Solo exhibition �Journey with Wreckage 2� begins at AFD
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A solo painting exhibition titled Journey with Wreckage 2 by artist Bipul Shah has begun at La Galerie of Alliance Franaise de Dhaka (AFD) in the citys Dhanmondi area. Eminent artist Professor Hamiduzzaman Khan and Professor Abul Barq Alvi, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, among others, were present during the inaugural ceremony on Friday. AFD director Bruno Plasse presided over the event. A total number of 30 artworks have been put on display in the ongoing exhibition.
Artist Bipul Shah was born in Netrokana in 1967. Talented artist Bipul Shah obtained his MFA from Institute of Fine Art, University of Dhaka in 1992. He has participated in many group and solo art exhibitions home and abroad. Journey with Wreckage 2 is his eighth solo exhibition. However, he had his first solo exhibition titled Journey with Wreckage at Gallery Kaya in 2007. Broken windows, decaying tin, weather-beaten walls, moth-eaten pieces of wood the subjects of Bipul Shahs artworks seem like vehicles that express things brought out in the light from a troubled consciousness as well as a state of the artists experienced reality. The artist deems that the constructs of human ambitions are backfiring, resulting in the destruction of mens greatest achievements.
His artworks thus display a duality of grace and rivalry and a strange chiaroscuro of dream and nightmare. The physical properties, shapes, forms and the dynamics of Shahs surroundings amalgamated with the beauty of nature that he simultaneously perceives give birth to a continuum that he, as an artist, braves as if he is on a journey.
The exhibition is open to all, until March 25.
Visiting Hours: MondayThursday: 3pm9pm, Friday and Saturday (9am12 noon and 5pm8pm). Closed on Sunday. l
