ArtAsiaPacific Magazine - July - August 2017

In this issue

The July/August issue of ArtAsiaPacific spotlights artists who methodically capture the more subtle aspects of time and place that constitute both personal and collective memory, beginning with a cover Feature on conceptual photographer Kunié Sugiura by AAP editor-at-large HG Masters. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago and then moving to New York, she began photographing everyday life, combining these images using sculptural and painterly techniques. AAP’s London desk editor Ned Carter Miles spoke to Rana Begum about her vibrantly hued paintings, sculptures and public installations. In Guangzhou, Centre Pompidou’s curator Yung Ma sat down with video artist Zhou Tao to discuss his elusively meditative practice. In our special feature Inside Burger Collection, Isa Cossement interviews Belgian conceptual artist Kris Martin, who makes indistinct modifications to found objects, exploring universal issues of the human condition. For Essays, AAP contributing editor Antony Dapiran ponders the fate of Hong Kong as the city marks the 20th anniversary of the British-Chinese handover. This issue’s Profiles include Brisbane-based kinetic sound artist Ross Manning and rising Filipino star Cian Dayrit, who delves into fictional and historic narratives about his home country. We also introduce Ian Holliday, Hong Kong University’s vice president and pro-vice-chancellor, who is slowly amassing a major collection of Burmese contemporary art, currently over 1,000 paintings. In One on One, the minimalist artist and public intellectual Rasheed Araeen reflects on the exhilarating experience of discovering an unknown work by British modernist Anthony Caro in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1985. And in Where I Work, AAP managing editor Ysabelle Cheung heads to Hong Kong’s New Territories to visit the studio of painter Firenze Lai on the eve of dispatching her melancholic, dreamlike figure paintings to Venice’s Central Pavilion in the Giardini.