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Zhao Yi - The Third Heaven
China Previews Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, Suite 809, New York
Until 16 August 2008

Power and Refinement: Arts of the Indonesian Archipelago
Galerie Normand St-Denis, 372 Sainte-Catherine West, suite 530, Montreal, Quebec2, Canada
Until 30 August 2008
An exhibition of remarkable works of art which reflect the rich cultural influences of Java, Bali and Sumatra, one of the most ethnically diversified regions in the world. A dimension of deep spirituality emerges from their aesthetically original works of art. Evolving from ancestor worship, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies and at times of contractual alliances, these objects, sacred or profane, exert a powerful influence on the gods, the ancestor spirits and the forces of nature, contributing to the preservation of very ancient traditions.

The Tanabe Lineage: Four Generations
TAI Gallery, 1601 B. Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico
8 – 20 August 2008
This exhibit includes historic bamboo baskets by Tanabe Chikuunsai I who mastered the necessary skills to copy the literati basket forms he saw in thousand-year-old Chinese paintings. His more modern baskets with open hexagonal plaiting are graceful and have strength and lightness. And in a gesture of respect for Japan's long history of bamboo arts, he incorporated the shafts of antique arrows in some of his works. Tanabe Shochiku III's sculptural forms - woven of spotted zebra bamboo -evoke landforms or suggest carelessly handled packages or their lightness and energy give a sense of a hovering sculpture. His work informed by two rich traditions - more than a century of innovative bamboo art created by members of his family and the modern techniques and theories he learned at the Tokyo Art University. The Tanabe Lineage also includes rare works by Tanabe Chikuunsai II who helped to innovate modernist forms during Japan's post war era. In some works, Chikuunsai II opened and lightened the hexagonal plaiting used by his father, creating an informal and poetic style. The influence of modernist theories is clearly evident in works by living members of the Tanabe family. A work by Chikuunsai III is composed of smooth, lacquered tubes of bamboo; the artist has bent some into circles, and lashed rods and circles together into a starkly simple composition. Tanabe Yota’s rough-and-powerful baskets appear suitable for arranging log-size branches. In all of his works, the bamboo's life force is palpable and untamed. In her Cappadocia series, Tanabe Mitsuko was influenced by the famous Turkish wind-sculpted landforms. Erect and slightly askew, these forms evoke oddly proportioned ancestral portraits.

Japanese Art
Eldred’s, 1483 Route 6A, East Dennis, Massachusetts
19 – 20 August 2008

Asian Art
Eldred’s, 1483 Route 6A, East Dennis, Massachusetts
21 - 23 August 2008

Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
Baltimore Convention Center
28 – 31 August 2008
Over 550 dealers from the US, Canada, France, Italy and the UK will attend and there will also be a free lecture series on a wide range of topics. Among the Asian art dealers participating is Susan Conway of Asian Ethnic Artifacts. `The show draws a knowledgeable group of Asian collectors and this makes it both interesting and enjoyable for the Asian dealers who participate, she commented. Conway interest lies in objects that both have aesthetic appeal and reflect the life, culture and/or history of various Asian populations. She maintains close ties with members of the Miao, Dong and Yi minorities in China, among others, as well as Tibetan groups, and will be bringing examples of their textiles, jewellery and utilitarian objects. She will also have a selection of Han Chinese and Japanese pieces, including `lotus’ shoes, inkstones and kingfisher hair ornaments. Capital Antiques & Fine Art are also enthusiastic about the show, feeling that it `has been for years one of the great events’. Among the Asian artworks they will be offering is a 19th century Chinese ivory tusk carved with a representation of Shoulao holding his staff with his scroll and a gourd containing the elixir of life in one hand and a branch of the peach of eternal life in the other. Mical Wilmoth Carton of Chairperson-Antiques, who is participating for the fifth time, will also have some Asian material among his stock. He is `particularly fond’ of small jade antiquities, with which he has had previous success at this fair, and a highlight in this category is a Warring States carved nephrite warrior figure. He will also be offering 18th and 19th century Chinese export ceramics, as well as some Japanese and Vietnamese items. `This is the largest, highest-quality international show on the Atlantic coast of the US, both in terms of dealers and customers. It always has record attendance and sales, and many visitors come just to see and handle items that are usually found only in museums, he said. Second-time participants Classic Chinese Antiques will be showing a wide variety of pieces, from classic Ming furniture to 19th century decorative works. `I present really unusual, cutting-edge material in Baltimore because the large number and sophisticated tastes of the attendees warrant more interesting, less traditional antiques, commented David. N. Salkin. `It’s a fun show in a great town, and I have been looking forward to it all year. Several sets of delicately carved wall panels depicting birds and flowers, some dating from the Ming period, will feature in his display, as will a late Ming cypress painting table with elongated aprons from Jiangsu which has never been seen before in the US. Also exhibiting at the show for the second time is Peter Rosenberg of Vallin Galleries. `Last year revealed a promising new market. Visiting collectors, decorators and dealers from up and down the Atlantic coast came to buy, he stated. Having been in business for nearly 30 years in the area, Jem Hom feels that the show is important as he has a wide client base in Washington, DC and Baltimore. His particular focus is jade carvings and sculpture in jade or other hardstones. Highlights are a collared jade bi disc from the Neolithic or Shang period, in a good state of preservation, and a Northern Qi seated Buddha with finely rendered features and details.
An all-star lecture series features presentations by industry experts and are free to the public. Those relating to Asia are:
29 August 2008 at 1:00 pm: `Japanese Imari Porcelain - East Meets West’ by Matthew Baer of Ivory Tower Antiques
This lecture will introduce the history of Japanese Imari porcelain from its inception near the beginning of the 17th century to the early 20th century. The discussion will cover the ebb and flow of Imari porcelain to the West, along with the evolution of shape, color and decoration.

Art of Tibet, Nepal and India
Leiko Coyle, New York (by appointment tel: 1 212 600 1475/1 503 891 8311)
Autumn 2008
After many years of constant travel between Asia and the East and West coasts of the US, Leiko Coyle has moved to New York. Her new space is conveniently situated a few blocks from Sotheby’s and a short walk from the Met. On view will be treasures acquired from her travels with emphasis on early works from Tibet, Nepal and India, as in a terracotta head of Shiva from eastern India, its 9th century date supported by a thermoluminescence test.

South Asian and Himalayan Art
Kapoor Gallery, New York (by appointment tel: 1 212 794 2300)
An exhibition feature a selection of recently acquired South Asian and Himalayan art.

Precious Little Things
Jadestone Fine Asian Art, 1314 NW Irving Streeet, #503, Portland, Oregon
Autumn 2008
An exhibition featuring snuff bottles and miniature works of art from various private collections in the US. Highlights include a Qianlong period Canton enamel snuff bottle with a design of scholars and a late Qing period miniature white jade censer. A catalogue will be published, the contents of which can also be seen on the gallery’s website. The collection will first be displayed at the 40th International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention in Boston from 23 to 26 September and then by appointment at the gallery.

Bits and Pieces
Richard Gien, New York (by appointment tel: 1 212 633 2016)
September 2008
On view is a selection of small ceramics from Southeast Asia, which he encourages collectors to use as `functional objects’ in their everyday lives. Among the highlights is a 14th/15th century olive brown- glazed Vietnamese bowl with a moulded design of Buddhist auspicious objects and a lotus pod.

Tang Period Sculptures
Berwald Oriental Art, 5 East 57th Street, New York
September 2008
Highlights include a kneeling lokapala, a finely modelled whinnying horse, an elegant court lady wearing a mink scarf and a pair of well-muscled oxen. The figures are rare examples of their type, and are of exceptional quality. The gallery will also be displaying its existing collection of porcelain, sculptures and works of art.

The Gift of the Meiji – Artwork from Japan’s Golden Age
Flying Cranes Antiques, 1050 2nd Avenue, Gallery 55, 56 & 58, New York
September – October 2008
An exhibition comprising a selection of more than fifty outstanding pieces from masters of the period. These include some items that belonged to the imperial household and were given as gifts to influential 19th century figures, for example, koro (incense burners), vases and figures in metalwork, as well as cloisonne by the masters Yasuyuki Namikawa and Sosuki Chokichi, and lacquer formerly housed in great museum collections.

Japanese Works of Art
Carole Davenport, New York (by appointment tel 1 646 249 8500)
September 2008
As small selection show comprising a mixture of fine and fun works, from a painting of a chinso priest to a Raku tea bowl by a 20th century master who studied under the last Raku and Ohi masters. Also featured will be a few Japanese ink paintings and a ship ema (votive painting).

Kuro Raku chawan by Murata Toin
Diameter 10.7 cm, Height 8.1 cm
`Japanese Works of Art'
Carole Davenport

Tang and Song Ceramics
Eric Zetterquist, 120 east 64th Street, New York
Autumn 2008
Highlight among the recently acquired Tang and Song ceramics are a covered Yue ware jar with fine carving, a large conical Jizhou tea bowl with crisply defined floral cut-outs and two fine examples of Longquan celadons. There are two Tang period white-glazed pieces - a widely flared zhadou and a bulbous ewer with stylized dragon handle.

The Chinese Approach
Schoeni Art Gallery in collaboration with Ann Nathan Gallery, 212 West Superior, Chicago, Illinois
6 September – mid October 2008
An exhibition featuring works by the Chen family from China, and Chinese-born artists Ming Jing Wang and Mary Qian, now living and working in the US. The Chen family have received international attention for their reflections on contemporary Chinese society. Yu Chen’s paintings of pink-cheeked children, at times in military uniform, are social commentaries expressed through the sometimes laughing, sometimes crying faces of China’s youngest citizens. Chen Yu interrupts groups of repetitive figures in his paintings with intimate, often playful, portraits of individuals amid the masses. Chen Li mixes suggestion and mystery to create imaginative narratives within his contemporary portraits. Ming Jing Wang’s social-realist paintings examine the human condition, both culturally and physically. Wang explores the intrusion of contemporary civilization on the ancient cultures of China. Wang also observes and reflects on moments of physical suffering and trauma in his paintings. Mary Qian’s portraiture reveals a flawless technique and intense study of the human form. Trained in both China and America and influenced by Russian portraiture, Qian’s paintings act as personal observations of the people around her in a dramatic and timeless style.

Bright Shadows: Glimpses of the Ming
Kaikodo, 74 East 79th Street, New York
8 September – 28 November 2008
On view by appointment (tel: 1 212 585 0121) and also on the gallery’s website, this exhibition was conceived in support of the important travelling show `Power and Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty’ a collaboration between the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and three of China’s great museums, it includes paintings and works of art that date from the late 14th to the mid-17th century, spanning the entire Ming period. Owners Howard and Mary Ann Rogers note that it was during these creative and industrious centuries that many categories of art were produced not only for the court, but also for a new and expanded class of collectors in China and for enthusiastic patrons abroad. Tantalizing works range from a Xuande monochrome red porcelain bowl for imperial use to a later kosometsuke dish made for the Japanese market, as well as 17th century lacquer, bronzes and textiles. Among the selection of paintings reflecting the achievements of Ming artists are a hanging scroll titled Fighting Mynahs, attributed to the early 15th century court painter Bian Jingzhao, and a charming 16th century rendition of the popular Song theme of Boys Playing with Crickets.

Contemporary Art
Sotheby’s, New York
10 September 2008

Three-Day September Estate Catalogue Auction
Sloans & Kenyon, 7034 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland
12 – 14 September 2008

Asian Works of Art
Doyle New York, 175 East 87th Street, New York
16 September 2008

Indian and Southeast Asian Works of Art
Christie's, New York
16 September 2008

South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art
Christie's, New York
16 September 2008

Masterpieces from the Zimmerman Family Collection
Christie's, New York
16 September 2008

Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Chinese and Japanese Art from The Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal
Sotheby’s, New York
16 September 2008

Contemporary Art Asia
Sotheby’s, New York
17 September 2008

Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from The J&J Collection, Part V
Christie's, New York
17 September 2008

Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Christie's, New York
17 September 2008

Kaneta Masanao/New Works
Joan B. Mirviss Ltd, 39 East 78th Street, New York
17 September – 22 October 2008
This exhibition marks the first anniversary of the opening of the gallery’s Madison Avenue space. An 8th generation Hagi potter, Kaneta navigates the borderlands between the traditional potter’s craft and the practice of a contemporary artist in the creation of his groundbreaking work. The push and pull between his innovative techniques and traditional glazes, as well as that between his functional vessels and purely sculptural forms, is readily apparent in the selection of nearly 40 new works that are on view. Kaneta creates veritable landscapes with his unique mountain-inspired forms, moving beyond tradition in his signature kurinuki technique of digging and scooping his sculptural vessels out of solid mounds of sculpted clay. Only after years of frustration with the inherent conflict between the centrifugal force of the potter’s wheel and his own formative intent, he eventually arrived as his innovative method.

Japanese Art - Fall 2008
Mika Gallery, 595 Madison Avenue, 8th floor, New York
18 - 25 September 2008
Highlights include two volumes from the Heike nokyo Mohon, a work by Tanaka Shinbi, after the Heike nokyo scrolls. The original scrolls, dedicated to the Itsukushima shrine in the Heian p eriod for the prosperity of the Heike clan, are now a designated National Treasure and are still housed at the shrine. Shinbi’s faithful copy of this scripture is valued for its masterful technique and artistry, and `shows us the original Heike nokyo in freshly completed condition’. The Heike nokyo Mohon has been displayed at the Okura Shukokan and at the Tokyo National and Kyushu National museums, and can now be seen in this show. Also on view are modest-sized pots from the Jomon and Yayoi periods, as well as Buddhist prints, including a 12th century example that was found inside a Buddhist statue at Joruriji. Works from the Edo period will include Nara paintings and a fragment of a kara-ori Noh costume.

Manifestations of Japanese Kami
Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts, 17 East 71st Street, 4th Floor, New York
18 September – 3 October 2008
This show focuses on suijaku art, which resulted from the combination of the native Japanese religion of Shinto and Buddhism imported from China in the 7th century. While this material is very important from a religious and artistic point of view, Yanagi noted, it is only in the past 20 years that it has really begun to be appreciated. Many more suijaku pieces have been discovered and books published in this period, he added. To his knowledge, this is the first show in the US with this particular emphasis. Among the highlights are a Kamakura period 13th/14th century wood sculpture of a yabusame archer, which usually formed part of a Shinto shrine collection. Yanagi’s example is the only one known outside such a collection. Also of note are an 11th century wood bosatsu, the headdress carved with a Shinto deity, and an early 12th century female Shinto deity in an unusual pose with one arm resting on a seat. The paintings include a 15th century deer mandala showing the main deities of the Kasuga shrine, which are often depicted in paintings of this period. The deer in this painting is very similar to a famous gilt-bronze sculpture in the Hosomi Museum in Kyoto, with the five deities of the Kasuga shrine framed in a circular space above it. Also featured is a Muromachi period hanging scroll, Hiyoshi Sanno Mandala, representing all 25 deities of the Hiei shrine as well as several monkeys, a symbol of the shrine. This work in ink and colour on silk, which is in superb condition, was exhibited in the show ‘Hiyoshi Sanno Mandala’ at the Otsu City Museum of History in Japan from May to July 2007.

Steppes: Forward & Back: The Work of Mongolia’s Foremost Contemporary Artists and 17th & 18th Century Buddhist Sculptures & Paintings
E&J Frankel Ltd, 1040 Madison Avenue, at 79th Street, New York
18 September – 18 October 2008
An exhibition featuring 24 works by artists who took part in the gallery’s first Mongolian contemporary art exhibition in 2000. Since then they have won international recognition, yet have remained true to their culture and traditions, depicting themes like landscapes, horses, camels and gher in both interpretive and abstract styles. Featured artists include Tsultemin Munkhjin, Dorjjadambin Erdembileg, Shagdarjavin Chimeddorj and contemporary mask-maker Natsag Gankhuyag. The other half of the show comprises bronzes from four different schools (Zanazabar, Tibet, Dolnuur and Mongolia), thangkas, both painted and embroidered, and sakhuis, which are, according to Frankel, travelling shrines that the Mongolians wore around their necks. Bronzes from the school of Zanazabar are most notable, one of which is a late 17th/early 18th century image of the Buddha Shakyamuni An exhibition of Mongolia’s foremost contemporary artists and 17th and 18th century Buddhist sculpture and paintings.

Japanese & Korean Art
Christie's, New York
18 September 2008

Modern & Contemporary Indian Art
Sotheby’s, New York
18 September 2008

Japanese Works of Art Featuring fine Inro from the Collection of Ann Swedlow Meselson
Bonhams, 580 Madison Avenue, New York
Preview: 13 - 19 September 2008
Auction: 19 September 2008

Indian & Southeast Asian Works of Art
Sotheby’s, New York
19 September 2008

Japanese Works of Art Featuring fine inro from the collection of Ann Swedlow Meselson
Bonhams & Butterfields, New York
19 September 2008

Seihakuji: Ceramic Sculptures by Sueharu Fukami
Erik Thomsen Asian Art, 44 East 74th Street, New York
19 September - 21 November 2008
An exhibition of contemporary Japanese ceramic sculptures by the acknowledged master Sueharu Fukami to inaugurate Eric Thomsen’s new gallery. Thomsen has a particularly close relationship with Fukami as his brother is married to Fukami's niece. He has followed the development of Fukami's career with a special regard for his masterful use of pale blue glazed porcelain. Although inspired by Chinese qingbai porcelain, their abstract forms are distinctively contemporary with sharp edges and smooth surfaces that characterize Fukami's sculpture. An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition. Also on view are lacquer boxes, scrolls and screens, tea ceramics both old and new, and bamboo art.

Important Estates Auction
Mathesons’ AA Auctions, 600 E New Haven Ave, Melbourne, Florida
27 - 28 September 2008

Art of Japan
Xanadu Gallery, 140 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, California
Opening late September 2008
Among the selection of textiles and works of art on view are several late Edo period choken Noh costumes from a Japanese institution. A Muromachi period wood elephant used as a mount for Fugen (Samantabhadra) with a matching shishi will guard the extensive collection of lacquer and netsuke on display through the holiday season.

Pride of the Ancestors
TAI Gallery, 1601 B. Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico
11 October – 1 November 2008
An exhibition to celebrate the gallery’s 30th anniversary show, it features important Indonesian and Indian textiles from the 15th to 19th century. One notable highlight is a talismatic coat made of a patchwork of fabrics including 17th and 18th century Indian chintz, Gujarati silk patola and European wool. Such garments are believed to have been worn by a community of priests in South Sumatra.

Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures from the James E. Sowell Collection
Sotheby's, 1334 York Avenue at 72 Street, New York
15 - 20 October 2008
Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures from the James E. Sowell Collection by Michael Cohen and William Motley is being launched at the opening of a special exhibition of the important collection of Chinese export figures and animals. Texas investor James E. Sowell has been collecting 17th to 19th century Chinese export figures and animals for over 15 years and this book reveals 170 of his most rare and sought after Chinese and Japanese porcelain figures. There will also be a series of lectures with guest speakers for those interested in learning more about Chinese Export. Highlights of the Sotheby's exhibition include a unique and large pair of seated deer, large tureens in the form of a goose, an ox head, a carp, a boar's head, a cockerel and smaller sauce tureens in the form of a tree shrew and a pair of extremely rare water cocks (Gallicrex cinerea). On 19 October, four leading Chinese export porcelain specialists  - Ron Fuchs II, curator of The Reeves Collection; Letitia On Roberts, an independent scholar and former Sotheby's Senior Vice President; and Michael Cohen and Will Motley, co-authors of Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures from the James E. Sowell Collection , will give lectures at Sotheby’s.

Asian Art
Dallas Auction Gallery, 2235 Monitor Street, Dallas, Texas
15 October 2008

San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
Fort Mason Center, Festival Pavilion, San Francisco
22 – 26 October 2008
Sandra Whitman will be participating in this show.

Treasures
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
23 – 28 October 2008
19th, 19th, 20th and 21st century fine art, antiques, carpets and textiles of native cultures from Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas.

ACAF NY | Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York
Manhattan’s Pier 92, New York
6 – 10 November 2008

Porcelain Masterpieces from the Cohen & Cohen Chinese Export Collection
Cohen and Cohen at Kentshire Galleries, 700 Madison Avenue at 63 Street, New York
6 - 26 November 2008
Important figural pieces and bowls, armorials and an array of vases will be on view. For example, a pair of Chinese export groups of Dutch dancers doing side by side and twirling steps dates to c. 1760; a fine and vividly enameled pair of court lady candle holders date to c. 1750; a rare famille-rose wall plaque of European rococo form is decorated with Chinese figures and dates to c 1740. The gallery is known for acquiring the finest pieces entering the market and some of the items being shown have never been on view.

Los Angeles Asian & Tribal Art Show
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Main Street & Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, California
15 - 16 November 2008
This event features internationally renowned dealers/galleries specializing in Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian and South Asian) and tribal arts (African, American Indian, Oceanic & Sumatran, among others). The opening night preview reception on 14 November is held to benefit the Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

The New York Ceramics Fair
The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York
21 – 25 January 2009

The San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
6 – 8 February 2009

The San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
13 - 15 February 2009

The International Asian Art Fair
Park Avenue Armory, New York
11 – 15 March 2009

The New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show
Gramercy Park Armory, New York
12 – 15 March 2009

The Los Angeles Antiques Show
The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California
23 – 26 April 2009

EUROPE

After the Barbarians II: Namban Works of Art for the Japanese, Portuguese and Dutch Markets
Jorge Welsh, Rua da Misericórdia 41-47, 1200-270 Lisbon, Portugal
Opened 17 January 2008
This inaugural exhibition at Jorge Welsh's new gallery in Lisbon features works were made during the short period of Western presence in Japan, which began with the arrival of the Portuguese in 1542 and ended with the closure of ports to Europeans by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1639. Works commissioned by the Portuguese merchants and the Jesuits were often made in lacquer and richly decorated in maki-e and mother-of-pearl, for example, a box in the form of a folded letter and a pair of tokkuri. There are also two lavishly painted screens charting the sea route from Osaka to Nagasaki dating to the early Edo period and works in metal and stone. The present show - a follow-up to `After the Barbarians: An Exceptional Group of Namban Works' which Welsh organized in 2003 - is accompanied by a substantial catalogue, published in separate English and Portuguese editions. With contributions from Teresa Canepa, Alexandra Curvelo, Christiaan Jorg, Pedro Cancela de Abreu and Miho Kitagawa, Welsh believes that it will become one of the important references works on the subject.

Mingei Spirit
Mingei Arts Gallery, Paris, France
4 - 23 September 2008
Includes a large selection of chawan of different styles and origins, such as Hagi, Mino, Shino, Seto, Raku, Tenmoku, Tokoname and Oribe. Also on show will be an unusual wood shamanic fertility idol, Okame, from the early Edo period, as well as a group of rural textiles and two 19th century Ainu atush collected in the Sakhalin islands.

Vietnamese Bronzes from the Dong So’n Culture, Giao Chi Period
Galerie Christophe Hioco, 12 rue de Penthievre, Paris, France
10 September – 10 October 2008
This exhibition puts the spotlight on a lesser-known aspect of Asian art. It showcases the renowned Pham Lan Huong collection of Vietnamese art, some of which comes from the Dong Son culture of north Vietnam. Part of this exceptional collection has already been dispersed to various museums, including the Barbier-Mueller. Accompanying the exhibition is an illustrated catalogue with an introduction by archaeologist and Dong Son expert Nguyen Viet. The catalogue of the exhibition is the gallery’s website.

Parcours des Mondes
Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Paris, France
10 - 14 September 2008
This important tribal art fair is under the new management of Tribal Art Management, whose expertise and experience will undoubtedly infuse the event with greater energy and strength. They have invited the most significant international galleries in the field, and all the works will be rigorously vetted. A comprehensive selection of Asian, African, Oceanic, American Indian and pre-Columbian art will be shown by the more than sixty selected exhibitors from Paris and around the world. Thomas Murray believes that these developments will propel Parcours into the most important event in this specialized area. He will be bringing highlights from San Francisco to show in a gallery on rue des Beaux Arts alongside some of the greatest names in the field. One of his star pieces is a wood ancestral door carved by the Toraja of South Sulawesi. The archaic style of the human head originates from as early as the 1st millennium, and according to its carbon-14 test, the door dates between the 16th and 18th centuries. To mark the occasion, Murray is publishing an illustrated catalogue, Animistic Art of Island Asia. Regular participant Davide Manfredi will exhibit a Bahau ulin wood figure from the Kenyan, Mahakan river region of eastern Borneo, which he says is the only one of this type known and may date back between 700 and 1,000 years, although more precise dating would require carbon-14 testing. Unusually, the figure has a tail and horns, and the surface is smoothly worn, as would be the case for an item found in a burial cave. Davide and his wife Alexandra Pascassio will open a new gallery in spring next year in Via Visconti in Rome. Specializing in Southeast Asian tribal art, they will also hold thematic exhibitions on Javanese-Balinese popular traditions and archaic forms of Indochinese art. Joaquin Pecci will be showing tribal sculptures from various regions and cultures. Pecci has spent much time travelling in Asia over the years, and has a particular interest in Himalayan shamanic cultures. Among his offerings are some special pieces from the region, chosen for their beauty and importance. Participating for the first time, Brussels-based Paoli Dalatri of Wei Asian Arts will be bringing a small but meaningful collection of wood Jarai sculptures from the Vietnamese highlands, as well some classical Chinese pieces with ritual content, for example a Han period bronze image of a shaman that once belonged to renowned collector/dealer Robert H. Ellsworth. One of the pieces being shown by Jacques Barrère is a 10th century head of Shiva. A fine example of Khmer art, the statue is carved in grey sandstone. Barrère specializes in Chinese and Japanese art, including sculpture, archaeology, pottery and decorative arts, and holds regular exhibitions of Gandharan, Indian and Southeast Asian statuary.

XXIVe Biennale Des Antiquaires
Grand Palais, Paris, France
11 - 21 September 2008
First held in 1962 in the Grand Palais, the ‘Biennale des Antiquaires’ was created as an event ‘where elegance, prestige and celebration would await a host of art lovers and collectors’. This year from 11 to 21 September, under the huge glass roof of this legendary heritage site, 95 international galleries will be represented. All the exhibitors are members of France’s Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA), whose president Christian Deydier has been working tirelessly for the past two years to ensure that the event will regain its original stature and that ‘the most beautiful objects in the world’ will be on view, including some exceptional Chinese art. Benefits from the gala dinner will go to Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris – Hôpitaux de France, which is headed by Bernadette Chirac, and integral to the event will be the presence of France’s leading chefs directing the kitchens. In addition to guiding the direction of the fair, Deydier’s plans for his own exhibition reflect his expertise in early Chinese archaeology. He will show a bronze water buffalo with a decoration of spirals and shells, covered with a black and green patina. Its back is pierced to hold a screen or another attachment. The buffalo is of the type produced at Houma in Shaanxi province, the most renowned bronze foundry during the Warring States period, and at one time belonged to the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo. Also of note is a particularly tall and slim sancai-glazed image of a Tang period court lady with a shawl, bodice and long skirt. Most images of this size are representations of officials, warriors or falconers, and women rarely appear. Another example, 63 centimetres in height, is in the Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin. Brussels-based Gisele Croes is participating with a diverse collection representing three millennia of Chinese art. For many years, Croës has been fascinated by art from the Tang period and the incredible skills and ingenuity of its metalworkers. She will show her unmatched collection of some fifteen forms with gold and silver inlay. Religious and secular, they tell the complete history of production during the Tang, and depict a wide range of subjects with jewel-like quality, within a very small space. For example, a scene on a 7-centimetre-high cup shows a huntsman aiming a bow and another shooting, surrounded by intricate foliage and birds, creating a great sense of movement. The star piece among her earlier works is a pair of Warring States axle caps of particularly strong sculptural form with a rich decoration of gold, silver, turquoise, glass and carnelian. The pins end in realistic animal heads boldly inlaid with gold and silver and possibly with glass for the eyes; these confront a more abstract human form as if in combat. Other recent acquisitions include an early Han bronze monkey inlaid with silver, which Croës plans to display suspended on her stand, while her interest in archaic bronze vessels will be represented by a set of two early Western Zhou you and one zun, all with a remarkable patina of encrusted blue, green and deep orange and an unusual design of taotie and heart-shaped scrolls typical of examples excavated from Hebei. She will also show a Northern Qi to early Sui container moulded in the form of a bearded foreigner holding a fully formed vase. Croes exhibited two similar stoneware forms covered with lush white glaze in New York in March; the present example is in perfect condition, and its date has been confirmed by scientific testing. She is optimistic that the Biennale will be a great success, even in an uncertain financial environment, as the high-calibre collectors who return to the fair each year recognize that ‘good art never diminishes in value’. One of the pieces to be exhibited by Jacques Barrere is a 12th century Japanese gilded wood statue of Sho Kannon, one of the two attendant bodhisattvas of the Buddha Amida Nyorai. The standing figure is draped in a robe and shawl, carved in a realistic manner with beautiful symmetry characteristic of the style of the period. The bodhisattva’s crown has all but disappeared, except for a fine gold band that is enhanced by the black lacquer of the hair. Jorge Welsh, a specialist in Chinese and Japanese export ware with galleries in Lisbon and London, returns to the fair confident that his collection will appeal to the collectors, curators and decorators from the US and Europe who flock to this event. He will be presenting a pair of Yongzheng soldier vases decorated in the famille-rose palette and a group of 16th century mother-of-pearl artworks from Gujarat.

98th Internationale Bodensee-Kunstauktion
Auktionshaus Michael Zeller, Bindergasse 7, Lindau (Bodensee), Germany
18 – 20 September 2008

Asian Art
Galerie Koller Zurich, Hardturmstrasse 102, Zürich, Switzerland
29 - 30 September 2008
The sale features an extensive private collection of jade purchased in the late 40ies and early 50ies in Hong Kong. 

Autumn Sale
Hermann Historica, Linprunstr. 16, Munich, Germany
6 – 11 October 2008

Japan Art
Tajan, Drouot Richelieu, Salle 4, 9, rue Drouot, Paris, France
23 October 2008

Asian Art
Piasa, Drouot Richelieu, Salle 4, 9, rue Drouot, Paris, France
29 October 2008

Indian Art
Artcurial at Hôtel Dassault, Paris, France
4 November 2008

Chinese Art
Artcurial at Hôtel Dassault, Paris, France
4 November 2008

Asian Art Auction
Nagel Auktionen, Neckarstrasse 189-191, D-70190 Stuttgart, Germany
10 & 11 November 2008

Arts d’Asie
Tajan, Drouot Richelieu, Salle 4, 9, rue Drouot, Paris, France
20 November 2008

pAn Amsterdam
RAI Congress and Exhibition Center, Parkhal, Netherlands
23 - 30 November 2008

Asian Art
Christie’s, Amsterdam
25 November 2008

Arts d’Orient
Tajan, 37 Rue Des Mathurins, Paris, France
4 December 2008

Asian Art
Piasa, Drouot Richelieu, Salle 4, 9, rue Drouot, Paris, France
10 December 2008

ARCO'09
Halls 12 and 14 of the Feria de Madrid
Spain
11 - 16 February 2009
Featuring India as its guest country, the fair will play host to a selection of galleries And artists that will showcase the contemporary art scene in India today. Over the last few years, India has been one of the emerging art markets to expand most rapidly. The country's economic growth, the constant revaluation of Indian artists and the increase in private collecting has turned it into one of the most promising art scenes of the 21st century. For example, an oil painting by Ram Kumar, which initially sold for Euro32,000 in 2003, increased to Euro500,000 in 2006. Between 2005 and 2006, the auction sector rose from US$53 million to US$150 million. Thirteen Indian artists are listed among the 500 top-selling post-war artists. They include Subodh Gupta, Atul Dodiya, Shibu Natesan, Ravinder G. Reddy, Raqib Shaw, Syed Haider Raza, Tyeb Mehta and Jitish Kallat. 24 lots by the internationally acclaimed Anish Kapoor sold between July 2006 and June 2007 for Euro6,440,150. One of his works sold for Euro1,557,400 and more than fifteen works by other Indian artists have broken the Euro1 million barrier over the last few years. Residents of India now see art as an investment and European collectors are discovering more about Indian art. According to the auction houses, at least 15% of buyers are young collectors from France, Germany, Belgium and Italy, as well as other Asian countries.

UNITED KINGDOM

Zhou Jun: Bird’s Nest Project
Anna Maria Rossi and Fabio Rossi, 16 Clifford Street, London
Until 29 August 2008

Summer Exhibition of Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics
Roger Keverne Limited, 2nd Floor, 16 Clifford Street, London
Opened 13 June 2008
A wide variety of objects will be on view at ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the 19th century - archaic and figural bronzes and other metalwork; ceramic sculptures and porcelain vessels; painted, champlevé and cloisonné enamels; lacquerware, and jade. A number of works were once owned by well-known dealers or collectors, such as a gold finial in the form of a feline’s head from the Warring States period that once belonged to dealer C. T. Loo, and a pair of cloisonné table screens from the mid-17th century decorated with flowering plants and fruits from the collection of Sir Harry Garner; the screens were exhibited in the OCS’s ‘The Arts of the Ming Exhibition’ in 1957 and illustrated in Garner’s book Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels. Keverne is known for his writings on jade, and among the gallery’s offerings in this category are an imperial jade musical stone dated 1716; another example from the set is in The Metropolitan Museum.

Reflecting Power: Three Schools of Indian Silver
Alexis Kersey, Aditya Pande & Maurizio Vetrugno
Alexia Goethe Gallery, 7 Dover Street, London
Until 23 August 2008
An exhibition featuring art created by one Indian, one Anglo-Indian, and one Italian. All three share an infatuation with the visual idioms of popular culture, a chromatic sophistication, a puckish wit, and the connoisseurship of craftsmanship. All three choose to turn a blind eye to the status (or lack thereof) attributed to various visual languages and artisanal materials, performing a perfectly Post-Modern ménage within a globalised scenario. On a computer Aditya Pande weaves a tangled web of synthetic line work, looping through grand arabesques and squiggling together skeins to form animals and people. These forms are anchored by bold blocks of skewed colours, usually applied with glossy enamel paints that contrast against the more powdery finish of the ink-jet print, sometimes further articulated by the appearance of an unblinking eyeball or a shiny nose. On occasion collage elements are mixed in, for a pleasingly demented farce that is the collusion of painting, print-making, graphic design and draftsmanship. A cartoonish vulgarity has been Alexis Kersey’s trademark for a number of years. His recent works have tempered their icons with a confluence of materials: oil painting backgrounds are affixed with inlaid-wood panels, mirrors and enameled glass, framed with carved and painted flourishes. In these works, images, materials and techniques fuse to a theatrical finish, burgeoning on to a perversely decorative amplitude. Maurizio Vetrugno has long been interested in the interstitial spaces between cultural productions of various calibers: art, fashion, music, celebrity, publicity and iconography. He recreates images used to package popular music as hand-embroidered panels of silk. His focus is on Indian imagery as it has been used by both Indian musicians themselves for an international market and by Western musicians to communicate their ideals. To order a catalogue please contact mailto:sales@alexiagoethegallery.com or check our website http://www.alexiagoethgallery.com

Islamic Works of Art & Textiles
Christie's South Kensington, 85 Old Brompton Road, London
6 October 2008

Asian Art in London
London
30 October – 8 November 2008
Marking its eleventh year, this event takes place in galleries across Kensington Church Street, Mayfair and St James's and features art ranging from a variety of ancient media such as textiles, sculpture, paintings, metalware, wood and ceramics, to the cutting edge of contemporary Asian art from China, India and Vietnam as well as the evolving market of Korea. This year the gala party will be at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, on the 4th November. A symposium in association with Asia House on Buddhist art will take place on the 8 November with experts from all the major museums.

Asian Art
Woolley & Wallis, 51-61 Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
12 November 2008

Isamu Noguchi at Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Noguchi and Iconic Designers
Brunswick Group LLP, 16 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
Until 22 February 2009
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton, near Wakefield
England
Opened 12 July 2008
There have been over 80 exhibitions dedicated to the work of Isamu Noguchi throughout the US and Japan, yet this is the first opportunity for a European audience to experience a large-scale, critical exhibition of this important artist's work. This exhibition features the wide range of Noguchi's practice from indoor stone carvings, assemblage works and ceramics to works on paper and furniture. The Park's historic landscaped gardens and terraces will be populated by monumental stone sculptures, imbuing a sense of calm and contemplation that reflects Noguchi's public works and the traditional Japanese Zen gardens in which the artist found inspiration and solace. Isamu Noguchi often blurred the boundaries between art and design, creating a broad range of products for everyday living, including tables, chairs, sofas, lamps, and tableware.

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Jing Hua Ju
Danshui Town, Jia no 6, Shunhuang Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, PRC
Opened April 2008
The new showroom titled Jing Hua Ju which can be roughly translated as `an elegant house or dwelling in which the essence of China can be found’ as reflected in the display of furniture, ceramics, paintings and carpets. The owners’ focus is on new art objects using traditional methods and materials but with contemporary interpretation. This is evident in ceramic pieces created by the husband-and-wife team Tsun Jen Lee and Hung Yu Wang, from Taiwan. The carpets in the gallery are from the owners’ own line, Caravan Classics, and employ designs from the Kangxi period, as well as from East Turkestan (Xinjiang).

Summer Exhibition
Pekin Fine Arts, No. 241, Cao Changdi Village, Cuigezhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Until 25 August 2008

Fire His Breath, Jade His Bones: New Work by Shi Jinsong
Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Main Space B, No. 319-1 East End Art Zone - A, Caochangdi Village, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Until 24 August 2008
An exhibition curated by Wu Hung.

August Group Show
Chinese Contemporary, Factory 798 Beijing, No. 4 Jiu Xian Qiao Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, PRC
Until 27 August 2008
An exhibition featuring works by Huang Rui, Liu Ye, Ma Liuming, Shi Guorui, Wang Ke, Wu Junyong, Xue Song, Zhang Dali and Zhou Chunya.

Yang Zhichao Solo
Eastlink Gallery, 5/f, Building 6, 50 Moganshan Lu, Shanghai, PRC
Until 31 Aug 2008

Red Gate Stars
Red Gate Gallery, 798 Art District and Dongbianmen Watchtower, Chongwenmen, Beijing, PRC
Until 31 August 2008
As the oldest contemporary commercial art gallery in China and having played a key role in exposing young and established artists, Red Gate Gallery will celebrate the Olympic Games by featuring new and exciting work by each of its artists. The works explores innovative use of traditional and contemporary media and symbolism and the artists reveal a diversity of practice both technically and conceptually. Included are young, emerging artists such as Zhou Jun and Wei Qingji as well as more established artists including Li Gang, Lu Peng, Liu Qinghe, and Zhou Jirong. A range of media and conceptual approaches are represented - works on paper fusing traditional and contemporary technical processes to installations employing new technologies. Other artists such as Chen Yufei, Guan Wei, Han Qing, Jiang Weitao, Qing Qing, Sheng Qi, Shi Zhongying, Su Xinping, Tan Ping, Wang Lifeng, Wang Yuping, Zheng Xuewu and Zhu Wei are also included.

Reminiscence of Beijing: Masterpieces of Hu Yongkai
Beijing Wan Fung Art Gallery, 136, Nanchizi Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
Until 1 September 2008
In his freehand portraits of Chinese women Hu Yongkai uses colour, patterns and his fluent strokes to make appealing pictures.

Tai Ping You Xiang - Zeng Fanzhi Solo Exhibition
ShanghART Beijing, 261 Caochangdi, Old Airport Road, Beijing, PRC
Until 2 September 2008
The title of the exhibition is also the title of a recent work by Zeng Fanzhi featuring a peaceful young elephant in a typical Zeng Fanzhi landscape. `Tai Ping You Xiang' originates from Lu You’s poem on peace, stability and happiness. `Xiang' (elephant) shares the sound of `auspicious' in Chinese and an image of an elephant with a vase on its back suggest a symbol of peace and good fortune.

Antique Porcelain Exhibition with Olympic Inspiration
Antikwest Ltd at JiGuGe Art Co., 2nd floor exhibition rooms, 134-136 East Liulichang, Beijing, China
Until 15 September 2008
In conjunction with this exhibition a lecture `Antiques Roadshow in China/Antikrunda i Kina’ by Björn Gremner from the popular television program Antikrundan in Swedish Television was held on 10 May. The lecture was how to identify fake or real porcelain, differences in the market between China and Sweden, how to collect today and some hints for the future.

Landscape — Xue Song's New Oil Paintings
Courtyard Gallery, No. 95, Dong Hua Men Da Jie, Beijing, PRC
     Until 20 September 2008

Multiple Realities
F2 Gallery, 319 Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, Beijing 10015, PRC
10 August – 20 September 2008
Curated by Maya Kovskaya, the show includes works by Feng Shu, Han Bing, Li Qing, Michael Zheng, Sun Huiyuan, Sun Xun, Tao Aimin, Weng Yunpeng, Xia Jing Zheng Lu and Zhou Xiaohu.

Yan Shan Chun and Liang Quan
Osage Contemporary Art and Ideas, 93 Duolun Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai, PRC
16 August – 4 September 2008
An exhibition of more than 20 works from the two masters of modern abstractionism. The application of materials and techniques from ink, propylene and fresco paintings in Yan Shanchu’s recent works is interpreted as being in memory of the visual experience from the artist’s childhood and of his hometown by the West Lake. In terms of presentation, his style is improvisational and calligraphic, but also reserved. He pursues elegance and delicacy while remaining innocent and simple. In Liang Quan’s works, the clutter of subtle details balances between themselves to achieve an overall void. The irregular stokes assert their presence but never rush to outdo one another, giving way to a quiet and peaceful mind as such in Buddhism.  

Art Beijing 2008 (Contemporary Art Fair)
National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, PRC
6 – 9 September 2008
Now in its third consecutive year, this time the fair has joined an initiative to link cultural events with the 2008 Olympics, called ‘Meet in Beijing – 2008 Grand Culture Events for the Olympic Games’. The organizers, who describe the fair as a ‘real platform for all contemporary Asian art’, are expecting that about half the exhibitors will be from China, with the remainder from the rest of Asia, Europe and America. Participating photographic galleries will display work in a dedicated ‘Photo Space’ in the exhibition hall. In addition, a series of special events, including a ‘China Contemporary Art Documentary’ and presentations titled ‘Asian Contemporary Water Ink’ and ‘International New Media Exhibition and Youth Art Zone’, will be, according to the organizers, a ‘wonderful platform for advanced art’. The state of the art market will be discussed in a series of forums like the ‘Art Economic Forum’, and the fair will also cooperate with the ‘Asia Art Forum’, sponsored by China Minsheng Bank, which will be held annually and tour different cities in Asia. Front Line Contemporary of Beijing will be exhibiting works in a variety of media, with an emphasis on photography. Featured artist Han Lei’s earlier work explores the line between photographic fiction and reality, while his recent Yellow Mountain series shows a shift of subject from the use of props to natural scenery. Hong Kong’s Schoeni Art Gallery will be showing previously unseen works by its exclusive artists. Zhang Linhai’s paintings feature a common motif of bald young boys against a backdrop of arid, post-industrial wasteland, conveying a sense of sadness and nostalgia. Wang Yiguang depicts romantic illusions of Tibetan landscapes, where a young girl flies through the air with her yak. These themes are juxtaposed with Shen Hua’s emotive, expressionist representations of the Chinese proletariat. The works of Luo Quanmu, featured in a solo exhibition in June at Aura Gallery, Beijing, explore the concepts of absence and mystery, as well as the ambiguity of beginnings and endings, and intangible emotions. In his recent works Luo uses colour-saturated backdrops with mingled textures to create his own utopian world of unfolding space, light and colour. Galerie Hafenrichter & Fluegel of Nuremberg and Miami will be showing works by various Asian artists including portraits by Feng Zhengjie, who is influenced by fashion, advertising and pop art. He seeks to define a new, updated vision of the Chinese woman from a man’s point of view. Taiwan’s Main Trend Gallery will be participating in both Art Beijing and ShContemporary this year. Three artists from Taiwan will be presented at Art Beijing. A wide range of works will be on show, from Chen Chieh-Jen’s macabre digital image film stills of naked decapitated bodies or eerie, abandoned factories to Lai Chiu-Chen’s cartoonish paintings and Liu Shih-Tung’s fantastical creatures. Seoul-based CAIS Gallery will emphasize the young Korean artists Zoo Bae and Rhee Da. Both artists draw inspiration from contemporary popular culture, Zoo in his hyperrealist photographic paintings of, for instance, fruit and toys, and Rhee creating icons out of collected images.

ShContemporary 2008
Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
10 - 13 September 2008
ShContemporary 2008 Fhe fair will feature 46 leading galleries from the Asia/Pacific region, juxtaposed with 54 from Europe and the Americas, to create what organizers hope will be an intriguing dialogue between the Eastern and Western art scenes. Marlborough Gallery of New York will be showing work by a group of Chinese and Western artists, under the title ‘Animal’. Among them are Feng Shuo, who recently had a successful show at Marlborough Chelsea in New York, and Xie Lei, a promising young painter who graduated from the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2006. Baukunst Galerie of Köln will feature the work of Qin Yufen, a young Chinese artist based in Berlin and Beijing. Her complex installations consist of variable arrangements of objects and acoustic compositions, taken from traditional Chinese music or recorded on the street and electronically resampled in the studio. Qin’s work refers to the foreign within the familiar, and seeks to inspire reflection on the contradiction and interrelation of the known and unknown, and of modernity and tradition. Beijing’s Red Gate Gallery will be exhibiting new works by some of its more established artists, who have been working with the gallery since 1991. It will also be introducing some new, up-and-coming talents, promising the audience a wide choice of styles, media and prices. Boers-Li Gallery, also based in Beijing, will be exhibiting work from ‘some of the most intriguing of China’s younger generation of artists, further attempting to push the conversation around Chinese art in a new direction’, according to director of communications Robin Peckham. Highlights among the new creations include paintings by Qiu Xiaofei, an ink animation by Chen Shaoxiong, 3D pieces from Liang Yunwei, ink paintings by Qiu Anxiong and recent work from Liu Wei. Taipei’s Eslite Gallery will present a solo show by Taiwan artist Michael Lin. Lin is internationally known for his painted walls, floors and furniture pieces, with reproduced amplified floral motifs inspired by traditional textiles from various cultures. This new show is a site-specific installation featuring a series of brightly coloured paintings complemented by walls of floral prints on three sides. Continuing on from its success at last year’s fair, when all of Chatchai Puipia’s works were reserved on the opening night, 100 Tonson Gallery will be the only Thai gallery to participate this year. Puipia’s works have been widely exhibited internationally, including at the 2000 and 2006 Shanghai Biennales, and are in many permanent collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Singapore Art Museum and Mori Art Museum. A large sculpture he has created specially for the event will be highlighted in an outdoor project. It shows the artist bending down and looking between his legs, representing a different way of viewing the world. Fabio Rossi (of Rossi & Rossi) will be exhibiting the work of seven internationally recognized Tibetan artists, Kesang Lamdark, Tenzing Rigdol, Palden Larz Weinreb, Nortse, Tsewang Tashi, Gade and Gongkar Gyatso. While their work shows their individuality as artists, they have in common a fusion of their own culture with contemporary Western ideas and imagery. Rossi is pleased that the Kazakhstan contemporary artist Erbossyn Meldibekov, represented by the gallery, has been invited to take part in ‘Best of Discovery’. 82 Republic seeks to promote young artists born in the 1980s to an international level. One of these is Wan Yang, who graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2005. Ice Cream Drill No. 3 is part of a series based on a board game he created, and depicts the end result of a battle between exploding ice-cream cones in bright splashes of colour. The fair will also showcase his Diamond series, emphasizing his versatility as an artist. One of Wan’s fellow students, Liu Jia, has already exhibited in an impressive list of museums for his age, including Les Abattoirs - Modern and Contemporary Museum in Toulouse, Shenzhen Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai. Liu believes that life is full of dilemmas and man’s role is contradictory. This view is the inspiration for his sometimes satirical sculptures of animal and humanoid figures. doART Beijing returns to Shanghai this year with paintings, sculptures and multi-media work by new-generation artists like Huang Yuanqing, Jiao Xingtao, Qin Qi, Jia Aili, Cheng Ran, Meng Yangyang and Qiu Ruixiang. Recent paintings by Jia express a sense of grandeur in isolation and the somewhat hidden irony of human nature, while Qin’s experimental paintings, with their rather subtle and intimate humour, are almost like fables. Other pieces to be shown include Jiao’s Metamorphose series and Cheng’s multi-media works. Highlights at Walsh Gallery’s exhibition this year are works by emerging Laos-born artist Von Kommanivanh and Miao Xiaochun, an established artist from China. Kommanivanh’s mixed-media piece Ether represents a ‘nuclear-hydro-magnetic powered motorless and non-combustible’ aeroplane, according to assistant director Tijana Jovanovic. This aeroplane is a ‘super-green’ vehicle that locomotes by telepathic communication with anyone who is brave enough to fly anywhere he wants, including imaginary destinations. It is the artist’s ‘ticket out of here’, away from earthly obsessions, superficiality and violent society. Kommanivanh’s intention is to make us face our own reality, so we can decide whether to unite and change the world or live perpetually in the status quo. Following their show at Art Beijing, Taiwan’s Main Trend Gallery will be focusing on the work of only one artist, Wu Tien-Chang. Wu continues his theme of freakish characters posing in what seems to be old photography studios. Osage Gallery will present mainly paintings and prints by Chinese artists from Hong Kong and China: Wilson Shieh, Miao Xiaochun, Li Ji and Shi Jinsong. The works were chosen specifically because they reference the great traditions of figurative painting from both East and West, yet embody notions that epitomize contemporary art. The selected works are a play between modernizing tradition and traditionalizing modernity. Shieh has perfected the ancient gongbi painting technique. In Victoria the Lady, he critiques ideas of female dominance gained through merciless sexuality hidden beneath a conservative exterior, a poignant reference to gender politics in Hong Kong’s materialistic society today. Singapore Tyler Print Institute will be presenting only one artist at the fair, Qiu Zhijie; the works were a result of his residency at the institute in 2008. Qiu is known for his artistic explorations of China’s changing cultural landscape, where he employs a method he terms ‘calli-photo-graphy’, a fusion of Chinese calligraphy with video works, installation and performance art. In this collection, Qiu explores the notion of nationhood, and of geopolitical and psychological attachments to the city of Nanjing, which holds a fascination for him and which he regards as a ‘city of failure’ for its tragic history of wars and massacres. He questions the trials and tribulations China has experienced by combining imagery of Nanjing bridge – a favoured site for suicide – with ancient Chinese aesthetics, Daoist philosophy and Cultural Revolution iconography, to create a conceptual map. In works like Ataractic of Zhuang Zi, the artist recounts Daoist classics to inject a dose of ancient philosophy and to ‘tranquilize’ the effects of historical burdens and the anxiety of contemporary life. Soka Art Center will be showing well-known artists like Yan Pei Ming alongside installations by Li Hui, Yin Qi’s works exploring manufactured products in everyday life and pieces by Yang Jing depicting figures in conversation. The gallery will also present Gabriel Barredo and Jose Legaspi from the Philippines, Handiwirman Saputra from Indonesia and Yamamoto Mayuka from Japan.

2008 Autumn Auction
Beijing Hanhai Auction Co Ltd, Beijing, PRC
Autumn 2008

2009 China International Gallery Exposition
China World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, PRC
29 April – 3 May 2009

HONG KONG

Art-Times-Square -- Exhibition of Works by Sui Jianguo
Second Floor Atrium, Times Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Until 19 August 2008
The exhibition organized by Times Square Limited and Hanart TZ Gallery featuring a well-selected range of Sui’s signature works from the past decades to the most recent ones, including the artist’s most celebrated `Legacy Mantle series – Mao Jacket’, gigantic sculpture `Dinosaurs – Made In China’, recent work `New Disco-bolus’ and many more. From which the `New Disco-bolus’ series are specially selected to present in this exhibition to celebrate the Beijing Olympic Game, making the exhibition even more

Running Water Mountain High
Art Beatus Gallery, 35-39 Graham Street, Ground Floor, Central, Hong Kong
Until 23 August 2008
An exhibition of acrylic shanshui paintings by Water Poon.

Shi Guorui – Camera Obscura Photographer
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, G/F, 10 Chancery Lane, SoHo, Central, Hong Kong
Until 30 August 2008
Featuring large-scale iconic photographs using a pinhole camera of cities or landscapes on a monumental scale, void of distraction, to understand and observe different cultures within their social or political realm. Each image, having a unique identity, invites the viewer to appreciate the distinctive differences of each location and the mindset from which they were built. With visual magnificence and cinematic drama the views are familiar but strange at the same time.

Here Come The Heavenly Horses
Oi Ling Antiques, 52 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong
12 - 26 August 2008
The Chinese have long been fascinated by horses. When one looks at the first dictionary published during the Han dynasty, there are an amazing number of words for horse - 119 to be exact - and for all that is associated with their use, breeding, and training. Early on, the Chinese recognized their strategic importance. For example, in an effort to strengthen his court, Emperor Han Wudi brought a significant numbers of a superior breed called Tienma (`Heavenly Horses’) from the region today comprising parts of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Later, General Ma Yuen stated: `Horses are the foundation of military might, the great resource of the state’.
  Horses also played an integral part in the overall development of China as well as in the lifestyle of the people. It was in China that the stirrup was invented and the first representation of a rider with paired stirrups is in a Jin Dynasty tomb dated c. 322. As China’s economy flourished during the Tang period, women began to ride and horses appeared in paintings, sculpture and all forms of art and were the subject of legends.
This exhibition explores and appreciates the economic, social and cultural advances of China through the artistic expression of a special collection of Chinese horses and related accessories. It celebrates the horse for its vital role in China’s history and development special collection of horses and related accessories from the Han and Tang periods.

A pair of imperial horses with full trappings
China, Tang dynasty (618-907)
Pottery with pigment
Height 63 cm
`Here Come The Heavenly Horses’
Oi Ling Antiques

Youth Passions
BaoQu Tang Modern Art Gallery, 156-159 InterContinental Hong Kong 18 Sailsbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
12 August – 20 September 2008
50 works by Chinese contemporary artists portraying children, teenagers and youngsters. Through different perspectives and painting techniques, the joy, worries, curiosities, imaginations, explorations, communications of youth are fully expressed by the artists’ brushwork.

People and Landscapes of Burma by Maung Aw (Burma)
Karin Weber Gallery, F/f, 20 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong
16 September - 7 October 2008
An exhibition showcasing Maung Aw’s latest works including his `Turban Kids’ collection, his luminous white roses and some recent landscapes. His images of `kids’ from the Pa-O tribe, with their head scarves reflect the bright colours of Burma and the Burmese people who live within his landscapes, reveal his distinctive use of highly contrasting colour.

Carpets from Northern China & Tibet
Altfield Gallery, 248-9 Prince’s Building, Central, Hong Kong
17 – 30 September 2008
Well known for their lively designs, bright vivacious colours and charming symbolism, the Tibetan rugs are either woven as rectangles which are large enough for a man to sleep on, or small rectangles that act as a single seat, or are sewn as flanking panels that act as saddle rugs placed on the back of a horse's saddle by their nomadic owners. The designs of these carpets derive from Buddhist iconography such as flaming pearls and immortality symbols, mythological symbols such as snow lions, dragons and phoenix, as well as motifs found on imported and native textiles such as meandering scrolling lotus flowers. The rugs from Inner Mongolia tend to be more classical with repeating motifs, scrolling floral meanders, vases and scattered motifs taken from textile embroidery traditions. They are characterized by their emphasis on a deep blue palate, with reds, pinks and creams. The most refined of all Chinese carpets are from Ningxia made from the distinctively lustrous, long and wavy wool of sheep from the Alxa plateau. The colours (tumeric yellows and golds, indigo blues and saffron reds) are distinctive and based on vegetable dyes. Prayer rugs and banner rugs that have strong Buddhist symbolism, and those made for the nobility tend to have symbols that are lucky or call for longevity.

Hong Kong International Arts & Antiques Fair (HKIAAF 2008)
Hall 3, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong
4 - 7 October 2008
Having staged three successful fairs in 2006 and 2007, Art & Antique International Fair Ltd (AAIF) presents a new, expanded Hong Kong fair to coincide with the Sotheby’s auctions at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. It took Andy Hei, founder and director of AAIF, three years to negotiate space at this prestigious venue during one of two prime art seasons in Hong Kong. The first season in May was not an option as Christie’s had exercised their right in the contract with the convention centre to have an exclusive on the venue during their auctions. Sotheby’s did not take up this protection clause and do not object to a simultaneous event if of equally high standard and quality. Described as a ‘vibrant new platform for the art world in Asia and worldwide’, HKIAAF is unique in bringing together antiques and contemporary art in Hong Kong at one event. It offers, according to Hei, ‘an unparalleled opportunity for local and international collectors to congregate in this dynamic city to appreciate and acquire art works of the finest quality and creativity’. Deliberately timed to coincide with the city’s peak art season, it is expected to attract massive interest. It has also evolved into more than a commercial event, with an impressive series of museum-type exhibitions and education programmes. The series includes the finalists’ show in the invitational ‘Hong Kong Arts Centre 30th Anniversary Art Competition’, sponsored by the Ink Society; the winners will be announced at a ceremony during the fair. The Ink Society will also present ‘Ethereal Visions: Li Huayi at 60’, featuring the magnificent landscape paintings of this celebrated artist (see p. 111), while members of the Friends of the Hong Kong Museum of Art will be lending major pieces from their private collections of ancient and contemporary art for display. A capsule exhibition project called ‘STATION TO STATION’, curated by John Millichap and presented by 3030 Press, will showcase new multimedia work by some of Hong Kong and Shanghai’s most exciting young photographers and video-makers. Artists from Shanghai include Yiki Liu Yiqing, Birdhead (Song Tao and Ji Weiyu), Xiang Liqing and Liang Yue; and from Hong Kong, Cheung Wai Lok, Stella Tsoi Sum Yi, Gavin Au and Tozer Pak. The exhibition explores the responses of this younger generation of artists to two of China’s most dynamic cities, as places for living and as engines of cultural and economic change. The programme of lectures and seminars by noted artists and leading authorities includes two high-profile art experts from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Director Jay Xu and Senior Curator of Chinese Art Michael Knight, who will discuss the latest trends in Asian art. Other lectures will include ‘Investing in Art’, ‘Chinese Ink Painting’ and ‘Contemporary Chinese Photography and New Media Art’. All proceeds from the sale of tickets for the opening night reception and other charity events will be donated to The Community Chest of Hong Kong, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The impressive venue and timing has encouraged over seventy prominent local and international galleries to sign up, more than double the number that exhibited last year, indicating that interest is definitely growing. The art will span the Neolithic period to the present day, including ancient bronzes, ceramics, works of art, furniture, textiles and jades, as well as contemporary works by established and emerging artists, ranging from paintings and sculpture to installations, photography and mixed media. Andy Hei will be showing an impressive selection of 17th and 18th century furniture, mostly in huanghuali, for which he and his father Hei Hunglu are renowned. Highlights include a pair of elegantly formed southern official’s hat armchairs of the 17th century that have been in a Western collection since the early Republican era. They were previously published by Robert Hatfield Ellsworth in his Chinese Furniture (New York, 1970, p. 114). Another highlight is an 18th century kang table, a type of furniture used on platform beds in northern China, which is notable as its top is a single panel. This piece has remained in good condition over the years and has not had any major restoration. Also from an overseas collection, it most likely left China in the late Qing or early Republican period. Fabio Rossi of Rossi & Rossi, one of the original supporters of the fair, is impressed that it has established itself as the most important classical fair in Asia in just two years. He is confident that relocation to the convention centre will make it even more high profile. The gallery’s exhibition consists primarily of a private collection of Tibetan and Mongolian gilt-copper Buddhist images, mostly dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, an area which proved to be most lucrative for Rossi at the last two shows. Among the examples from the renowned school of Zanazabar are a particularly rare form of the much venerated Amitayus and an elegantly proportioned image of Avalokiteshvara whose facial features are very characteristic of this style. Prior to establishing Kaikodo in 1983, owners Howard and Mary Ann Rogers had been actively acquiring works of art since they moved to Japan in 1976, and also on their frequent visits to Hong Kong. The opportunity to return as an exhibitor at this fair was therefore too tempting to pass up. One of their main areas of expertise is in Chinese paintings from the Song period right up to contemporary ink painting. A range will be exhibited, as well as a selection of pre-modern jades, bronzes and lacquer, some acquired during earlier years in Japan. Also from New York, Danon Gallery will be showing a collection of Qing imperial court carpets, which were destined for the pavilions of the Forbidden City and were also commissioned as gifts for important dignitaries. The gallery will exhibit pieces woven in silk with gold, silver or copper threads inserted into the warp and weft, featuring traditional themes of dragons, phoenixes and flowers. Carlton Rochell believes the fair will present him with an opportunity to meet the growing number of high-end Chinese buyers who are developing an interest in esoteric Buddhist art from the Himalayas. He will offer bronzes from Gandhara, Kashmir, Nepal and Tibet as well as some Tibetan paintings. Many of the works hail from important European and American collections, including a 10th/11th century Kashmiri or West Tibetan brass image of Manjushri with a particularly compassionate expression. Other highlights include a late 14th/early 15th century Tibetan painting of Avalokiteshvara from the Zimmerman Collection, which is similar to the early 15th century wall paintings at Gyantse. Equally important is a Gandhara bronze image of Shakyamuni which Rochell believes is the finest currently available on the market. Maria Kiang, a by-appointment-only dealer based in Hong Kong, has produced a special catalogue of the scholar’s objects she will be showcasing. She debuted last year at the Asia International Arts & Antiques Fair at Hong Kong’s Airport Expo to great success, and hopes to raise the bar at Hei’s fair this year. She believes its quality is on a par with the global market. One of the highlights from her collection is a Kangxi period large circular stained huanghuali brushholder carved with naturalistic gnarled knots in high relief, resembling the trunk of a tree. The mouth and base of this piece are fitted with zitan. Kiang cites an illustrated example with similar carving in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing. Other notable works of art on view include a delicate Ming rhinoceros-horn cup in the shape of a hibiscus flower from an English collection. Mehmet Hassan’s display of Buddhist art includes a group of Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist bronzes and Tibetan thangkas. Among the latter is a Ming silk appliqué and embroidered example depicting Shakyamuni. The bronzes include a 15th century repousse figure of Indra from Nepal and an inlaid image of Tara from around 1300. Hassan believes the fair offers enormous potential to reach a growing number of local collectors and also those from the mainland who come to Hong Kong during this busy season. Martin Fung will feature Buddhist and scholarly works of art in a variety of materials, from wood and bamboo to lacquer and bronze. The highlight will be a group of cinnabar lacquer pieces, including a kang curio cabinet with intricate carvings of dragons and clouds. Following his success at this fair last May, Christopher Bruckner of Asian Art Gallery is delighted to be returning for what he hopes will be an even more ‘magnificent’ fair. He will be exhibiting an important selection of Chinese imperial works of art, many of which come from private collections. This is a field in which Bruckner has long specialized, and in recent years pieces commissioned by the court have become increasingly sought after. Alongside secular works, he will also display fine examples of Buddhist sculpture. Last year proved a success for Paul Champkins will be showing ceramics and works of art from East Asia and Susan Ollemans has jade pieces inset with gemstones made for the Indian market. These cover her two main areas of interest, Chinese works of art and Indian Mughal jewellery. Jade Gallery will show some good examples of jade carvings, including a spinach-green jade brushpot from the Qianlong period, decorated with a mountain scene. Highlights from Ever Arts Gallery include a 17th century huanghuali horseshoe-back armchair. Henry Au-Yeung’s gallery Grotto Fine Art will showcase a group of leading Hong Kong artists under the age of 45: Wilson Shieh, Fiona Wong, Danny Lee and Ho Siu-kee, alongside emerging artists Halley Cheng, Sarah Lai, Ho Sin-tung and Wai Pongyu. Au- Yeung believes that the fair offers a good opportunity to present the city’s originality and quality of art, and the distinctive images and history of Hong Kong’s post-colonial identity. The gallery’s recent success at other art fairs confirms that works by Hong Kong artists are being taken seriously as collectable and affordable, a rare combination with the present auction frenzy. Fiona Wong’s Blue Angel, meticulously modelled from porcelain and silver wire, which emphasizes the potency and fragility of life, is one of Au-Yeung’s highlights. According to Sundaram Tagore, the fair calls to mind the renowned Maastricht fair and is an ideal setting to showcase contemporary art, as it is presented in the context of antiquities, which links the past with the present. Just as importantly, he said, the fair is taking place concurrently with auction activities. Tagore will be showing works by Sohan Qadri in ink and dye on paper, recalling the spirituality of his birthplace, India. The rhythmic movements of colour are conveyed within repeating patterns of dots and striations undulating across the paper. Qadri’s work is influenced by his lifelong practice of yoga, and is displayed in museum collections including the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and the Peabody Essex Museum. Leda Fletcher has had a gallery in Geneva showing works of contemporary Chinese artists for the past nine years. She will present Chen Bolan’s works in oil and Qu Leilei’s ink paintings. Both artists are focused on combining their traditional Chinese cultural background with their experiences in the West, and are fascinated by the changeable possibilities of light and shadow. Chen’s black-and-white paintings are inspired by old black-and-white photographs of China. Similarly, Qu Leilei has been searching for the perfect blend of Eastern and Western techniques, which he has achieved with his recent nudes. Executed in ink on Chinese paper, they combine the traditional Western representation of beauty with the highest degree of Eastern technique. The artist has been able to obtain the same representational capacities of light and shadow that traditionally only oil paintings can provide. Goedhius Contemporary’s presentation will comprise contemporary ink paintings from masters like Qin Feng, Gu Wenda, Lo Ch’ing and Qiu Zhijie, as well as emerging younger figures – Liu Qinghe, Wei Ligang, Yi Liao, Ge Guanzhong and Li Rui. A new interpretation of the terracotta warriors by Chinese-American sculptor Zhang Wanxin reveals ‘a twist of black humour and modern features’, said Dick Yiu, manager of Hong Kong- and Vancouver-based Art Beatus. The gallery will also be showing pen-and-ink drawings by Henan artist Lei Ling Yiu illustrating traditional themes with contemporary elements, and mixed-media lacquer works and sculptures by the Luo Brothers, portraying the impact of consumerism on Chinese society, particularly during the last decade of the 20th century. Karin Weber of Hong Kong has chosen works by three artists from mainland China, as well as one Malaysian and one Burmese artist that ‘[re]present courage, spirit and joy!’ Hong Kong designer and jeweller Wallace Chan creates one-of-a-kind pieces with precious and semi-precious stones. Chan will be presenting some of his creations, such as Struggling for a Way Out. This small, ultra-realistic sculpture in silver and black obsidian showcases Chan’s impressive techniques in gemmology and metalwork. CAIS Gallery will be showing work by Korean artists Rhee Da and Zoo Bae. Rhee’s interest in mass-media culture inspires the process she calls ‘pseudo iconization’, transforming images she collects from the mass media into visual icons. Zoo’s works feature hyperrealist depictions of everyday items juxtaposed with toys. Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery will be bringing a diverse collection of Asian contemporary art to the fair, including works by Yoshitomo Nara, the contemporary Japanese pop artist, and Beijing-based Wang Guangyi. Nara’s work often features pastel-hued children against a plain background. Wang is known for his ‘Chinese pop style’, and favours satirical communist icons in a materialist setting to convey the dramatic social and political changes that have occurred in China since the 1970s. Typical of his work is Materialist, a powerful iron sculpture of a worker figure. Jacqueline Simcox, Shinseido-Hatanaka Art Gallery, CAIS Gallery, Hanart TZ Gallery will also be among the exhibitors.

Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art
Christie’s, Hong Kong
30 November 2008

Chinese 20th Century Art (Evening Sale)
Christie’s, Hong Kong
30 November 2008

Asian Contemporary Art (Evening Sale)
Christie’s, Hong Kong
30 November 2008

Fine Chinese Modern Paintings
Christie’s, Hong Kong
2 December 2008

Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy
Christie’s, Hong Kong
2 December 2008

Important Chinese Classical Paintings from the Ping Y Tai Foundation
Christie’s, Hong Kong
2 December 2008

Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Christie’s, Hong Kong
3 December 2008

A Magnificent Imperial Famille Rose "Butterfly" Vase from the Ping Y Tai Foundation
Christie’s, Hong Kong
3 December 2008

Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Bonhams, Hong Kong
3 December 2008

NORTH ASIA

New Gallery
Hiroshi & Harumi Yanagi Oriental Art, 241 Nakano-Cho, Higashioji-Higashi-iru, shinmonzen Dori, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Opened 12 July 2008

Two fold screen with tiger
By Kano Sansetsu (1590-1651)
Ink on paper
174.2 x 150.8 cm (height) Exhibited and published: The Smile in Japanese Art, 2007 at Mori Art Museum
Hiroshi & Harumi Yanagi Oriental Art

Jeong Yong Kook's Solo Exhibition
PYO Gallery Seoul, 258-79, Itaewon- dong, Youngsan - gu, Seoul, Korea
Until 12 August 2008

Lee Yong Deok's Solo Exhibition
PYO Gallery Seoul, 258-79, Itaewon- dong, Youngsan - gu, Seoul, Korea
3 - 25 September 2008

Soya Asae's Solo Exhibition
PYO Gallery Seoul, 258-79, Itaewon- dong, Youngsan - gu, Seoul, Korea
November 2008

Shin, Chi-Hyun's Solo Exhibition
PYO Gallery Seoul, 258-79, Itaewon- dong, Youngsan - gu, Seoul, Korea
Opening 19 December 2008

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Motion in Gray - LE Vo Tuan
Studio Tho Asia Fine Art, Ground floor, Handspan Building, 78 Ma May Street, Hoan Kiem, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
Until 31 August 2008
The presentation of new paintings and VideoArt in which Le Vo Tuan paints people on the move, in motion in a busy metropolis but in sombre colours. The sixteen large works (and his VideoArt) created during his most recent period mirror his doubts and skepticism by questioning the current developments in Vietnamese society.

Inside Looking Out
Osage Contemporary Art, 11B Mount Sophia, #01-12, Singapore
Until 6 September 2008
An exhibition featuring works by seven young artists from Hong Kong’s bohemian artists’ colony. The establishment by artists of studios in the abandoned factories of Chai Wan, Kwun Tong and in particular Fotan is Hong Kong’s twenty-first century equivalent of such a colony. There are an estimated 70 artists, setting up more than 20 studios. `Fotanian’ refers to a yearly event by the artists and organizers to hold open-house exhibitions. It is one of the most interesting aspects of Hong Kong’s recent contemporary art development. A roundtable discussion on 9 August from 2 pm to 5 pm will revolve around the phenomenon of artists’ studio clustering that has occurred in Hong Kong. Seven representative `Fotanian’ artists will be sharing their perspectives in this discussion that will address the following questions: - Whether the art of `Fotanian’ artists is made for Hong Kong? - How can it be understood and valued from outside, looking in? - How can it contribute to our appreciation of the conditions of the art practice and the art ecosystem in Singapore, with respect to issues of space and clustering, arts funding, economic imperatives, colonial histories, urban cultural identities and the sort of groupings that exist/are possible in Singapore? Panelists include Professor Kurt Chan and John Low and exhibiting artists Chow Chunfai, Kwan Sheungchi, Lam Tungpang, Lee Kit, Ma Chihang, Pak Sheungchuen and Doris Wong Waiyin.

Art Taipei 2008
Taipei World Trade Center (Area A & D), Taipei
28 August – 2 September 2008

ART Singapore 2008
Suntec Singapore, Level 4 Hall 404, Singapore
9 - 13 October 2008
Exhibitors include The Tolman Collection from Japan, Anna Ning Fein art from Hong Kong, Colorido, Lakeer and Gallery 7 from India and Langgeng Gallery from Indonesia. As it is the only major art fair in Southeast Asia , it provides a platform where gallery owners, collectors, artists and art aficionados gather to forge business alliance, acquire new contemporary artworks, share ideas and exchange information - all under one roof.