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Saying it in stylized sculpture

Ivy's exhibition in metal, stone and wood

Fayza Haq
IVY Zaman with her sculpture in stone, wood, cement, bronze and aluminum has certainly earned a repute for herself at home and overseas. Having
studied in Shantiniketan, and inspired by her sculptor husband, Hamiduzzaman Khan, she has followed the footsteps of Novcra Ahmed and Shamhn Shikdar, causing a stir in the fine arts field.
Ivy's current solo exhibition in
various mediums and themes at Shilpangan also brings in her water-colour work on portraits of people and animals, which she often uses as preliminary models for her sculpture work. Not only has she presented abstract but also semi abstract images, sometimes also including the nature around her in the past.
Presently Ivy brings in portraits such as that of the seated Buddha and the faces of agony of the everyday persons that she secs in the streets. At limes she exaggerates and elongates and sometimes she diminishes the items in her portraits, cancelling an eye here and adding an extra lip there. These small bronze pieces are excellent for the walls of the bourgeois home. The portraits in water-colour would also embellish many a niche and corner or even as a main display in rooms of the avid collector.
The seated Buddha is an excellent piece of sculpture, done in stainless steel, with simplified angles and lines. This is evocative of her piece in Korea in a sculpture park, where 20 young granite workers had assisted her. When Ivy works on massive pieces she often does this with the help of metal artisans as in Tejgaon metal works, and even in Dholaikhal in Old Dhaka, where she hires her assistants.
"It's not possible for me to do these sculpture pieces alone," says Ivy. The design is hers but she requires the team-work of the young assistants, as Ivy says. She also has a studio in Badda, which she shares with her husband, Hamiduzzaman Khan.
Ivy's other portraiture of a woman in steel includes abstract images of eyes and lips, touched up with hints of colours in places. This too is innovative and daring.
I Icr enormous clogs (khoroms) are inspired by everyday living, and presents her forte in wood. Her paintings, meanwhile, arc done both at home and in her studio. Ivy's metal work remain dear to her heart.
In her semi-abstract delineations of nature she had earlier brought in the trees and bushes of the countryside around her in Bogra and of the Santals who lived close to Shantiniketan, where she had her further studies. Seeds, pods, corrugated rooftops, doors and windows were included in these items and they were lapped up by architects and other private home decorators. Elegant and stylized, these items have borne a special delicate feminine angle. Ivy's huge metal statue of Begum Rokeya is also something to marvel at and this is placed in Bogra too the home of the subject.
Ivy finds her husband and two sons, Copper and Avoi very supportive in her work, and says that they are her best critics.