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Exposure at New York

Fayza Haq
For the opening of the Contemporary An week in New York on March 20, at the TUrkish Culture and Tourism Centre, artists Rafiqun Nabi, Farida Zaman, Rokeya Sultana, Laila Sharmeen along with Abul Hasnat (Kali O Kalam), Ziaul Karim (Jamini) and Shubir Chowdury (Bengal Gallery) are headed for New York Ismet Jahan, the permanent UN representative for Bangladesh will be at the opening.
At the recent press conference at Bengal Gallery it was announced the 42 paintings by Bangladeshi artist would be flown to New York for the exhibition. This included the works of Mohammed Kibria, Aminul Islam, Qayyum Chowdhury, Murtaja Baseer, Sayed Jehangir and Samar jit Rai Chowdhury. In the collection are also the works of Hashem Khan, Rafiqun Nabi, Monirul Islam (Spain), Mahmudul Haque, Kalidas Karmakar, Shahid Kabir( Spain) Abdus Shakoor, Mansurul Karim, Shahabuddin (Paris), Nazli Laila Mansur, Farida Zaman, Khurshid Alam Selim ((New York) and Ranjit Das. .
Also included in the selection are paintings by Ranjit Das, Mohammed Eunus, Nasreen Begum, Rokeya Sultana, Dilara Begum Jolly, Iffat Ara Dewan, Khalid Mahmud Mithu, Kanak Chanpa Chakma, Sheikh Afzal. Shishir Bhattacharya. The works of Rafi Haq, Ahmed Nazir, Mahbubur Rahman, Tayaba Begum, Laila Sharmeen and
Shambu Acharja will also be exhibited there.
The project is being sponsored by Masthead PR and Bengal Foundation.
Viewers will get a chance to see Aminul Islam's untitled oil on canvas with its abstraction in red, mauve, yellow and green. There is Samrajit Roy Chowdhury's "Essence of Nature" with the folk mpUE^f h?h, flowers, kite? and flowers. There is also Rafiqun Nabi's "Composition’’ with the fisherman and his catch in blues and grays, touched with red and yellow and Hashem Khan's "Songs of Green Shadow” with its vibrant streaks of yellow and orange.
There is Monirul Islam's pristine creation in white etching tinged with blues and greens.
Along with this is Mahmudul Haque's "Horizon", acrylic on canvas done with rectangular black and white shapes on a background of vermilion. Shahid Kabir's enigmatic "Brick field"with the smoking chimneys in the backdrop along with Kalidas Karmakar's "Untitled" which contains a twisted face in blue have also been selected.
Shahabuddin's freedom fighter in black, with taut muscles in the battle field is there for all to marvel. Sheikh Afzal's statuesque female figures are there to be seen in his "Bathing", as will be seen the satiric acrylic on canvas by Shishir Bhattachajee , done in green and black.
The women artists have also not been ignored in the selection to be viewed in New York. The mystery of
fishing nets by Farida Zaman in acrylic on canvas will surely turn many heads. Kanak Chanpa Chakma's" Mru Festival in Moonlight", an acrylic on canvas depicting a happy tribal scene in shades of blue and yellow , touched with red has been selected for the show. Dilara Begum Jolly's "Krishnapaksha", a mind-whirling acrylic on canvas with birds, flowers. animals arid humans is also there. "Kali' with its many limbs and the hanging tongue byTayeba Begum Lipi has also been included along with the delicate boat and sky scene by Laila Sharmeen.
Figurative work, folk art, abstraction, the grotesque, ludicrous, satire and search for selfidentity have all come onto the canvases, combining imagination with aesthetics.