“Bizarre and Beautiful II”.

After the boom in the South Asian art market over the last decade, many of us have dreamt that the breeze will flow in Bangladesh as well. Many Bangladeshi organisations, galleries are trying to promote Bangladeshi art internationally.
The recent Dhaka Art Summit, which was held from April 12-15 has heartened Bangladeshi artists and many wonder about the global response to their art.
“The world's largest auction house with an annual art sale of over US $ 5 billion is putting up Tayeba Begum Lipi's artwork “Bizarre and Beautiful-2” in their South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art Sale at Christie's King Street, London on June 11 in this year,” informed Rajeeb Samdani, founder-trustee of the Samdani Art Foundation.
Lipi's artwork will be auctioned at Christie's along with other contemporary and modern artists of the subcontinent like Pakistani artists Rashid Rana and Adeela Suleman, Indian artists Bharti Kher, Bose Krishnamachari, Jitish Kallat, Zarina Hashmi and Subodh Gupta, British artist Shezad Dawood to Indian masters like Tyeb Mehta, Francis Newton Souza, MF Hussain, S H Raza, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Manjit Bawa and many more. The highlight of this auction is an acrylic on canvas by Tyeb Mehta which was executed in 1996 and the work has been estimated to be US $1.9 million $2.8 million.
Lipi's “Bizarre and the Beautiful-2” is an installation, made of stainless steel, hangers and razor blades. Through this powerful and expressive work, she questions how a woman's beauty should be represented. The installation consists of 3,000 razor blades made of stainless steel, shaped into 30 pairs of brassieres that hang from a metal bar.
The artist was born in Gaibandha in 1969. She studied Drawing and Painting at the Institute of Fine Art (now the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka). She is one of the founder- trustees of Britto Arts Trust, where she has played a major role as coordinator since its inception in 2002. She has curated several international large-scale projects, as well as donned the role of commissioner for Parables: Bangladesh Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, 2011.