ArtAsiaPacific - July - August 2020

In this issue

Issue 119’s cover feature explores the fictional feminist utopia of Mai-Thu Perret’s project The Crystal Frontier (1999– ), which reflects on the real obstacles to the creation of a better world. Our second Feature is a tribute to the late Zarina Hashmi (1937–2020), whose prints and sculptures were influenced by her experiences of the Partition of India. Up Close spotlights recent works by Farid Rasulov, Andrew Luk, and Byron Kim. Artist JJ Chan penned an Essay on the underrepresentation of Chinese staff at Manchester’s Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, while Sung Tieu examines the practice of feminist writer and artist Mary Kelly for One on One, and Zheng Bo advocates for a rethinking of art as a multispecies activity in the Point. Legal expert Ryan Su offers advice to cash-strapped museums on deaccessioning works in Fine Print. The issue also profiles video and performance artist Angela Tiatia; Hong Kong-based gallerist Arthur de Villepin; and Joven Cuanang, founder of the Pinto Art Museum just outside of Manila. Our Dispatch from Amsterdam focuses on postcolonial discussions happening in the city’s arts institutions. Finally, Where I Work takes a look at Lo Lai Lai Natalie’s studio and farm in Hong Kong.

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.