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To consciousness and beyond

Abdul Guffar Babu's solo exhibit at AFD

Fayza Haq
"Unconsciouly Conscious" brings Abdul Guffar Babu's works, at his first solo painting exhibition at the Alliance Francaise de Dhaka (AFD) gallery. The display opened on June 4 and will continue until the 18th of this month.
"In my dreams, the subconscious, unconscious and the conscious states intermingle and those leave an impact on my paintings," the artist says.
He adds, "I think dreams are a form of human desire - a reflection of the fertile mind projecting things to an exaggerated extent, where time and space create what seems intelligible. Events of the days cause them to appear - they evolve or become displaced in the form of the dreams. In my paintings, dream-infused topics and sometimes forms appear; yet I draw a metaphorical comment and to cater to the minds that are stirred by nature and life. Life in the city and horrors of everyday existence, and innocence of humans, who encounter them on daily basis are my subjects," Babu adds.
Innocence is invoked, he says,
and innocence is what he wants in the viewer. "Forms like human portrait, birds, fishes, buildings, and staircases or forms alluding to the horrors of life are strewn all over my composition, and they often articulate the contrast between the surreal calm and the
agitated self in my work," he explains.
Some elements, the artist says, are very clear, while some are obscure - as some dreams are translatable and some are not.
Abul Barq Alvi says, "Babu's affinity is towards building multi-
dimensional work. I have seen him being creative with his photography, fashion designs, handicrafts, computer graphics and computer designs, though he had to be focused on printmaking. He has been working on his imaginations from different angles. He has worked with acrylic, watercolour and other mediums."
Artist, art critic and editor of art magazine Depart, Mustafa Zaman says "Babu, active in the art scene has so far displayed multidirectional aesthetical strategy, recently developed which challenges our set notion about art."
One of his paintings contains an abstract form of a horse. It is a dancing horse because of the speed and energy that go with the turbulent hooves and the head of the horse, which are all geared to gallop ahead.
The artist draws the eyeball into the shape of the earth. He draws the earth as golden, and it is vital, he says. The red piece is when man is stuck in evil-doing. His hand, body and legs can be seen clearly as stuck to something. He is stuck in contemporary time, explains the artist.