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Item Number: 123924
Title: Deep S.E.A. : Contemporary Art from South East Asia
Author: Marella, Primo Giovanni
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788862082846
Description: Bologna: Damiani, 2012. 29cm., hardcover, 143pp. prof. illus., most in color. Exhibition held at Primo Marella Gallery, Milano. Summary: Playing with the semantic meaning ambivalence, the exhibition title revolve around the word “S.E.A.”, all the while acronym of South East Asia and cross-reference to the common geo-physical element of the sea, the only shared border among Southeast Asian countries: except for Laos, indeed, all the countries shores producing exhibited artists are lapped by the Pacific Ocean. Here, the history of art becomes an hazardous ground, hard to sum up within the limits of local art habits. Arguably, we will always talk about art “from” Southeast Asia instead of “of” Southeast Asia, supporting the objective absence of an art classifiable as regional. Rather, it is a group of astonishing ideas and practices springing up from a pinpointed creative context. 11 artists from 8 countries, introduced by internationally well-known local contributors, constitute the visual support of this far-away-coming story, telling of identity and memory, hope and trauma, religion and oppression, emotional and concrete diaspora, constantly fluctuating between nationalism and globalism. Southeast Asian artists become the protagonists of the global art scene: from few exhibitions at the Singapore Art Museum to the forth-coming No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, scheduled for February 2013 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, passing by the latest Documenta edition in Kassel, Germany. Using a wide range of media, from painting to performance documentation, each artist struggles to drag us into a glimpse of his life and to whisper his personal world view.
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