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Simplifying life in black and white

FayzaHaq
ABOUT Fokhrul Islam, who is having his 12th solo exhibition at Alliance Francaisc, Raffaele Grossi, a well-known Italian painter said that, it reflects great talent and promise. It has extraordinary sensitiveness, said Patrizia Guiotto. Del Guidice and Petra Wiess, who also saw his work in Italy, praised it for its richness and for having used only one colour.
Speaking about his own work, Fokhrul says, "I'm not trying to prove my skill but am expressing my feelings, emotions and love in the simplest of ways. You cannot measure love or affection so I cannot pass judgement on my work. If my work touches your heart even in theslightest ofway, it shall bemygain."
There is no fixed time for his work. Fokhrul says. "1 have my moo ds and drives and follow them, whateverthetimcoftheday. I work with press ink. mustard oil and soya bean oil on paper. I like black and white because they surpass all colours and express my feelings of nostalgia and memories in the least complicated way. I've brought in landscapes with broken houses, crumbling old walls, windows, arches and pillars. When I toured Italy and India, I saw a lot of remnants of old, decaying and crumbling buildings that spoke of the past civilizations and I tried to capture them in my lines, curves, dashes and swirls. I have brought in temples, churches, houses and halls that are crumbling and speak ofagloriouspast.
"When I deal with the ball and
the plank of wood I show life when it is in balance and out of balance. My work also reflects the tensions in life and nature. It also symbolises the tension in everyday socioeconomic life. The moon is seen behind other images such as circular lines." Thus Fokhrul has dealt with everyday nature's beauty too, in the simple black and beige strokes. Similarly, he has brought in trees with their leaves and branches in a new compelling way of dotsand dashes.
In "Image-3”, oil on paper, we see a massive cluster of trees with th eir tall slim trunks and hundreds of leaves done in beige and black.
In front are the dark, restful shadows. The same subject is brought in "Image-4", oil on paper, only it has the leaves falling in front as well as gathering in clouds, scattered on a bright, clear sky at the back. Interlacing sweeps of black lend depth to the creation. "Image-9" has houses and trees, nestling into one another, the houses seen in sweeps of delicate lines and the trees being covered with splashed black dots. The sky above is clear and sets off the subject as do the gray sweeps in theforefront.
"Image-1", oil on paper bring in a dotted disk seen in swirls of black
and gray with delicate tracing of lines going through. His other works bring in forms that we see on the barks of trees and in dried pods ofsecds, once agalninblack, yellow and white. "Images 7 and 8“ bring in layers and sweeps of black, white, beige and gold as one might see in the interiors of rain forest
Fokhrul has studied for two years in Beijing, China, and has studied under various foreign visiting teachers in Dhaka like Sussan Benton from USA, Adreana Hernandez from Denmark and H Gercke from Germany. He has exhibited in Japan and India and has an award from Goho, Japan.