smile as they enter Para Site. The strikingly fearsome figure is positioned on the wall of the gallery's entrance, near one of Chen Dandizi's vertical neon tube lights, part of the series 'Tick Away' (2015), along which a...
Sadie Coles HQ is a contemporary art gallery in London which presents work by established and emerging artists. The gallery opened in the West End in 1997. The inaugural exhibition – new paintings by American artist John Currin – was presented in parallel to an exhibition by British artist Sarah Lucas, The Law, in a temporary location on St John Street. This pairing established the international dimension of the gallery's programme, which continues to this day. Sadie Coles HQ currently represents forty-eight artists from around the world.
Sadie Coles HQ has operated from a variety of spaces since its foundation, while staging off-site projects in various locations in London and abroad. In 2015, the gallery opened a new permanent space at 1 Davies Street, designed by 6a Architects, with an exhibition by Rudolf Stingel. This accompanies a larger space at 62 Kingly Street which opened in in September 2013. Exhibitions are presented at both sites throughout the year.
Sadie Coles HQ currently participates in up to seven international art fairs each year; and in recent years, the gallery has enjoyed a growing profile in Asia, participating in fairs including Art Basel Hong Kong, Westbund Shanghai and ART021 Shanghai. In 2017, Sadie Coles HQ presented an exhibition of contemporary art from China, Zhongguo 2185, featuring several artists not previously seen in the UK. In the past five years, Sadie Coles HQ has begun representing a significant number of new artists including Michele Abeles, Uri Aran, Darren Bader, Shannon Ebner, Kati Heck, Helen Marten, Borna Sammak, Ryan Sullivan, Martine Syms, and Jordan Wolfson. This is in addition the continued representation of artists including Sarah Lucas, John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Urs Fischer, Carl Andre, Rudolf Stingel, and the Estate of Angus Fairhurst.
