Institute of Asian Creatives presents solo painting exhibition “Passion for Blue” by young and versatile artist Gopal Chandra Saha. The artist has done a brilliant job at fusing oriental art with Bengali culture and his artworks are a brilliant depiction of this ancient art-form in a modern avatar.
For art aficionados and collectors around the city, the exhibition holds a collection of 29 paintings that are being sold with a reasonable tag. The two week long exhibition ends on July 19.
IAC promotes young talents and is glad to provide a platform for new comers to show their talent to the art crowd of the country. The gallery is situated in House-9, Road-36, Gulshan-2.
The ongoing exhibition is the second solo show of Gopal Chandra Saha, where the artist exhibits works from three series named “Manan Gantha,” “The Unseen Beauty” and “Wings Beauty.”
While talking about his artworks, the artist informs Dhaka Tribune: “I have used geometric patterns such as triangles as a symbol of relationships amongst humans and to show the relationships in different aspects of human life. An entire artwork comes together through this symbolic use.”
“You can see that in many of my works, I have used a string of human eyes that symbolises human experience and understanding of beauty. It is my belief that it takes a lifetime to understand beauty and present it according to one’s understanding so that other’s interpret it accordingly. You know what they say, ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ and I am a firm believer of the ideology.”
“My inspiration comes from three great artists, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne and Abanindranath Tagore. But, I owe a lot to my guru Malay Bala, I have learned a lot about life’s ideologies from him and many of my works are done with his encouragement of subjects of my choosing” added Gopal.
Some truly remarkable pieces at the exhibition are “Corrupted Peace,” “The Sublime of Liberation,” and “Manan Gantha 19.”
The artwork “Corrupted Peace” depicts a silhouette of Gautam Buddha like figure in meditation. The peaceful crystal blue scenario is shown to be corrupted by use of triangles disrupting the sublime environment, red is utilised artfully to portray the chaos that interrupts the peace. “The Sublime of Liberation,” shows the wronged women of the liberation war, it is a brilliant depiction of their innermost wish to be free and move on forward in life.
