A view of Asia from Europe
The view of the past twenty years of contemporary art in Asia varies according to one’s cultural background and standing point. I have been watching or taking part in it from the inside in the 1990s and from the outside in the 2000s, when I moved to France from Japan at around the turning of the century. Although fragmentary and subjective from my personal path, I trace here some major points about the question of contemporary Asian art in Europe, giving clues for further consideration of the view of ‘Asia’ from Europe over the past two decades.
