Ocula Conversation Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi: Developing Art Histories By Rose Lejeune, London Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is the founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, an organisation based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, dedicated to managing, preserving, and exhibiting an extensive collection of modern and contemporary Arab art. Established in 2010, the Foundation maintains an exhibition programme at its base in Sharjah, and continues to...
Ocula Conversation Daisuke Miyatsu: The Salaryman Collector By Rose Lejeune, London Japanese collector Daisuke Miyatsu has merged his life with a passion for collecting art perhaps more than any other collector today. Known as the 'salaryman collector', Miyatsu started his collecting journey as a surprisingly typical office worker with a limited budget for art, originally working in advertising and supplementing his salary as a...
Ocula Conversation Delfina's Aaron Cezar on Performance at the Venice Biennale By Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein, Venice 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 In collaboration with Delfina Foundation, Ocula presents a photolog of the Venice Biennale performance programme devised by Ralph Rugoff, artistic director of this year's Biennale, and Aaron Cezar, director of Delfina.
Ocula Conversation Lu Xun By Rose Lejeune, London 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...
