Ocula Report Havana Biennial 2019: Constructing the Possible 17 Apr 2019 : Federica Bueti for Ocula I first visited Havana in November 2016, a few days after Fidel Castro died, and just under a year before Hurricane Irma hit Cuba in September 2017. Since then, much has changed, including the hand-painted signs that punctuate the journey from the airport to the city centre, which today do not celebrate the revolution so much as the 'Unidad y...
Ocula Conversation Andrew Stahl and Guo Xiaohui The exhibition Beyond Boundaries at Somerset House in London (12 March–2 April 2019) marked the historic contributions of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, on the occasion of their 100th and 150th anniversaries, respectively. Spread across several rooms of Somerset House's...
Ocula Report The National 2019: New Australian Art 13 Apr 2019 : Elyse Goldfinch for Ocula The National 2019: New Australian Art features work by 70 contemporary Australia-based artists split across three venues: the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) (29 March–21 July 2019), as curated by Isobel Parker Philip, curator of photographs at AGNSW; Daniel Mudie Cunningham,...
The Tate Modern is Britain's national gallery of intenational modern art and is part of the Tate network of art galleries. The Tate Modern is the most visited contemporary art gallery in the world with more than 4.7 million international visitors each year. It is located within the disused Bankside Power Station, which features the iconic Turbine Hall.
The Tate Modern was established in 2000 and houses a collection dating from 1900 to contemporary works. The collection includes works from some of the most important and celebrated artists of the twenty-first century, including Matisse, Picasso, Warhol and Bourgeois.
Ocula Report London Frieze Week: The Lowdown 20 Sep 2018 : Jareh Das for Ocula Located in Regent's Park, Frieze London has expanded to focus on historical works in recent years, with the introduction of Frieze Masters in 2012, further reinforcing London's position as a leading art destination. Beyond this year's edition (4–7 October 2018), a range of unmissable exhibitions are taking place across London in both commercial and...
Related Press Dorothea Tanning The Brooklyn Rail : 2 April 2019 On the threshold of 'a dream of countless doors,' Dorothea Tanning looks out towards us bare-chested and forlorn, standing behind a strange winged-lemur and wearing a theatrical jacket from which a profusion of roots descends. She gazes out at a horizon that likely doesn't exist, given that she appears within a room that opens only to reveal an...
Related Press Anne Imhof at Tate Modern, London Art Review : 1 April 2019 'This is how you make the meaning, you take two things and try to define the space between them,' writes Richard Siken in 'You Are Jeff' (2008), a poem linking motorcycle crashes with sex and death. I think of these lines during Anne Imhof's Sex (2019), a four-hour performance across Tate Modern's vast subterranean tanks, not only because of the...
Related Press Anne Imhof: 'Sex, but not as you know it' The Guardian : 27 March 2019 Astonishing and frustrating, and as compelling as it is very, very long, Anne Imhof's show Sex fills the Tanks space at London's Tate Modern. Imhof's 'durational' performances are a test. Sex lasts four hours. Wander out for a drink or the call of nature and you'll miss something. No one person can see it all in any case, as the action, and...
Related Press Sarah Lucas disrupts Franz West’s Tate Modern survey in off-kilter meeting of art provocateurs Wallpaper* : 19 March 2019 The first posthumous UK retrospective of Austrian artist Franz West has surfaced at London's Tate Modern following a run at the Centre Pompidou. A chronological compendium of work spans the artist's anarchic career, curated by Mark Godfrey and Christine Macel with scenography by British artist Sarah Lucas.This month, West is infecting London at a...
