Ocula Conversation Hito Steyerl: How To Build a Sustainable Art World 'A Picture of War is Not War', we read in Hito Steyerl's iconic film November (2004), an essayistic Super 8 film tackling the definition of terrorism constructed around the figure of the artist's best friend Andrea Wolf, who was killed as a terrorist in 1998 in Eastern Anatolia after she joined the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party). Mixing documentary...
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...
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.
The 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 Artists, Korea 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...
