Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 1993 : Exhibition report

‘If the conventional wisdom of Western museums is to be believed, there isn’t much to the visual arts of ‘the Far East’ unless they are at least two hundred years old. What thrives as modern in the region is looked upon as little more than slavish imitation of European and US art practice. Now comes Brisbane’s Queensland Art Gallery with its first Asia- Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, dealing a mortal blow to this Western curatorial bias by setting up its own thesis: far from being an exclusive preserve of the West, modernist aesthetics has provided a visual vocabulary that has been freely adopted by artists working outside the Euro-American mainstream and perfectly adapted to their own cultural-national contexts.’ - Emmanuel Torres Artand AsiaPacific , April 1994