Ocula Conversation Zac Langdon-Pole: Lines of Flight Over the last few years, New Zealand-born Berlin-based artist Zac Langdon-Pole has cultivated a practice of elegant, if at times uncanny, elisions. His recombinations of objects, words, and images—poetry, meteorite fragments, literary translations, furniture, photographs, mollusk shells—emphasise, with a fine-tuned lyricism, the...
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...
What encourages the curatorial practices of the duo Rest in Peace Farrah Fawcett (RIPFF), better known as Preteen Gallery, is the contemporary doubt and deception caused by the fail of the Modernist Project, post-Duchampian art, the absence of utopias, utopias and a revolution on art leading to a collectivization of private intellectual property, a contemporary means of communication, social networks, and the internet practices that cannot be distinguished from any post-conceptual artwork. All this is captivated by the libido of contemporary sexual hybridizations, subjectivity and post-Gay aesthetics. A wider explanation or statement can be read in the Ratpiss Manifesto.
Since November 2008, we have shown works by Alice Lancaster, Marlon Rabenreither, Felix Lee, Bea Fremderman, Brandi Strickland, Hazel Hill, Grant Willing, Cornrow Rider, Mike Paré, Lucas Soi, Jeffrey Joyal, Carlos Laszlo, Die Tödliche Doris, Luke Barber-Smith, Tania Leshkina, AIDS-3D, Peter Sutherland, Animal Charm, Abdul Vas, Brad Tinmouth, Kari Altmann, Radamés “Juni” Figueroa, Anne de Vries, Chemi Rosado, Daniel Hipólito, Dylan Reece, Jostin Bochek, Hope Epoh, Iain Ball, Michelle Ceja, Adam Jacono, Emily Jones, and Petra Cortright. The Preteen Gallery project has moved from Hermosillo (in northern Mexico) to Mexico City. Preteen also publishes Muchachita, a magazine on contemporary thought.
