Exhibition
Carnival of grotesque
The walls of artist-run space, Kalakendra, host artist Nisar Hossain's drawings and prints this month. Part of the third instalment of the gallery's “Drawing and Thinking” series, Bikargrostho Shomoyer Roikhik Boyan (Linear Text of a Delirious Time), curated by Wakilur Rahman, opened on June 30, 2018 in the presence of special guest, artist Rafikun Nabi. Notable artists such as Sheikh Afzal, Abul Barq Alvi, Shishir Bhattacharjee, and Rashid Amin were also present at the event.
exhibition / An opulent display of sculptures
As one enters into the National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA), one encounters a magnificent ray of light illuminating many of the finest pieces of sculptures.
Exhibition / Far from the Maddening Crowd
"Far from representing reality, pictures probe multiple realities by fabricating narratives of events that never occurred." This quote by Mark C Taylor from his book on the American painter Mark Tansey sounds like a fitting homage to the works of Kazi Mrinal. Mrinal's images are like visioned unreality. They are structured by the communion-seeking mind rather than originating from contemplation or critical reflection on real events.
Collector's Exhibition - A celebration of passion
As alien as it may seem to us today, baby boomers are no strangers to the fad of matchbox collecting. Millennials will remember the pleasure of removing stamps from an envelope, soaking them in water and once dry, sticking them on albums. Coins and banknotes have always been popular and even today an average Joe carefully preserves a ragged note long out of circulation.
Exhibition / Art as Process: in architect Tanzim's exhibition at Kala Kendra
Architect Tanzim Hasan Salim rose to mainstream prominence when he jointly won the design competition for the new Liberation War Museum. But what is lesser known to the public is the demanding creative and emotional labour that he put into executing such a monumental project. His solo exhibition at Kala Kendra entitled “Drawing and Thinking, Thinking and Drawing-2” displays to the public the phases of
Into the Fold, Out in the One
As a reconnaissance of what seems like a neural landscape, Soma Surovi Jannat's oeuvre seems to hover over the "plain of immanence" perceived as Spinoza's "single substance" (God/Nature), thereby, lending
Exhibition / Cha Chakra: Tea Tales of Bangladesh
Faiham Ebne Sharif's first solo exhibition, Cha Chakra: Tea Tales of Bangladesh, curated by Amirul Rajiv and Naim Ul Hasan, was held
SPECIAL FEATURE / Unseen '71 by Amanul Haq
Jomi, Shoheed, Shadhinota, Klanto pa ma-shishu, Sadapaira… (land, martyr, independence, mother and child tired of walking, white pigeon...) Handwritten on the front of yellowish envelope. Loads of surprises inside. It has been many years since he carefully saved those negatives!
A Digital Gypsy
With more than 1000 artworks, artist Najib Tareque is striving to take our traditional art to a large scale market through his online venture titled 'Art Makes Us Human'.
LOUD AND VIBRANT
It is an unique genre in the art world, a distinctive niche of its own. Meanwhile, it may be deemed as "the common man's art", if you will.
The Big Apple's Love for Art
Famous journalist and writer Tom Wolfe once said, “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years”.
Finding Meaning in the Mundane
An alley of Old Dhaka; an ordinary rickshaw ride; children playing in the rain; and the little joys and every day celebrations that
Paris in Pellicle
From January 22, La Galerie of Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) has been exhibiting prominent photographer/ cinematographer
AN EXPERIMENTAL EXHIBITION
Edward Morgan Forster, popularly known as E.M. Forster, an English novelist, short story writer and essayist, used the phrase “Only
What we left behind
They named their exhibition Anamnesis, a Greek term that means to look back. Like the name, Iskinder Mirza, one of the artists featured at the...
