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The sound of colour
by Musfequr Rahman Chowdhury
Inner Burn
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‘Inner Burn’ is a depiction of the shapeless sorrows, pain, and anguish that every human must experience. In the painting, the artist uses a combination of deep and dark colours, rolled and smudged over the middle of the canvas. On it, he pasted a scrap of newspaper, burnt on the edges, before the acrylic colour settled. The scrap is symbolic of a painful news which stir feelings that can make a lasting impact.
Khalid Mahmood Mithu, the painter, then added some black string-like strokes with sharp, edgy, movement to depict sorrow as an intractable scar. But the intractable change through the play of light and sound.
Surrounding all these objects he paints a congenial environment that serves as a breath of fresh air. It symbolises faith, hope and vastness, which gradually shrinks the immovable sorrow, that is, the inner burn.
‘Inner Burn’ is amongst Mithu’s 61 acrylic paintings that are on display at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts in Dhanmondi during a two-week exhibition titled ‘Ronger Ninad’ that ends on November 30. This painting is his favourite.
In January1960, Khalid Mahmood Mithu was born to a culturally-inclined family in Dhaka. He lost his father when he was five and was brought up in his maternal uncle’s house. It was there he grew his interest in the creative media and visual arts, from his uncle. He received his MFA degree in 1986 from the Institute of Fine Arts at Dhaka University. ‘Ronngher Ninad’ is his eleventh solo exhibition. He has also participated in 139 major group exhibitions at home and abroad. From an early age, Mithu developed a penchant for painting, cinematography and photography.
Mithu has developed an excellent command over his art and can transform his life experiences into art using various elements from reality. He interweaves visible and tangible objects such as a broken pencil, scraps of paper, a calendar, parts of musical instruments with the play of light, shade and colour to create an intangible world.
Unfinished Story, Mystery of Creation, Poetry of Form, Fortune, Song of Nature, Broken Moon, Searching, Experience, Dreaming, Inner Eye, Power of Black, Wild Life, Alone and Wind of Saxophone are some of his awe-inspiring pieces on display at ‘Ronger Ninad,’ which translates to ‘sound of colour’.
Rafiqunnabi, the renowned artist, attended the inauguration of Mithu’s exhibition on November 18 as the chief guest. Qaiyyum Chowdhury, Faridur Reza Sagor along with many other artists and critics attended the exhibition. Other guests included film producers, ambassadors, foreign artists as well as curious students.
The exhibition will remain open to all from noon to 8:00pm every day.
Ronger Ninad
November 18 - November 30
From 12:00pm to 8:00pm
Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts
House 275/F, Road 27 (old), Dhanmondi
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