Ocula Report The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka at LACMA 18 Jan 2019 : Perwana Nazif for Ocula The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (9 December 2018–23 June 2019) is billed as the first comprehensive survey of Sri Lankan art organised by a U.S. museum, with around 240 works—including decorative objects, textiles, photographs, and historical works from the museum's own collection of Sri Lankan...
Ocula Conversation Ellen Pau Artist A radiographer by training, Ellen Pau is a self-taught artist who emerged from Hong Kong's fledgling contemporary art scene of the late 1980s, when video was a comparatively nascent medium. In 1986, Pau co-founded Videotage—a non-profit organisation that specialises in the promotion and preservation of video and new media art. Pau has an...
Ocula Report Singapore Art Week: Exhibitions to See 18 Jan 2019 : Tessa Moldan for Ocula S.E.A. Focus, the new boutique art fair by STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, will take centre stage during this year's Singapore Art Week (19–27 January 2019). Running between 24 and 27 January 2019, 26 galleries will participate in the inaugural edition, showcasing modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art within a pop-up structure in...
In 1981, Frank and Eliane Demaegd founded Zeno X Gallery in an old 20th century town house at the Antwerp South district. Six years later, they enlarged the existing exhibition space by combining it with the adjoining building.
In 2002 a second gallery space, named Zeno X Storage opened in Borgerhout.
After more than 30 years Zeno X Gallery moves the main focus of its program from the Antwerp South district to the east part of the city, Borgerhout. The existing Zeno X Storage has been extended and is now connected with the neighbouring building as it originally was in the first half of the 20th century when milk factory Schellekens was housed there. The recently added part got a complete renovation overseen by the Belgian architects Coussée & Goris.
This expansion will stimulate Zeno X’s development and gives the opportunity to mount more prominent and larger scale exhibitions.
Mircea SuciuThe constant feeeling of guilt (after Delacroix), 2018 Oil, acrylic and monoprint on linen
Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Miami Beach 2018 6 December 2018 'This year, over 200 of the world's leading international Modern and contemporary art galleries display artworks by over 4,000 artists, including paintings, sculptures, installations, photography, film, video, and digital art.' –Art Basel in Miami Beach (6–9 December 2018).
Ocula Photolog FIAC Paris 2018 19 October 2018 'For the 2018 selection, held in Paris from 18 to 21 October, FIAC brought together 195 galleries from 27 countries in the nave and exhibition rooms of the Grand Palais. The fair presented the finest examples of artistic creation since the turn of the twentieth century; modern masters through to the latest trends, notably represented in the...
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 Photolog Art Basel 2018 15 June 2018 'The anchor of Art Basel's show is its Galleries sector. Art Basel 2018 edition welcomes 16 galleries that join the fair for the first time, further rejuvenating the show and giving younger galleries the opportunity to present their program alongside today's leading established galleries.' –Art Basel (14–17 June 2018).
Related Press Best of 2018: Our Top 20 Exhibitions Across the United States Hyperallergic : 21 December 2018 In 2018, artists and curators across the United States have been crafting brilliant exhibitions across the US, exploring themes of identity and community in innovative ways. Ebony G. Patterson made a maximalist tribute to victims of violence in her home country of Jamaica, while Joel Otterson crafted work recalling his parents' professions as a...
Related Press Heads Roll review – an exhibition for narcissists everywhere The Guardian : 13 August 2018 Portraiture is an enduring art form, thanks to the narcissistic tendencies of the human race.
Related Press Jack Whitten’s Secret Self Hyperallergic : 5 July 2018 BALTIMORE-All human beings contain secret selves. While we cultivate a public persona to attain resources and maximise success, our covert self encloses inferiorities, base desires, and inner wildness. In Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963-2017, the landmark exhibition of master artist Jack Whitten at the Baltimore Museum of Art, a contrast...
Related Press Jack Whitten: once mistaken for Gerhard Richter, now subject of major US survey shows The Art Newspaper : 25 April 2018 At a recent preview of the Baltimore Museum’s exhibition Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017 (until 29 July), the obscurity of the late artist’s sculpture became a refrain. 'Jack’s work as a sculptor is essentially unknown in the museum world,' Bedford says. The work was also new to Kevin Tervala, the museum’s associate African art curator....
