Muhammad Monsoor Kazee engages his art to discover and explore the abstract in nature through non-representational forms of shapes, lines, textures and colours. His paintings are expressions of his inner realities accrued through his experience in nature, says the artist.
But for him abstraction is no longer just about colour, form and composition, it has transformed into a dialogue between chaos and order.
The exhibition styled 鈥楥o-existence of abstract鈥�, his third solo going on at Safiuddin Shilpalay at Dhaka鈥檚 Dhanmondi, in its 70 artworks strives to reflect the artist鈥檚 self in happiness, trauma and spiritual longings.
Canvas, here wooden boards on which he worked in mixed media, is for Monsoor to strike a conversation between the visible and the invisible, reflecting and drawing from his experience, emotion and inspiration.
He employs net as a tool to drench his boards with intense red, black and yellow, not only to create textures, but to produce a layer of forms that carries on the conversation. Most of his paintings divide the canvas by deep lines, reflecting the prosaic, imagination and loss of hope and expectation.
The artist鈥檚 bond with the abstract has its inspirational connect in the art of Mohammad Kibria, the great abstract painter from Bangladesh, Dutch painter Pieter Mondriaan and American abstractionist Mark Rothko.
The paintings also bear witness to Monsoor鈥檚 concern as a human being and as an artist for the existential crisis the humankind is facing from global warming, climate change, unbridled urbanisation, landscape decimation, river grabbing and mindless depletion of forest.聽聽聽聽
鈥楳ost of these paintings came from my connection with nature. They bear witness to my happiness, trauma and spiritual longing,鈥� said Monsoor.
The five-day exhibition was inaugurated by Dhaka University professor emeritus and eminent artist Rafiqun Nabi on July 11.聽聽聽聽聽
Dedicated to Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin, the exhibition will end tomorrow.