ART EXHIBITION MYTHICAL MIND
Dissolving unreal boundaries between past, present and future
around town
DL desk
A solo art exhibition titled Mythical Mind by artist AR Rumy has begun yesterday at La Galerie, Alliance Franaise de Dhaka in the capitals Dhanmondi area. State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, Agrani Bank Limited chairman Dr Zaid Bakht, leadership consultant and researcher Arvi Ahmed and director of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry Shameem Ahsan, among others, were present at the inaugural ceremony of the exhibition held yesterday.
Our tormented and turbulent society is going through an agonised phase. It lacks wisdom, direction, vision, morality, and humanity; whereas our past holds our experiences, knowledge, inspiration, and profundity. The artist sees himself as a lonesome diver into his scarred soul and from there he creates and dissolves the unreal boundaries between past, present and future. Rumy likes to portray a reality with which the viewers may joyfully infuse themselves and would achieve the ability to see the completeness and openness between the boundaries of division, diversion and diversity. AR Rumy believes love is the central voice which has been transformed from a path of pain, cruelty, brutality, absurdity. The mythical mind holds all the knowledge, but it has the soulful intention to discover and reveal what is true and worthy. It is imbued with the beauty, puzzle and mystery in one hand; yet open to introspect, examine and question in and outside, on the other. Our storms are real, but it is to be dealt with passion, courage, tears, sweat, and fire. Following that Rumy would like to open the gate of thoughts, questions and answers, deciphering the mythical mind with artworks that connect, unite, and can instill a serenade of universal echoes in the heart of any rebellion.
AR Rumywas born in Natore in1979. He did his BFA from Rajshahi University and MFA from University of Development Alternative. He is currently working as an assistant professor at Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Development Alternative. In 2006, he did his first solo at Chuwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Besides, he also participated in a number of group art exhibitions at home and abroad.
The exhibition is open to all, until September 2 and can be visited according to the following schedule--Monday to Thursday from 3:00pm to 9:00pm, Friday and Saturday (9:00am to12:00pm and 5:00pm to 8:00pm). Closed -Sunday.
AFD: 26 Mirpur Road, Dhanmondi l
