Tan Nan See, “I Wanna Be A Contemporary Artist”, 2006-2007, Mixed media.

This work is exhibited at Galeri Petronas, KLCC in their exhibition “Young Malaysian Artists - New Objec(tion), 13 July - 3 October 2010.

The dust has now settled from our move to Taman Tunku apartments in March 2010. While we adjust to the cosier dimensions of our office space, Rogue has been working on a few projects at a steady simmer. At present, we are also juggling a couple of unexpected last minute offers which we simply could not refuse.  We thought we’d take a moment to share with you are activities for the upcoming months, in case you are wondering what has been keeping us busy. View/Download the PDF here.

To keep in touch with our activities, join us on Facebook!

Colour, Shape, Quantity, Scale at 15 Jln Mesui

A little late, and we’re rather sad the show is already down, but we’d like to give our 3 thumbs up to Liew Kwai Fei’s exhibition at 15 Jalan Mesui. A sharp clean breath of air, and we loved the way it worked in the unapologetically gritty space. Read more on arteri.

We are in the middle of getting ready for the exhibition “Malaysian Art Friends : Highlights from 15 Private Collections” opening at the National Art Gallery Malaysia this weekend. This exhibition will be held in conjunction with the launch of the book “30 Art Friends : Appreciating Southeast Asia Art”. So, if you are free on Saturday evening, do drop by and join us at the exhibition opening at 8pm on June 26th, 2010. The event will be officiated by Y Bhg Tan Sri Kamarul Ariffin.

National Art Gallery Malaysia
2, Jalan Temerloh, Off Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur

The exhibition continues until 20 July 2010

RSVP before 24 June 2010
+603 4026 7000
Noor Elissa
Salma At’riah

We had a chat with our friends at Arteri Malaysia about our involvement with Agus Suwage’s monograph “Still Crazy After All These Years”. Click here to read

For more about Agus Suwage’s work, check out his website here.

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We’d like to congratulate national laureate Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal on winning his court case against the Mayor of KL last Friday, and to the courts for their enlightened decision on this landmark case for the Malaysian artist community. The Mayor of KL has been ordered to pay RM750,000 to Datuk Syed for “damages on infringement of moral rights” following the massive alteration of the artist’s Lunar Peak sculpture (commissioned by UMBC Harta Sdn Bhd in 1985) at Jalan Bandar without his consent. Read the reports in Malaysian Digest and The Star.

We salute Datuk Syed and Datin Hamidah and their legal team for their perseverance. What now for Lunar Peak however?

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FINALLY. The fruit of our labour is finally having its long awaited coming out party! This is RogueArt’s first major publication project so you can imagine our excitement. Can’t wait to see the final product! We hear the 100 limited edition copies contain a special surprise. See you there?

Still Crazy After All These Years
Book Launching and Signing
Monday, May 17 at 5:00pm
Nadi Gallery, Grand Indonesia, Jakarta

Please email us contact@rogueart.asia for further information about the book or if you would like us to help you find a copy.

If in Singapore this week, we strongly recommend you try to catch the last few days of FX Harsono: Testimonies at Singapore Art Museum, which ends 9 May.  If you can’t, download the exhibition catalogue from the SAM website.

While at SAM do also go see Ming Wong, Life of Imitation, which runs to 22 August - well worth the price of the tickets!

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Asia Art Forum is back ladies and gentlemen! And yes, we are helping our friends plug their gig this coming May. I was a part of last year’s series and can honestly tell you that it is an opportunity not to be missed, if you are the sort who is interested in the ins and outs of Asia’s dynamic art scene told from an insider’s viewpoint.

This year AAF will be focusing on themes and developments in artistic practice relating to the contemporary art of China, Korea and Hong Kong. The Forum will be complimented by a trip to Hong Kong’s Fotan art district, formerly an industrial area characterised by warehouses and now home to the studios of many of Hong Kong’s most prominent artists. AAF will also be devoting a day to the examination of the art market and will be looking at the role of the collector in Asia, where the audience will have the unique opportunity to listen to personal testimonies of prominent collectors building art collections in Asia today.

Fostering direct encounters with leading members of the Asian contemporary art community, the program offers privileged access to first-hand information and invaluable insights into these developing areas of Asian art history.

The exclusivity of the Forum enables and encourages the exchange of ideas between guest lectures and participants providing a singular opportunity for art professionals, collectors and enthusiasts with an interest in these burgeoning regions currently driving a major transformation of the international art world.

The seminar will take place in Hong Kong over a three day period, 21-23 May. Limited places are available.

For more information please email info@asiaartforum.com

Asia Art Forum is an educational initiative founded and produced by Pippa Dennis in association with Asia Art Radar. 15% of all profits will go to Arthub, a non-profit art and cultural organization which promotes contemporary art creation in China and the rest of Asia.

Asia Art Forum is supported by Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong

With special thanks to The Goethe Institute and Ben Brown Fine Arts for hosting the sessions.

Programme will include:

• Bang to Boom: Chinese Art in the 1990s
Curator Karen Smith will trace the events, ideas and theories that unfolded through the 1990s to produce the backbone of China’s new art. Cynical Realism, Political Pop, performance art, photography, video, installation, and extreme conceptual expression all have their roots in this decade of tumultuous advance and experimentation, strung between the socio-political events of 1989–that began with a bang when woman artist Xiao Lu fired a gun into her work in February 1989–and the economic boom that began in 2004. The 1990s was an extraordinary incubator for art reflecting the extraordinary times that characterise the era.

• Centre and Periphery: the Dynamics of Hong Kong Contemporary Art

Eclipsed by the overwhelming attention directed at mainland China, Hong Kong artists have been free from commercial pressure to quietly develop a unique aesthetic. Compounded by the fact that Hong Kong is a place where physical platforms for visual art are curiously limited, many artists have survived by carving out private spaces far from the centres of control. This tendency towards privacy and interiority has become part of the fundamental vocabulary in the expressive content of Hong Kong contemporary art. Against this background, critic and independent curator Valerie Doran examines the quietly vibrant dynamics of Hong Kong art, past, present and future.

• Big Art in China

Philip Tinari explores the mechanisms of artistic production in contemporary China, asking how China’s unique economies of labor affect how work is made. Looking specifically at locales and situations including the studio districts of Beijing, the ceramic workshops of Jingdezhen, and the “copy” painting village of Dafen in Shenzhen, it raises questions of artistic authorship and social relations against the wider background of China’s status as “the world’s factory.”

• Asian Art Market Now

Jeremy Wingfield, Phillips de Pury’s Contemporary Art Specialist, will offer essential background and up to date information on the dynamics of the Asian Art Market today. The shift in global wealth from West to East in 2009/2010 has given rise to a new focus by Western art institutions on Asian and particularly Mainland Chinese art collectors. His candid insights into the current situation will focus on the inside players driving the Asian market forward, with special focus on the fresh opportunities available to collectors, institutions and art professionals.

• A Collectors Journey - From Hobby to Museum

Dr Oei Hong Djien, Indonesia’s foremost private art collector, will be discussing his own journey from initial fascination with his nation’s artistic culture to being the first to systematically collect modern and contemporary Indonesian art. He founded The OHD Museum of Modern and Contemporary Indonesian Art to house this unparalleled collection of 1500 pieces. As well as providing useful tools and methodologies for budding collectors Dr Oei will be looking at the role of the private collector in Asia, analysing how fundamental this position is as a preserver and promoter a nation’s artistic practise and culture in a region where governments do not necessarily support such activity.

Course
21-23 May 2010
3 day course, daily, 10-12.30am and 2-5pm

Price
5,200 Hong Kong Dollars (due on registration)
15% of all profits donated to Arthub, a non profit art and cultural organisation that promotes contemporary art creation in China and Asia.

For more information please contact:

Pippa Dennis
M (UK) +44 7786 110 561

Kate Cary Evans
M (Hong Kong) + 852 6103 0470

info@asiaartforum.com

www.asiaartforum.com

http://artradarasia.wordpress.com

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Hello All!

This has been circulating in Facebook for a couple of weeks now and we thought we’d share this with you. Our dear friends at Cemeti Art House is making an open call to artists from Southeast Asia who may be interested in participating in the following programmes:

- working on project/workshop & exhibition with artists from Myanmar
- 3 month residency at Cemeti Art House
- holding Master Class programme

If you are interested please mail them:

- latest updated CV with links to websites/blogs etc
- a portfolio with minimum 5 works
- a short write up about the theme and concepts you’d like to explore

CAH only accepts proposals in the form of CD, DVD or hardcopy print outs.

There is no age limit to this call. Students are encouraged to apply if interested. Please note however that non-Indonesian artists will have to work out funding possibilities individually as this is a rather modest programme and funding is very limited.

DEADLINE is APRIL 15th but CAH is willing to make exceptions for late-applicants so do email ahead to let them know if you are interested in applying! Apparently there haven’t been many takers so we thought we’d help spread the word from our end.

email:cemetiah@indosat.net.id

GOOD LUCK!

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Lamaran Terbuka Untuk Seniman/Seniwati
Dengan pergantian fokus Rumah Seni Cemeti di tahun 2010 yang tidak lagi kepada penyelenggaraan pameran rutin, tetapi lebih kepada mendorong praktek seni dan wacana dengan mengembangkan proyek-proyek khusus dan program residensi, maka kami membuka penerimaan lamaran dari seniman/seniwati yang memiliki antusiasme untuk memperdalam wacana & merealisasikan proyek/ide kreatifnya bersama Rumah Seni Cemeti.

KAMI MENCARI SENIMAN/SENIWATI YANG TERTARIK
UNTUK MENGIKUTI:
- Proyek/workshop & pameran bersama seniman dari Myanmar
- Residensi di Rumah Seni Cemeti selama 3 [tiga] bulan
- Master Class Program

SEGERA KIRIMKAN:
- CV terbaru [dilengkapi dengan link ke website atau blog Anda jika ada]
- Portfolio dengan minimal 5 [lima] karya Anda
- Tulisan singkat tentang tema & konsep karya

Kami hanya menerima lamaran & portfolio dalam format cd, dvd dan hard copy.
Tidak ada batas usia pelamar & lamaran juga terbuka untuk mahasiswa.

Tenggat waktu pengiriman:
15 April 2010

Aplikasi dikirimkan ke:
Jl. D.I. Panjaitan 41 / Yogyakarta 55143
Open : 09.00 a.m. - 05.00 p.m. , Sunday, Monday closed.
t / f : +62 (0) 274 371015 / SMS : 08122733564
e-mail : cemetiah@indosat.net.id
http://www.facebook.com/l/10ce8;www.cemetiarthouse.com