Ocula Conversation Sandrine Colard on the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the largest Francophone nation in Africa with vast resources and nearly 80 million inhabitants, is a place where commodities play a vital role in the national economy and the country's significance on the world stage. This is the context from which the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale (24 October–24 November...
Ocula Report From 20 to 21 July 2019, Artspace Sydney held a two-day symposium that brought artists in conversation with leading curators, writers, activists, academics, diplomats, and journalists from across Asia. The symposium was the final chapter of the 52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS exhibition, publication, website, and Instagram project. Instigated and...
Ocula News We Are Our Infrastructure, Argues Newly Announced Shanghai Biennale Chief Curator 13 December 2019 The Power Station of Art will make a fitting location for Andrés Jaque, whose past projects expose the politics concealed by buried pipes and managed cables. Spanish architect, writer, and curator Andrés Jaque has been named the chief curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, which will take place at the Power Station of Art (PSA) from 13 November...
Ocula Insight 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...
After spending several years in London, Ozzola came back to Italy in 2001, where he began to build a personal artistic path that led him, in 2001 to participate in the exhibition Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, curated by David Elliott and Pier Luigi Tazzi, at the Mori Art Museum of Tokyo.
Read MoreSince then, his attention has been focused on light as a necessary material for vision. In the centre of his work, he puts the interest of three dimensional space and light, and has developed research on mental image and the essense of subjects. The time of light and darkness is a thread that runs through all of Giovanni Ozzola’s work. For him, light signifies life and darkness is the container of human desires and fears – his beautiful still lifes creeping out of the shadows expresses this duality. The slate works depict epic voyages by explorers and is indicative of his interest in humanity’s most compelling questions about life and death and the irreversibility of time – translating them into a visual language rich with mythology and intersections.
