Immersing in reality

Multi-award winning visual artist and art organiser Harun Ar Rashid Tutul always thinks outside the box while creating. Tutul, also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Graphic Design, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka, loves to express himself, in ways innovative and exciting, in his pursuit of both applied and fine arts. Diversity is the word that best suits to his creative efforts; be it painting, performance, video installation and new media works. Over the year he has constructed a distinctive art language as a contemporary artist.

“I depict art based on the everyday objects I interact with,” says Harun Ar Rashid Tutul. “The experiences of reality that I spontaneously visualise in my mind, I try to render them into my work.”

The major themes in his work is peace or beauty in this world. Besides, his art evokes the contemporary global socio-political issues. To depict his new media ideas, Tutul incorporates several elements like aesthetic digital drawings, binary codes, drawings of Kalighat Pat, motifs of rickshaw paintings, harsh reality of urbanisation, sacred symbols, conventional culture and the tranquil country life.

The artist is also an organiser of major art fests in the country, involving children, government officials and young contemporary artists – namely the Joypurhat Art Festival, which was held in 2016.

Tutul bagged the prime award in 3D paintings, at the World Youth Art Festival 2017 held in South Korea. He won grand awards at the 17th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2016 and the 22nd National Art Exhibition 2017.

Art lovers can check out his award-winning video arts and paintings at www.artharun.com