A two-week solo pattachitra exhibition titled ‘Baishakh in the Land of Tiger’ (Bagh-er Deshe Baishakh) by patua Nazir Hossain is underway at the Galerie Zoom of Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) in Dhanmondi of the capital.
Minister of Primary and Mass Education Mostafizur Rahman Fizar inaugurated the exhibition as chief guest on Tuesday on the gallery premises.
Nazir Hossain’s artworks accentuate many different forms of the Royal Bengal Tiger in pattachitras that encapsulate many different folk elements of Bangla mythology. Hossain’s choice of colours brings in a good combination of bright hues like jade, ruby, topaz and beryl with contrasting black and white. The mingling and mixing of lines and colours are neat and subtle, and they speak of labour and endless hope. The subjects of the fishermen, farmers, their near and dear ones are combined with tigers and cobras that are taken from the traditional pattachitra style. Sometimes muted and at others loud and buoyant, the lines and colours take one away to the idyll of the riverine Bangladesh. The fresh breeze, the birds and the bees, the cows, goats and endless ‘barret clouds’ speak of repose and tranquility.
The exhibition remains open to all until May 7 and can be visited according to the following schedule: Monday to Thursday from 3 pm to 9 pm, Friday and Saturday (9 am to 12 noon and 5 pm to 8 pm; closed on Sunday.

AFD: 26 Mirpur Road, Dhanmondi
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