Ocula Conversation Jess Johnson: Worlds Within Worlds Geometric patterns, anthropomorphic characters, architectural spatial environments, and relics of the ancient world appear throughout Jess Johnson's artworks.Johnson's solo art-ventures began in drawing, but her long-term collaborative relationship with animator Simon Ward brings her drawings to life in videos and virtual reality. The animator has...
Ocula Conversation Melati Suryodarmo: Performance Art as Trigger In 2012, Melati Suryodarmo opened Studio Plesungan in her native Surakarta, also known as Solo, the historic royal capital of the Mataram Empire of Java in Indonesia. Suryodarmo had returned to Indonesia from Germany, where she studied Butoh and choreography with Butoh dancer and choreographer Anzu Furukawa, time-based media with avantgarde...
Ocula Report Lagos Biennial 2019: Stories from Africa’s most Populous City 15 Nov 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Under the direction of Folakunle Oshun, the second edition of the Lagos Biennial (26 October–23 November 2019) includes works by over 40 Lagos-based and international artists, architects, and collectives. Curated by architect Tosin Oshinowo, curator and producer Oyindamola Fakeye, and assistant curator of photography at the Art Institute of...
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...
In the spring of 2012, Wooson Gallery inaugurated the new space with the exhibition of the world's leading sculptor 'Tony Cragg' which was artist's first solo exhibition at a gallery in Korea. Including Tony Cragg, Wooson Gallery represents and promotes numerous important international artists for the first time in Korea such as Sean Scully, Jannis Kounellis, Hubert Scheibl, Andrei Molodkin, Barthélémy Toguo, and Kei Takemura. Also, Wooson Gallery presented the exhibition of Chung Sang-Hwa and Ha Chong-Hyun in 2013 and 2014, which contributed to arouse attention of Korean Monochrome in the international art word. In 2016, the gallery provides exhibitions of Choi Byung-So and Lee Kang-So at Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne, France, appraising Korean artists to the world.
Wooson Gallery is directly working with international artists and critics to produce museum-quality exhibitions of distinguished work with the intention of enlightening clients and visitors so that they may form motley opinions and make decisions when appreciating and acquiring contemporary art. The gallery staff takes this educational mission seriously so that they devote to publish raisonne of the artists whose exhibition have in Wooson and organizes according educational programs such as lectures, artist talks, international communication between art lovers and professionals as well as any kind of meetings with artists, art critics and art historians. Wooson Gallery continues not only to focus on great international and Korean masters but also to introduce young Korean artists to the global audience. At the same time Wooson Gallery sees its principal mission of the great artists of our epoch and in their museological and public integration in Korea.
Ocula Conversation RoseLee Goldberg: Performance Then and Now RoseLee Goldberg had long been invested in contemporary performance art before her founding of the inter-disciplinary arts organisation Performa in New York in 2004. Born in Durban, South Africa, Goldberg studied political science and fine arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and then art history at the Courtauld Institute...
Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Hong Kong 2018 29 March 2018 'The sixth edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong brought together a uniquely global mix of galleries spanning six continents, outstanding artworks by established and new artists from across theworld and a singular gathering of international collectors and institutions.' –Art Basel in Hong Kong (29–31 March 2018).
Ocula Conversation Sean Scully Artist, USA Already recognised in the Western art historical canon, 71-year-old Irish-born, American-based artist Sean Scully’s oil paintings are characterised by their geometric constructions and painterly expression. These two disparate modes marry in the artist’s canvases and act as a retort to the rigidity of last century’s hard...
Ocula Conversation Lee Kang-So and Choi Byung-So Artists, Korea Korean artists Choi Byung-So and Lee Kang-So are holding simultaneous solo exhibitions at the Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, on view through to 16 October 2016. Though their names are most commonly associated with Dansaekhwa, the artists maintain distinct styles that situate their practices outside of the...
Related Press Sean Scully takes up residence in Picasso’s former studio at Château de Boisgeloup Wallpaper* : 6 November 2019 'I'm the Donald Trump of the art world,' Sean Scully jokingly declared in the BBC documentary released in April this year about his art and life as one of the world's wealthiest living artists, in which he jets around the world on his private jet.
Related Press Reconciling Secular Art in Sacred Spaces Hyperallergic : 20 July 2019 VENICE — The two most arresting exhibitions I saw among the Venice Biennale's collateral displays were Sean Scully's Human and Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum, curated by Phong Bui and Francesca Pietropaolo for The Brooklyn Rail.Scully's show is a magisterial display of a...
Related Press BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO: THE NOMADIC ARTIST BALANCING THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD ON THE TIP OF HIS PAINT BRUSH Hunger : 18 June 2019 The nomadic artist has spent years cultivating his craft. City to city, embracing identities and cultures and leaving remnants of himself behind; with every continent explored, iterations of those anthropological studies fortify his works further to cast bold socio political statements that resonate instantaneously.
Related Press Jannis Kounellis: A Taxonomy of Tired Things Frieze : 7 June 2019 All that remained were 48 hats. 48 hats and 48 coats. 48 hats and 48 coats and 48 pairs of shoes. They lay, folded, in six lines of eight, the discarded wear of 48 absent men or the uniform of a single man, repeated some 48 times.
