A solo exhibition titled “Spinning Tales of a Shadowist and Others” by Md Ashikur Rahman Turja is going on at the Dhaka Art Centre (DAC) and will remain open until June 26.
The exhibition is a display of Turja’s academic and experimental work during his BFA and MFA terms at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. The artist’s primary medium of expertise is printmaking but he has also displayed his skills on woodcut, etching, acquaint, dry paint and lithography.
This is Turja’s first solo exhibition and many of his artworks depict spintop toys. According to the artist, he has highlighted top as an object of self depiction.
With the theme that is mysterious in nature, many of his pieces show hands in blurry shades, depicting an existence of a citizen in the midst of a socio-economic complexity prevailing through the decay of morality in the society.
His artwork “Reduction of the Magnetic” is about the complexity of social structures and their conflicting natures. “Journey” is associated with the sense of nostalgia. “Spinning Tales” reflects memories of a carefree play-tool.
Through his work titled “Steering System,” done once again in blurry shades, the artist explains how coming from a middle-income group influences his art and at the same time how financial restraints control an artist’s creativity and freedom of thought.
