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Sunday, 31 March 2013
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Rickshaw Artist S M Samsu
Email: smsamsu58@gmail.com
odvutadhar1@gmail.com
Mobile: +8801911011283
Address: Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Email: smsamsu58@gmail.com
odvutadhar1@gmail.com
Mobile: +8801911011283
Address: Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Rickshaw Artist S M Samsu: A SHORT STORY ON RICKSHAW ART
Rickshaw Artist S M Samsu: A SHORT STORY ON RICKSHAW ART: Once upon a time ... in the country of Bangladesh (no, it's not only hurricanes, disasters, famines... there are actual people there)...
Rickshaw Artist S M Samsu: ‘Rickshaw Art Exhibition’ at Zainul Gallery
Rickshaw Artist S M Samsu: ‘Rickshaw Art Exhibition’ at Zainul Gallery: Rickshaw, a traditional eco-friendly non-motorised vehicle in Bangladesh, is difficult to imagine without decorations and paintings done by ...
Rickshaw Artist S M Samsu: Bangladeshi aspirations
Rickshaw Artist S M Samsu: Bangladeshi aspirations: Samsu is one of Dhaka’s most prominent rickshaw painters. With this one, he has left his usual theme of bengal tiger tea parties or bengal t...
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A SHORT STORY ON RICKSHAW ART
Once upon a time... in the country of Bangladesh (no, it's not only hurricanes, disasters, famines... there are actual people there), in the capital city of Dhaka, if you take a big magnifying glass, and skip through the pollution, the jams, the noises of horns, you'll see thousands of bikes running its streets, like blood in its veins.
Well, if you are careful, these are not exactly bikes, more human powered taxi-bikes, or, like Bengali call them, rickshaws. Not exactly thousands, but hundreds of thousands, around six hundred thousands, in a city of fourteen million souls. Hundred thousand bikes means twelve lakh rickshaw wallahs (or twelve hundred thousands pedicab drivers, if you may), but it means thousands of rickshaw garages, thousands of mechanics, thousands of rickshawwallahs dormitories.
If you happen to look even more closely, you'll see that in the dull, hot and humid streets of Dhaka, rickshaws bear the most colorful, extravagant, cheerful arts of Dhaka's streets. The rickshaws bear paintings on their backs, of almost anything: Taj Mahal, bollywood actors, animals, peacocks, ...
At the maximum zoon of your magnifying lens, you will see the builders, rickshaw painters, the artists thanks to whom the cycling paintings circle the streets. You could see Shafoan, Shamim, or Tipu, hunched over a tin plate, painting each square inch of the rickshaw.
And then ... well, the video can explain it better than me.
The article is from:
‘Rickshaw Art Exhibition’ at Zainul Gallery
Rickshaw, a traditional eco-friendly non-motorised vehicle in Bangladesh, is difficult to imagine without decorations and paintings done by local self-taught artists.
This creative work has now become a sophisticated form of art as ‘Rickshaw painting’.
The art-lovers, who are yet to experience the genre, could make plans for today as it marks the closing day of ‘Rickshaw Art Exhibition’, a weeklong group art-show at Zainul Gallery of Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA) on the Dhaka University campus.
The show has been arranged as part of ‘Dhaka Rickshaw Fiesta Week 2013’, a joint-collaboration of Japan-Bangladesh governments.
Japanese Ambassador in Bangladesh Shiro Sadoshima inaugurated the festival on 13 March as chief guest. The inaugural programme was also attended by Professor Syed Abul Barek Alvi, dean of FFA and Dr Mohammad Iqbal, an assistant professor of FFA.
The exhibition features a total of 64 attractive paintings by six professional rickshaw painters including Syed Ahmed Hossain, Dherendra Chandra Das, Rafiqul Islam, Saleh Mohammed and SM Samso.
The artworks, figurative and natural scenes, portray different types of animals like lion, tiger, elephant, giraffe and monkey singing and playing instruments.
Some images represent a dreamy world of Dhallywood, capturing the action, romantic and dramatic sequences of Bangladeshi films while others take on busy places of Dhaka city including Kamalapur Railway Station, Matijheel Shapla Chattar and Sadarghat Launch Terminal and others.
Rural scenes, such as waterfalls, snow-capped mountains, chickens, cows, ducks, palm trees, water lilies and boats sailing across rivers and lakes are also depicted though some paintings.
The exhibition is open to all from 11:00am to 8:00pm until 20 March.
Published on:
http://www.daily-sun.com/index.php?view=details&archiev=yes&arch_date=20-03-2013&type=%E2%80%98Rickshaw-Art-Exhibition%E2%80%99-at-Zainul-Gallery&pub_no=443&cat_id=1&menu_id=7&news_type_id=1&index=1
This creative work has now become a sophisticated form of art as ‘Rickshaw painting’.
The art-lovers, who are yet to experience the genre, could make plans for today as it marks the closing day of ‘Rickshaw Art Exhibition’, a weeklong group art-show at Zainul Gallery of Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA) on the Dhaka University campus.
The show has been arranged as part of ‘Dhaka Rickshaw Fiesta Week 2013’, a joint-collaboration of Japan-Bangladesh governments.
Japanese Ambassador in Bangladesh Shiro Sadoshima inaugurated the festival on 13 March as chief guest. The inaugural programme was also attended by Professor Syed Abul Barek Alvi, dean of FFA and Dr Mohammad Iqbal, an assistant professor of FFA.
The exhibition features a total of 64 attractive paintings by six professional rickshaw painters including Syed Ahmed Hossain, Dherendra Chandra Das, Rafiqul Islam, Saleh Mohammed and SM Samso.
The artworks, figurative and natural scenes, portray different types of animals like lion, tiger, elephant, giraffe and monkey singing and playing instruments.
Some images represent a dreamy world of Dhallywood, capturing the action, romantic and dramatic sequences of Bangladeshi films while others take on busy places of Dhaka city including Kamalapur Railway Station, Matijheel Shapla Chattar and Sadarghat Launch Terminal and others.
Rural scenes, such as waterfalls, snow-capped mountains, chickens, cows, ducks, palm trees, water lilies and boats sailing across rivers and lakes are also depicted though some paintings.
The exhibition is open to all from 11:00am to 8:00pm until 20 March.
Published on:
http://www.daily-sun.com/index.php?view=details&archiev=yes&arch_date=20-03-2013&type=%E2%80%98Rickshaw-Art-Exhibition%E2%80%99-at-Zainul-Gallery&pub_no=443&cat_id=1&menu_id=7&news_type_id=1&index=1
Bangladeshi aspirations
Samsu is one of Dhaka’s most prominent rickshaw painters. With this one, he has left his usual theme of bengal tiger tea parties or bengal tigers and monkeys as traffic controllers, and has correctly captured a popular aspiration. Sadly political and social commentary in art is a rare thing these days in bangladesh.
S M Samsu
It all began when I was a little boy—a school
goer; started drawing on walls. Later on, I found Zainul Abedin, an iconic
Bengal painter, in my text book, and was spurred immensely seeing his works and
reading about him. My math notebooks became filled up with drawings. But what
about colouring? As my parents were poor, I made different colours squeezing
various vegetable leaves that quite worked for my paintings. My dad, a devout
Muslim, didn’t like paintings. Of my going to school and of my coming thence, I
came across rickshaw painter Abdul Haqim’s shop, upon the main street. ‘‘Would
you teach me how to draw and paint?’’ I implored him one day. He told me to see
him with my guardian. I convinced my parents that I didn’t like studying and
wouldn’t go to school anymore; I’d learn to paint. It was 1974. Having taken
three years work lesson from him, I wanted to be on my own to get into the
profession—rickshaw painting. Initially at home, and then rented a place, to do
my painting work. Since digital printing kicked off in 1996, I fell into
trouble. However, over the later years I got numerous painting orders from
foreigners. Alliance de Franchise, with works of 85 (including me) rickshaw
painters, in 1999, organized an exhibition. In the same year, my painting was
awarded in the Rickshaw-Painting-Competition on the occasion and on the theme
‘‘50th Anniversary of the
Federal Republic of Germany’’.
Email: smsamsu58@gmail.com
odvutadhar1@gmail.com
Mobile: +8801911011283
Address: Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Email: smsamsu58@gmail.com
odvutadhar1@gmail.com
Mobile: +8801911011283
Address: Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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