Visual artist Kiriti Ranjan Biswas portrays Baul life, the struggle of the country鈥檚 marginal people and his memories of the Sundarbans depicting the beauty of nature and other themes in the sixth solo exhibition, which will end today.
The seven-day solo exhibition titled 鈥楽wapnabhumi鈥� organised by Shilpangan Gallery, featuring more than 50 paintings mostly created with acrylic on canvas and some portraits created with poster colour on paper, began on November 7 at the Bhumi Gallery in Lalmatia, Dhaka.
It became prominent that most of his paintings depicted the life and struggle of common people of the country including farmers, day labourers, cart drivers and fishermen.
A series of paintings portrayed the life of the Bauls as they lived in a community and their devotion to music. An acrylic on canvas painting titled 鈥楿tshab鈥� depicts a group performance by Bauls, who are using local acoustic musical instruments including the Ektara and Dotara, and wearing traditional attires consisting of white and brown Alkhella, a loose-fitting robe.
Another painting titled 鈥楽onar Manush鈥� shows a Baul spiritual leader delivering a speech with songs, while another painting titled Sahaj Manush portrayed a female devotee performing with a drum and Ektara.
A series of mostly landscapes of Bengal portrayed the Bengali month Agrahayan when farmers were busy collecting harvest, travelling with local transport 鈥� carts run by cows and horses 鈥� and youths were fishing from water bodies.
His series, Sundarbans, depicts the birds and greenery of the Sundrabans, the world鈥檚 largest mangrove ecosystem located in the Khulna Division of Bangladesh.
The painting 鈥楢mar Pataka 2鈥� depicts freedom fighters after the victory of the war of independence in 1971, carrying national flags and rifles.
An Alumnus of Dhaka University Institute of Fine Arts, Kiriti was awarded the Gold Medal from Rabindra Bharati University of West Bengal in India in 1995.
His last solo was an open air art exhibition on Chuknagar Genocide held on May 2022 at Khulna.
Multi-dimensional artist Kiriti Ranjan Biswas works as a public artist who is involved with many theatre troupes and puppetry as stage a designer, graphics designer and interior designer.