SAFEI conducted a final week of its Lecture Series – “Kala Ko Bisaya” where Sujan Chitrakar, contemporary visual artist/program coordinator of Kathmandu University, Center for Art & Design gave a presentation – focusing on the pragmatic aspects of art writing – dedicated to writers on 4 September, 2015 (11 AM – 1 PM) at Siddhartha Art Gallery, Baber Mahal Revisited
Chitrakar focused on how to read visual arts, how to write about art (through the artist’s perspective and what an artist expects), hints for the writers to make it effective, Nepali Art forms (in native context and western context), how Nepali art form has been influenced by the western world, the reasons for misreading and misinterpretation of artworks (and its pros and cons) and the ways writers should be clever enough to avoid them.
About Sujan Chitrakar – an academic program coordinator/assistant professor at Kathmandu University School of Arts, a Fulbright Research Scholar 2013-14 Mural Arts Program (Philadelphia, USA), and a celebrated Nepali artist, who has served as a jury member, creative consultant, lead artist, coordinator, set design consultant, art director, creative director, illustrator, and visiting faculty for multiple reputed artistic institutions and endeavors. He recently curated Birendra Pratap Singh: A Retrospective held at Nepal Art Council, and will soon curate Photo Kathmandu, Nepal’s first international photo festival. With a Master of Fine Arts (MFA College of Art, University of Delhi), Chitrakar is responsible for designing, developing, and commencing Bachelor of Fine Arts as an academic course under Kathmandu University, School of Arts. He has exhibited and participated in residencies at South Korea, Sri Lanka, UK, Japan, Pakistan, and India, and is actively involved to bring artists in residence, visiting international professors of Art, organizing PechaKucha Night Kathmandu and other lectures, slide talks, dialogues and discourses in academic levels.
Photos by: Rupesh Man Singh I Artudio
