International sculpture exhibition opens in Chittagong
A weeklong sculpture exhibition titled “International Celebration of Contemporary Sculpture” featuring works of country's sculpture artists started at Artist Rashid Chowdhury Art Gallery of Fine Arts Institute of Chittagong University (CU) on Sunday.
With the theme of 'Art in Public Spaces', Germany-based 'Sculpture Network' is organising the exhibition at 70 venues of 21 countries.
In Bangladesh, the exhibition is being held at two venues -- one at the Artist Rashid Chowdhury Art Gallery of Institute of Fine Arts of CU, and the other is Alliance Francaise de Chittagong Gallery.
A total of 50 sculptures by 47 artists are being exhibited in the exhibition, where the artists have used metal rods, metal pipes, ceramic, fiberglass, cloths, metal sheet, wood, paper, sawdust, stone, terracotta, glass, sand, coal and re-cycled material to produce the sculptures with unique shapes and colours.
Bangladesh's venue coordinator and CU Fine Arts Institute's Associate Prof Pranab Mitra said sculpture is a three-dimensional art which draws quick attention. He said it is the largest platform for contemporary sculpture artists where the participants at the 70 locations are connected with each other virtually, and can communicate their impressions live over social networks.
“Every year, the exhibition is organised worldwide to support, encourage and promote the three-dimensional art throughout the world at the end of January to celebrate international contemporary sculpture,” added Pranab.
“I tried to express the eternal bond with mother and child though my sculpture. I borrowed the idea from our ancient mother figure who provided security and assurance to a child”, said Sameena M Karim, whose work “Matrika” expresses mothers' primal bond with child.
Another artist, Gonshai Pahlavi, made a sculpture named “Seed Yantra” with metal scraps where he tried to show that well-designed sculpture can be made by scrap materials.
CU Pro-Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury inaugurated the exhibition as chief guest on Sunday noon.
Fine Arts Institute's Prof Alak Roy presided over the inaugural ceremony of the exhibition where Alliance Francaise de Chittagong Director Raphael Jaeger, CU Fine Arts Institute's Director Shaela Sharmin were also present.
The exhibition will remain open from 10am to 8pm every day and will end on February 4.
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