Printmaking exhibition at National Art Gallery ends

Artwork by Quamrul Hassan

Department of Fine Arts of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) arranged a 10-day exhibition at the National Art Gallery, in which 100 printmaking works of 40 prominent and promising artists are included. State Minister for Cultural Affairs, Begum Selima Rahman inaugurated the exhibition on August 6.

"Earlier we organised solo printmaking exhibitions. This is the biggest display of its kind in the country," asserted Mohammed Nazrul Haque, acting director of the Department of Fine Arts of BSA, "The exhibition features art works since 1979. In 1979 printmaking was introduced at the Institute of Fine Arts. At the same year BSA organised a workshop conducted by artist Munirul Islam, the Bangladeshi printmaking artist living in Spain, in which many renowned artists of the country studied the medium. In the exhibition we are displaying many works by the artists who participated in that workshop."

Renowned artists whose printmaking works are included in the exhibition are Quamrul Hassan, Safiuddin Ahmed, Mohammad Kibria, Abdur Razzaque, Nitun Kundu, Rafiqun Nabi and others.

Using popular printmaking mediums such as woodcut, etching, dry point, lithograph and others, the artists have interpreted several aspects of rural as well as metro life in their distinctive styles.

Several of the renowned artists have recreated Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin's masterpieces such as Famine, Goon Tana and others in printmaking.

The exhibition ended on August 15. The display provided the viewers an opportunity to see the printmaking works of renowned artists of the country.