ArtAsiaPacific No.49 Summer 2006

EDITOR’S LETTER 8

HAPPENINGS

STATE OF THE ART

XING DANWEN’S CHINESE FANTASY 22

NEWS

NEW YORK ALEXANDRA MUNROE NAMED FIRST SENIOR CURATOR OF ASIAN ART AT THE GUGGENHEIM 24 ECHIGO-TSUMARI SUSTAINABLE ART IN RURAL JAPAN: ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNIAL 2006 24 VARIOUS LOCATIONS SPRING AUCTION REPORT 25 HELSINKI FINNISH TAKES ON CONTEMPORARY ART: ARS 06 PUMPS ASIA 27 VARIOUS LOCATIONS CURATORS MAKE MOVES: ROUND UP 27 LONDON CHANGING THE GUARD AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE 28 BEIJING MAX PROTETCH AND LENG LIN COMMUNE IN BEIJING 28 VARIOUS LOCATIONS ASIA SOCIETY HITS HONG KONG, HOUSTON, MUMBAI 29 PASSINGS NAME JUNE PAIK, 1932-2006 30 WHISPERING GALLERY 31

THE POINT

TAKASHI MURAKAMI’S LOWBROW LAUNCHPAD 35

PROFILE

ISIHARA TOMOAKI AND MATSUI CHIE 42 ISSEY MIYAKE 46 ZENG HUANGUANG 48

ONE ON ONE

MAKING CONTACT 40

THE BIG PICTURE

SHANGHAI TANG: DESIGN ENTANGLMENTS 39

HOT SPOT

A SMALL WORLD, AFTER ALL 37 THAI DESIGN CENTER UNCOVERS RICHES IN GRITTY NATIVE SOIL 50

FEATURES

BUILDING ASIA BLOCK BY BLOCK A COLLABORATION BETWEEN ART ASIAPACIFIC, LEGO, AND NINE LEADING ARCHITECTS 54

COSMIC WONDER: NOT YOUR EVERYDAY COSMIC WONDER BY ELAINE W. NG 64

MANISH ARORA: MANISH MANIA BY DEEKSHA NATH 66

SRETSIS: SISTERS OF THE CLOTH BY ELAINE W. NG 68

UNITED BAMBOO: FASHION CREDS BY ANDREW MAERKLE 70

INSTITUTING ART IN ISTANBUL BY MURTAZA VALI 72

YOSHIO TANIGUCHI: TRANSFORMING TRASH AND TREASURE BY CHRISTINE TEMIN 78

REVIEWS

DUNEDIN Donal Fitzpatrick: Drawing History_84 SINGAPORE Dana Lam: Let’s Chat – after Amanda Heng_84 SHANGHAI Chen Zhen_85 HONG KONG Fung Ming Chip_86 TEL AVIV Rona Yefman: 2 Flags_87 BERLIN Contemporary Arab Representations: The Iraqi Equation_88 MALAGA Runa Islam: Room Service_88 BLACKBURN The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial: Parallel Realities: Asian Art Now_88 NEW YORK Moving Time: Nam June Paik + 30 International Video Artists_89 NEW YORK Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking_90 NEW YORK Guy Ben-Ner_90 BOSTON Shintaro Miyake: Beaver No Seikatsu (Life of Beaver)_91 HOUSTON Mel Chin: Do Not Ask Me_92

FILM REVIEW

PARADISE NOW 94

BOOK REVIEW

THE PHAIDON ATLAS OF CONTEMPORARY WORLD ARCHITECTURE 96

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING

GEMMA KAHNG’S FASHION CAMPAIGN 103

WHERE I WORK

WILSON SHIEH 104

COVER CREDITS

PHOTO: Nobi Kashiwagi
STYLIST: Thuy Pham at United Bamboo
HAIR AND MAKE-UP: Yuko Mizuno
MODEL: Noe
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Masahiro Shoda