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Every year since 1981,Dhaka would host the nondescript Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh,and every year,the international exhibition,which involves the participation of over 30 Asian countries,ruffled no feathers. Thus,when Dhaka Art Summit (DAS) took place last year,it was seen as a potential Bangladeshi equivalent to India Art Fair. Organised and funded by Samdani Art Foundation in collaboration with Bangladesh National Museum and Dhaka-based Shilpakala Academy in 2012,DAS involved 249 local artists,including contemporary art torchbearers Mahbubur Rahman and Tayeba Begum Lipi.
Taking off from its modest beginnings,the second edition that will commence on February 7 will comprise artists from other Southeast Asian countries such as India,Myanmar,Pakistan,Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Most art fairs focus on buying and selling of works,but this has been visualised as a summit,where we want to show the best from the region, says Nadia Samdani,Founder-Director,DAS.
The Shilpakala Academy,meanwhile,will host six curated exhibitions of contemporary art from different countries. The Indian contemporary exhibition will be spearheaded by Veerangana Solanki. It will comprise works of 16 emerging and semi-established artists (Reena Kallat,Prajakta Potnis and Manjunath Kamath) and their works will reflect the shows theme: Citizens of Time. Time has a special relationship with contemporary art. Also,the artists represent the second generation of contemporary Indian art and theyre important in the globally recognised Indian art scene, says Solanki.
While more details about the summit will be announced later this year,Samdani notes that the summit itself is a work in progress.
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