The odyssey: homecoming of Tokon
It's a tale of a little boy, moulded from the raw soils of a small town in the Jhenaidah district of Bangladesh, with lofty dreams. He swam against the currents of society at a very early age, to stay afloat in his river of artistic zeal. His dreams have carried him across seas in pursuit of liberty in the United States of America. He may have cloaked himself with the spell-bounding city lights of New York, but never forgot to nurture the small-town heart within.
Tokon's homecoming has been twenty years in the making. As 2023 begins, this New York painter could no longer defy the pull of his roots and thus, returns home with his exquisite solo art exhibition, 'The Odyssey: Crossroads of Dreams and Memories', at Bay's Edgewater to share his innermost feelings and thoughts, captured in a unique style and amazing compositions. His exhibition will kindle flames in the hearts of juvenile art lovers, and simultaneously resonate with seasoned art admirers. This soul-awakening exhibition will display the incredible tonalities of his motherhood in the east, intertwined with his adventures in the west. His work is not to be studied, but to be consumed into, till it transports your spirit into a metaphysical realm.
His paintings are embossed with the essence of fresh mud from his childhood and washed in the colours of the city. With cool and blazing colours and heavy-handed yet subtle gestures at the same time, his paintings are counterpoints and evocations of a place and a mindscape of memories. It's almost like the famous poems of Rabindranath have come alive and dwelled with the powerful lyrics of Bob Dylan. Each stroke of his brush is enamoured with divinity, dreams, and desires of a battered heart. He pours ballads on the canvas and smears them with acrylic. His painting has the capacity of detaching one from the materialistic world till you find yourself performing Tanoura in the gates of a perpetual paradise. The grandeur of his artworks encapsulates the heat of a raging heart and the quiet of a contemplative spirit.
Every now and then there is that desire in all of us for time to stop, and for us to feel that stillness – The Odyssey offers us just that. Come, join us on a journey to enjoy the art of astonishing beauty and surprise yourself with the experience of being at mysterious crossroads from the 21st of January till the 16th of February, 2023. Edge, The Foundation welcomes you to experience the Crossroads of Dreams and Memories.
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