Over the past twenty years, no other part of the world has undergone as many changes as the Asian and Islamic regions. Since 1997, the London-based Asian Art Newspaper has been covering on a monthly basis the world of Asian and Islamic art. Each issue has featured an interview with a contemporary artist, providing the reader with the opportunity to discover an artist through his own words and not through the lens of a curator, an art historian or a dealer.
The featured illustrations allow the reader to have a clear understanding of what the artist’s practice and vision are whether dealing with painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, video, film or music. Contemporary Voices compiles some of these interviews, covering the Asian and Islamic contemporary art scene, including internationally acclaimed as well as emerging artists.
About the Book
For over two decades now, the London-based Asian Art Newspaper has been covering the varied and evolving world of Asian and Islamic art. Published monthly since 1997, each issue features a one-to-one interview with a chosen contemporary artist, enabling the reader to discover these artists through their own words, rather than through the lens of a curator, art historian, or dealer.
Following a question-and-answer format, the interviews are presented as an informal conversation with the artists in question, offering a series of personal exchanges that will appeal both to those already familiar with the artists’ works, and to anyone discovering them for the first time. The featured illustrations allow the reader to form a clearer understanding of the main focus of each artist’s practice and vision, whether it be painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, video, film, or music.
This new volume entitled Contemporary Voices from the Asian and Islamic Art Worlds presents a selection of the art journal’s interviews, and is the first such book to cover the Asian and Islamic contemporary art scene, comprising both internationally acclaimed artists as well as emerging voices. During the past twenty years, few other parts of the world have undergone as many changes as the Asian and Islamic regions: with its exclusive focus on artists from these areas, this book provides an extraordinary close-up and intimate view of these developments from the dynamic perspective of artistic expression and creativity.
Content /Artists
Etel Adnan
Shadia and Raja Alem
Ahmed Alsoudani
Ghada Amer
Kamrooz Aram
Bae Bien-U
A. Balasubramaniam
Rina Banerjee
Ali Banisadr
Fahd Burki
Cai Guo-Qiang
Chu Teh-Chun
Shezad Dawood
Du Zhenjun
Anita Dube
Lalla Essaydi
Feng Mengbo
Chitra Ganesh
Subodh Gupta
Gonkar Gyatso
Samia Halaby
Jacob Hashimoto
Mona Hatoum
Tehching Hsieh
Huang Yong Ping
Changha Hwang
Ran Hwang
Sangbin Im
Kenro Izu
Michael Joo
Jitish Kallat
YZ Kami
Amar Kanwar
Tadashi Kawamata
Atta Kim
Kim Sooja
Surasi Kusolwong
Dinh Q. Lê
Lee Bae
Lee Bul
Lee Mingwei
Lee Ufan
Tayeba Lipi
Liu Bolin
Liu Ye
Lo Ch’ing
Lu Chao
Hiroyuki Masuyama
Takesada Matsutani
Almagul Menlibayeva
Jung-Yeon Min
Mariko Mori
Yasumasa Morimura
Daido Moriyama
Fahrad Moshiri
Youssef Nabil
Nabil Nahas
Manish Nai
Yamini Nayar
Shirin Neshat
Manuel Ocampo
Yoko Ono
Nam June Paik
Sopheap Pich
Walid Raad
Kanishka Raja
Ru Xiao Fan
Sarkis
Tomoko Sawada
Hiroshi Senju
Shirana Shahbazi
Chiharu Shiota
Shahzia Sikander
Do-Ho Suh
Fiona Tan
Newsha Tavakolian
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Wang Du
Wang Keping
Asim Waqif
Xie Lei
Yan Pei-Ming
Yang Jiechang
Kimiko Yoshida
Zarina
Zhang Hongtu
Zhang Huan