A group art exhibition titled Adherence will begin at Galerie Zoom of Alliance Francaise from September 17 at 5.30 pm.The participating artists are: Bappy Linkon Roy, Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury, Kuntal Barai, Mahabub Alam, Nabaraj Roy, Nabila Nabi, Nasrin Jahan Onika, Pervaj Hasan Rigan, Pritam Pitu, Prodip Shaha, Raijn Mustafa Dipraw, S M Ehsan, Sajia Rahman Sondha, Sharmin Akter Lina, and Zakia Afrose.
Syed Hasan Mahmud, principal of Jhapi School of Art and Rumi Noman, director of Shilpangan Gallery will attend the opening ceremony as special guests.
Mahabub Alam’s artworks of fluttering trees may seem fresh and original as Alam’s style departs from the classic Asian ink art of scrolls and calligraphy. The acrylic artworks by Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury visualizes abstract artifacts with a low-key palette.
S M Ehsan’s collagraphs are textural, expansive and statement-makers. Unlike conventional prints, these prints employ a wide variety of mucilaginous materials, as well as techniques such as etching and lithography, to give off clever effects.
A more classic approach is taken by Kuntal Barai whose works devise a maze of expressionistic colours. Artworks by Pervaj Hasan Rigan have more representational forms embodying cacophonous colours.
Hand-knotted weavings and wooly knits bring about a collection of tapestry from Nabila Nabi, whose works depict natural elements like a red rose where the forms are strong and convincing. Nabaraj Roy’s forms are also depictive where animals and birds congregate together in a dappled plain. Roy centres on the traditional items and pieces of Bangladesh’s tapestry of cultures, races, and customs.
Using an acrylic medium, Sharmin Akter Lina paints representational figures, such as a young woman with an ornamented bird on her hand, amid a strong presence of green and leaf motifs.
The streaked and spattered effects in Prodip Saha’s artworks show nature and man-made architecture blended in harmony. Bappy Linkon Roy’s colours are restlessly splattered with each other to illustrate a viscous outlook with tinges of green, red and blue here and there. Patterns of gamchha weaving is recognisable in Zakia Afrose’s works. Nasrin Jahan Onika employs aquatint technique to achieve artworks that exude eeriness and exoticness, among other feelings, atop an unlit backdrop.
The exhibition will be open to all until Saturday, September 28. From Monday to Thursday the visiting hours are 3-9 pm. On Fridays and Saturdays, the gallery is open from 9am to 12pm, 5-8 pm. The gallery remains closed on Sundays.
