ArtReview Asia Spring 2015
Issue features: Ten exhibitions you won’t want to miss this spring, Points of View, Ming Wong, Shooshie Sulaiman, Gabriel Orozco, Liang Shaoji, Shirin Neshat, Miao Jiaxin, Mika Ninagawa, Strokes for Different Folks, Art in Context: Singapore, Reviews and more...
In Art Previewed
Ten exhibitions you won’t want to miss this spring: Sharjah Biennial at Sharjah Art Foundation and additional venues, Sharjah and Kalba; Shirin Neshat at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Rainbow in the Dark at SALT Galata, Istanbul; Kishio Suga at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Come to [what] end? At Sàn Art Laboratory, Ho Chi Minh City; Haegue Yang at Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Wang Gongxin at OCAT, Shanghai; Liu Wei at UCCA, Beijing; Singapore Art Week at various venues, Singapore, By Hettie Judah
Points of View: Our writers on what’s happening in the artworld and beyond: Marie Darrieussecq on public and private enterprise in South Korea; Rosalyn D’mello on how The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is remaking India’s links to the global artworld; Xu Ya-Zhu on how social work recasts aesthetics in the art of Huang Sunquan; Paul Gravett on the ‘bad but good’ trailblazing of Yumura Teruhiko
In Art Featured
Ming Wong: The Singaporean artist whose work offers an intriguing study of cultural exchange, past futurology and the political and social realities of the present, by Sara Arrhenius
Shooshie Sulaiman: The Malaysian artist who’s finding a place for art while understanding the place of people, in a contemporary world, by Mark Rappolt
Gabriel Orozco: With a major exhibition opening in Tokyo, the Mexican artist has been revisiting earlier work, and in some cases remaking it, by Christian Viveros-Fauné
Liang Shaoji: Using silkworms and their threads as a medium, the Chinese artist is producing poetic meditations on the passing of time and the nature of life, by Zoe Zhang Bing
Shirin Neshat: The filmmaker and artist examines what revolution looks like behind the frontlines, by Hettie Judah
Miao Jiaxin: The past year has seen an evolution in the work of the New York-based performance artist, by Aimee Lin
Mika Ninagawa: The Tokyo-born filmmaker and photographer whose interest in artificiality and self-invention are informed in part by her earlier immersion in the world of commercial image-making, by Mark Rappolt
Strokes for Different Folks: The comeback of the handmade and the handsigned in fashion, by Clara Young
Art in Context: Singapore – The evolution of the Singapore art scene, by Sherman Sam
In Art Reviewed
Reviews from around the world
Wang Jianwei at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Busan Biennale 2014: Inhabiting the World at Busan Museum of Art and various other venues, Busan
10th Gwangju Biennale: Burning Down the House at Biennale Hall, Gwangju
Yip Kin Boon at 1a Space, Hong Kong
Voices / Landscapes (for the eye and ear) at Kwun Tong ferry pier & Connecting Space, Hong Kong
Liang Shuo at Space Station, Beijing
APB Foundation Signature Art Prize at Singapore Art Museum
Love in the Time of Choleric Capitalism at What About Art?, Bombay
The Anthropocene Project. A Report at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Laurent Grasso at Galerie Perrotin, Paris
The Inhabitants at Fondation Cartier, Paris
Serendipity Revealed at Brunei Gallery, London
Aiko Miyanaga at White Rainbow, London
Korakrit Arunanondchai at Carlos / Ishikawa Gallery, London
Nam June Paik at Asia Society, New York
William Kentridge at Johannesburg Art Gallery
Song Dong at Baró Galeria, São Paulo
Books
The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War, by Rohini Mohan
Art and Politics Now, by Anthony Downey
Ai Weiwei, edited by Hans Werner Holzwarth
The Twenty-First Century Art Book, by Phaidon Editors
The Strip: a new work from Vishwajyoti Ghosh, introduced by Paul Gravett
Off the Record: Gallery Girl in Kyzyl and Singapore