Reviews

Brisbane
ISABEL AND ALREDO AQUILIZAN: ANOTHER COUNTRY
Jan Manton Art

For their first exhibition since moving to Brisbane from Manila, Filipino artist-couple Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan present their mixed media installation Project Be-longing: In-Transit (2006) as a conclusion to their ongoing...
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HONG KONG
ADRIAN WONG: A FEAR IS THIS
1A Space

With its curious blend of dark humor and social commentary, Hong Kong-based artist Adrian Wong’s first solo exhibition on the island city provides audiences with an offbeat take on the phobias and anxieties haunting the inhabitants...
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NEW DELHI
A. Balasubramaniam: (IN) Visible
Talwar Gallery

Throughout his work in diverse media, including printmaking, painting and sculpture, A. Balasubramaniam toys with contrasting ideas: evanescence and physicality, illusion and reality, playfulness and sobriety. New York’s’ Talwar Gallery inaugurated its new space in New Delhi with...
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HELSINKINI
WIND FROM THE EAST
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma

The wave of museum exhibitions in Europe dedicated to emerging art from Asia (See AAP 53) has now reached Finland, where “Wind from the East,” organized by Kiasma curators Tuula Karjalinen and Marja Sakari, takes a synthesizing approach by presenting the works of eight artists from three countries: China, Thailand and Indonesia. This arbitrary grouping, together with...
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LOS ANGELES
ETERNAL FLAME: IMAGINING A FUTURE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
The Gallery at Redcat

In the current internationalized art climate, the trope of the aging white male genius no longer holds sway, and the mainstream’s capacity to absorb new, subversive, obscure and difficult art seems inexhaustible. In this context, curating an overly-academic though intimate survey addressing the downside of globalized culture may
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