Asian Contemporary Art Week

Asian
Contemporary
Art
Week
2008

ACAW 2008, Saturday, March 15 - Monday, March 24, 2008

Introduction

RECEPTIONS, EXHIBITIONS-VIEWINGS, SCREENINGS, ARTISTS' CONVERSATIONS AND WALKTHROUGHS
Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), Sat March 15- Mon March 24, 2008

On behalf of Asian Contemporary Art Consortium, (ACAC), I am pleased to invite you to Asian Contemporary Art Week 2008. Over 100 artists present their works at 60 special events, including receptions, exhibition-viewings, screenings, artists’ conversations and walkthroughs at 46 galleries and museums across New York City

Since its inception in 2001, ACAW has been recognized as an important event responding to the continuous and rising public interest and demand for knowledge about artists producing works both inside and outside of Asia. The success of the week can be measured by the incredibly diverse and broad array of presenting venues, as well as an ever-expanding list of artists from almost every region of Asia. China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and for the first time, the Middle East: Lebanon, Palestine and Israel.

In its fifth year, ACAW launches a series of talks to highlight the week entitled Artists in Conversation. Nominated by a number of art experts from the region, over 75 leading and emerging artists submitted their portfolios from which 25 were selected by the ACAC to speak about their works and concepts at participating venues.

Don’t miss the chance to get up close and personal with the best of the best in Asian art today!

Leeza Ahmady
Director, Asia Contemporary Art Week

ACAW is organized by Asian Contemporary Art Consortium:
Jung Lee Sanders, Art Projects International;
Melissa Chiu and Miwako Tezuka, Asia Society and Museum;
Steve Pacia and Shumita Bose, Bose Pacia;
France Pepper, China Institute;
Ethan Cohen, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts;
Michael Goedhuis, Goedhuis Contemporary;
Joe Earle, Japan Society;
Philippe Koutouzis, Marlborough Gallery;
Esa Epstein, Sepia International, The Alkazi Collection;
David Solo and Jack & Susy Wadsworth, Collectors;
Alexandra Munroe and Sandhini Poddar, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum;
Jack & Susy Wadsworth, Collectors;

ACAW 2008 Sponsors
ArtAsiaPacific, Sotheby’s, Art Radio WPS1.org , Fora.tv

ACAW 07/08 Staff
Leeza Ahmady / Director
Eunyoung Ju / Assistant Coordinator
Yuri Sakamoto / Assistant Coordinator
Sadie Zhao / PR Researcher
Inhye Lee / Website Development
Rikayo Horimizu / Website Design and Flash Develpment
Petert Lukic / Program Brochure Design

Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW)
Office: Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Tel: 212-327-9282
Fax: 212-517-7246
E-mail: acaw@asiasoc.org
www.acaw.net

ACAW2008 Program
3/15 (Sat), 3/17 (Mon), 3/18 (Tue), 3/19 (Wed), 3/20 (Thu), 3/21 (Fri), 3/22 (Sat), 3/24 (Mon), Off-Site

Saturday March 15

Sotheby's
5:30-7 P.M. Artists in Conversation / 7 - 8:30 P.M. Reception

Southerbeys
Tie Ying. The Long March 01, 2006.

Tie Ying and Xu Zhongmin
Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) opens with its first series of talks in a special panel discussion by invited Artists from Beijing, China: Tie Ying and Xu Zhongmin, moderated by Philippe Koutouzis, Director of Asian Art at Marlborough Gallery. Event also kicks off the preview reception for Sotheby's Asia Week (Contemporary Art Asia, Chinese Works of Art, and Indian & Southeast Asian Art).

Space is limited, please call to RSVP
1334 York Ave. (at 72nd St.)
Tel: 212-894-1819
www.sothebys.com