ArtAsiaPacific Magazine - Sept - Oct 2013

In this issue

This issue\'s features include a profile of Indonesian artist FX Harsono, an interview with Pakistan-born artist Shahzia Sikander, an introduction to a new generation of Chinese ink artists; and an interview with conceptual duo Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho. Our twentieth-anniversary project, 20/20, includes Durriya Kazi’s Art Caravan, a mobile art project in Pakistan from 1994 and Hassan Sharif’s long-overdue retrospective, “Experiments and Objects 1979–2011.” Among the Profiles are Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo; Hong Kong-based multimedia artist Adrian Wong; and Istanbul Biennial curator Fulya Erdemci. In The Point, Ingrid Dudek, a senior specialist at Christie’s, argues that auction houses can stimulate critical discourse; in Where I Work, AAP goes to Dinh Q. Lê\'s studio; and Ashley Rawlings files a Dispatch report from Tokyo. Shows reviewed include the Venice Biennale, \"Light Before Dawn\" at Asia Society in Hong Kong, and Imran Qureshi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

ArtAsiaPacific Magazine Description:

For 20 years, ArtAsiaPacific Magazine has been at the forefront of the powerful creative forces that shape contemporary art from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. Covering the latest in contemporary visual culture, ArtAsiaPacific is published 6 times a year in Hong Kong, with editorial desks in 25 countries around the world. Our special annual issue, the ArtAsiaPacific Almanac, published in January, covers the major art events of the past year and forecasts the key trends of the year to come.
The dominant artistic influence in the world today - and for many years to come emanates from the vast territory that lies between Turkey and the Pacific island of Tonga that we call the Asia-Pacific. This territory includes India, China, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Pakistan, New Zealand, Korea and Indonesia, whose combined populations make up an amazing half of the world's total population. Also included are Burma, Cambodia, Kiribati and Uzbekistan - places hitherto overlooked, but which like their gigantic neighbors, are producing cutting-edge art of stunning and unexpected quality.
ArtAsiaPacific is authoritative, accurate, even-handed, exact and essential. Included in each issue is an up-to-date directory of the major galleries, not-for-profit organizations and museums with a focus on contemporary art from our geographical footprint. ArtAsiaPacific offers thoughtful reportage, analysis, comment and criticism to its readers made up of collectors, gallerists, curators, artists and those who want and who need to know the latest developments in the fastest-growing and most astonishing region of the contemporary art world.