Exhibition

Readymade | Contemporary Art from Bangladesh

Featuring Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed, Masum Chisty, Khaled Hasan, Imran Hossain Piplu, Promotesh Das Pulak, Dhali Al Mamoon, Yasmin Jahan Nupur, Mohammad Wahiduzzaman and Wakilur Rahman.

Venue: Aicon Gallery
35 Great Jones St, New York, NY 10012
(212) 725-6092

Dates: July 24 – September 6, 2014
The Gallery is closed every Sunday and Monday

Time: 10 am – 6 pm

Aicon Gallery is delighted to invite you to the first ever extensive survey exhibition of contemporary Bangladeshi art held in New York. The exhibition features nine artists collectively exploring the complex and interlocking cultural, political, economic and environmental issues currently facing the often paradoxical and rapidly changing society and state of Bangladesh in the new millennium. The nation’s exploding population, the daily socioeconomic struggles of the lives of millions, the consequences of climate change, shifting cultural and gender demographics and the future of industry and economic growth are just some of the vastly influential issues informing and challenging the visual and verbal language of Bangladesh’s diverse and quickly growing contemporary art scene. The work in this exhibition unpacks these issues through the concept of the readymade, both in its art historical context, defined a century ago by Marcel Duchamp, and as a term referring to Bangladesh’s massive and unwieldy ready-to-wear garment industry, which has made headlines recently due to the tragic consequences of its lack of regulation and harsh suppression of reform, while also remaining the economic backbone of Bangladesh’s growing economy.