DL desk

A 22 day long 72nd solo art exhibition of internationally renowned artist Kalidas Karmakar titled ‘Alluvial Soul-Soil-Symbol’ will begin today at the Nalinikanta Bhattasali Gallery of Bangladesh National Museum, Shahbag in the city.
Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor will inaugurate the exhibition as chief guest today at 5pm while Professor Emeritus Dr. Anisuzzaman and Bangladesh Enterprise Institute President Farooq Sobhan will be present as special guests.
Kalidas Karmakar made his mark as an artist with a difference in his first ever major solo exhibition held at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in 1976. A master in the art of drawing, Kalidas has been equally busy in mixed media and sculptural collages. He is one of the pioneers in installation art in Bangladesh, beginning in the ‘70s, and continuing to experiment with the medium. His mixed media works on Washi (his own handmade paper) are considered to be exciting.
His present exhibition, titled ‘Alluvial Soul-Soil-Symbol’, at the Bangladesh National Museum, is a retrospective of his graphic prints, a medium in which he has specialised.
Kalidas gives poetic titles such as ‘Pain and Love’, ‘Harmony in Vision’, ‘Holy Symbol’, ‘Love and Nature’, ‘Vision of Life’, ‘Holy Image’, ‘Realisation of Soul’, ‘Mood, Metal and Wood’, ‘Liberation ’71-Homage to Blue’, ‘Alluvial Pain and Salvation’, ‘Alluvial Dream and Reality’.
Earlier, Kalidas Karmakar has arranged a number of 71 solo shows in different countries in Asia, Europe, Australia, North America and Latin America and earned many international awards.
The exhibition will remain open to all, every day from 9:30am to 5:30 pm.  2:30pm to 7:30pm on Friday and closed on Thursday.

Where: Nat’l Museum, Shahbag.
When: 5pm, (Inauguration) today.