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Breathing life in wood works

Shabin Shahriar's fourth solo crafts how blends tradition and modernity

SAIFUL ISLAM
SHABIN came to the arts institute with a dream to become a painter. After the exam he was selected for the department of crafts and now is one of the rising craft artists of the time. In his fourth solo, at the Zainul Gallery in the Institute of Fine Arts of the University of Dhaka, Shabin presented a wide verity of wood cravings; works dipped in the
not look ostentatious. The pieces seem to be lucrative showpieces and the man behind them had always been involved in his works, the pieces are not soulless. The crafts do represent bucolic Bangladesh but of course can be seen from a different point of view.
The works are a refreshing departure from the monotony of traditional design that can be found in the work of many village craftsmen. The wood cravings
culture of rural Bangladesh.
The exhibition was held in the gallery from May 1 to 7, and Shabin passed a busy time selling off his works which are low-priced, each of them within three thousand to ten thousand and a half, all of them superbly decorated and lavishly but soberly carved. They really do
imbibe in them the trace of academic work, which the artist also confesses. An avid viewer of art exhibitions, Ivy comments, " the works that look like a bat, a slanted moon or a fish have in them a kind of moving dimension, they seem to float." This facet of dynamism is something that we cannot find in the works of a country craftsman. Shabin
likes to see it from another point, he says, " my craftsmanship is something that I did not inherited from my forefathers, it is something that I have learned from the academy of fine arts, and I am still learning it."
Shabin has a curious way of relating his day to day life with
the works he has done. " I like fishing, I fish using fishing nets, I like to watch fish" adds Shabin drawing our attention to the beautifully carved and stylistically decorated fishes that suffused most of the space of the gallery.
Only one human being has got room in the world of Shabin's work, a village wife, the village wives do interest the artist and they represent the folk world and rural world in his works. Folk, in another way, has achieved its place in his works. Village cakes like puli pitha and nakshi pitha are interesting folk elements to him. "I think that the village people might have inscribed moon on the traditional cakes they prepare, the aesthetic aspect in them might have got language in the beautiful decorations they do on the nakshi pitha. That is why I contributed a good part of my works in carving traditional village food items on wood", says Shabin.
For his experimental works he won prizes from the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. Several of his exhibitions were held in and outside