Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “We rent their space when we have shows that we can’t fit here,”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says ( about Pratap Singh ) : “The only political art was Shashi Bikram Shah’s, but even he was not attacking the system. He was part of the system,” “Shah was anti-war but he wasn’t anti-establishment. He talked about climate change and the apocalypse long before anybody else. There was also Birendra Pratap Singh, Durga Baral and Ragini Upadhyay. The rest were focussed on landscapes and tantric-inspired symbolism”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says ( about Ranjit Hoskote ) : “In India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, there are amazing people writing about art,” “Those people wield so much power. People like Ranjit Hoskote and Geeta Kapur, they can make or break your show by writing about it. There are no people like that in Nepal. That’s because our journalists don’t come from an art history background. There are not enough people studying writing and critical thinking”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “As a curator, I don’t want to seem like I have a lopsided vision,” “I don’t want to just focus on beauty. As a citizen of this country, I think it is important for the arts to have a purpose, beyond just decoration. It has to tell the story of this country and be a reflection of the times”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “People wanted to see a painting that could fetch 15 lakhs,” “It was a bandh day but people walked from Boudha to get here and there were people sitting outside on the ground waiting for the gallery to open”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “When we went to Vienna, many people were stunned,” “They didn’t know that Nepal has such a vibrant art scene”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says ( about Pratap Singh ) : “Just down the street, Kiran Manandhar had his Palpasa gallery and just farther up, Birendra Pratap Singh had his Srijana Art Gallery. Lalitkala Campus wasn’t too far away and there was J Art Gallery in Durbar Marg,”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “When we went to Vienna, many people were stunned,” “They didn’t know that Nepal has such a vibrant art scene”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “We rent their space when we have shows that we can’t fit here,”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says ( about Pratap Singh ) : “The only political art was Shashi Bikram Shah’s, but even he was not attacking the system. He was part of the system,” “Shah was anti-war but he wasn’t anti-establishment. He talked about climate change and the apocalypse long before anybody else. There was also Birendra Pratap Singh, Durga Baral and Ragini Upadhyay. The rest were focussed on landscapes and tantric-inspired symbolism”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says ( about Ranjit Hoskote ) : “In India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, there are amazing people writing about art,” “Those people wield so much power. People like Ranjit Hoskote and Geeta Kapur, they can make or break your show by writing about it. There are no people like that in Nepal. That’s because our journalists don’t come from an art history background. There are not enough people studying writing and critical thinking”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “As a curator, I don’t want to seem like I have a lopsided vision,” “I don’t want to just focus on beauty. As a citizen of this country, I think it is important for the arts to have a purpose, beyond just decoration. It has to tell the story of this country and be a reflection of the times”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “People wanted to see a painting that could fetch 15 lakhs,” “It was a bandh day but people walked from Boudha to get here and there were people sitting outside on the ground waiting for the gallery to open”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “We rent their space when we have shows that we can’t fit here,”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says ( about Pratap Singh ) : “The only political art was Shashi Bikram Shah’s, but even he was not attacking the system. He was part of the system,” “Shah was anti-war but he wasn’t anti-establishment. He talked about climate change and the apocalypse long before anybody else. There was also Birendra Pratap Singh, Durga Baral and Ragini Upadhyay. The rest were focussed on landscapes and tantric-inspired symbolism”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says ( about Ranjit Hoskote ) : “In India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, there are amazing people writing about art,” “Those people wield so much power. People like Ranjit Hoskote and Geeta Kapur, they can make or break your show by writing about it. There are no people like that in Nepal. That’s because our journalists don’t come from an art history background. There are not enough people studying writing and critical thinking”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “As a curator, I don’t want to seem like I have a lopsided vision,” “I don’t want to just focus on beauty. As a citizen of this country, I think it is important for the arts to have a purpose, beyond just decoration. It has to tell the story of this country and be a reflection of the times”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “People wanted to see a painting that could fetch 15 lakhs,” “It was a bandh day but people walked from Boudha to get here and there were people sitting outside on the ground waiting for the gallery to open”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “When we went to Vienna, many people were stunned,” “They didn’t know that Nepal has such a vibrant art scene”

elevenmyanmar Monday, November 25, 2019 8:42:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says ( about Pratap Singh ) : “Just down the street, Kiran Manandhar had his Palpasa gallery and just farther up, Birendra Pratap Singh had his Srijana Art Gallery. Lalitkala Campus wasn’t too far away and there was J Art Gallery in Durbar Marg,”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “When we went to Vienna, many people were stunned,” “They didn’t know that Nepal has such a vibrant art scene”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “We rent their space when we have shows that we can’t fit here,”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says ( about Pratap Singh ) : “The only political art was Shashi Bikram Shah’s, but even he was not attacking the system. He was part of the system,” “Shah was anti-war but he wasn’t anti-establishment. He talked about climate change and the apocalypse long before anybody else. There was also Birendra Pratap Singh, Durga Baral and Ragini Upadhyay. The rest were focussed on landscapes and tantric-inspired symbolism”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says ( about Ranjit Hoskote ) : “In India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, there are amazing people writing about art,” “Those people wield so much power. People like Ranjit Hoskote and Geeta Kapur, they can make or break your show by writing about it. There are no people like that in Nepal. That’s because our journalists don’t come from an art history background. There are not enough people studying writing and critical thinking”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “As a curator, I don’t want to seem like I have a lopsided vision,” “I don’t want to just focus on beauty. As a citizen of this country, I think it is important for the arts to have a purpose, beyond just decoration. It has to tell the story of this country and be a reflection of the times”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT

Surya Bahadur Thapa says : “People wanted to see a painting that could fetch 15 lakhs,” “It was a bandh day but people walked from Boudha to get here and there were people sitting outside on the ground waiting for the gallery to open”

kathmandupost Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:19:00 AM EAT