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...
Born in Melbourne in 1987 Paul Yore completed a Bachelor of Arts at Monash University, Melbourne in 2009. Selected solo exhibitions include: Fountain of Knowledge, Neon Parc, Melbourne 2013; Boys Gone Wild, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 2012; ANTHROPOP, The Big Rainbow Funhouse of Cosmic Brutality Part 2, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 2009. Selected group exhibitions include: Synthetica, NETS Victoria, Touring exhibition 2016; Primavera Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2014; Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2013; Poetry, Dream and the Cosmos: The Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern of Art, Melbourne 2013; Like Mike, Linden Contemporary, Melbourne 2013; Rainbow Eaters, Westspace, Melbourne 2012 and Global Backyard, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell 2012.
Read MoreYore is represented in public collections including The Michael Buxton Collection of Contemporary Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Artbank, in addition to private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Vienna. Awards and prizes include: Australia Council Arts Project Grant 2015-2016; Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship 2015-2016; Artspace Studio Residency, 2014;Geumcheon Residency, Seoul, 2013; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio 2011-2012.
Ocula Insight Paul Yore at Neon Parc, NADA Miami Beach 2016 30 November 2016 Earlier this year, Paul Yore returned to Melbourne with a solo show at Neon Parc (Solo exhibition, 22 April - 18 June 2016). Previously, Yore had recoiled from the limelight after a public court case in 2014. With his return, Yore triumphantly demonstrated a whole suite of technical skills borrowed from the tradition of the...
Related Press Paul Yore on the radical slowness of craft art guide : 8 November 2018 For Paul Yore's latest solo exhibition at Neon Parc, Your Capital is at Risk, the artist has mined his own practice in the same way he mines popular culture: pulling together every possible scrap of material into a jangling visual cacophony. Alongside two-dimensional textiles and a suite of new large soft-sculptural works, Yore has peeled back his...
Related Press MAD LOVE ArtAsiaPacific : 7 September 2017 "Body as pleasure. Body as machine. Body longing, always longing. Hungry body, filthy body." That was the premise formulated by artist and curator Del Kathryn Barton for the group show Mad Love at Berlin's Arndt Art Agency. The Australian contemporary art show focused on nine artistic approaches to the physical and emotional boundaries...
Related Press At NADA Art Fair, Paul Yore's Shocking Tapestries Dare You to Look Away Miami New Times : 13 December 2016 Osama Bin Laden’s erect genitalia covers the nose of a cut-out of President-elect Donald Trump’s head. Trump’s mouth spews glittery brown droplets of waste. A neon-green speech bubble sprouts from Bin Laden’s mouth, declaring in all caps, 'THE SPECTACLE LIKE MODERN SOCIETY ITSELF IS AT ONCE UNITED AND DIVIDED.'
Related Press Paul Yore Art Guide Australia : 10 May 2016 Distilling the colossal complexity of Paul Yore’s latest solo offering at Neon Parc’s new Tinning Street location is no easy task. Spanning installation, collage, soundscapes, textiles and traditional handicrafts, the exhibition seeks to overload the senses, exacerbating the notion of Debordian spectacle.
