Publication

The fifth exhibition of "Arts and people" series focused on "Jian zhi" or the paper-cutout in China. Instead merely introducing its subjects, forms, and techniques, this exhibition delves deeper into the secret of the Jian zhi by focusing on the people's livelihood and the women, who created the paper-cutouts in the Huangtu Plateau, as well as provide much insight into a "field work" on the people's life and exchanged between researchers and the locals. 160 pages B/W and color plates, with supplement booklet of cutout

The exhibition focused on eight Burmese artists from "Gangaw Village Art Group (1979-)," which is the first Burmese contemporary artist collective and the history of their activities for exploring free expressions. 48 pages, in full color.

Solo exhibition of Long Chinsan (1892-1995), a photographer who worked mainly in Shanghai and Taipei. He is known for composite photography, in which he printed separately shot landscapes, people and still-lifes etc. in a print, as development of Chinese traditional paintings in modern media.

Paubha is a painting that depicts Buddhist and Hindu gods and mandala produced by artists of the Newar, the indigenous people in Nepal. This exhibition presented the world of contemporary Paubha paintings with 51 works by 31 artists. The artists attempt to create a new kind of Paubha painting by adopting other methods such as Western chiaroscuro and oil technique.

Company Paintings played an important role in the dawn of Modern Indian Art. This 48 page catalogue (with 32 color plates) includes paintings and photographs from the collections of the New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.

This solo exhibition of Niloofar Chaman, who works in Chittagong, a port-town in Bangladesh, shows the progress of her paintings, drawings and installations from the late 80s to the present.

The exhibition introduced art in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. 25 paintings introduce how Taiwanese painters and Japanese painters in Taiwan worked in colonial Taiwan.

The exhibition introduced 102 Pakistani film posters made during 1950-90s.
The catalogue contains all the images of the exhibited posters.

The exhibition presents 7 artists and 1 group from Japan and Korea who have grown up with comics and animation.

This exhibition was curated by Johan Pijnappel participanted in our residence_program program in 1999. Indian video art which is dynamically developing in recent years was introduced through works of 10 artists.

Curated by Virginia Whiles. Nineteen contemporary miniature painters in Pakistan are featured.

The exhibition traced the transformation of embroidery succeeded in traditional communities amidst the process of the modenization.

Photography exhibition of Lionel Wendt (1900-1944) who contributed to the first modern art movement in Sri Lanka.

The exhibition showed holy sculptures transformed through inculturation of Catholic beliefs. Objects of folk beliefs were also displayed by a Philippine artist, Norberto Roldan.

This exhibition traced how the modern art of this particular region called "Nangyang" was created by the artists of Chinese origin amidst the process of post-WWII recovery and the founding of Singapore.

The contemporary comic exhibition featuring 10 artists from 3 regions in East Asia was curated by the Japan Foundation Asia Center.

The solo exhibition of Sudarshan Shetty living in Mumbai. His sculptures made use of common objects and have uncanny motions.

A solo exhibition of a Korean artist, Lee Bul, who is active in the international art scene. She expresses the power of female body through works in which a cyborg and monster are united .

The exhibition was curated by Patricia Uberoi, a sociologist, and Pooja Sood, a participant of our residence_program program in 1999. The situation of Indian society can be seen from the kitsch female images depicted in calendars.

Affandi is one of the founders of Indonesian modern art. A sensibility of the tropical country can be found in his flame like line-drawings.