Ocula Conversation Hito Steyerl: How To Build a Sustainable Art World 'A Picture of War is Not War', we read in Hito Steyerl's iconic film November (2004), an essayistic Super 8 film tackling the definition of terrorism constructed around the figure of the artist's best friend Andrea Wolf, who was killed as a terrorist in 1998 in Eastern Anatolia after she joined the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party). Mixing documentary...
Ocula Report Aichi to Okayama: Art in Japan Looks to the Future 11 Oct 2019 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula There has been a flurry of triennial and biennial art activity in Japan this year. The Aichi Triennale opened in Nagoya this August, sparking a national debate about the shutting down of a display of formerly censored works—the result of public backlash against a burnt image of Emperor Hirohito and a statue commemorating the women forced into...
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...
The Art Gallery of Western Australia was founded in 1895 and is located in the south-east corner of Perth’s Cultural Centre. The gallery is home to the State Art Collection, which is distributed across three important heritage buildings. The Art Gallery of Western Australia was originally located within the Jubilee Building, along with the State Museum and Library, but the collection was relocated to the current building in 1977, which was built following Western Australia’s mining boom.
Due to the geographic location of Perth along the Indian Ocean Rim, the gallery’s collection consists of an exciting and exotic blend of Australian, Indian and Asian influences. The permanent collection includes many works by Australian artists, with a particular emphasis on art produced in Western Australia. The gallery also has a collection of international art to “parallel the history and provide context for Western Australian and Australian art and design in the contemporary period”.
The gallery also hosts a number of international traveling exhibitions, the highlights of which include Egyptian art from the Louvre’s collection, a selection works by August Rodin and works by Western Australian Art & Design students. This variety in artistic styles exhibited, showcase the importance of the Art Gallery of Western Australia as a didactic institution, focused on the future as well as the past.
