ArtReview Asia summer 2015
In Art Previewed
Ten Venice National Pavilions
Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, Korean Pavilion
Heri Dono (Indonesian Pavilion)
Tsang Kin-Wah (Hong Kong Pavilion)
Chiharu Shiota (Japan Pavilion)
Tie a String Around the World (Philippine Pavilion)
Wu Tien-chang (Taiwan Pavilion)
Sarkis (Pavilion of Turkey)
Armenity (Republic of Armenia Pavilion)
Kamol Tassananchalee (Thai Pavilion)
Enkhbold Togmidshiirev, Unen Enkh (Mongolia Pavilion)
by Hettie Judah
Points of View—our writers on what’s happening in the art world and beyond:
Andrew Berardini on the colour ochre; Jonathan T.D. Neil on the post-financial crisis meaning of “derivative” work; House M & House N, by fiction writer, critic and curator Hu Fang.
Artists and Their Ideas: Rashid Rana & Shilpa Gupta on My East in Your West, their joint collateral event, representing both India and Pakistan at this year’s Venice Biennale. Interview by Charu Maithani
In Art Featured
Charles Lim
The Singaporean artist’s SEA STATE (2005–15) project presented in the Singapore Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale investigates the way we look at water. By Mark Rappolt
Yoshimoto Nara
A key figure in bringing “Kawaii” to life and then exporting it to the world, the Japanese artist speaks about the importance of personal narrative in his art, and why he never sets out to make an artwork. Interview by Aimee Lin
Nguan
The elusive Singaporean photographer who hardly has exhibitions and doesn’t really sell any works, but has made a difficult place much easier to love. By Adeline Chia
Liu Wei
The Chinese artist, whose complex sculptures and installations relate to the human body, without representing it. By Edward Sanderson
Lee Ufan
The influential Korean artist who fuses Eastern and Western philosophy to make works that concentrate attention on the slowness of experience, the encounter of human and natural orders, and the silent language of things. By Wenny Teo
Amanda Heng
The pioneering artist who documents the effects of nation-building on the lives of ordinary Singaporeans. By Vera Mey
Something Rather Girlish About His Manner
How a freethinking generation of Chinese menswear designers is redrawing gender lines in fashion. By Hettie Judah
Shinro Ohtake
Scrapbook #66, an extract from the Japanese artist’s ongoing Scrapbooks project.
In Art Reviewed
Reviews from around the world
Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, 2015, at various venues, Kyoto
Leung Chi Wo and Sara Wong, at Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
Mobile M+: Moving Images, at various sites, Hong Kong
Hu Zi, at Don Gallery, Shanghai
Liao Guohe, at Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
Rina Banerjee, at Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
Huang Yong Ping and Sakarin Krue-on, at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Sharjah Biennial, at various venues, Sharjah
Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, at Green Art Gallery, Dubai
We Come From the Water, at Lychee One, London
Wu Tsang, at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, at MoMA, New York
Books
Hong Kong Parr, by Martin Parr
I Am a Script, by Freya Zhou and Yu Cheng-Ta
In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, by Anne Nishimura Morse and
Anne E. Havinga
Stationary 1, edited by Christina Li and Heman Chong
The Strip: A new work from Sonny Liew, introduced by Paul Gravett
Off the Record: Gallery Girl – in India