Bappy's “An Eternal Journey” opens today at AFD

A solo painting exhibition titled “An Eternal Journey” by artist Nazmul Haque Bappy, opens today at La Galerie of Alliance Française de Dhaka.

Around 30 paintings will be on display during the nine-day exhibition.    

Though Oriental art originated in China and Japan, it was introduced in the Indian subcontinent with contributions from Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Abdur Rahman Chughtai and other prominent artists. Oriental style was mainly based on watercolour washing method.

Nazmul Haque Bappy's paintings exhibit mountains, nature and animals, and blends the elements of Oriental art with realism to create a new form. He also tries to blend European-style paintings with his own to create refreshing works. Nature and its unpredictable tendencies, birds, rivers, sea, shadows of trees, leaves are the main aspects of Bappy's paintings, which have been done with Chinese patterns employing special kinds of ink and colour.

Bappy accomplished his MFA degree with first class from Department of Oriental Art, University of Dhaka and is presently pursuing a PhD on 'Chinese Traditional Painting' at Beijing, China. He has so far achieved several awards -- including the departmental best award 2011, best medium award 2008 and Berger young painter award 2009.

The exhibition will be open till February 4, from 3pm-9pm on weekdays and 9am-12pm and 5pm-8pm on weekends, except Sunday.

Famous painter and puppeteer Mr. Mustafa Monowar will inaugurate the exhibit as chief guest. Actor, director and writer Mamunur Rashid and  Prof. Nasreen Begum, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka are expected to be present  as the special guests.