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DHAKA ART SUMMIT

OPENS TOMORROW

Staff Correspondent
Art Foundation (SAF), in collaboration with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) and Bangladesh National Museum (BNM), is organising the first Dhaka Art Summit (DAS). The summit begins tomorrow, and will continue till April 15 in the city. Sponsored by City Bank and American Express, the main venues of the summit will be Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and Bangladesh National Museum. Several other venues will host exhibitions, curatorial shows, seminars, presentations etc.
The summit will be spread over 19 art galleries in Dhaka. The participating galleries are Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Bengal Art Lounge, Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka Art Centre, Drik Gallery, Gallery Chitrak, Gallery Cosmos, Gallery Jolrong, Galleri Kaya, Haque Art Gallery, Porapara Space for Artists, Radius Centre, Saju Art Gallery, Tivoli Art Gallery, Santaran Art Organisation and Interior Depot.
The inauguration programme will be held at the National Theatre Auditorium, BSA. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith will inaugurate the summit as chief guest. Farooq Sobhan, chairman of the advisory committee of Dhaka Art Summit, will be present as the special guest Liaquat Ali Lucky, director general of BSA; Nadia Samdani, chief executive officer of SAF; artist Shahabuddin Ahmed, chairman of trustee board, SAF; Mahmood Sattar, managing director of the City Bank Ltd, will deliver speeches at the inauguration.
Around 249 artists are taking part at the summit. The mediums include oil, acrylic, watercolour, prints (etching, acquaint, lino, litho, serigraph etc), installation, video art, videography, photography, sculpture and more.
SAF will also present two awards — Samdani Artist Development Award (worth Taka 10 lakh) and Samdani Young Talent Award (Taka 5 lakh).
At the invitation of SAF, an international jury is coming to Dhaka. The jury panel includes Kyla McDonald, curator of Tate Modern Museum (England); Dr. Deepak Ananth, art historian and expert (France); Elaine W. Ng, editor and publisher of Art Asia Pacific; Indian artist Ravinder Reddy and Bangladeshi painter Shahabuddin Ahmed.
Neha Kirpal, director of India Art Summit; Dr. Amin Jaffer, International Director of Asian Art at Christie's; Dr. Deepanjana Klein, chief of Modem and Contemporary South Asian Art Department; Yamini Mehta, specialist and head of Modern and Contemporary Indian Art of Christie's, among others, will attend the summit.
SAF will also organise six talk sessions. Kyla McDonald will read out a paper, titled "12 years of Tate Modern"; Bangladeshi artist Tayeba Begum Lipi will present a paper titled "Artists: Changing and Widening Ideas"; internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi photographer Dr. Shahidul Alam will deliver a paper "Can Photography be Taught? The Limits and Possibilities of Photographic Education"; Dr. Deepanjana Klein will
speak on "The Emergence of South Asian Art: Bangladesh and the Future”; Yamini Mehta will read out a paper on "The History of Collecting South Asian Contemporary Art: The Art Market Connoisseurship” and Dr. Amin Jaffer will speak on "Corporate Involvement in Art”.
Rajeeb Samdani, founder-trustee of SAF, talked to The Daily Star about the Dhaka Art Summit: "Bangladesh has so far been known for natural disasters and religious extremism. We want to change this percep-
"Art enthusiasts will get an opportunity to see the avant-garde painters' works at this art summit. We want to promote Bangladeshi art locally and internationally through this summit. I believe that this summit will open the eyes of art aficionados, collectors, critics and art reviewers. This summit will also be a platform for interaction among the artists, critics and thinkers. We have invited well-known critics, historians, curators and painters from all over the world so that they get an exposure to the Bangladeshi contemporary art scene."
On the occasion of the summit, a press conference was held yesterday at the Seminar Room of BSA. Artist Shahabuddin Ahmed; Liaquat Ali Lucky; Prokash Chandra Das (director general of BNM); artist Mohammad Muniruzzaman, convener of Summit Steering Committee; Mashrur Arefin, deputy managing director of City Bank and Nadia Samdani, among others, spoke at the press conference.