“Triangle,” a unique display of artworks by artistes Sujoy Malakar, Binoy Paul and Meherun Akter Sumi, began at Gallery Jolrong of Gulshan in the city on Saturday June 15. The display is a week-long event that exhibits works of participants of Crake Bangladesh’s Annual International Art Camp, which was hosted at the Matshabiz Khamar in Kushtia this year. Students from all over South Asia participate in this programme.
The exhibition is a joint effort of Gallery Jolrong in association with Crake Bangladesh. The organisation, Crake Bangladesh is non-profit and their main objective is to work in a new way, to exchange ideas between artists, to come up with new style and form and present it by using the local raw materials available at hand.
The participants of the exhibition, Sujoy Malakar is an artist and student of Painting Department of Bishva Bharati University, Binoy Pal is from Shilchar Sculpture Department, Asam University and Meherun Akter Sumi is from the Painting Department of Chittagong University.
The artists have worked in drawing, painting, interactive public art, new media and sculpture. The use of local elements like “Pati,” traditional rug made of bamboo stalks are incorporated in a handful of artworks on display. They are visually stunning and noteworthy objects of the show.
The inauguration ceremony started with the performance of Meherun Akter Sumi’s “Birth and Death Feeling-2.” Then a power-point presentation was shown about the whole programme held in Kushtia. The show will go on till June 21.
