Ocula Conversation Pierre Huyghe: The Artist as Director Pierre Huyghe is a producer of spectacular and memorable enigmas, with works that function more like mirages than as objects. Abyssal Plain (2015–ongoing), his contribution to the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, was installed on the seabed of the Marmara Sea, some 20 metres below the surface of the water and close to...
Ocula Report MoMA Expansion: Once the Modern, Always the Modern 29 Nov 2019 : Mohammad Salemy for Ocula In the early decades of its existence, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), founded in 1929, transformed from a philanthropic project modestly housed in a few rooms of the Heckscher Building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, to an alleged operating node in the United States' cultural struggle during the cold war, and one of the...
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 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the oldest museums of contemporary art in Japan and one of Tokyo's most unique spaces for art. The building was completed in 1938 as a private home designed by Jim Watanabe, making it a rare example of early Showa period architecture.
Converted to a museum in 1979, the museum showcases the latest developments in art, design, architecture, music and dance. The permanent collection includes many greats of Japanese and international contemporary art including Alexander Calder, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Yasumasa Morimura, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Andy Warhol. The museum has a cafe flowing out onto a delightful garden which creates dishes specially repaired to match the theme of the exhibition.
Ocula Conversation Lee Kit Artist Lee Kit creates meditative installations—or 'situations', as the artist frequently calls them—by bringing together intangible elements, such as light and sound, with painting, moving image, and readymade objects. These situations often comprise paintings upon which light is cast from a projector, creating a visual experience more...
