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In this first issue, we feature various works which are complied under the theme of 『Inside Out Outside In far East Asia』. In today's cultural theme of the Other, images of Far East Asia; such as the rapidly changing China since the market opening, South Korea still remained as a divided nation in global world and Japan so-called the West in far East Asia, are perhaps accustomed subject matters and at the same time cliches of one's past and present. By confronting with these images which have been piled up in many years inside and outside we understand one another, but on the other hand hold deep prejudice against. There will always be images what it is taken to refer to the Other, that is neither true nor false

For the first issue in Focus On, we feature multi-stranded works which reflect on artists' individual interest in their own surrounding environments in particularly far East Asia . Edward Burtnsky's large-scaled photographs of Chinese manufactured landscape and Weng Fen's accomplished series <Sitting on the Wall>, both unveil the contradiction of modern civilization by capturing the rash expansion of Chinese industry. Seung Woo Back's <Blow Up> series which is a set of enlarged photographs extracted from the original film taken in North Korea, discovers the reality of unreality in North Korea through his deliberate concept of ‘blow up' and eventually leads us to another means of photography. Japanese artist, Rinko Kawauchi's remarkably sensitive works expose the ephemeral existence of lives in nature by placing fade-away moments of every day life in her photographs, whilst authentic works of Yoichi Nagano's <Sima-gima> expose the lost landscape of Japan in present alongside a selection of his teenager portraits in islands

Korean born Vancouver artist, Tim Lee is introduced in Special feature, interviewed with Sally O'Reilly. His central idea of ‘Remaking the remake' is perhaps considered as a kind of gag-parody and his recontextualization as interrogating the relationship between the western art history and popular culture is rather complex notion for one who live in different cultural backgrounds. From his notion of “Translation” in art practice, we encounter a gap laid in-between cultures but therefore, his works seem to be more intriguing for us.

In Young Artists section, we showcase creative works of Denmark artist, Signe Vad; Marc Brauth's images inspired by the classic fantasy novel, “The Lord of Ring”, Nathalie Grenzhaeuser's imaginative landscape questioning men's existence in nature; and Kyung Duk Kim's reflection on everyday life alongside her poetic daily writing.

Focus On：Inside out Outside In Far East Asia
004 Edward Burtynsky China
020 Weng Fen The Chinese View of the World
026 Rinko Kawauchi Drawing senses
044 Seung Woon Back Unreal Reality Exposed by "Blow Up"
062 Yoichi Nagano Portray "Sima-gima
Special Feature:
074 Tim Lee Remaking the Remake
Young Artists:
084 Marc Baruth
088 Nathalie Grenzhaeuser
092 Signe Vad
096 Kyung Duk Kim
102-103 Contributors