A painting exhibition titled ‘Narrative of Time’ by artist Monjur Rashid is currently underway at La Galerie of Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) in the capital’s Dhanmondi area.

Eminent artist Monirul Islam was present as the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of the exhibition on Tuesday. Eminent photographer Nasir Ali Mamun, Professor Gazi M A Salam, Founder and Managing Director, ISTT and Dr Rashid Amin, Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Jagannath University  also attended the opening ceremony 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’.

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 realising his feelings. His second solo painting exhibition titled ‘Narrative of Time’ features 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 is open to all till July 3 and can be visited according to the following schedule: Monday to Thursday from 3pm to 9pm, Friday and Saturday (9am to12 noon and 5pm to 8pm). Closed -Sunday.

AFD: 26, Mirpur Road, Dhanmondi