ArtAsiaPacific Magazine - November - December 2020

In this issue

ArtAsiaPacific Issue 121 surveys ecology-focused artists. Our cover Feature is a conversation with Thu Van Tran, whose series From Green to Orange (2014– ) speaks to the aftereffects of the chemical weapons deployed during the Vietnam War. Our second Feature is on Hong Kong-based duo MAP Office, who explore the sustainable growth of waterfront communities through publications, videos, and installations. Up Close covers new works by Prabhakar Pachpute, Su Yu Hsin, and Truong Cong Tung, while Inside Burger Collection traces the life of surrealist Meret Oppenheim. Also in the issue: an Essay on Yukihisa Isobe, who designed the first Earth Day poster in 1970; Profiles of artist Irene Agrivina, architectural scientist Mae-ling Lokko, and photographer Tamara Dean; a Dispatch from Madrid; and a Tribute to Siah Armajani (1939–2020). For the Point, the Forest Curriculum, led by curators Abhijan Toto and Pujita Guha, propose a model for rethinking knowledge based on the Asian forested region of Zomia. Raja’a Khalid pays homage to writer Kurt Vonnegut in One on One. Lastly, for Where I Work, Danielle Shang visits the Los Angeles studio of Kelly Akashi, whose sculptures are inspired by organic forms. Like Akashi, the many artists and creators featured in this issue are inventing strategies of survivance as we are compelled to readapt our behaviors to conditions on a rapidly changing planet.

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.