A 13-day solo exhibition titled “Nirobodhi Janasrat” is going on at Dhaka Art Centre. This exceptional and superb display showcases works of the gifted young artist Md Mainuddin who depicts the faces of ordinary people and their struggle.
In the artworks, he has done an excellent job in portraying the oppression of the ruling class on the general folks. The exhibition will go on till June 12.
Md Mainuddin has mastered the art of drawing and his long list of awards listed in his credential will testify that. The artist mainly chooses the “by product of consumerism,” people who are hardly surviving, as his subjects of paintings. Like a researching anthropologist, Mainuddin goes to them and tries to blend in their society.
“I want to experience the struggles faced by general people in their everyday life. I observe their turmoil and style of living firsthand, so that I can depict these emotions accurately through an empathic view point,” said the gifted youngster.
At times, he creates the background of his artwork by pasting newspapers as it is his belief that every individual has some news to share with the mass. He has drawn life size figures of panhandlers, bauls, sex workers, street urchins, pavement dweller’s children and many more. The displayed artworks are a series telling story of general people.
The main attraction of the exhibition is a massive 8ft by 59ft artwork titled “Nirobadhi Jonosrot” that shows hundreds of human figures portraying different types of professions of the ordinary people in Dhaka marching according to the direction of a human figure on the backdrop of the images of the Jatiya Sangsad and the Supreme Court.
Mainuddin has used charcoal, dry pastel and acrylic as his mediums for the displayed drawings.
The exhibition was inaugurated by barrister Manjur Hasan and artist Jamal Ahmed on May 31. The special guest of the ceremony was art critic Mainuddin Khaled and the ceremony was conducted by Mahmudul Helal, trustee, Art Trust, Dhaka Art Centre.
