In this issue

The November/December issue of ArtAsiaPacific looks at the five-decade career of Lebanese-American writer, essayist, filmmaker, poet and artist Etel Adnan, and how writing, history, conflict, her love for the physical world, and notions of transcendence have informed her abstract landscape paintings; the Chilean-Australian painter Juan Davila, whose forty-year practice has focused on pointed critiques of Australia’s colonialist legacy and identity politics; and Kyoto-born sculptor Teppei Kaneuji, whose sculptural installations challenge our perceptions of social order by liberating quotidian objects from the monotony of daily life. For our special column, Inside Burger Collection, we focus on the work of Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov, who is known for his humorous oeuvre that addresses life under a socialist dictatorship.

In Profiles, we turn our attention to three midcareer artists: New Delhi-based multimedia practitioner Aditya Pande, Beijing’s quiet abstractionist Wang Guangle and the enthusiastic Le Brothers, a Vietnamese sibling partnership that invites artists from around the world to their hometown of Hue.

In this issue’s Where I Work, AAP visits the verdant Hong Kong studio of artist Trevor Yeung, an ardent enthusiast of botany and horticulture. For One on One, Amsterdam-based Bengali artist Praneet Soi shares his admiration of French Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin, while nonprofit artspace Ilham Gallery’s creative director Valentine Willie files a Dispatch on the buzzing cultural life in Kuala Lumpur. And in The Point, Hong Kong artist Wong Wai Yin reveals her anxieties about making art in today’s troubled climate. And in Reviews we feature: “Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs” at Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila; Mona Hatoum at London’s Tate Modern; 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.