Ocula Conversation Zac Langdon-Pole: Lines of Flight Over the last few years, New Zealand-born Berlin-based artist Zac Langdon-Pole has cultivated a practice of elegant, if at times uncanny, elisions. His recombinations of objects, words, and images—poetry, meteorite fragments, literary translations, furniture, photographs, mollusk shells—emphasise, with a fine-tuned lyricism, the...
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...
Related Press The elusive fictions of Dale Frank Art Guide Australia : 19 June 2019 During a career spanning three decades, Dale Frank has worked with multiple mediums including installation, film, sculpture and painting. Most recently he has been spending a considerable amount of time experimenting with painting.
Related Press Dale Frank at Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong ArtAsiaPacific : 8 March 2017 Entering Dale Frank’s solo exhibition at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong was comparable to stepping into a parallel universe where shapes are distorted and luminescent colors reign supreme. It was an alienating yet simultaneously engaging experience that clearly exemplified Frank’s own philosophy toward distancing himself from his works. Once...
Related Press Material world: Dale Frank latest explorations in paint, resin and fire foam Wallpaper* : 27 January 2017 January is usually a relatively quiet month for art in Hong Kong but not so at Pearl Lam’s eponymous Pedder Street gallery where the local gallerist is showing a solo exhibition of 16 works by artist Dale Frank.One of the Australia’s most successful international artists, Frank is renowned for his manipulation of wildly different materials,...
Related Press Hotel Windsor to become a contemporary art hub for Spring 1883 The Weekly Review : 14 August 2016 A sculpture in the bathtub, a horse on the couch and a disco in the loo are just some of the ways artworks have been exhibited at what is emerging as Melbourne’s most exciting art fair.The Hotel Windsor is, once again, about to be transformed by SPRING 1883, a high-end contemporary art show to be held as part of Melbourne’s Art...
Related Press 'Structures of Recollection: Contemporary Approaches to Materials and Memory' at Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong ArtAsiaPacific : 23 April 2016 Exploring the idea of memory recollection, Paul Moorhouse, curator of 20th-century art at London’s National Portrait Gallery, drew together six international artists for Structures of Recollection: Contemporary Approaches to Materials and Memory, currently showing at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong.Moorhouse’s curatorial...
Related Press Review: Dale Frank at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Frieze Magazine : 10 February 2016 Looking at big, bold abstract paintings, it’s hard these days not to think of zombie formalism – the kind of abstract art in which novelty is often mistaken for originality. In Dale Frank’s latest exhibition, SABCO PEROXIDE, the 57-year-old artist wears the pejorative attributes of this kind of abstraction as a badge of honour....
Related Press Melbourne gallery Neon Parc opens a second space in Brunswick Australian Vogue : 29 November 2015 In a move that both marks his maturity as an art curator and flips the bird to those prophesying the death of the bricks-and-mortar white cube, Geoff Newton opened a second Neon Parc gallery in Melbourne and slammed the naysayers. “If you start to pander to the whims of the market, either your business will be contracted and dulled by...
