In this issue

In our March/April issue of ArtAsiaPacific, we look at the labor-intensive works of Hong Kong painter Au Hoi Lam; the 30-year career of Turkish artist İnci Eviner, which includes videos and public interventions; Kwon Young-woo (1926–2013), who was part of Korea’s postwar abstract-monochrome movement, Dansaekhwa; and contemporary Chinese ink painter Zheng Chongbin. Our special column Inside the Burger Collection examines the work of five prolific artists working in Cambodia today.
The issue also profiles five collectors active in the Asia region: Taiwanese property-developer George Wong; Malaysia’s former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin; Melbourne-based Indonesian artist-turned-lawyer Konfir Kabo; Hong Kong designer Alan Chan; and Yan Shijie, real-estate developer and co-founder of the Red Brick Museum in Beijing.
Other columns include: a Dispatch report from Shanghai; One on One, in which Brisbane’s lovable enfant terrible Richard Bell reflects on his fellow aboriginal artist Gordon Hookey; Fine Print, where Australian lawyer Roger Ouk offers a guide for artists on the “fair use” exception of copyright protection; The Point, in which New Zealand artist Dane Mitchell explains how those operating outside the dominant centers of the art world, regardless of technological interconnectivity, still must overcome challenges of distance; and a visit to the Beijing studio of artist Huang Rui in Where I Work.

Reviews include: Chua Ek Kay at National Gallery Singapore; “Focus: Works from Mathaf Collection” at Mathaf: Museum of Modern Arab Art, Doha; Emily Jacir at Whitechapel Gallery, London; plus much more.

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.