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Art & Culture Report

The 1st solo art and craft exhibition of Pintu Deb was ended recently at the Zainul Gallery of the Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University.

Asaduzzaman Noor inaugurated the weeklong show on June 10. Abdus Shakoor Shah, Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, Kaiser A Chowdhury, Managing Director of AB Bank, attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition.

The exhibition featured 37 artworks of different media including wood, serigraph and mixed elements.

Pintu has featured human figures, their stories, pains and pleasures in his wood-works. He has seen the beauties of women and nature all around him and presented them on his canvas. He has depicted woman figures, fruits, flowers, plants and thus he has given a shape of his dreams and imaginations in his art-works at the exhibition.

Terming Pintu as hard working, art critic Nahid Akhtar said, "Pintu has worked hard for around five years to attract more attention to wood work, which has remained fairly a neglected area in the art establishment of the country."

Pintu was born in Netrakona in 1978. He completed his MFA degree from the Institute of Fine Arts in 2002. He participated in a number of group art exhibitions in the country.

He has also won the 9th Berger Young Painters' Art Competition Award 2004 and Experimental Best Award 2005 from the Institute of Fine Arts.