In the Spring issue of ArtReview Asia, a series of articles explore how the past informs the present and how traditions transform to fit changing times

The Winter issue of ArtReview Asia is an invitation to take a step back and extricate oneself from the immediacy of the current moment. Considering the present through the lens of history, this issue looks at the politically inspired erasure of Tipu Sultan, the eighteenth-century ruler of Mysore, currently taking place in India; and at the same time considers the work of Philippines-born artist Pio Abad in resisting the rewriting of history when it comes to the Marcos family. Also featuring profiles of Shen Xin and Lindy Lee, two artists whose work explores issues of home and statelessness, belonging and identity; an eerie project by New Delhi-based artist and photographer Sohrab Hura; and a survey of the cybernetic, psychedelic work of Kerala-born filmmaker Mochu. Plus, the work of Shanghai collective Slime Engine, book reviews, including Cixin Liu’s To Hold Up the Sky, and previews of exhibitions, biennials and festivals taking place IRL and online.

The Autumn issue looks ahead to a period in art and in politics that is full of promise and not a little uncertainty. Including a response by Taro Nettleton to the Yokohama Triennale, an interview with Jacob Fabricius, artistic director of the next edition of the Busan Biennale and a feature, by Max Crosbie-Jones, delving into Thailand’s northeast. The eco-politics of the Philippines is the broader subject of a feature by Marv Recinto on the artist Martha Atienza. Adeline Chia looks at the visionary art of Myanmar artist Po Po on the occasion of his exhibition in Singapore. And Patrick Reed highlights the work and influence of Vietnamese filmmaker, writer and literary theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha. Plus a roundup of the most interesting and provocative new books and exhibitions from across the region, previewed, reviewed and otherwise explored.

In the months that have passed since the previous issue of ArtReview Asia was published, people around the world have been asked by governments around the world to contemplate a ‘new normal’. The Summer issue of ArtReview Asia navigates this, and the art being made and shown, to discover that the virus, though everywhere apparent, is not the only story in town. 

Body Politics – Eisa Jocson, Gudskul, Pinaree Sanpitak, the Singapore Biennale, Annie Leibovitz, India’s forgotten painters, and more

ArtReview Asia’s Autumn issue brings to your attention a selection of artists who eschew the conventions of form and material by pushing at the boundaries, be they those of sculpture and performance, as demonstrated by this season’s cover artist, Suki Seokyeong Kang; photography, architecture and bookbinding, by way of Dayanita Singh; or TV, in the case of pioneering video artist Nam June Paik.

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Launched in May 2013 and published quarterly, ArtReview Asia brings the values
of ArtReview to the artistic production of the world’s largest and most diverse
continent.

With its headquarters in Shanghai, and associate editors and contributors
spread across the continent, ArtReview Asia covers art from both the West and
the East, and a few places in between, and targets readerships based in Asia and
those with an interest in Asia’s art scenes worldwide. ArtReview Asia’s writers
include some of the leading critics and fiction writers in the region, among
them awardwinning Thai writer Prabda Yoon and leading Tamil writer Charu
Nivedita. Reviews have an emphasis on shows in Asia or by artists from Asia,
and the majority of ARA’s writers and critics are based in the territories they
cover. As Asia’s art scenes evolve and develop to include some of the most
commercially successful and internationally exhibited artists on the planet,
ArtReview Asia aims to provide a central and independent platform upon which
those contributions can be evaluated and discussed, without restraint or
restriction, and in full consciousness of the ideas and contexts in which they
have evolved. ArtReview Asia is uniquely placed to analyse art produced in Asia
in the context of both local specificities and the global art discourse.

In keeping with ArtReview’s core goals, ArtReview Asia is also dedicated to
exploring the ways in which ideas developed by artists are absorbed by other
cultural genres, from fashion and film to architecture and design. Artists,
however, are at its heart: previous editions have featured collaborations with
both the continent’s leading figures and its hottest new talents – from Rirkrit
Tiravanija to Yuko Mohri, from Lee Bul to Haegue Yang and Apichatpong
Weerasethakul, from Heman Chong to Birdhead, Waqas Khan, Chim Pom,
Yang Fudong and Koki Tanaka.

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