The Traditional and Cultural Practice of Installation Art: A Contextual Study

Najmul Kadirkaikobad, Md Zafar Alam Bhuiyan, Shahina Parveen, and Md Shohel Anwarr

Installation Art has dominated in the end of the 20th century to the mainstream of arts. As Electronic and Digital Technology has developed to be adored with the attraction in artworks. To face a visual art a fundamental and firm component is relation of figure with platform of the works and relation of space with product. Culture plays the special role which will be dominated. In 20th century it has concentrated to the platform of modern arts practice, which is its attribute. But the combination and use of space is very limited in the modern artists. Surprisingly Installation Art is very age old practice in the traditional lifestyle of Bangladesh though it is not considered as art in practice. Staging of straw heaps or drying the pottery utensils in the sun of arrangement the same in the earthen kiln or many other cultural or religious practices may be termed as Installation Art practice in Bangladesh. Nevertheless, many internationally famous artists of Bangladesh are recognized and notified for their Installation Arts which have in fact upheld the country's culture with realistic forms of Arts in the daily life.

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