BD artist Jamal’s exhibition opens at Tanzara Gallery

The Tanzara Gallery opened a collection of 37 ‘acrylic on canvas’ paintings on Friday by leading Bangladeshi artist Jamal Ahmed. Bangladeshi High Commissioner Suhrab Hossain inaugurated the exhibition and spoke highly about Ahmed’s work.
While appreciating the artist’s work and the efforts of the gallery’s curator, Hossain said Ahmed belongs to a class of artists recognised internationally. He stated that art needed no boundaries and that the exhibition was an effort to promote bilateral relations between the two countries, especially between the artists of both the countries.
Extensively exhibited in Bangladesh and abroad, Ahmed’s work has a distinct flair which sets him apart from the work of his contemporaries. His artistic development during the last few decades completely transcends that of other Bangladeshi artists. He is unparalleled in the verve with which he draws or how he paints with the unique human warmth that is his signature.
He approaches his subjects with great empathy and passion and immortalises them in his impressionistic style paintings with great skill and dexterity. His outlook is adventurous and he is a master of many techniques-be it the semi-nude female figure, the bearded fakir, magnificent riverscapes or a cluster of pigeons, his paintings are moving, lyrical and poised – as if one were approaching them in real life.
There is nothing stylised or static about the portraits that represent human achievements.
Ahmed has painted semi-nude figures of dusky, ordinary women, who lead humble lives, but who have the elegance and statuesque figures that would put a duchess in the dark.
The artist has won local and foreign acclaim for his paintings of pigeons too, of which, there are some notable ones in the present exhibition too. The wonderful birds-presented in the simplest of colours-capture one’s imagination and lend repose to the onlooker.
Jamal Ahmed has exhibited his works at Japan, Poland, UK, USA, India, Pakistan and innumerable times in Bangladesh. He has won coveted awards and acclaim both at home and overseas.
The exhibition will remain open at the Tanzara gallery till March 3.