ArtAsiaPacific - November/December 2023

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The cover Feature of this issue is an interview with Kim Beom, an artist who imagines the consciousness or agency that objects might possess through projects dating back several decades. Our second Feature is an interview with Lebanese artist Simone Fattal, whose long career as an artist has involved experimenting with diverse media, from painting to sculpture and photography. AAP’s editors recount their experiences with an architectural intervention by Hong Kong artist Mark Chung; a hybrid dance-performance-film work by Elysa Wendi and Lee Wai-Shing; the latest M+ Facade commission from Indonesian collective Tromarama; and Yeondoo Jung’s newly commissioned video installation about the lives and legacy of the Korean-Mexican diaspora. In Profiles, we look at Beijing-born, New York-based artist Cici Wu and veteran avant-garde artist Sung Neung Kyung. Our Reviews span a major solo exhibition in New York to exhibitions from Auckland to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Yogyakarta, and Vancouver. Finally, for Where I Work, Duong Manh Hung visited the Hanoi studio of painter Ha Manh Thang,

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.