A solo exhibition of Shilpaguru Safiuddin Ahmed Award 2024 winning artist Abu Al Naeem is featuring experimental woodcut prints with a post-impressionist approach.
Safiuddin Shilpalay, a fine art complex, is hosting the exhibition inaugurated by Dhaka University鈥檚 honorary professor at printmaking department Syed Abul Barq Alvi on July 25. The exhibition will end on Wednesday.
Naeem studied printmaking at Dhaka University鈥檚 fine art faculty and obtained the first position in bachelor and master鈥檚 degrees.
The six-day exhibition titled 鈥楥arving the Self-Id: Ego: Superego鈥� is displaying 21 prints with blocks that depict displacement, inner feelings and self-criticism by using registration methods to create visual illusions.
His artworks include diverse colour blending and overlay with multiple impression aesthetic, breaking the traditional prints especially in the woodcut process.
A print titled 鈥楥ountenance鈥� shows an opaque portrait of man unclear and unknown with a lot of curve texture.
鈥楧isplacement鈥�, another print, shows a blurry portrait of man while the background of the image is shifting, which depicts the mental state of the person.
Woodcut on paper print titled 鈥榃hat Am I鈥� shows a four-legged unidentified animal with confused eyes searching existential questions.
A print titled 鈥楥ave鈥� depicts hidden space of the unconscious which suggests buried instinct and emotional residue of thoughts.
鈥業 explore the complex terrain of human emotion and the masculine ego. I use texture as the skin of emotion, light as a metaphor for memory, and movement as the breath of inner conflict,鈥� Naeem said, adding that his artworks were psychological excavations.
