A London-based Bangladeshi artist is making her auction debut at Christie's with a unique sculpture that is being offered by the world-famous auction house as part of its ‘South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art’ sale in London next month.
Rana Begum's folded steel sculpture titled ‘No 426’ is expected to fetch up to £30,000 at the auction alongside celebrated South Asian modernist and contemporary artists such as M.F. Husain and Francis Newton Souza.
"For the first time Christie’s will offer at auction a folded steel sculpture by the British-based Bangladeshi artist Rana Begum," Christie's auction house said in a statement.
"Begum has created an impressive corpus of artworks in which she explores the mediums of painting, sculpture and installation and has most recently featured at Frieze Sculpture Park in 2018," the statement noted.
Born in Bangladesh, Begum lives and works in London. Her work is described as distilling spatial and visual experience into ordered form. Begum is recognised for blurring the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture and her works have won many awards over the years.
“I find that creative process has no boundaries. For me, different mediums are all connected through visual experience,” says the popular artist.
At the Christie's South Asian art auction in London on June 11, her work will go under the hammer alongside a series of works by famous artists, almost entirely from private collections from Europe, India, Asia, US and Australia.
Begum has just recently also been announced among nine artists and designers to be chosen for the prestigious International Artist Residency Program at Istanbul Modern museum in Turkey. She will spend a total of six weeks in Istanbul collaborating with local artisans and at the culmination of her stay, the works she produces will be exhibited at Istanbul Modern in 2020.