In May 2012 nearly thirty leading contemporary artists from throughout Asia will present arresting and provocative work at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Art objects from the museum's extensive collection of traditional art will be juxtaposed with the contemporary works—not so much to compare the past and present as to expand our imaginations beyond space and time into the spiritual world and the afterlife. Phantoms of Asia, the resulting publication, is a unique and intriguing exploration of the concept of Asia not as a block of political and economic interest but as an interconnected network of "phantoms" of invisible spiritual energy.

Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past

Arts & Photography

Kataoka, Mami

Harding, Allison

History & Criticism

Asian Art Museum

What is the role of laughter and humor in contemporary art? In a time of increasing globalization, this book questions whether humor can only be appreciated by people with similar cultural, political or historical backgrounds and memories, or whether laughter can act as a catalyst for understanding that which is not familiar. Do laughter and humor transcend difference and language, or are they dependent on inside knowledge and shared experience? Featuring illustrations of more than 70 video, photographic and installation works, this volume includes many artists who have relocated from their home countries, leading them to exploit the humor that arises out of everyday gaps in translation, or even to use humor to fill those gaps. Artists include Makoto Aida, Candice Breitz, Olaf Bruening, Marcus Coates, Cao Fei, Ghazel, Matthew Griffin, Taiyo Kimura, Peter Land, Julian Rosefledt, Shimabuku, Nedko Solakov, Roi Vaara, Martin Walde and others.

Laughing in a Foreign Language

Hayward Publishing

Walking in My Mind is published concurrently with an exhibition of the same name, for which London's Hayward Gallery is envisioned as a "giant brain," whose neural pathways the public can inhabit and traverse. Packed with photographs of large-scale installations (some of which are newly commissioned) by ten influential contemporary artists--Charles Avery, Thomas Hirschhorn, Yayoi Kusama, Bo Christian Larsson, Mark Manders, Yoshitomo Nara, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Chiharu Shiota and Turner Prize-winner Keith Tyson--this volume explores the ways in which an artist's mind processes and pictures information to itself, revealing the very foundations of creative functioning. Comprising diverse media, including drawing, painting, video and sculpture, these installations reflect a range of thought processes, from the meditative to the chaotic. The volume includes working plans and in-progress drawings by participating artists, as well as texts by curators Stephanie Rosenthal and Mami Kataoka, psycholgist Susan Blackmore and a piece of short fiction and texts by writer and UK editor of Cabinet magazine, Brian Dillon.

Walking in My Mind

Dillon, Brian

Rosenthal, Stephanie

Blackmore, Sue

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Hayward Gallery Publishing

In this exhibition catalogue, Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming investigates the nebulous concepts of human virtue and memory--especially in relation to age, power and society. Life Souvenir presents images of infants and soldiers, continuing Yan's careerlong interest in history, incorruptibility and, above all else, human emotion.

Yan Pei-Ming: Life Souvenir (DES MOINES ART)

Fleming, Jeff

Des Moines Art Center

Austrian artist Martin Walde (born 1957) expands the 1960s concept of sculpture as a performance in space by making room for coincidence and the viewer's own intervention. Using materials such as wool, wax, silicon or water, Walde creates installations and sculptural objects that invite the viewer's touch.

Martin Walde: A Second Home for Schrödinger's Cat

Wagner, Monika

Nachtigäller, Roland

Reference

Hatje Cantz

Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972) enmeshes everyday objects such as cars and clothes in web-cocoons of gray thread. At once delicate and sinister, they suggest an overrunning of the familiar by some alien entity. This volume surveys her works and performances from the 1990s to the present.

Chiharu Shiota

Putnam, James

Ai Weiwei: According to What?

A leading figure among Chinese artists of his generation, Ai Weiwei creates art that poses fundamental questions about the ways in which art and culture interrelate with society and how society interrelates with individual existence. As a result of his internationally acclaimed work and his direct engagement with Chinese policies and politics, Ai has been thrust into the global spotlight. Featuring his most significant works since 2000, this catalog offers insight into the artist’s use of simple forms and artistic methods reminiscent of Conceptual and Minimal art, his preoccupation with the traditional design of furniture and other daily objects, and his iconoclastic attitudes toward traditional values and political authority. The book includes works in sculpture, photography, video, and site-specific architectural installations, making it an invaluable resource on Ai’s enormously diverse oeuvre.

Brougher, Kerry

Merewether, Charles

Prestel USA

The Group 1965--Makoto Aida, Parco Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Matsukage, Oscar Oiwa, Tsuyoshi Ozawa and Sumihisa Arima--share only a nationality and date of birth (1965), but use this looseness of association to address a lively cacophony of topics, from globalism and punk to the fall of communism and AIDS, through installation, painting, performance and photography.

The Group 1965: We Are Boys

ELLIOTT, David

Jansen, Gregor

Mézil, Eric

Kinoshita, Parco

Silvana Editorale

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