Ziaul Karim

A large congregation of artists, curators and scholars came together at the recently concluded Dhaka Art Summit (DAS) 2020.

Astute brushstrokes, applied with verve and panache, mingle together in a multitude of vibrant colours as an imposing dream-stricken visage stare from the canvas. Simple grid pattern of primary colours interspersed with a submersed face, slowly and gradually emerging into this world from a dream. The surging passion of the execution of the painting Dream Face-2 reverberates in tincture and tone of the exhibits of Syed Iqbal’s 18th solo, My Broken Mind.

A discarded corrugated paper box torn inside out and pasted on a flat field of blue; a colour tube drawn in bold black brush stroke