Ocula Report Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber 15 Mar 2019 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula In Meiro Koizumi's three-channel video installation, The Angels of Testimony (2019), the central frame features an interview with Hajime Kondo about his time as a solider of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The conversation centres on war crimes perpetrated in China, including the beheading of Chinese prisoners for...
Ocula Conversation Diana Campbell Betancourt Diana Campbell Betancourt is a curator working predominantly across South and Southeast Asia. Since 2013 she has been the founding artistic director of the Samdani Art Foundation and chief curator of the Dhaka Art Summit in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a transnational art event that has grown in size and scale ever since its first edition in 2012. Backed by...
Ocula Report Chinternet Ugly at Manchester’s Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art 7 Mar 2019 : Mike Pinnington for Ocula China, home to 802 million internet users, is subject to sophisticated online censorship. This shrouded state of affairs, unsurprisingly perhaps, serves to reinforce stereotypes around conformity elsewhere. Any realm, digital or otherwise, subject to such strict scrutiny must necessarily be bland and uncritical, right? I was mulling over such...
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.
Patrick Van CaeckenberghExercise, model for flower arrangement (summer 2013), 2013 Pencil and paint on paper
Mark MandersFemale Head, 2017–2019 Wood, painted wood, painted epoxy, painted wig, iron, stainless steel, glass
Ocula Photolog The Armory Show 2019 11 March 2019 'The Armory Show features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions and dynamic public programs. Since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show has served as a nexus for the art world, inspiring dialogue, discovery and patronage in the visual arts.' –The Armory Show Press Release (March 2019).
Ocula Report 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life 15 Feb 2019 : Natalie King for Ocula 'Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.' Marlene Dumas' poetic and sensual refrain accompanies her figurative watercolours on view in Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, the fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) in the southern state of Kerala, India (12 December 2018–29 March 2019).Dumas' new series...
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...
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....
