This post was originally published in the New Age newspaper on September 29, 2014 under the title, "Five Artists unveil their creative inspiration".
Five artists—three painters, a photographer and a sculptor- are demonstrating their artistic talent at a two-week group art exhibition titled ‘Only Connect. Edition One’ at the Daily Star-Bengal Arts Precinct at Farmgate in the capital. A number of 34 paintings, photographs and sculptures by painters Emran Sohel, Manik Bonik and Mohammad Parvez Hasan, sculptor Syed Tareq Rahman and photographer Arfun Ahmed are on display at the exhibition. Diverse themes have been addressed and beautifully brought up in the works. To speak of particular works, Syed Tareq Rahman’s sculpture, done in metal wires, depicts a rickshaw carrying few people. Photographer Arfun Ahmed has captured a fisherman fishing at Indrawati, a river located in Northeastern Nepal.
Painter Emran Sohel has depicted geometrical figures resembling an urban area in his mixed media painting at the exhibition.
Parvez Hasan, on the other hand, has dealt with human body in his oil paintings depicting naked male bodies entangled with one another in a manner that it becomes almost impossible for the viewers to separate one body from another. Trees have appeared as the theme in Manik Bonik’s acrylic paintings revealing large branches and trunk of trees.
The participating artistes also shared the stories behind their creative inspiration at a discussion session at the Bengal Shilpalaya at Dhanmondi, held in the capital on last Wednesday.
Noted artists including Biren Shome, Wakilur Rahman, Shaheed Kabir and others also attended the programme. Arfun Ahmed, who is a photography teacher of Pathshala: The South Asian Media Institute, and showcasing a series of photographs on river Indrawati at the exhibition, said, ‘My main concern was how to tell a story with images of Indrawati, a river located in Northeastern Nepal. The images also needed to convey the stories of the fishermen, whose livelihoods are dependent on the river,’ said Ahmed.
Emran Sohel, who has done his MFA from Viswa Bharati University in Santiniketan, attempted to present the architecture of Dhaka city in his artworks. ‘In my opinion, architecture represents forms and structures that can strongly influence people in different ways. I always try to bring in a new way of looking at familiar things,’ added Sohel.
Trees, on the other hand, have become prominently present in the paintings of Manik Bonik, who is a graduate from Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Dhaka. ‘I use my canvases to relay the magnificence of a tree, which is, to me, an embodiment of freedom and strength,’ shared Bonik, who also conveyed that trees have always given him artistic nudges.
Painter Parvez Hasan, shared that he has addressed the dejections, torments and oppressions of human life in his paintings. Sculptor Syed Tareq Rahman mentioned that he tries to analyse the similarities and dissimilarities between natural and mechanical entities in his experimental works. ‘I believe that the industrial revolution brought substantial changes in every aspect of life and I want to capture the changes in my sculptures,’ told Tareq.
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