Dhaka – The 2nd solo painting exhibition of artist Avi Shankar Ain titled Mangrove Portal. has begun La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka. The inaugural ceremony of the exhibition was held on Friday, 7 July.
Ms Julia Niblett, Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Mr Anisul Hoque, Writer, Ms Nazia Andaleeb Preema and Mr Syed Mahbubur Rahman, CEO and Managing Director, Dhaka Bank Limited attended the inaugural ceremony of the exhibition.
Enraptured by the different landscapes of Bangladesh, artist Avi Shankar Ain travelled and researched nature’s beguiling beauty to find inspiration for his canvas. He stopped at the south-western end of Bangladesh and found Sundarbans with a panoply of spotted deer. That was beauty like no other! Even when on one side natural calamities are gnawing at the forestry and on another side man-made machinations of harm are eating away years and years of biodiversity, Sundarbans and the spotted deer had ignited something in Ain. His canvasses found the spotted deer browsing in the midst of the mangroves’ tangled roots and thickets above ground, boasting their branched antlers. Ain employed acrylic media to elucidate his artistic passion for the beautiful forest and viewers are sure to be presented with a unique take on Sundarbans.
Avi Shankar Ain was born on February 8th, 1982 at Dhaka. As a part of his education he did his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 2008 from Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.Then he did Masters of Fine Arts in Painting in the year 2011 at Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. He did his first solo exhibition in 2012 at La Galerie, Alliance Française, Dhaka.
The exhibition will be open to all until July 19 in La Galerie, Alliance Française, Dhaka. Visiting Hours: Mondays to Thursdays from 3:00pm to 9:00pm, Fridays and Saturdays (9:00am to12:00pm and 5:00pm to 8:00pm). Closed -Sundays. – AF Dhaka press release
