A six-day grand group art exhibition presenting artworks by leading Indian and Bangladeshi artists is going on at the Bengal Foundation of Dhanmondi in Dhaka.
The exhibition is the outcome of an art camp held as a part of the yearlong academic exchange programme between the fine art faculties of Dhaka University and Visva Bharati University in India.
A total of 50 artists — eleven from India and 39 from Bangladesh — participated in the two-day art camp held recently at Charukala.
A total of 50 acrylic paintings are on display at the exhibition. The interesting part of the show is that the paintings do not have any title and thus allows the audience to interpret the works liberally.
Qayyum Chowdhury's painting gives a beautiful picture of greenery of Bangladeshi landscape.
Nisar Hossain's work depicts an unconventional combination of cannibals and shrines of different religions. Hossain has ridiculed the religious fundamentalism by portraying the atrocities of the cannibals and used red colour in the background as a symbol of dreadfulness.
Indian artist Prabir Kumar Biswas's work presents the divine love between a tribal prince and his beloved princess.
Mustafa Monwar presents the magnificent beauty of the landscape of Bangladesh during the monsoon in his composition.
Indian artist Pankaj Panwar's surrealist work depicts a dog with wings. Portraying the dog as a symbol of evil being, the painting highlights the extraordinary power of the wicked in society.
Mohammad Iqbal in his semi-abstract painting presents the spirit of love and Shishir Bhattacharjee presents the decline in human emotion due to technological advancement.
The displayed paintings also include works of Hashem Khan, Rafiqun Nabi, Kalidas Karmakar, Abu Taher, Shahid Kabir, Nazib Mohammad and EHM Matlub Ali.
The Indian participants include Nandadulal Mukherjee, Prasun Kanti Bhattacharya, Dilip Mitra, Sanchayan Ghosh, Sumitabha Pal, Rishi Barua, Arpan Mukherjee, Soumik Nandy Majumdar and Salil Sahani.
The exhibition will conclude today.
Source: New Age
