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132 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 new books asian art 133 timezone 8 timezone 8 timezone 8 timezone 8 charta/asia society charta cui xiuwen text by karen smith one of the most prominent of the new generation of chinese artists cui xiuwen works in many media including painting photography and video like the japanese artist mariko mori she investigates identity and cultural sexual stereotypes her images of eroticized apathetic women and prepubescent girls are at once both modern and chinese eerie and upsetting whether in their quiet violence or bizarre conformity they manipulate the viewer playing with the tropes that form our collective social consciousness cui xiuwen does not make categorical statements instead she observes contemplates and then responds with artwork extraordinary for its plurality and insight her work has been show at a solo exhibition at df2 gallery los angeles and in prominent group exhibitions at p.s 1 the international center of photography and the asia society in new york among other international venues cui xiuwen 988-99264-6-6 978-988-99264-6-5 paperback 10.75 x 10.75 in 92 pgs 60 color u.s $35.00 cdn $42.00 july/art/asian art culture zhang xiao tao texts by feng boyi wu hong shu yang zhang xiao tao rotting strawberries overflowing garbage trucks melting birthday cakes used condoms and armies of ants are all subjects of zhang xiao tao s large-scale oil paintings highlighting the artist s central preoccupations decay disgust and death no artist has rendered the spectacle of consumption and excess in as much vivid detail and this large and comprehensive monograph captures the provocative nature of zhang xiao tao s painting in arresting detail whether horrifying or edifying what happens to the waste we create both in our minds and in our space what are the inanimate consequences of overindulgence and what is the cost of denial by highlighting the natural processes that come from unchecked desire zhang xiao tao creates a portrait of reality as intimate as it is subaltern macrocosmic views of microcosmic spaces both physical and psychic that have been reclaimed by nature zhang xiao tao 988-99265-2-0 978-988-99265-2-6 hardcover 12 x 10 in 210 pgs 180 color u.s $40.00 cdn $48.00 july/art/asian art culture ji dachun text by bernhard fibicher ah cheng zhao li pi li painter ji dachun s poetic use of pencil ink and white space has always resonated with traditional chinese portrait painting but the satirical content of his work remains as contemporary as it is compelling whether taking on picasso duchamp or the male anatomy in this beautifully designed beautifully printed monograph each work takes as its inspiration a well-known tale popular advertisement or television commercial upon which the artist transposes his own ironic take with subversive wit ji dachun examines the complex rapport between the east and the west infusing his paintings with a grotesque sense of humor and a serendipitous sensibility keeping with the precedent of his earliest paintings esoteric compositions of lines and amorphous forms heavily influenced by the american artist cy twombly ji dachun here works with pencil and gouache to create finely detailed images with a bite a sophisticated and delightful gift book as well as a serious study ji dachun 988-99609-2-3 978-988-99609-2-6 clothbound 8.75 x 10 in 96 pgs 45 color u.s $40.00 cdn $48.00 july/art/asian art culture liu ye text by bernhard fibicher zhu zhu liu ye s unique experience as one of the few beijing-based artists to travel regularly between europe and china has allowed him in his own words to concentrate on himself during his youth liu was heavily influenced by the cultural revolution in his art he negotiates the dual effect of this cataclysmic social movement and its corresponding kitsch propaganda art creating an aesthetic world that appears to be superficially naive but below the surface is anything but it is a world shaped by memories from liu ye s younger years taking in fairy tales and a child s concept of happiness by juxtaposing the catastrophes of recent world history with figures of winged girls and boys liu ye s art drifts back into adolescence while sifting through these emotionallyladen memories in work not far removed from sentimentality and the deceptive quality of kitsch he combines the imagination and sensitivity of fantasy with the rigor of philosophical inquiry liu ye 988-99609-3-1 978-988-99609-3-3 paperback 5.5 x 8.25 in 134 pgs 60 color u.s $25.00 cdn $30.00 july/art/asian art culture zhang huan altered states foreword by vishakha n desai text by melissa chiu kong bu eleanor heartney zhang huan born in china in 1965 and currently living in shanghai may be best known for his first performance which sparked the cancellation of the group show at which it was staged of that encounter with china s censorship machinery he says they had me write a self-criticism and pay a fine for my `misdeed promising that the exhibition would be reopened i did what they said only for the sake of the show but it was never opened he continued exploring performance in private events once testing the relationship between physical endurance and spiritual tranquility by covering himself with honey and lying in a squalid public toilet covered in flies but he has never held another public performance in china zhang has been exploring crosscultural life and lately making introspective and even spiritual work invoking the temporality of material existence by lying on a bed of ice surrounded by dogs at new york s p.s.1 for example his critically acclaimed work is in the collections of the san francisco museum of modern art the museum of fine arts boston the saatchi collection the macarthur foundation and yale university copublished with the asia society zhang huan altered states 88-8158-641-x 978-88-8158-641-7 hardcover 9.5 x 11.25 in 208 pgs 150 color u.s $70.00 cdn $84.00 october/art/asian art culture exhibition schedule new york asia society 09/06/07­01/20/08 breakout chinese art outside china edited and with text by melissa chiu this first book to substantially focus on china s artistic diaspora and to differentiate it from the artistic community inside china assembles the work of 14 artists who emigrated in the lead-up to the 1989 protest at tiananmen square now settled in new york paris and sydney over the past decade these artists including cai guo-qiang xu bing wenda gu zhang huan huang yong ping and chen zhen have become leading international figures they have shown at major american institutions and have had important solo exhibits for example cai guo-qiang s gunpowder work has recently appeared in solo shows at tate modern in london and at the metropolitan museum of art and the museum of modern art in new york and huang yong ping s walker art center retrospective recently went on international tour breakout features in-depth analyses of this important group s work much of it based on interviews with the artists the book s editor and author melissa chiu is a leading authority on asian contemporary art she was until recently the asia society s curator for contemporary asian and asian-american art she is now its museum director a getty curatorial research fellow chiu has organized more than 30 exhibitions published widely in journals magazines and catalogues and taught at the rhode island school of design breakout 88-8158-639-8 978-88-8158-639-4 paperback 6.75 x 9.5 in 256 pgs 120 color u.s $45.00 cdn $54.00 september/art/asian art culture

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