Ocula Conversation Almine Rech-Picasso Goes Global French gallerist Almine Rech-Picasso opened her first space in Asia on Shanghai's historic Bund in July this year, bringing her eponymous gallery's total locations to five. The Shanghai gallery occupies roughly 4,000 square feet on the second floor of the three-storey Amber Building, a beautiful warehouse space, originally occupied by the Central...
Ocula Report From the Gallery to the Streets: Home Works 8 in Beirut 8 Nov 2019 : Nat Muller for Ocula There's an inside joke amongst the team of Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts: that every time an edition of its biennial forum on cultural practices is planned, a national crisis happens. The eighth edition of Home Works was no different: it opened on 17 October amidst the most devastating wildfires that Lebanon had witnessed...
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...
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Related Press Art Jameel and Delfina Foundation extend their reach with new blockbuster partnership The Art Newspaper : 16 March 2018 The non-profit, Saudi-based foundation Art Jameel and the London-based Delfina Foundation have joined forces, and will jointly develop new programming and residency initiatives under a new partnership.
Related Press Ala Younis: Plan for Feminist Baghdad Elephant : 7 February 2018 On first entering a gallery, one might not expect to be met with an array of research papers, neatly filed and awaiting perusal, but this is the case at Delfina Foundation, where Kuwait-born, Amman-based artist Ala Younis has been invited to present her art-cum-research project around the forgotten histories of female Iraqi modernists.
Related Press PRIVATE COLLECTION: UNPERFORMED OBJECTS GEUMHYUNG JEONG ArtAsiaPacific : 11 November 2017 In its transitive sense, the verb 'to perform' requires for its object an act, a task, something prewritten.
Related Press Residencies: collecting the collectors Financial Times : 30 September 2017 Although she has spent more than three decades supporting hundreds of promising artists, the nonagenarian philanthropist Delfina Entrecanales has built no great art collection. At least, not in the conventional sense.
Related Press Studio Octopi and Shahira Fahmy design the new Delfina Foundation in London Wallpaper* : 31 January 2014 'Delfina Entrecanales doesn't collect art - she collects artists,' says Aaron Cezar, director of the freshly unveiled Delfina Foundation, which opened its new space in London last week.
Related Press Delfina Entrecanales: the patron who collects artists, not art Financial Times : 12 October 2013 'I am very nervous because I have never given an interview before,' Delfina Entrecanales whispers. 'Yes, you have.' Correcting her is Aaron Cezar, director of Entrecanales' eponymous art foundation. 'You gave one in 1996, but you didn't realise that it was an interview at the time.'
