Ocula Report Visions of Brazil: Reimagining Modernity from Tarsila to Sonia 18 May 2019 : Fawz Kabra for Ocula Bridging almost a century of Brazilian art, Visions of Brazil: Reimagining Modernity from Tarsila to Sonia at Blum & Poe in New York (30 April–22 June 2019), hosted in collaboration with Mendes Wood DM, offers a rereading of Brazilian Modernism through the works of artists practising at different times, from the 20th century through to the...
Ocula Conversation Reiko Tomii In 1969, Horikawa Michio, schoolteacher and member of the artist collective GUN (Group Ultra Niigata), filled out the customs paperwork to mail a one-kilogram river stone from Niigata, the proverbial 'backside of Japan', to President Nixon. In return, Horikawa received a thank you note for this 'most unusual Christmas gift'—a muted anti-war...
Ocula Report Yun Hyong-keun in Venice: The Artist Behind the Paintings 4 May 2019 : Sherry Paik for Ocula 'He was not a "political" kind of person. He just wanted to be honest and straight. But it was not easy in Korea to live like that,' writes curator Kim Inhye on artist Yun Hyong-keun. For much of his life, Yun lived in proximity to some of the most tumultuous moments in modern Korean history, from which he emerged as a pioneer of abstract...
Born 1928, United States of America.
Robert IndianaONE through ZERO (Cor-ten steel), 2003 cor-ten steel on painted aluminium base
Robert IndianaThe American LOVE (White Blue Red), 1966/2000 Polychrome aluminium
Related Press More than Love: Remembering Robert Indiana (1928–2018) Frieze : 30 May 2018 In the late 1950s, five artists, all gay, living within a few blocks of one another in New York, redirected the course of American painting. They abandoned gestural expressionism and laid the groundwork for the pop and minimalist idioms of the following decade. Four of them have received plenty of credit for doing so: Ellsworth Kelly, Robert...
Related Press The State Russian Museum bring Robert Indiana retrospective to Saint Petersburg Forbes : 16 June 2016 ‘Robert Indiana was hugely influenced by Russian avant-garde art, even though in the early stages of his career he didn’t realise it’ said Yevgenia Petrova, deputy director of The State Russian Museum, a few weeks after the opening of To Russia With Love, a micro retrospective of works by Robert Indiana on show at The State...
