The New Nation - Internet Edition

Sheikh Arif Bulbon

"Nazib Mohammad is an ardent and lonesome painter as well as a serious teacher loves to play with nostalgic memories of the past relating to the city of old Dhaka and its people with distinct form and bright colour in particular in different compositions. He always bears in his mind the memorable days at the bank of River Buriganga, Sadarghat and Kamrangirchar on the other side at that time of his early days auspiciously. This phenomenon helps to form his canvasses with bold and wide strokes of brush with colour differently. Nazib has an enviable strong power of making drawings," poet and architect Rabiul Husain said this about the artist Nazib Mohammad at his 7th solo painting exhibition.

The exhibition titled 'Tales of a City' is currently going on at the gallery of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh at Nimtoli in the city. The exhibition was inaugurated on November 24.

Eminent sculptor and Director of the Gallery of Fine Art of Asiatic Society of Bangladesh Hamiduzzaman Khan inaugurated the exhibition. More than 30 artworks of Nazib Mohammad are on display at the show.

While speaking about his works Nazib Mohammad recalled the memories of the story of Dhaka on its 400th anniversary.

Nazib in his seventh exhibition of his credit began to travel from the early days of 1979 to the present day where Dhaka city's busy streets, old buildings, mosques, rickshaws and others as well as its people come forward. Basically he is very fond of music especially the folk musicians with 'sarinda' or 'dotara' in hands. All these are found in his works at the show.

He said, "I never forget the rural and folk lives of the people even amidst the urban set-up of present time. As a result, these are reflected in my works."

He in his works described the everyday hard lives of the common people. He loves colour with composition in straight type of forms of varied geometric compositions. His human figures are of semi-realistic in nature where colours play the vital role rather than drawings. A sort of mosaic technique pasting with the different forms help to bring the desired and coherent unity among the diversities of interesting lines, forms, colours and textures made his creation unique and attractive in itself. All these depicted the subject of the painter's own world of feelings and thoughts in the canvasses.

At present Nazib Mohammad is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Crafts of the Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University. He studied in printmaking in Japan. He has completed a post-graduation research in printmaking from Tama Art University, Tokyo in Japan. He took part in many art festivals in Japan including contemporary art festival. His artworks were exhibited at various art museums like Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.

The exhibition remains open from 12:00 noon to 8:00pm everyday till December 2.