I’m Not There for Gwangju Biennale, Art Basel 2010

The Gwangju Biennale Foundation is proud to announce the publication of I’m Not There, a sourcebook edited by Biennale Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni with advisors Defne Ayas and Davide Quadrio.

With 572 pages and more than 400 color reproductions, I’m Not There brings together the work of 190 artists from Asia, making it a fundamental research tool for anyone interested in Asian art today. Taking the historical — and somewhat arbitrary — border of the Ural Mountains as the starting point for an exploration of the continent, I’m Not There collects primary information on artists from over 30 countries, stretching from Afghanistan to Japan.

More than 50 contributors — curators, writers, art critics and editors — have recommended names of emerging artists and influential figures whose practice has been overlooked in their native countries. This open source model gives access to artists from nations that have been at the center of recent art world attention — such as China, India, and Japan — as well as countries that are less familiar to the international public.

I’m Not There is published as a satellite research project of the 8th Gwangju Biennale, separate from the exhibition catalogue. Part search engine, part atlas of an imaginary geography, I’m Not There was released June 16, 2010 in Basel, Switzerland.

THE 8TH GWANGJU BIENNALE

The Gwangju Biennale was founded in 1995. The oldest and most respected biennial in Asia, the exhibition was originally conceived to pay tribute to the May 18 Gwangju Democratic Struggle, to provide a central voice for Asian contemporary art, and to serve as a cultural axis between East and West.

The 8th edition of the Gwangju Biennale will open to the public on September 3rd, 2010.

Entitled 10,000 Lives, the 8th edition of the Gwangju Biennale will develop a sprawling investigation of the relationships that bind people to images and images to people. With works by more than 100 artists, realized between 1901 and 2010, as well as several new commissions, the exhibition will be configured as a temporary museum in which both artworks and cultural artifacts from more than 25 countries are brought together to examine our obsession with images.

I’M NOT THERE
Paperback, 7 x 10 in., 572 pages including over 400 color reproductions
ISBN 978-89-87719-11-5
U.S. $20.00
Edited by Massimiliano Gioni
Publication Advisors: Defne Ayas (ArtHub Asia), Davide Quadrio (ArtHub Asia / Far East Far West Ltd)
Managing Editor: Cecilia Alemani
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