Art AsiaPacific #40 Spring 2004

Editor’s Letter 8

HAPPENINGS

EVENTS

Momoyo Torimitsu Opening/Viviane Reding 10
Art AsiaPacific and Unedited magazine Launch Party/Dream so much 2 exhibition 11

STATE OF THE ART

Social Studies 19

NEWS

Whitney Biennial 16 Guggenheim for Taiwan/focas of Singapore 19 Prospect 2004 20

HOT SPOT

Cemeti Art House 22

PROFILE

Anish Kapoor 24

THE POINT

Gwangju Biennale 27

PROFILE

Mark Bradford 28

THE COLLECTORS

Kim Chang-il 30

THE BIG PICTURE

Xu Bing 32 Barnstormers 36

ONE ON ONE

UK Projects & UK Projects Band Reviews 40

FEATURES

Lee Mingwei: THE TOURIST by Eugenie Tsai 44

PERVERSE REVERSE: REAGAN LOUIE’S EXOTICISM by Doryun Chong 48

Ai Weiwei: BEYOND THE CHECKMATE by Nataline Colonnello 52

WIFREDO LAM by John Tancock 60

Ham Jin: PRETTY LITTLE THINGS by Joan Kee 66

Arai Shin-ichi: CREATIVITY AND ABJECT NATIONALISM by Bérénice Angremy 70

REVIEWS

BOMBAY Crossing Generations: diVERGE__74 CAIRO 9th Cairo International Biennial__75 NEW YORK Only Skin Deep__76 LUCERNE me & more__77 BOSTON Michael Joo__78 JAKARTA Common Ground__79 YOGYAKARTA 7th Yogyakarta Biennial__80 BEIJING Left Wing: Contemporary Chinese Art__80 SINGAPORE Lee Wen: Strange Fruit__81 SEOUL Lee Ki-young: Ink Flower__81 YAMAGUCHI Inauguration Projects__82 NEW DELHI Pushpamala N.__83 PHILADELPHIA Yoon Kwang-Cho__83 NEW YORK Seong Chun__84 NEW YORK Tiong Ang__85 NEW YORK Marking: Drawings by Contemporary Artists from Korea__85 NEW YORK Cai Jin__86 NEW YORK Between the Lines__86 NEW YORK Paradise/Illusion: Liu Jianhua/Peng Wei__87 NEW YORK Koo Jeong-a__88 NEW YORK Kunié Sugiura__88 TORONTO Jian Jie: BE__89

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING

Yun Bai 96

COVER IMAGE

Ai Weiwei - "Forever" Bicycles (2003) Bicycles, 450 x 275 cm. Assistants Chen Zhijun, Shi Supo, He Wenliang, Ren Zhe, Huang Hong. Courtesy the artist and Urs Meile Gallery, Switzerland.