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Sensuous strokes presenting the mundane

Exhibition of Shahid Kabir's works at Gallery Chitrak

Fayza Haq
“Dried up flower petals, worn out stalks of flowers, piling of chopped water-melons -- these are my subjects, says Shahid Kabir, whose exhibition is currently on at the Gallery Chitrak. Apart from these are faces of slum children and bathing working women. Out
The artist
of simple themes he creates something moving and beautiful.
The water-colour strokes are light as fairy's touches and the soft pastel colours takes one back to childhood holiday's. The touches on the fruits and flowers are soft and tender. Everything is grist that comes to the mill for Shahid. Living in Madrid, he has come to Dhaka to assert his prowess in his hometown.
“I’m intensely emotional and aim at eternity in my paintings,"
says Shahid. "None of my still life pieces has been arranged," says the artist. “In my colours are combined burnt rice that Santals use for design on the ground to give the water-colours an ethereal effect In one painting we see two flowers just before they have died and in the other, they are completely withered and yet they appeal to the senses.
Shahid says, 'T see an object and then interpret it rather than copying, giving it my own mood and feelings. Drops from my brushes are included to give the paintings the feelingofa complete whole."
Many of his works are tempera, Shahid being inspired by Botticelli, in the use media. We spot a single grape on a plate (Grape for little Carmen) and yet this too is moving, the lines and colours appearing almost like those of old Dutch masters. Studio corner contains a pear and some rotten grapes. Lonesome introduces a Mexican lily that is on a potted tub, full of sand, and it appears to touch the skies. The colours, though muted, appear to dance with the rhythm of life. When two such flowers are seen placed together in harmony it is labelled Love. The red of the background is the artist's pure imagination, explains Shahid.
Dried flowers bring in a profusion of fallen, reddish petals that
appear finer than any rose bouquet. Eternal love presents two jugs, the water form one flowing in a joyous profusion into another. Enlarged petals of flowers are seen in another painting, so that its blues and greens give it a semiabstract appearance. "An empty spoon is seen on a solitary plate and yet I've tried to make the painting look interesting and attractive,’’ says Shahid.
Nargis is woman bathing with kitchen utensils in an open bath. The woman's beauty is mesmeris-
ing indeed. The outlines and flowing hair is done with charcoal. When she drapes on the white sari over her voluptuous hips, the artist captures this too with quick, masterful strokes. Street boy is an ailing child made to sit in the sun to drive out the fever. A Sidr victim with her eyes and nose flowing with misery has also been depicted.
Shahid Kabir who has won three awards from Spain and Bangladesh, has had 12 solo paintings in Spain and Bangladesh. The exhibition ison till April 10.