Ocula Conversation Bani Abidi: ‘What you see in my films is what I know’ A group of voices accompanies me in the exhibition. They are singing words I cannot comprehend, yet the warm tunes are familiar: folk songs, love songs, songs of longing. There are letters, too. They speak of the quotidian details of a soldier's life: the hardness of the war, sending money to the family, and longing for familiar landscapes, food,...
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...
Ocula Conversation Delfina's Aaron Cezar on Performance at the Venice Biennale With first degrees in Economics and Dance from Princeton University and a postgraduate degree in Creative Industries from King's College London, Aaron Cezar exists between various art worlds—a productive space for his work as the founding director of Delfina Foundation, which was established in 2007. Funded by the founder and chair of the...
Ocula Photolog Venice Biennale Performances 15 May 2019 Commissioned by Arts Council England and presented by Delfina Foundation with Venice Biennale, the performances activated the 'in-between' spaces of the Biennale venues, expanding on the theme of this year's central exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times.
Ocula Conversation Launched by Chinese collector Lu Xun and his father, Lu Jun, in 2003, the China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture (CIPEA) was an invitation to 11 Chinese and 13 international architects to create buildings in the Pearl Spring area in Nanjing, China. The real estate developing duo intended to showcase exemplary contemporary...
