16th
Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2014.
December
1-31, 2014
Qais Al-Sindy participates with two paintings titled
(Reconciliation 1 and 2) in the sixteenth Asian Art Biennale
Bangladesh which will be hold in the capital (Dhaka).
Artists across
Asia, confronted with the new realities are now showing a
definitive tendency to dovetail their personal strategies
with the global surge for the new media. Inclined as they
are to voice the difference in a climate where artistic
expressions are regularly being utilised to bridge art,
society and environment, they are looking to create works
that are not only socially engaged but also embedded in the
diction of the current digital age. Being a developing
nation, Bangladesh has never had any reason to show
restraint in allowing artists to explore the entire spectrum
of aesthetic modalities available to them. Rather, through
both national and international art events, the diversity in
art-making through the use of new technologies has always
received primacy. Today the country is a hub of young
talents who are constantly making efforts to expand their
artistic horizon by employing new techniques to shape
contemporary aesthetic goals. This 16th edition of Asian Art
Biennale is geared towards encapsulating such path-breaking
creative trends that gripped the entire region. The theme
itself reflects the drift of our time and it is through this
theme that current trends and developments are expected to
evolve.
Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, since its beginning in 1981,
has attempted to display the kaleidoscope of various
artistic endeavors of our time in which continuity and
change come together. The geographical parameter is
important only in a generic sense and also for
identification of sponsorship in this pioneering venture. It
was inevitable that with time other regions that share, more
or less, the same artistic impulses and face the same
challenge of forging an identity of their own, would be
included in the exhibition as has happened in recent years.
Asian Art Biennale showcases the artistic heritage and
contemporary aesthetic trends in Asia. It is the organizers
firm belief that with each Biennale, a new milestone will
have been crossed showing progress achieved by established
and young artists in dating with both continuity and change
through then work modernity while maintaining their attempt
to embrace a commitment to tradition.
For more information, visit the Biennale website
http://asianartbiennalebd.org/
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