DHAKA: Internationally acclaimed art critic, President of International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Marek Bartelik, is in Dhaka on a two-week visit and is scheduled to deliver his second lecture of a series.
Marek Bartelik will deliver the lecture at the Berlin Hall of Goethe Institute in the city on Tuesday.
Marek’s lectures are part of an ongoing series of seminars Depart, a biannual art magazine, has conceived with the aim of expanding the disciplinary knowledge in the context of today’s global art and art criticism practice.
Under ‘The Visiting Art Critic Talk Programme’ of Depart, the globetrotting critic has committed three lectures focused on art and criticism with the aim of expanding the emerging discourse(s) in South Asia.
Hosted by Goethe Institute, the second lecture is centered on Marek’s experience as an art critic writing for ‘Artforum’ and covering exhibitions for that publication from over 25 countries on five continents in the last twenty years.
Though this is Marek’s first ever visit to Bangladesh, he is familiar with the region. He has been in Colombo, Sri Lnaka, in 2013, as part of the organizing team and as a critic presenting a paper during the international AICA seminar focused on art and gender representation.
He has written about Bhupen Khakhar, the famous Indian artist who was once at the apex of modern art movement in the region.
Marek is now set to know more about South Asian art and culture. He has written extensively for CAA Art Journal, Art Forum, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, and many other international art and literary magazines.
The first of the three lectures under the Visiting Art Critic Talk Program has taken place at the National Art Gallery auditorium, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, on December 27, where Marek reflected on the emerging paradigm in the Asian biennales with the help of a power point presentation.
His third lecture is scheduled for January 7, and is staged in collaboration with the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, at Sufia Kamal auditorium of Bangladesh National Museum. The topic of the third lecture is the state of the Biennales in Asia.
Marek Bartelik’s publications include ‘The Sculpture of Ursula von Rydingsvard’ (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), co-authored with Dore Ashton and Matti Megged: ‘To Invent a Garden: The Life and Art of Adja Yunkers’ (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2000); ‘Early Polish Modern Art: Unity in Multiplicity’, by the Manchester University Press, Manchester, England, November 2005 (England), December 2005 (USA); GDR/DDR: Contemporary German Painting from Portuguese Collections (Lisbon, Portugal: ARTing, 2008); Mark Rothko: Paintings from the National Gallery in Washington (Warsaw: National Museum, 2013).
BDST: 1624 HRS, JAN 04, 2015
