A lovely drizzly holiday day... just perfect for a drive out to the Institute of Fine Arts after a couple of drinks and a spicy hot South Indian lunch!
 

...and then to enjoy the artwork displayed at one of the 3 venues [Shilpakala Academy] of the 13th Asian Arts Biennial being held at Dhaka. The exhibition being of extra special attraction because works of several friends displayed here as well.

...have yet to visit the other 2 venues of the exhibition, the Osmani Memorial Auditorium and the National Museum.

Shall do, soon!

       Jhaal Muri

An Art & Photography Exhibition on Bangladesh Street Culture by

Rokeya ~ Kuhu  ~ Smita ~ Ujwala ~ Anil

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

8th November 2008 at 7:00 PM

 Bay's Galleria 5th Floor 57 Gulshan Avenue Dhaka Bangladesh

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

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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 36 of my photographs displayed at «In Search of Beautiful Impressions» an exhibition at Bengal Gallery from 2nd to 4th June 2008 - of prints from the Printmaking Workshop which was held at the Institute of Fine Arts Dhaka University from 18th to 24th May 2008. The facade of the Gallery is an enormous wood-carved piece of art which makes me stop and look at it every time I visit. The exhibition was great and there were so many fantastic pieces of art that I liked - I bought [just!] 4 of the many prints that I liked. Rokeya was at the gallery this evening, doing an interview for the gallery and probably one for a TV channel. I missed the slide-show and documentary film though, as it was getting late and I had to be elsewhere by 7. Subir Choudhury, the Director of the gallery, promised to send me a copy on a disk .