ArtAsiaPacific - May - June 2015

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In this issue, Guest contributor Ingrid Dudek looks at the ephemeral projects of the Chinese collective Polit-Sheer-Form, comprised of artists Song Dong, Xiao Yu, Hong Hao and Liu Jianhua and dealer-critic Leng Lin. AAP reviews editor Hanae Ko speaks to artist and filmmaker Charles Lim and curator Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, as they prepare to install the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. AAP Latin America desk editor Inti Guerrero considers the founding figures of Brazilian modernism by reviewing the influence of Japanese-Brazilian artists in São Paulo. AAP editor-at-large HG Masters discusses the works of Turkish artist Nevin Aladağ, whose multidisciplinary installations explore the hybrid nature of contemporary culture in Europe. Our special column Inside Burger Collection follows Khoj, the influential artists’ association based in South Delhi.
Our Profiles section focuses on some of the curators who are collaborating with artists taking part in this year’s Venice Biennale. The major facilitators include Sheikha Hoor bint Sultan al-Qasimi, who is presenting little-known yet influential figures from the United Arab Emirates; Tate’s Sook-Kyung Lee, who will oversee the Korea Pavilion; Robert Leonard, chief curator of City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; and Patrick D. Flores, curator of the Vargas Museum, at the University of the Philippines, and the country’s second exhibition in Venice after a 51-year absence.
In One on One, Japanese artist Koki Tanaka explains his admiration for the politically engaged practice of the late, Cuban-born Félix González-Torres; in Where I Work, AAPgoes to the studio of the Frog King in Hong Kong; and multimedia artist Sutthirat Supaparinya files a Dispatch report from Chiang Mai, Thailand. Reviews include: Ding Yi at ShanghART Gallery, Singapore; Susan Te Kahurangi King at Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York; plus much more.