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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: Being born in Bangladesh, artist Firoz Mahmud has been prominent artist for hi... more BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: Being born in Bangladesh, artist Firoz Mahmud has been prominent artist for his large scale and ongoing art projects for the last few years. Mahmud's artistic practice is realized through various mediums such as painting, drawing, installation and photography that engage with his cultural and political heritage. Among his large scale and extensive art projects are on war and conflict and legacies of Bengal region, cherish dream of immigrant families in new land, city or country, Layapa Art-painting project series on native legacy and history, NinKi: UoPD- Urgency of Proximate Drawing among others. He was a resident artist at Rijksakademie VB Kunsten, Amsterdam, and has a PhD from the Tokyo University of Arts, an MFA from Tama Art University and a BFA from Dhaka University. Mahmud has exhibited at the Office of Contemporary Art (OCA), Norway, MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts Rome, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan
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Asia House, the UK’s leading Pan-Asian organisation, is proud to present Step Across this Line:Contemporary Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Curated by New Delhi based independent art critic and curator Deeksha Nath, the exhibition features the work of cutting-edge contemporary artists from three countries of South Asia. Despite political and religious divides and problematic histories this new ‘post-national’ generation shares ideas and visions, stepping across the lines that divide them. Their work, in various media including video and installation, explores their colonial past, modern history and current regional, national and global identities. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from Salman Rushdie’s collection of essays, draws attention to how lines on maps can connect individuals, they can divide communities and so when they are drawn they are drawn across peoples lives. It thus calls into play the role of lines as boundaries but then also issues an invitation to cross the line, metaphorically, imaginatively and humanistically. This exhibition poses a larger question: Can we consider what we mean to each other? Do we love or hate? Do we love and hate? Can we be friends and enemies and, most importantly, how can we be simultaneously context-specific, proud and post-national?
Considering the regions’ intertwined histories, cultures and communities and thus inherent knowledge of one another, what will yet another meeting accomplish? Throw in this mix the colonial history that ties the four nations (including the host country of this exhibition) together and you have created a situation for yet another meeting, another glimpse, another recognition and another conversation in a never-ending exchange which happens in fits and spurts, in continuation, in love and in hate, in exhaustion and hope.
The artists participating in this exhibition are Naeem Mohaiemen, Wakil Rahman, Saira Ansari, Mehreen Murtaza, Abhishek Hazra, Priya Sen, Hasan Elahi, Unum Babar, F iroz Mahmud , Malik Sajad, Gauri Gill, C AMP (Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran) and Asim Waqif.
The curator Deeksha Nath will function both as an insider and outsider as she has never visited Pakistan or Bangladesh but has lived and studied in London and now resides in New Delhi.
Press Preview and Press Launch
There will be a Press preview on 7 October at 11.00-12.30 and a Press Launch with Curator talk on 10 October at 13.30-17.30. (Curator talk at 14.00). To register for these events email mia.gulati@asiahouse.co.uk
Private View sponsored by India Art F air
A special private view will be held on 13 October at 17.45-20.30 to coincide with the opening day of Frieze Art Fair which is just 5 minutes from Asia House in Regents Park. Asia House is delighted to be supported by India Art F air for this special private view event. India Art Fair (formerly India Art Summit) is set to take place in New Delhi from 25-29 January 2012. The highly successful 3rd edition in 2011 included 84 exhibiting galleries from 20 countries, displaying a diverse range of renowned and emerging artists. With over 100,000 visitors over 4 days and a record number of new collectors (30-40%), the 3rd edition in 2011 firmly established India Art F air as the region’s leading platform for modern and contemporary art, and demonstrated the vast potential of the Indian art market.
Exhibition Supporters
Asia House would like to thank Grosvenor Gallery for producing and supporting this exhibition. Marketing has been supported by Sothebys. Drinks for the exhibition opening have been supplied by Cobra Beer. Food for the exhibition has been supplied by Royal Foods/Bombay Halwa.
Sumi Ghose, Director of Cultural Programmes at Asia House, commented: ‘At Asia House we are proud of our programmes celebrating the richness and diversity of the culture and peoples of Asia. This extraordinary exhibition offers us an opportunity to recognise and understand the lines that that divide and separate cultures and nations, yet more importantly it allows us to celebrate the work of an artistic generation that breaks through borders, in search of a shared post-national future. ’
The Curator – Deeksha Nath Deeksha Nath [b. 1976] is a New Delhi-based independent critic and curator. She has curated numerous successful exhibitions in India and abroad. She is also a Desk Editor, Art AsiaPacific (New York) and ArtEast (Kolkata). She has published widely in books, journals, national and international magazines and exhibition catalogues. Deeksha’s previous assignments have been with the Tate Modern, London and the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. She has been visiting faculty to several fine arts, design and visual culture programmes in India. Deeksha is a Charles Wallace scholar and has trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara (B.F.A. Art History), City University, London (M.A. Arts Policy) and Goldsmiths College, London (M.A. Contemporary Art Theory).
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Exhibition Venue and opening hours Asia House Gallery and Fine Rooms 63 New Cavendish Street London W1G 7LP T: +44(0)20 7307 5454 W: www.asiahouse.org Exhibition opening times: 10 – 22 October Mon – Sat, 10.00 – 18.00
Firoz Mahmud
Carving Itihash
WOOD CARVING SERIES (Ongoing)
......................................... more Firoz Mahmud Carving Itihash WOOD CARVING SERIES (Ongoing) ........................................... Manually carved mahogany wood, auto paint, disodium octaborate tetrahydrate metal Size: Golden works are 14x14x d.2 inch each, Brown natural wood: 36×48 x d.2 inch
Firoz Mahmud’s wood carving series `Carving Itihash` narrates about history and legacy of South Asia and beyond as like his oil paintings and mixed media paperwork. He transformed his painterly and linear based paperwork into wood which is carved manually depict aspects of cultural heritage may have gotten devalued or undermined through the mechanisms of colonialism that affected many nations till 20th century. `Itihash` is Bengali word, means history. Firoz Curves the history of his native region, precolonial, postcolonial and colonial Itihash.
In Curving Itihash series. Firoz uses idioms such as old palaces, forts, spice trees or herbaceous plants, wild animals and colonial traders in these drawings and carvings, addressing the riches of his native land. Artist juxtaposes themes of socio-political culture, tradition, history, and myths that beg the question of how they exist today, and what forces have created new visual territories, impacting how we remember our own cultural histories and those of our neighbors. These are created between 2015 ~ 2018.
Exhibited Previously Ota Fine Arts Singapore, 2018~2019 National Art Gallery, Dhaka, National Exhibit, 2017 Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, 2015 Exhibit 320, New Delhi, 2015
More info: Wood Carving, New Nation, COBO Art Magazine, Ota Fine Arts Tokyo/Shanghai/Singapore, Exhibit 320,
Firoz Mahmud at Exhibition 'Extraordinary' -Catalogue Hunter East Harlem Gallery New York: https:... more Firoz Mahmud at Exhibition 'Extraordinary' -Catalogue Hunter East Harlem Gallery New York: https://www.huntereastharlemgallery.org/theextra
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Artists: Tabaimo, Ai Weiwei, Alfredo Jaar, Lilian Porter, Firoz Mahmud, Sun Xun, Arahmaiani, Carlos Motta, Michael Joo, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Amir H. Fallah, Zhao Zhao, Aziz+Cucher, Mickalene Thomas, Michael Joo, Patricia Cronin, Mel Chin + others
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Asia House presents
Step Across this Line
Contemporary Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
Curated by Deeksha Nath
Asia House Gallery, 10 – 22 October 2011
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London, 22 September 2011 – Press release
Asia House, the UK’s leading Pan-Asian organisation, is proud to present Step Across this Line:Contemporary Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Curated by New Delhi based independent art critic and curator Deeksha Nath, the exhibition features the work of cutting-edge contemporary artists from three countries of South Asia. Despite political and religious divides and problematic histories this new ‘post-national’ generation shares ideas and visions, stepping across the lines that divide them. Their work, in various media including video and installation, explores their colonial past, modern history and current regional, national and global identities. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from Salman Rushdie’s collection of essays, draws attention to how lines on maps can connect individuals, they can divide communities and so when they are drawn they are drawn across peoples lives. It thus calls into play the role of lines as boundaries but then also issues an invitation to cross the line, metaphorically, imaginatively and humanistically. This exhibition poses a larger question: Can we consider what we mean to each other? Do we love or hate? Do we love and hate? Can we be friends and enemies and, most importantly, how can we be simultaneously context-specific, proud and post-national?
Considering the regions’ intertwined histories, cultures and communities and thus inherent knowledge of one another, what will yet another meeting accomplish? Throw in this mix the colonial history that ties the four nations (including the host country of this exhibition) together and you have created a situation for yet another meeting, another glimpse, another recognition and another conversation in a never-ending
exchange which happens in fits and spurts, in continuation, in love and in hate, in exhaustion and hope.
The artists participating in this exhibition are Naeem Mohaiemen, Wakil Rahman, Saira Ansari, Mehreen Murtaza, Abhishek Hazra, Priya Sen, Hasan Elahi, Unum Babar, F iroz Mahmud , Malik Sajad, Gauri Gill, C AMP (Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran) and Asim Waqif.
The curator
Deeksha Nath will function both as an insider and outsider as she has never visited Pakistan or Bangladesh but has lived and studied in London and now resides in New Delhi.
Press Preview and Press Launch
There will be a Press preview on 7 October at 11.00-12.30 and a Press Launch with Curator talk on 10 October at 13.30-17.30. (Curator talk at 14.00). To register for these events email mia.gulati@asiahouse.co.uk
Private View sponsored by India Art F air
A special private view will be held on 13 October at 17.45-20.30 to coincide with the opening day of Frieze Art Fair which is just 5 minutes from Asia House in Regents Park. Asia House is delighted to be supported by India Art F air for this special private view event. India Art Fair (formerly India Art Summit) is set to take place in New Delhi from 25-29 January 2012. The highly successful 3rd edition in 2011 included 84 exhibiting galleries from 20 countries, displaying a diverse range of renowned and emerging artists. With over 100,000 visitors over 4 days and a record number of new collectors (30-40%), the 3rd edition in 2011 firmly established India Art F air as the region’s leading platform for modern and contemporary art, and demonstrated the vast potential of the Indian art market.
Exhibition Supporters
Asia House would like to thank Grosvenor Gallery for producing and supporting this exhibition. Marketing has been supported by Sothebys. Drinks for the exhibition opening have been supplied by Cobra Beer. Food for the exhibition has been supplied by Royal Foods/Bombay Halwa.
Sumi Ghose, Director of Cultural Programmes at Asia House, commented: ‘At Asia House we are proud of our programmes celebrating the richness and diversity of the culture and peoples of Asia. This extraordinary exhibition offers us an opportunity to recognise and understand the lines that that divide and separate cultures and nations, yet more importantly it allows us to celebrate the work of an artistic generation that breaks through borders, in search of a shared post-national future. ’
The Curator – Deeksha Nath
Deeksha Nath [b. 1976] is a New Delhi-based independent critic and curator. She has curated numerous successful exhibitions in India and abroad. She is also a Desk Editor, Art AsiaPacific (New York) and ArtEast (Kolkata). She has published widely in books, journals, national and international magazines and exhibition catalogues. Deeksha’s previous assignments have been with the Tate Modern, London and the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. She has been visiting faculty to several fine arts, design and visual culture programmes in India. Deeksha is a Charles Wallace scholar and has trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara (B.F.A. Art History), City University, London (M.A. Arts Policy) and Goldsmiths College, London (M.A. Contemporary Art Theory).
Notes for editors
Exhibition Venue and opening hours
Asia House Gallery and Fine Rooms
63 New Cavendish Street
London W1G 7LP
T: +44(0)20 7307 5454
W: www.asiahouse.org
Exhibition opening times: 10 – 22 October Mon – Sat, 10.00 – 18.00
Carving Itihash
WOOD CARVING SERIES (Ongoing)
...........................................
Manually carved mahogany wood, auto paint, disodium octaborate tetrahydrate metal
Size: Golden works are 14x14x d.2 inch each, Brown natural wood: 36×48 x d.2 inch
Firoz Mahmud’s wood carving series `Carving Itihash` narrates about history and legacy of South Asia and beyond as like his oil paintings and mixed media paperwork. He transformed his painterly and linear based paperwork into wood which is carved manually depict aspects of cultural heritage may have gotten devalued or undermined through the mechanisms of colonialism that affected many nations till 20th century. `Itihash` is Bengali word, means history. Firoz Curves the history of his native region, precolonial, postcolonial and colonial Itihash.
In Curving Itihash series. Firoz uses idioms such as old palaces, forts, spice trees or herbaceous plants, wild animals and colonial traders in these drawings and carvings, addressing the riches of his native land. Artist juxtaposes themes of socio-political culture, tradition, history, and myths that beg the question of how they exist today, and what forces have created new visual territories, impacting how we remember our own cultural histories and those of our neighbors. These are created between 2015 ~ 2018.
Exhibited Previously
Ota Fine Arts Singapore, 2018~2019
National Art Gallery, Dhaka, National Exhibit, 2017
Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, 2015
Exhibit 320, New Delhi, 2015
More info:
Wood Carving, New Nation, COBO Art Magazine,
Ota Fine Arts Tokyo/Shanghai/Singapore, Exhibit 320,