ArtAsiaPacific Magazine - May - June 2023

In this issue

AAP Issue 133

Whether it is resisting the currents of history or finding ways to shape the present, artists are continually engaged in a struggle against the times, and even time itself. In our cover Feature, we look at Imelda Capije Endaya, an artist whose practice re-centers the historical narrative of the Philippines around women, portraying them as leaders of social campaigns, instrumental to the economy, and as key forgotten figures in the national mythology. The second Feature in this issue is an interview with the Korean artist Shim Moon-Seup, for whom the rhythms of nature and the embodied energy found in raw materials are the core of his practice. For Inside Burger Collection, curator Tobias Ostrander interviews Paris-based Colombian artist Ivan Argote about 
his research and performances around public monuments. In Up Close, we spotlight Hajra Waheed, Brook 
Hsu, and Vaevae Chan. In Profiles we dive deep into the practices Citra Sasmita in Bali and Berlin-based artist Sung Tieu. In Essays, we revisit the years Korean abstract painter Yun Hyong-Keun spent in Paris after the 1980 massacre in Gwangju. For our One on One column, performance artist Kawita Vatanajyankur explains the formative lessons she took from the practice of Marina Abramovic. Artist-activist Johanna Palmeyro describes her initiatives to re-make the museum during her residency at the Singapore Art Museum in the Point. For the Dispatch column, Danielle Shang brings us up-to-date on the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) initiatives in Los Angeles. For Reviews, we examine the 30th anniversary edition of the Sharjah Biennial, plus exhibitions of artists revered and upcoming from Tokyo to Singapore, Manila to New York. Finally, in Where I Work, writing from Auckland, Hutch Wilco visits the young family of Seung Yul Oh and Jungeun Lee to see how they make their creative enterprises a central part of their household.

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.