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Enigmatic images in black and gold

Fayza Haq
Fokhrul Islam, who is having his 18°' solo exhibition at La Gallerie, Alliance Francaise, says, "For me art is the simplest way to express my feelings, emotions and love. I simply bring art to viewers and I hate to pass judgment on them. If they touch your heart in the slightest of ways, I'm happy and contented." He believes in simply letting his hands and eyes speak.
Fokhrul has been praised for his singular imagery and chromatic economy. He uses simply golden ochre and smoldering black on white. His work, at times, appears like water colour, as it dribbles, flows down and stains. With quick, sweeping strokes and lines, he brings in large landscapes, vibrant with life, despite their simplicity and economy of colours.
Fokhrul's severe , geometrical, abstract pieces bring in rain swept evenings, which could be found anywhere in the world and not just Bangladesh, with its storms and cyclones. One sees clouds, spray and mists emerging from seeds or spots. His work is sophisticated although he himself appears unassuming.
Italian artists, Raffaele Grossi, Del Giudice and Petra Weiss praise his "richness and intensity" in using black and chrome yellow only. Patrizia Guiatto also admires his extraordinary sensitiveness which bring m an ort-V ental light wherever the paint-ings go. Dr Gouriswar Bhattacharya of Berlin too has fine words for his semi abstract paintings.
Fokhrul's "Image-3", oil on paper is like some enormous gold and black caterpillar moving on sand or some part of a large seedbearing elongated fruit. His " Image -2" is a fanciful landscape
from some dream world, with slender trees, large stars, and waving brown grass.
"Images 4 and 5" appear-like some large, discs of swirling gold and black, containing many tiny seeds or stones. Images 6 and 7 have innumerable fine lines like waving grass around rivers with the pale sky above.
Lines of flying birds appear in "Image -8", crossing rivers and land masses, surrounded by a dark frame. This painting too is full of hundreds of dots, dashes and fine lines. Seen against an expanse of yellow are floating rectangular shapes, in "Image 9" are specs, grains and a waving line which can be a boat ora land mass.
It takes time to grow to appreciate Fokhrul's abstract work However, these works of deserted landscapes, created from printer's ink and mustard oil, speak of both pleasures and pains of life.
Fokhrul has exhibited in India, Pakistan, Japan and Bangladesh. He has studied in Beijing, China.
The exhibition ends on May 17.