A weeklong painting exhibition titled ‘Narrative of Time’ by artist Monjur Rashid will begin at the La Galerie of Alliance Française de Dhaka in Dhanmondi of the capital on Tuesday.
Eminent artist Monirul Islam will inaugurate the exhibition as the chief guest on the gallery premises, while eminent photographer Nasir Ali Mamun, founder and managing director of ISTT professor Gazi M A Salam and associate professor of Jagannath University Dr Rashid Amin will be present as the special guests.
Monjur Rashid has been working as a freelance artist after earning his master of fine arts from University of Development Alternative (UODA). He started working with experimental mediums and after that he looked into working on mediums like bottles and umbrellas.
He has received accolades from a number of organisations and has attended more than fifty group exhibitions at home and abroad. Monjur had his first solo exhibition at Alliance Française de Dhaka in 2014 titled ‘Searching Myself’.
This time around, his second solo will feature about 36 paintings. Monjur is very partial to watercolour, acrylic and mixed media. And these mediums, to emerge from the canvasses as paintings, lend a helping hand in realizing his feelings.
His second solo painting exhibition titled ‘Narrative of Time’ will feature a series of paintings demonstrating Rashid’s command of portraiture. The artist uses geometry to narrate the story in the artworks that to be displayed in this exhibition. Most of the time he establishes a center character of the story than he weaves the canvas with surrounding elements. When he put graphical lines on his painting to make distance between the curators it becomes an irresistible power of the sensory world. In Mojur’s work portraits are not always human faces sometime he chooses the theme of nature and presents it beautifully in his canvas.
The exhibition will remain open to all until July 3 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.
Where: AFD, 26 Mirpur Road, Dhanmondi
When: Inauguration: 5:30pm, June 26