Dasgupta, Kurchi
Going south - Vol.22 (No.1), 2018 - p.28-31
From making phantasmagorical journeys to constructing mirage houses, many artists at the fourth edition of the Dhaka Art Summit explore the tension between habitation and displacement. Kurchi Dasgupta writes from Bangladesh. Between the 2nd and the 10th of February, the Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka hosted the fourth edition of the Dhaka Art Summit (DAS) that showcased South Asian art along with conducting critical conversations about its place in the current global art ecology. The DAS was curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, primarily funded by the Samdani Art Foundation and held in a public-private partnership with the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, the country’s National Academy of Fine and Performing Arts, with the support of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Ministry of Information. Featuring a range of works like the vermillion-red bamboo scaffolding titled Rite/Right of Passage (2016-18) erected by Karachi-born Rasheed Araeen; the delicate, basket weave of Budapest-born Yona Friedman’s Museum of Simple Technology; murals by Oti Shamprotik Amra and exhaustive surveys of Bangladesh’s journey through modernism into the contemporary in Expression of Time, the DAS came across as overwhelming in range and scale....
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)
Abahoman Bangla Bangali, Adoration, Kashmir Dance
Going south - Vol.22 (No.1), 2018 - p.28-31
From making phantasmagorical journeys to constructing mirage houses, many artists at the fourth edition of the Dhaka Art Summit explore the tension between habitation and displacement. Kurchi Dasgupta writes from Bangladesh. Between the 2nd and the 10th of February, the Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka hosted the fourth edition of the Dhaka Art Summit (DAS) that showcased South Asian art along with conducting critical conversations about its place in the current global art ecology. The DAS was curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, primarily funded by the Samdani Art Foundation and held in a public-private partnership with the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, the country’s National Academy of Fine and Performing Arts, with the support of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Ministry of Information. Featuring a range of works like the vermillion-red bamboo scaffolding titled Rite/Right of Passage (2016-18) erected by Karachi-born Rasheed Araeen; the delicate, basket weave of Budapest-born Yona Friedman’s Museum of Simple Technology; murals by Oti Shamprotik Amra and exhaustive surveys of Bangladesh’s journey through modernism into the contemporary in Expression of Time, the DAS came across as overwhelming in range and scale....
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)
Abahoman Bangla Bangali, Adoration, Kashmir Dance