Syed Jahangir's 42nd solo exhibit to open Nov 11

Veteran painter Syed Jahangir's solo art exhibition, titled “Memory Beyond Time” is set to open in the capital's Abinta Gallery of Fine Arts on November 11. Earlier on November 4, the gallery celebrated the 85th birthday of the artist along with his friends and family.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith will inaugurate the exhibition on Saturday at 6:30pm.

Syed Jahangir has been experimenting with his colour and brush, particularly his spatula with black ink on paper of late. The artworks in this exhibition are a unique outcome of that experimentation. He plays with form and particularly space in his drawings, yet his themes remain very natural. In his current exhibition, Jahangir is showing works done mostly with acrylic on canvas with lavish use of blue and yellow.

The exhibition reveals the evolution of a thinking artist, and also brings forth the artistic and technical talent of Syed Jahangir. One of the highlights of the exhibition is that it shows a large painting done on the plight of Rohingyas -- entering into Bangladesh crossing a river, while their homes are being burnt by the Myanmar army. The artist has decided to sell this painting to the highest bidder and donate the entire proceeds to the Prime Minister's Rohingya Relief Fund.

Immediately after the Liberation of Bangladesh, Syed Jahangir started series of paintings called Rejuvenation of a Soul, Premonition, Ecstasy, Vibration, Quest for the Unknown, Rhythm of Nature etc. For the last ten years or so, he is doing only figurative work, after going through stages of realistic and abstract expressions for decades. His latest works predominantly relate to rural Bangladesh -- its river, fishermen, harvesting, day labor and natural and man-made disasters.