Ocula Conversation Pierre Huyghe: The Artist as Director Pierre Huyghe is a producer of spectacular and memorable enigmas, with works that function more like mirages than as objects. Abyssal Plain (2015–ongoing), his contribution to the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, was installed on the seabed of the Marmara Sea, some 20 metres below the surface of the water and close to...
Ocula Report MoMA Expansion: Once the Modern, Always the Modern 29 Nov 2019 : Mohammad Salemy for Ocula In the early decades of its existence, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), founded in 1929, transformed from a philanthropic project modestly housed in a few rooms of the Heckscher Building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, to an alleged operating node in the United States' cultural struggle during the cold war, and one of the...
Ocula Insight | Video Hans Hartung and Art Informel at Mazzoleni London (1 October 2019-18 January 2020) presents key works by the French-German painter while highlighting his connection with artists active in Paris during the 50s and 60s. In this video, writer and historian Alan Montgomery discusses Hartung's practice and its legacy.Born in Leipzig in 1904, Hans...
Exhibition view: Chun Kwang Young, Collisions: Information, Harmony and Conflict, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore (22 November 2019–1 February 2020). Courtesy Sundaram Tagore Gallery.
Exhibition view: Golnaz Fathi, Let’s Pretend Everything is All Right, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Chelsea, New York (14 November 2019–14 December 2019). Courtesy Sundaram Tagore Gallery.
Sundaram Tagore Gallery was founded in 2000 by the eponymous Calcutta-born gallerist—formerly a director at New York’s Pace Wildenstein Gallery and also an established art historian and filmmaker—with the mission to further cross-cultural exchange in a world that is interconnected now more than ever. With four spaces—in Singapore, Hong Kong, and in two locations in New York—the gallery hosts quality exhibitions and not-for-profit events that encourage conversations across the arts.
True to its mission, Sundaram Tagore Gallery is also known for hosting exhibitions that engage with the ideas of intercultural exchange and contemporary art from non-Western cultures. In 2019, Women’s Work at Sundaram Tagore Singapore highlighted works by five female artists from Asia and the Middle East; Heads or Tails? Uncertainties and Tensions in Contemporary Thailand, curated by Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani in 2017, brought the works of six influential Thai artists to the gallery’s Chelsea and Madison Avenue branches; and The World We Live In—jointly organised with Collective 88 and Ayala Museum, Manila, in 2016—was an exhibition devoted to contemporary photography. In 2015, Tagore and Marius Kwint co-curated Frontiers Reimagined—an exhibition featuring 44 artists whose works traverse cultural boundaries—at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani in Venice as a Collateral Event of the 56th Venice Biennale.
Ocula Report Sydney Contemporary: Bridging the Gap 20 Sep 2018 : Anna Dickie for Ocula As far as art fair venues go, Sydney Contemporary (13–16 September 2018) has nailed it with Carriageworks, where the fair was once again staged. Formerly a rail yard and now a cultural centre, the space has retained its distinctive 19th-century industrial details, and it offered a striking light-filled backdrop to the fair's crisp white booths, the...
Ocula Photolog Sydney Contemporary 2018 14 September 2018 'With a thriving contemporary art scene, Sydney is a dynamic cultural destination with an international reputation for presenting the very best in visual art through its leading commercial galleries, public institutions, private museums, festivals and Biennale. Defined by the vibrancy of its host city, Sydney Contemporary provides collectors,...
Ocula Insight Born to a Japanese mother and an American father, Miya Ando is very much a creature of both the East and West. Known for creating large-scale installations, paintings and sculptures redolent of natural phenomena, as a child she split her time between the redwood forests of Santa Cruz, California, and a Buddhist temple in Okayama, Japan, where her...
Ocula Report All in one place: Art Dubai 2017 24 Mar 2017 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula This year's edition of Art Dubai (15–18 March 2017)—the most global to date with 94 galleries from 43 countries—was a game changer. At least, that's what it felt like in the Abraaj Group lounge on Thursday night, when top Abraaj Group executives sang Don McLean's 'American Pie' on a small stage with resident Art Dubai enigma, Barry, on...
Related Press Steve McCurry's photos show the complex relationship between humans and animals CNN : 8 November 2019 Steve McCurry has achieved legendary status with his documentary photography, and is perhaps best known for his portrait of the Afghan Girl with the piercing green eyes published in 1985.But the influential American photographer, who has built his career around his daring coverage of armed conflict, has a lesser known passion: animals.
Related Press Singapore: Karen Knorr’s exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery pays an ode to majestic India Architectural Digest : 26 August 2019 American/British photographer Karen Knorr has over the years developed a critical and playful dialogue with photography. From investigating patriarchal values of the English upper classes to the role of animals and their representation in art, ...
Related Press LIFE & CULTURE The Story Behind Karen Knorr’s Riotous 1970s Series, Punks Another Man : 30 July 2019 Karen Knorr was born in Germany to American parents and grew up in Puerto Rico, before studying in Paris and then moving to London. 'Here I was, this Puerto Rican American, and I was trying to understand British culture,' says Knorr over the phone from Washington DC, though she has been based in London since the 1970s. 'I did it through...
Related Press Research In Progress: A Q&A with Karen Knorr Frontrunner Magazine : 15 July 2019 Born in Frankfurt, Karen Knorr (currently a Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, UK) was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and then pursued her education in the United States, the UK, and across Europe, cultivating a dual perspective that would underscore her work. Having started her own 'movement,'...
Related Video & Audio Sofa Sessions: Conversations with Martin Parr - Karen Knorr Martin Parr Foundation : 6 August 2019 Photographer Karen Knorr joins Martin Parr for the sixth instalment of 'Sofa Sessions: Conversations with Martin Parr'. They discuss her educational background, approach to the use of text with image and having to become a wildlife photographer.
Related Video & Audio Art Stage Singapore 2015 Vernissage TV / 21 January 2015 : 22 January 2015 For the 5th time, Art Stage Singapore takes place at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Singapore. The fair is known for its special focus on Southeast Asian art scenes (Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar). This year, more than 170 galleries from Asian and Western countries...
