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A bit of “Jhaal Muri”

Oct 22nd, 2008 by

An Invitation to the exhibition

‘Jhaal Muri’

An Art & Photography Exhibition on Bangladesh Street Culture by

Rokeya ~ Kuhu  ~ Smita ~ Ujwala ~ Anil.

8th November 2008 at 7:00 PM
Bay’s Galleria 5th Floor 57 Gulshan Avenue Dhaka Bangladesh

His Excellency Mr. Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh,
will inaugurate the event. 

The exhibition will remain open 8th to 23rd November 2008

 

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A few months ago artists friends came up with with an idea to do a fun project and exhibit our collective work. The idea was, to go out into the streets and do a series of photographs [market scenes, street-portraits...] and they would paint from these photo references. Not as copies, but interpretations in each of their vastly varied painting styles. It sounded great and a lot of fun. A few outings, and we had a large collection of images to select from. Three of the artists – Rokeya, Smita and Ujwala – featured in my SoFoBoMo 2008 book project and the fourth is Kuhu.

Things have come together, and the photo prints and the painting and artwork are now almost all ready to be exhibited – starting 8th November 2008 at Radius Centre’s art gallery. We are all very excited about the outcome from this casual project, especially because it gives a slightly different viewpoint of “street life” of Dhaka. We’ve come back with an imagery of Dhaka that we hope everyone will find refreshing.

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2 Responses to “A bit of “Jhaal Muri””

  1. Jhaal Muri - ii: :: Anil's Space On The Web :: says:
    November 7, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    [...] As terrible as that sounds, it is not that terrible at all! Except that it did take the mickey out of us getting the sequencing, spacing and positioning the way we wanted it to be. No compromizes. The artwork was hung and taken down 3 times before we got the right look we were after. A nice day spent at Radius Gallery – plenty of jokes and laughs and leg-pulling - great sandwiches and Coke - no coffee – cold beer to quench our thirst? you got to be kidding! End of the day, its all done.  A day to go for the opening.  Details here. [...]

  2. Jhaal Muri artwork: :: Anil's Space On The Web :: says:
    November 10, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    [...] here and here for previous related [...]