Ocula Conversation Sunjung Kim’s Real DMZ Project Interrogates the North and South Korea Divide Ongoing since 2012, the Real DMZ Project interrogates the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea through annual, research-based exhibitions that bring together the works of Korean and international artists. Sunjung Kim, the independent curator behind the project, conceived the idea of exploring the DMZ while curating Japanese artist...
Ocula Report Frieze Week Lowdown: London Shows to See 20 Sep 2019 : Tessa Moldan for Ocula London's galleries and museums are gearing up for a lively October, with Frieze London and Frieze Masters running between 3 and 6 October 2019 at Regent's Park, along with 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, taking place across the same dates at Somerset House; and the tenth anniversary of the Sunday Art Fair, showcasing new and emerging artists...
Ocula Insight | Video Mark Bradford’s Call for Unity at Shanghai’s Long Museum 16 August 2019 Mark Bradford walks through Mark Bradford: Los Angeles Mark Bradford: Los Angeles at the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai (27 July–13 October 2019) is the artist's largest solo exhibition to date in China. In this video for Ocula, Bradford and Diana Nawi, curator of the show, walk through selected works that convey the artist's concerns with...
TARO NASU opened in 1998.
It is located at Bakuro-cho, downtown area evolving as a new cultural area in Tokyo.
The gallery focuses the conceptual artworks by the domestic and international artists.
It has devoted to explore the contemporary art after 80’s as ”experience”, mainly working with conceptual artists such as Pierre Huyghe, Liam Gillick, Jonathan Monk, Ryan Gander. Mika Tajima, Simon Fujiwara and Tatsuo Majima.
And it constantly working with the featured Japanese contemporary photographers such as Taiji Matsue, Takashi Homma and Maiko Haruki.
Not only the established artists, but it also supports the promising Japanese younger artists as Futo Akiyoshi, Koichi Enomoto and Cozue Takagi whose works have been drawing many attentions internationally.
Furthermore, the gallery has organized the exhibitions related to architecture, like the series of exhibition “gesture, form, technique”, the show which questions the boarder between art and design. and “Yume ie exhibition : Japanese architects of the next generation” (2017).
TARO NASU now works with over 20 artists and have been collaborating with many museums and public institutions from inside and outside the country.
The gallery is also cooperating with international art exhibition such as Shanghai Biennale (2012), Gwangju Biennale (2016), Okayama Art Summit (2016) and Biennale of Sydney (2018).
Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019 31 March 2019 'Art Basel reinforces its ongoing commitment to showcasing exceptional art from Asia and the Asia Pacific, with over half of the participating galleries having exhibition spaces in the region. The main sector of the show features 196 of the world's leading galleries presenting the highest quality of painting, sculpture, drawings, installation,...
Ocula Photolog Frieze London 2018 8 October 2018 'Frieze London 2018 showcases the best of international contemporary art, with a discerning selection of around 160 galleries presenting their most forward-thinking artists and imaginative presentations. Opening for the first time with a two-day preview, Frieze London coincides with Frieze Sculpture and Frieze Masters in The Regent's Park, together...
Ocula Report A Journey That Wasn’t at The Broad, Los Angeles 29 Sep 2018 : Jareh Das for Ocula A Journey That Wasn't showcases 55 artworks from the permanent collection of The Broad in Los Angeles, some of which are on view for the first time (30 June 2018–10 February 2019). Located in the museum's first-floor galleries and curated by Ed Schad and Sarah Loyer (both curators at The Broad), the show explores how artists have dealt with...
Ocula Report Frieze New York: Running the Course 11 May 2018 : Paul Laster for Ocula There's no better way to kick off a marathon week of art fairs and other related activities than to hear a living artist discuss their new work: a reminder of what's at the very core of the art world, and it's not just the buying and selling, but the opportunity to have a dialogue with art.On Tuesday morning in New York, a day before Frieze opened...
Related Press The Art Newspaper's pick of the 2019 Venice Biennale The Art Newspaper : 30 April 2019 There are hundreds of exhibitions in Venice during the Biennale. Alongside the main exhibition in the Giardini and Arsenale, there are 90 national presentations, many in nearby pavilions in the Giardini and in spaces around the Arsenale, but also dotted throughout Venice. Then there are the official collateral exhibitions in museums and galleries,...
Related Press Pierre Huyghe’s “UUmwelt” art agenda : 19 December 2018 Five large, freestanding LED panels fill the spaces of the Serpentine. Despite their technological nature, they look like temporary plaster walls and give the rooms a stripped appearance. Images scroll onscreen at high speed. In the darkened exhibition space, they have peculiar light and colors, cold and clear tones. Sounds can be heard, but like...
Related Press 10th Liverpool Biennial: ‘Beautiful world, where are you?’ Frieze : 17 July 2018 It was a telling coincidence that the opening of the tenth Liverpool Biennial, curated by Kitty Scott (a curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario) and Sally Tallant (Director of the Liverpool Biennial), timed with Donald Trump's state visit to the UK.
Related Press Snow Storms and Toppled Breuer Chairs in Ryan Gander's Alternate Reality Wallpaper* : 21 March 2018 Cockatoo Island, a short ferry ride from Sydney’s Circular Quay, is the least likely place one would expect to be simultaneously cast and filmed for a motion picture set predominantly in Berkeley, California. But A-frame signage dotted around the abandoned shipyard informs visitors of their every move potentially being documented.
