Fayza Haq

Bengal Art Lounge is holding a solo exhibition of paintings, installations and video by Ronni Ahmmed titled “Gods and Beast”.

“It is essential that one should preserve the relics of Old Dhaka,” says Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed. “This is so that the next generation

Shahanoor Mamun is a talented and persevering artist. Now his second solo is on at the exhibit room of Galleri Kaya.

Under the banner of “To the Root of Art”, the works of Laila Sharmeen, Mini Karim, Tayabuzzaman Khan Topu, Samiran Chowdhury and Zebun Nehar Nayem have been on display at Alliance Francaise since October 2.

Artist AR Rumy's third solo exhibit at the Alliance Francaise, “Puzzle of Myths”, expresses his taste, dreams and designs. He is an assistant professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dhaka University. The show began on August 7.

According to artist Ruhul Amin Kajol, who is in Bangladesh for three months , visiting friends and relatives, formal art began with the Egyptians, Phoenicians and the cave dwellers before them, who used art to express their thoughts, beliefs and stories through architecture and relief work and to glorify their power.

Rafi Haque's works juxtapose the past and the contemporary world. His journals fuse images and texts. His journals mix collages, doodles, written texts. Besides creating intriguing images with strong political or social messages, they also document his life.

Noah's menagerie, domestic animals and birds, fairy tales, Biblical stories , popular proverbs, popular, fiction and movies are rolled into one. Einstein, Dracula and Batman may also creep into Ronnie Ahmmed's creations. He is concerned about the real world rapidly losing touch with reality. He imagines a barren, disintegrated world losing its ideologies. He has used myth and history before, creative forces that shape the human imagination.

Ragged, faded and torn in the folds are the fragments of Jamdanee saris that hang In Islampur shops, which a few decades ago housed the Muslin of international farm.