Duet art exhibit at AFD
Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) has organised a duet painting exhibition by young artists -- Sayed Fida Hossain and Sultan Ishtiaque -- titled “Obsession” at its La Galerie. The inaugural ceremony of the exhibition was held on August 18.
Renowned artist Professor Jamal Ahmed inaugurated the exhibition as the chief guest on August 18. MK Aaref, Director, EMK Center, attended the inaugural ceremony as the guest of honour.
The exhibition is about a journey that begins with the artists through their dreams, memories, perception, and feelings about the urban and idyllic lives. The journey acquires a voice of its own and tells a story of being obsessed with the daily happenings. Driven by the mechanical life of tiresome drudgery, the journey reveals about the resultant suffocation.
Hossain's segmented portrait series previously showed verisimilitude of his subjects and at the same time their fragility. His goal in this regard is not to attain a good likeness, but to keep pushing the limits of realism. However, for this exhibition Hossain introduces a completely different style that exhibits the surroundings or the landscapes along with the portrayal of the subject's obsessed mind.
Ishtiaque's canvasses used to depict natural beauty with all its glory, but now his approach has evolved to include in those landscapes the compelling presence of individuals and their dreams and hardships. A massive shipyard now exhibits the raw emotion Ishtiaque felt for the shipyard workers who are in imminent danger on account of working under unsupervised and hazardous conditions.
The exhibition is open from 3pm to 9pm (Monday to Thursday), and on Fridays and Saturdays from 9am to12 noon and 5pm to 8pm.
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