Ocula Conversation Artist Taloi Havini and Ruth McDougall, curator of Pacific art at Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, discuss Havini's first Australian solo exhibition, Reclamation .
Latest Ocula Report Armory Week Lowdown: Art Shows to See By Casey Carsel, New York After structural issues forced The Armory Show into last-minute relocation pirouettes last year, the fair returns between 5 and 8 March 2020 with a flourishing programme, complemented by stand-out shows across New York City.
Ocula Insight Ella Kruglyanskaya Steals from Art History, Takes Back Gaze By Tessa Moldan, London For her second solo exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Ella Kruglyanskaya's compositions signal the many possibilities of paint.
Venezuelan born artist Ricardo Alcaide works around the memory of modernism and its deviation in the actual context in Latin-America. With his own personal analytical approach of socio-political and cultural aspects, Alcaide makes connections through his immediate surroundings and found objects, a significant part in his works, as a reflection of ever-growing waste caused by progress, destroying the past and erasing heritage to rebuild, maintaining what he considers 'a constant cycle of instability'. Influencing his minimal abstract work, this results in a complex formal conflict between his constant search for harmony and traces of chaos.
