Ocula Conversation Sandrine Colard on the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the largest Francophone nation in Africa with vast resources and nearly 80 million inhabitants, is a place where commodities play a vital role in the national economy and the country's significance on the world stage. This is the context from which the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale (24 October–24 November...
Ocula Report From 20 to 21 July 2019, Artspace Sydney held a two-day symposium that brought artists in conversation with leading curators, writers, activists, academics, diplomats, and journalists from across Asia. The symposium was the final chapter of the 52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS exhibition, publication, website, and Instagram project. Instigated and...
Ocula News We Are Our Infrastructure, Argues Newly Announced Shanghai Biennale Chief Curator 13 December 2019 The Power Station of Art will make a fitting location for Andrés Jaque, whose past projects expose the politics concealed by buried pipes and managed cables. Spanish architect, writer, and curator Andrés Jaque has been named the chief curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, which will take place at the Power Station of Art (PSA) from 13 November...
Ocula Insight 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 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole houses one of the largest collections of art from the 20th and 21st centuries in France. The building was designed by the architect Didier Guichard in 1987 and offers a wide and luminous exhibition space covering about 3000m2.
Read MoreThe collection includes works from many different art movements such as Minimal Art, Conceptualism, Pop Art, Arte Povera, Expressionnism, Vienniese Actionism, Neo-expressionism, New Realism and encompasses more than 19,000 artworks by prestigious contemporary artists from all over the world such as Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Morris Louis, Giuseppe Penone, Pierre Soulages, Sean Scully, Dennis Oppenheim, Bertrand Lavier, Orlan, Gilbert and George. The collection also includes masterpieces by masters of modern art such as Victor Brauner, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp.
The collection contains about 2,300 photographs which depict the history of photography and is one of the largest single collections of photographs held in France. Moreover, more than 2’000 objects make up one of the rarest industrial design collections in France with works by Charles and Ray Eames, Le Corbusier, Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand.
Because of the incredible number of works of art, a selection of works from the collection is regularly valued around a theme or an artistic movement.
Ocula Conversation Lee Kang-So and Choi Byung-So Korean artists Choi Byung-So and Lee Kang-So are holding simultaneous solo exhibitions at the Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, on view through to 16 October 2016. Though their names are most commonly associated with Dansaekhwa, the artists maintain distinct styles that situate their practices outside of the...
