{"id":5972,"date":"2024-10-14T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T07:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2024\/?page_id=5972"},"modified":"2024-10-14T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T08:42:43","slug":"bangladesh-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2024\/bangladesh-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bangladesh Exhibition<\/h3>\n<p><strong><span class=\"s2\">Curatorial Notes: <\/span><span class=\"s4\">Contemporary <\/span><span class=\"s4\">Theatre Design<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> in Bangladesh<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Curator: Faiz Zahir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"s7\">Bangladesh\u2019s urban theatre space enmeshes the traditional art with colonial legacy. In 21<span class=\"s6\">st<\/span>century, urban theatre design reflects practices of East and the West. Even Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali Nobel Laureate of 1913), the towering literary and theatre maker of modern times, garnered centuries-old theatre practices in Bengal with western theatre elements, thus givingbirth to modern Bengali theatre in late 19<span class=\"s6\">th<\/span> century with continued influence till today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s7\">Theater design in modern Bangladesh plays an indispensable role in shaping the visual and spatial dynamics of stage productions, immersing audiences in political realism, folk traditions, and symbolist depiction of the world. In the past fifty years since its political independence in 1971, Bangladeshi theatre experimented with traditional theatre forms and practices from other theatre cultures. In Bangladesh, three notable figures\u2014Shaiful Islam, Faiz Zahir, and ABS Xem\u2014have made significant contributions to the craft, shaping the way theater is experienced across various prominent troupes like <span class=\"s8\">Prachyanat<\/span> and <span class=\"s8\">Aranyak<\/span> <span class=\"s8\">Natyadal<\/span>. Shaiful and Faiz are contemporaries who began their design career in the mid-eighties, while ABS Xem began his design apprenticeship in the late nineties. Together, these three designers represent some of the most prominent design works in Bangladesh theatre.<\/p>\n<div id=\"6ada81c21046e\" class=\"gg_gallery_wrap gg_true_gallery gg_columnized_gallery gid_5972 gg_hidden_ol gg_ol_bottom_mode gg_main_ol_show_on_h \" data-gg_ol=\"\" data-col-maxw=\"260\" data-ggom_fx=\"\" data-ggom_timing=\"300\" rel=\"5972\" data-nores-txt=\"No images found\">      <div class=\"gg_loader\">  <div class=\"ggl_1\"><\/div>  <div class=\"ggl_2\"><\/div>  <div class=\"ggl_3\"><\/div>  <div class=\"ggl_4\"><\/div><\/div>  <div class=\"gg_container\"><div class=\"gg_img \" data-gg-url=\"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_6161-Large.jpeg\" data-gg-title=\"IMG_6161 Large\" data-gg-author=\"\" data-gg-descr=\"\" data-img-id=\"0\" rel=\"5972\">  <div class=\"gg_img_inner\" style=\"padding-bottom: 250px\"><div class=\"gg_main_img_wrap\"><div class=\"gg_img_wrap_inner\"><img src=\"\" 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In 21stcentury, urban theatre design reflects practices of East and the West. Even Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali Nobel Laureate of 1913), the towering literary and theatre maker of modern times, garnered centuries-old theatre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6143,"href":"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5972\/revisions\/6143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}