2-week painting exhibition begins Friday in city

A two-week painting exhibition of artist Halimul Islam Khokon titled 'Images of Inner Vision' will begin at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka on Friday evening.

Artist Shahid Kabir will attend the inaugural session as the chief guest, reports UNB.

Professor Syed Azizul Huq of Dhaka University's Bangla department will attend as special guest while artist and critic Mustafa Zaman will join the inaugural ceremony as guest of honour.

The paintings - which can be categorised as experimental abstract art, take encouragement from his well-developed ceramicist artistry, which in itself takes inspiration from the Bangladeshi culture, tradition and history, said a press release on Wednesday.

The paintings also depict primitive cave art forms and different textural abstract forms.

Khokon often focuses on the power of animal figures and shapes, or, among other things, brings patterns from moss-covered as well as paint-peeled walls or from glittering aqueous shapes, it said.

The exhibition will remain open to all till 2 August.