Giorgio: The thing that strikes me about your art work is the prevalence of political references, especially from Western political ideologies of the 70’s. I’m curious to see if you were also influenced by the art movements of the West? Dhali: There is no way that I can avoid Western influence and there are many […]
Reading Images
Kerstin Gürke, Berlin If written images are not only read as text but seen and emphasised as colours and forms, then in the eye of the observer the text changes into an image. “Rational reading” shifts to “irrational seeing”. Can both forms of perception exist simultaneously? Levels of content and form interact and move […]
The limitless luminosity of Art: drawings, watercolours and oils
Syed Azizul Haque With his lifelong devotion to art, Safiuddin Ahmed has greatly enriched the tradition of drawing and oil painting in our country, besides making pioneering contribution to graphic art. His works display a wide experimental range, reaching out from academic pursuits to embrace some contemporary trends in European art. The result has been […]
Magic for Change
Lala Rukh Selim Dilara Begum Jolly’s critique of society seeps through its layers, from the all-encompassing arena of global politics, narrowing down to the national, the tribulations of women, the ravages of war and its impact on humanity and civilization, myth and religion. These layers are collected in formal groups and depicted in the language […]
Tayeba Begum Lipi by Abul Mansur
In Bangladesh, women who are engaged in the visual arts, often find themselves negotiating an adverse territory as they seek to locate themselves within a tradition where they have been historically discriminated against and which has been defined in male terms. While some women have dealt with these issues through deconstructing the visual imagery, others have disparagingly […]
মানুষের মনে প্রকৃতির ঐক্য তৈরি করা
ড. বোরহানউদ্দিন খান জাহাঙ্গীর শিল্পীর স্বাভাবিক প্রতিবেশ হচ্ছে বাস্তব। বাস্তবকে সবসময় খুঁজতে হয়, কামরুল হাসানের কাজে এই খোঁজার শেষ নেই। বাস্তবের উলটো কাল্পনিকতা নয়, বরং বাস্তব থেকে কাল্পনিকতা তৈরি হয়। কামরুল হাসান, তাঁর কাজে, এই বিরোধ ভুল বলে ভেবেছেন। ঘটনা হচ্ছে বাস্তব মুষ্টিবদ্ধ করার এক উপায়, বাস্তব ঘটনা থেকেই তিনি কাল্পনিকতা নির্মাণ করেছেন। শিল্পী মাত্র, […]
The Magic of Line
Syed Manzoorul Islam The present exhibition Unseen Splendour owes its origin to a serendipitous discovery of a small trove of SM Sultan early drawings and watercolours in the possession of Mr. Abul Kasem Joarder, who was a teacher at Jessore Michael Madhusudan College in the 1950s. Mr. Joarder was a friend of Sultan and on […]
Zainul Abedin by Abul Hasnat
Pioneering artist Zainul Abedin began the Institute of Art in Dhaka with just two small rooms, eighteen students, and a Herculean effort. Immediately after the Partition of 1947, the newly-formed Pakistan was openly sceptical towards modern art in a tradition-based society. Despite religious and cultural pressures, political and environmental turmoil, this revolutionary initiative eventually evolved […]