ACAW 2018 | Press Coverage

ACAW 2018 THINKING COLLECTIONS Pop-up Exhibitions Coverage

The Brooklyn Rail, 'Thinking Collections: Telling Tales: A Survey Exhibition of Kyzyl Tractor Art Collective'
The Brooklyn Rail, “Thinking Collections: Telling Tales: A Survey Exhibition of Kyzyl Tractor Art Collective”

Osman Can Yerebakan, November 26, 2018

“As they shift between mediums, sites, and, most importantly, audiences, Kyzyl Tractor is ultimately ‘anti-city,’ according to Sludskiy. Theirs is a language developed to explore art without the city.”


ArtAsiaPacific, 'Focus Kazakhstan – Thinking Collections: Telling Tales'
ArtAsiaPacific, “Focus Kazakhstan – Thinking Collections: Telling Tales”

Mimi Wong, November 16, 2018

“…the collective’s collaborative and prolific efforts did offer a clear-eyed and distinct vision of a society undergoing rapid change, whose fate is yet to be determined.”

OCULA, 'Focus Kazakhstan–Thinking Collections: Telling Tales'
OCULA, “Focus Kazakhstan–Thinking Collections: Telling Tales”

Fawz Kabra, November 15, 2018

“The performance…was full of critical contradictions, historical clues, and poetry that took its audience on a sometimes-humorous journey to beat into sublimation the negativity and conflicts in the city…”

OCULA, 'Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #7: 29 October–11 November 2018'
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #7: 29 October–11 November 2018”

Sharmistha Ray, November 15, 2018

“The effectiveness of Asia Contemporary Art Week is that it continues to assert ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian’ as a loose conglomerate of relational strategies, rather than as fixed notions of place and identity… to instead offer a framework… about what art can do.”


OCULA, 'Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #6: 15–26 October 2018'
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #6: 15–26 October 2018”

Bansie Vasvani, November 5, 2018

“…’new art aims to invent its own standards of quality, and this is how improvisation acquires superlative importance.’”

OCULA, 'Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #5: 11–17 October 2018'
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #5: 11–17 October 2018”

Banyi Huang, November 2, 2018

“…’Asian-ness’ is not deployed as a homogenising concept, but rather an open-ended container that sheds light on inherited biases in our perception, different modes of spirituality, and ambiguous spaces located outside the museum context.”

Art Radar, ‘Thinking collections, telling tales: ‘Focus Kazakhstan’ Part III in Jersey City
Art Radar, “Thinking Collections, Telling Tales: ‘Focus Kazakhstan’ Part III in Jersey City – Artist Profile + Curator Interview”

Megan Miller, October 23, 2018

“[Kyzyl Tractor asks] how can we as human beings, as artists, as a group of people who have energetic power, change things and not just sit with or accept them?”

OCULA, 'Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #4: 3–9 October 2018'
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #4: 3–9 October 2018”

Banyi Huang, October 23, 2018 

“Bahar Behbahani…elegantly [points] out [that] history and knowledge systems are not rigid and devoid of agency; rather, they are porous, organic and interwoven with intimate narratives.”


OCULA, ‘Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #3: 23–29 September 2018’
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #3: 23–29 September 2018”

Sophia McKinnon, October 15, 2018 

“…this stage is characterised by an exploration of facts and fictions, tests of temporality, and a ‘who made whom’ questioning of end-products and end-points.”

OCULA, ‘Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #2: 14–23 September 2018’
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #2: 14–23 September 2018”

Sophia McKinnon, October 5, 2018 

“[Farideh Sakhaeifar’s Halabja was] a fraught and sinuous test of the body remembering; each dragging foot and twisting hip a kind of monumental metronome. Almost everyone present watched the loop twice.”


OCULA, ‘Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #1: 5–15 September 2018’
OCULA, “Asia Contemporary Art Week: Diary #1: 5–15 September 2018”

Sophia McKinnon, September 21, 2018 

“Kunitani explains that rather than working towards a finite form, he allowed his breath to guide the shape of the rods. They hang suspended like sentient lifeforms… placed anchor-like on the floor.”

ArtForum, ‘New York’s Asia Contemporary Art Week Launches with Expanded Program’
Artforum, “New York’s Asia Contemporary Art Week Launches with Expanded Program”

News Desk, September 7, 2018 

“[ACAW 2018 encapsulates] director Leeza Ahmady’s concept of ‘seeing the artist as the first collector and artists’ studios as primary collections,’ …”

 

Emily Jacir: La Mia Mappa at Alexander and Bonin
 
 
ARTFIX Daily, “Asia Contemporary Art Week Expands to an Entire Season of Events in NYC Region”

August 30, 2018 

“The two-month long platform highlights 150+ acclaimed and emerging artists through timely exhibitions and retrospectives by individual artists and artist collectives from recent to modern history, along with ACAW’s newly conceived studio visits program.”

 

 

The Brooklyn Rail, 'Thinking Collections: Telling Tales: A Survey Exhibition of Kyzyl Tractor Art Collective'
Asia Society, “2018 Asia Contemporary Art Week”

“ACAW’s event of the season is the Sunday, October 14 opening of the much anticipated signature exhibition, ‘Thinking Collections: Telling Tales,’…”

 

 

 

ACAW 2018 Consortium Partners Exhibitions & Programs Coverage

Emily Jacir: La Mia Mappa at Alexander and Bonin


The Brooklyn Rail, “Emily Jacir: La Mia Mappa”

Alan Gilbert, October 3, 2018 

“At Emily Jacir’s La Mia Mappa exhibition, archival photographs of the original clock tower and documentation of its destruction form an important node in the sprawling, research-based installation Notes for a Cannon (2016).”

 

 

Chow Chun Fai at Eli Klein Gallery
ArtAsiaPacific, “Chow Chun Fai”

Mimi Wong, November 16, 2018, 

“A born-and-bred Hongkonger, Chow Chun Fai has directed much of his creative efforts toward capturing his city’s identity in flux.”

 

 

Park Chan-Kyong: Citizen's Forest at Tina Kim Gallery
Blouin Artinfo, “Park Chan-Kyong’s ‘Citizen’s Forest’ at Tina Kim Gallery, New York”

Blouin Artinfo, September 19, 2018 

“According to the Tina Kim Gallery, Park’s images while being seemingly innocuous, suggest that young soldiers in the North Korean People’s Army may not be as ideologically rigid as portrayed.”

Park Chan-Kyong: Citizen's Forest at Tina Kim Gallery
Whitehot Magazine, “Two From Korea”

Robert C Morgan, September 2018 

“This was my first occasion to experience the work of the Korean artist Park Chan-Kyong (born 1965) who some consider a leading artist as well as a controversial figure.”

 


Manit Sriwanichpooms at Tyler Rollins Fine Art
Blouin Artinfo, “Manit Sriwanichpooms ‘Shocking Pink Story’ at Tyler Rollins”

Blouin Artinfo, September 18, 2018

“…[Manit Sriwanichpooms] is known for his works themed on the lines of socio-political issues, underlined with formal elegance and ironic humor.”

 

Yoon Hwan Bae: At the Old Ball Game at Doosan Gallery
Blouin Artinfo, “Yoon Hwan Baes ‘At The Old Ball Game’ at DOOSAN Gallery, New York”

Blouin Artinfo, September 28, 2018 

“According to the Gallery, Bae’s practice originates from an incessant narrative impulse. His daily thoughts and contemplations get transformed into his drawings and literary expressions.”

 


The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India at Asia Society
The Wall Street Journal, “‘The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India’ Review: A Movement Looks Forward”

Alex Teplitzky, September 15, 2017 

“The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India,” at Asia Society Museum, explores a remarkable intersection of art and politics in a landmark period of recent history…”

 


The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India at Asia Society
Blouin Artinfo, “Joan Vennum’s ‘Other Atmospheres’ at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York”

Blouin Artinfo, September 13, 2018

“‘Other Atmospheres’ will feature a series of oil-on-canvas paintings that are at once abstract and figurative, comprising luminous gradated color fields shaped by layers of meditative, rhythmic brushstrokes.”


The New York Times, “A Sci-Fi Showdown at the Met Museum’s Rooftop Garden”

Martha Schwendener, September 12, 2018 

“Step out onto the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and you are confronted by a towering figure, somewhat humanoid but with a ferocious face that looks like a primate mask.”


Artforum, “Critics Pick, ‘Minoru Yoshida’”

Nicholas Chittenden Morgan 

“Yoshida the expatriate, dressed as an alien, plays with otherness. Two fabulous drawings are also presented here, precise renderings of a battered doll stuck into a pile of rocks…”

 


ArtAsiaPacific, “Sopheap Pich”

Hanae Ko, November 16, 2018 

“Sopheap Pich’s second solo exhibition in the US has as its centerpiece a 5.3-meter-long sculpture of a morning glory plant with two large flowers and intertwined stems.”