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,...
STPI Gallery returns to Art Basel in Basel with new breakthrough print works from Dinh Q. Lê, Jane Lee, Anri Sala, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Suzann Victor and Pae White, created in collaboration with STPI's team of professional printmakers and papermakers.
Highlights include stunning watercolour flocked alphabets from Pae White which were showcased at the Berlin Gallery Weekend 2018, Dinh Q. Lê's recently-conceived, pivotal photographic weavings from his sold-out series 'Splendor and Darkness', and Jane Lee's never-before-seen visually titillating and transcendental acrylic works based on the universal narrative of birds and freedom.
STPI's boundary-pushing approach towards print-making can be seen through Suzann Victor's conceptually charged and celebrated Cloud series, where the artist reversed the role of paper pulp to use it as the medium with which she paints, and Anri Sala's unique portraits of Pop icons such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Marisol Escobar, which were showcased at the 2017 Yokohama Triennale.
STPI Gallery is the only Southeast Asian gallery to take part in all three editions of the Art Basel fairs and in 2017, it made its first-time participation in FIAC Paris. This year, STPI Gallery participated in The Armory Show. This is STPI's 6th participation in Art Basel in Basel.
Suzann VictorCloud of Innocence 3, 2017 Assembled polycarbonate sheets, coloured paper pulp
Jane LeeFlashback III, 2018 Handpainted laser-cut acrylic sheets, acrylic mirror backing
Anri SalaLines on Black (Marisol, Warhol, Lichtenstein), 2016 Screen print and flocking on black Stonehenge paper
Rirkrit TiravanijaMoon rise - Time is setting - Tomorrow never arrives, 2013 Screen print, relief print, metal foil, etching, STPI handmade cotton paper
Dinh Q. LêSplendor & Darkness (STPI) #28, 2017 Cyanotype on Stonehenge paper; cut, woven and burnt
Dinh Q. LêSplendor & Darkness (STPI) #4, 2017 Foiling and screen print on Stonehenge paper; cut, woven and burnt
