Tusher Kabir’s 2nd solo
Human life is capricious, continuously changing from one stage to another, from one façade to another; a young woman becomes a mother while a lad becomes a man, and life is full of such changes. Human mind is also whimsical and does not remain same; its thoughts, dreams and memories roam around and change. The theme of such changes in life and mind has been addressed artistically in young artist Tusher Kabir’s second solo The Great Migration which opened on Friday at Dhaka Art Centre at Dhanmondi.
The artist terms the changes in life and mind as ‘the great migrations’, and has attempted to depict them in 32 paintings-mostly done in acrylic, charcoal and pastels.
To speak of particular paintings, one might feel that it is merely a black canvas signifying nothing of note when you look at the acrylic painting titled Solitary from a distance. But when at close, there appears an outline of woman so dim that someone might not notice it at a careless glance. And that is the beauty of that painting, which looks mysterious and attractive.
In one of his acrylic paintings Reminiscence of Time, Kabir has depicted an old man with a split head along with chess pawns in it as if to allude to a mind game.
‘When we hear the word migration, we generally think of migrating from one country to another but numerous migrations take place within our mind and life. I have chosen such migrations as theme of my paintings,’ Kabir said to New Age.
Presented by Roxy Paints, the exhibition will be open for all from 3:00pm to 8:00pm till October 5. The exhibition was inaugurated by Finn Thilsted, former Royal Danish ambassador in Bangladesh, as chief guest and Mohammad Samsuzzaman, executive director of Roxy Paint, as special guest.
-With New Age input
