Seeing the world though water colours
Artworks by Kazi Rakib and the The artist
Kazi Rakib's exhibition of water colours "Taravelling over the horizon" is being held at Kaya Gallery. Rakib has worked on different medias such as oil, acrylic, silk, terracotta and wood. He has also worked on glass, steel and copper sheets. Apart from these, he has worked on papier-mache, block prints and photography. He has worked as an art teacher in Rajshahi Art College.
Rakib has traveled extensively to places like Japan, Thailand, India, Pakistan and France. He has held exhibitions in Peking, Germany, Malaysia, China and Bangladesh.
His dealing with art has always been unconventional. At 54 has given various renditions to paper and canvas surfaces. His present exhibition deals with his water colours of 30 years.
Rakib says, "Working in various materials is always my practice. Whenever I find a new material I start finding its character and possibilities to bridge-up a kind of friendship. From my early days I've repeatedly worked with water-colours. I played with coloured water on dry paper. Sometimes I dripped the colour over the wet surface and controlled its routing. One can glimpse through this exhibition of the journey with water colour that I've had so far."
"Raining", water colour on paper, brings in two figures, outlined with black, trudging through wet streets, under a dark cobalt sky. The figures are yellow and brown while their twirling shadows are green and ochre. "Night" brings in house tops, windows, the sky and the round, pale blue moon. All the work is done in overwhelming black and dark blue.
"Dressing" has a woman with her dressing table and bed beside her, getting ready to go out. The bed has a frilled pillow and a checked counterpane. A book, a handbag and various cosmetic items are seen at the back as we study the female figure from behind bars of a window.
An abstract untitled piece has squares of purple, blue, yellow and gray, outlined with black. Two dots of red relive the monotony. A still life is done in shades of orange, pink, gray and blue, once more in an abstract manner.
There is the portrait of the seated woman in green, tying her hair, and another standing one in, draped in a simple orange sari with a black border. Both are done in a geometrical way, where the curves, swirls and dots bring in rhythm and harmony.
Rakib got the Silver Jubilee of Dhaka Art College in 1974. He won a bronze prize at Osaka Triennale of Prints in 1991.He also won a Bangladesh Shilpakala Award in 1992.
The exhibition ends on May 2.
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