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...
Ocula Conversation Huang Yong Ping Artist Born in 1954 in Xiamen, China, Huang Yong Ping is a performance and installation artist who emerged from the '85 New Wave: a momentous avant-garde movement that flourished across the country from 1985 to 1989. After graduating from the Department of Oil Painting at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou (now China Academy of Art), Huang...
Related Press Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping at Museum Ludwig, Cologne Art Radar Journal : 22 August 2016 Cologne’s Museum Ludwig is holding an exhibition of the Chinese artist’s work spanning from 1983 to 2004, including a recent acquisition by the Museum as part of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2016. As the exhibition draws to a close on 28 August, Art Radar offers a view of the show with an exclusive photo gallery.
Related Press Jurassic art: Huang Yong Ping’s 'Empires' fills the nave of Paris' Grand Palais Wallpaper* : 10 May 2016 As regimes rise and fall in the age-old battle for domination, the world teeters on the edge of a black hole. ‘There is always hope,’ says Huang Yong Ping at the opening of Empires, his bespectacled eyes crinkling at the edges in a smile. ‘To get to optimism you have to understand pessimism.’ For this year's Monumenta,...
Related Press Chinese avant garde artist Huang Yongping returns to Paris South China Morning Post : 14 April 2016 Everything is about to change for Huang Yongping. Twenty-seven years after this avant-garde artist from Xiamen was discovered during the Magicians of the Earth exhibition, at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, he will star in Monumenta, in the French capital's most prestigious showcase: the Nave of the Grand Palais.Since 2007, contemporary...
Related Press Huang Yong Ping winner of the Ludwig Museum’s Wolfgang Hahn Prize Apollo Magazine : 5 April 2016 You’re the first artist of Chinese origin to win the Wolfgang Hahn Prize. Are European institutions opening their eyes to contemporary Chinese art? I’d say that the interest of European institutions in contemporary Chinese art dates from the 1990s. In 1993 and 1994 there were many exhibitions on the theme in European museums,...
