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Art & Culture Report

A 10-day long solo art exhibition titled 'Mystery of Colour’ of artist Maksuda Iqbal Nipa will be inaugurated at 6:00pm at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts in the city today.

Spanish Ambassador Arturo Perez Martinez will inaugurate the show, as chief guest, while Prof Abdus Shakoor Shah, Director of the Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University, will be present as special guest on the occasion.

This was disclosed at a press conference at Bengal Shilpalaya in the city yesterday. Artist and cartoonist Shishir Bhattacharya, Director of the gallery Subir Chowdhury, artist Maksuda Iqbal Nipa, Sarwar Jahan of the gallery, among others, were present at the conference.

Artist Nipa was born in 1975 in Dhaka. She completed BFA degree from the Department of Drawing and Paintings of the Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University in 1996 and ME degree in fine arts from Japan in 2004. She had seven solo exhibitions till now and participated in many group shows.

A total of 24 artworks of Nipa will take place in the show. The gallery remains open from 12:00 noon to 8:00pm everyday till August 10.