Just like the ‘pied piper of Hamelin’ of the medieval Germany, the ruling class, especially the politicians, in the contemporary Bangladesh are playing and dictating to the marginalised people,
who dominate in terms of number.
This fact has been depicted in an epic canvas by Mainuddin. Hundreds
of human figures portraying different types of professions of the ordinary people in Dhaka march according to the direction of a human figure on the background of the images of the Jatiya Sangsad and the Supreme Court in the 8ft by 59ft huge artwork titled Nirobadhi Janasrot.
Truly, it is a masterpiece, done by a very young artist who satirises the contemporary socio-political milieu, can even surprise his teachers. ‘Definitely it’s wonderful figurative work,’ said artist Nisar Hossain, a professor at the department of painting at Dhaka University.
Still a student of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Md Mainuddin has presented narratives of the marginalised people in the urban setting in his displayed 55 drawings in different mediums such as charcoal, dry pastel and pencil in his solo exhibition at Dhaka Art Centre.
The artist repeats his figures on other displayed works those he has already assimilated into his largest one. However, artist does not present these deprived people as pale and frustrated ones in the individual portrait series.
With passionate lyrical lines, Mainuddin creates the detailed images of celebrations reflected on the faces of ordinary people, which are overlooked by the dominating class.
His ‘A Man and A Woman’ series symbolically represents joy happiness of the deprived people.
In his Sadhu series, the young artist has drawn different moods and postures of a fictitious saint like character as symbol of ascetic living in the gardens and parks in the city.
‘The ordinary people have been marginalised in the society. But, they also celebrate life, which draws my attention,’ Mainuddin says.
The exhibition was inaugurated on May 31 and will be open from 12pm to 8pm till June 12 at Dhaka Art Center in Dhanmondi.
Courtesy of New Age
