Contents

Forum What does Art Want to Believe?

—The Symposium of “Chinese Contemporary Art and

Artists’ Identities, Regarding of Cai Guoqiang’sSolo Exhibition” 08

Special Topic: The Study

on Regional Contemporary Art Ecology

Report on the Art Ecology of Huangjueping in Chongqing Chen Dehong 60

Individual Case Body is the Container of Messages—Jaume Plensa Nicky 68

Interview The Faculty of Empathy and Microcosm

—Wang Baoju’s Interview with “Chinese”

“Female” Artist Shen Yuan Wang Baoju 74

Avant-Garde Theatre Robert Wilson Zhang Kangmei 80

Art Museum Gradient and Height: Developing Today Art Museum

—An Interview with Zhang Zikang, Director of Today Art Museum

Interviewer / Wang Baoju Editor / Zhang Guanghua 88

Beyond

The Arousal and Predicament of Indonesia Modern

and Contemporary Art Dong Jin 98

Writing Paintings, Painting Words Choi Jong-Hee 107

Collaboration Space

China’s Self-examination—Beate Reifenscheid, Director, Ludwig Museum 108

Pride Apes Humility, Urge Return to Simplicity and Truth

—Oil Paintings by He Muqun Tao Yongbai 112

Journey to the West

—Discussion on the Images of Sun Wukong in Chi Peng’s

Journey to the West Fu Xiaodong 116

The Anxiety of Influence Feng Boyi 118

Naked Lunch by Chi Peng Babara Pollock 120

Interview with Xie Nanxing 122

Making a Reading for the Sake of My Own Self

—About Xiong Yu’s Exhibition Tarot Zheng Naiming 128

The New World after the Age of Pisces

—The Spirit in Xiong Yu’s Tarot Yan An 132

Analysis of Art Work

Prick and Conciliation

—Philosophical Unscramble on Tan Ping’s Works Peng Feng 136

Liquor and Passion—Images of Works by Wu Li Li Xianting 140

Exhibition Information 142

Book Review 150