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Medha Kapur of Saffronart on an upcoming exhibition of Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia at The Guggenheim Museum.

Mumbai: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, one of the world’s most renowned museums, will host the exhibition ‘No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia’. This inaugural exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative presents works by 22 artists from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It is a five-year program involving curatorial residencies, touring exhibitions and new acquisitions. After New York, the exhibition will be travel to venues in Singapore and Hong Kong. All the works featuring in the show have been acquired by the museum and will become part of its permanent collection.

The exhibition includes works by Tayeba Begum Lipi, one of Bangladesh’s leading contemporary artists, Filipino multidisciplinary artist Poklong Anading, Indian multidisciplinary artist Shilpa Gupta and more. Works showcased in this exhibit will vary across a range of paintings, sculptures, photography, video, works on paper and installations.

Here is a selection of the artworks that will be on show:

Tayeba Begum Lipi -“Love Bed”
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Norberto Roldan
F-16, 2012
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Poklong Anading
Counter Acts, 2004
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Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo
Volcanic Ash Series #4, 2012
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Bani Abidi
The Ghost of Mohammed Bin Qasim, 2006
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Elisabetta Marabotto of Saffronart on the Guggenheim Museum’s recent acquisition of an artwork by Tayeba Begum Lipi

London: From February 22, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York will host the exhibition ‘No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia’, featuring works by 22 artists from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. This is the inaugural exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, which after New York will be travelling to Singapore and Hong Kong. All the works featuring in the show have been acquired by the museum and will become part of its permanent collection.

Among the 22 artists featured is Tayeba Begum Lipi, one of Bangladesh’s leading contemporary artists, whose work is critically acclaimed both nationally and internationally. She was one of the five artists chosen to represent Bangladesh in the country’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011, and in April 2012 she also participated in the inaugural Dhaka Art Summit. Through her work, Lipi explores the feminist issues of marginality and representation of the female body. She strives to understand why the notion of beauty is largely determined by heterosexual male sensibilities. This concept is often illustrated through the use of razor blades as one of her main materials.

Love Bed, Tayeba Begum Lipi, 2012. Image Credit: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=265185

Lipi’s ‘Love Bed’ which was exhibited at the Dhaka Art Summit last year has been chosen for the Guggenheim’s collection.

We are currently featuring one of the artist’s works on on The Story by Saffronart, in the Bangladesh focused collection, Tastemaker: Nadia Samdani. So, if you want to follow the Guggenheim’s steps in starting a collection of contemporary South Asian art, simply click here.

Private, Tayeba Begum Lipi, 2012. Image Credit: https://www.saffronart.com/TheStory/ItemV2.aspx?iid=34989

More information on the Guggenheim exhibition can be found on the museum website and in this article.

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