Kanak Chanpa Chakma from Seoul
Rangamati, January 25, 2007 : Kanak Chanpa Chakma are back from Seoul, South Korea, having won approbation for her work and country. She took part in a recent international art festival arranged by the Seoul Artists' Association.
"I sent in my painting, two feet by two feet; while Mithu's was two feet by three feet. We had worked on paper and sent our entries before our arrival at Korea. Mithu's was mixed media, while mine was acrylic, with a modern composition of tribal life done in two colours, green and ash, touched with white. Mithu's abstract work was bluish in hue. He had used, in addition, jute and paper collage," explains Kanak.
The other artists at the festival hailed from Norway, the Netherlands, Japan, China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Myanmar, among others. The artists collected at Seoul, and then went by plane to Yeosu, an island where there was large gallery, in which the art exhibition was held. There was a parallel display of sculpture in an enormous, nearby garden, in a valley with a river flowing past it.
"The cultural exchange was a great experience. Other artists expressed their desire to come and exhibit in Bangladesh. Art connoisseurs from Japan, China and Taiwan liked our work and invited us to their countries, in turn," says Kanak.
In Korea, Kanak studied Mahayana Buddhism which is different from the prevailing Hinayana branch of Buddhism prevalent in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. She studied the temples and the monks. "The difference lies in the way of the prayer," says Kanak, "The aspiration for Nirvana and the belief in Buddha, however, remain the same." She went to Myanmar too to study Buddhist philosophy, which she had represented in her work in Bengal Gallery in 2005. She hopes to dwell on the same subject in her future exhibit-- having studied the similarities and differences in the way of life of the monks there and here in Bangladesh. A lot of saffron, gold and orange will be seen again in Kanak's future work, as also witnessed in her present canvases in her studio in Dhanmondi.
Rangamati, January 25, 2007 : Kanak Chanpa Chakma are back from Seoul, South Korea, having won approbation for her work and country. She took part in a recent international art festival arranged by the Seoul Artists' Association.
"I sent in my painting, two feet by two feet; while Mithu's was two feet by three feet. We had worked on paper and sent our entries before our arrival at Korea. Mithu's was mixed media, while mine was acrylic, with a modern composition of tribal life done in two colours, green and ash, touched with white. Mithu's abstract work was bluish in hue. He had used, in addition, jute and paper collage," explains Kanak.
The other artists at the festival hailed from Norway, the Netherlands, Japan, China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Myanmar, among others. The artists collected at Seoul, and then went by plane to Yeosu, an island where there was large gallery, in which the art exhibition was held. There was a parallel display of sculpture in an enormous, nearby garden, in a valley with a river flowing past it.
"The cultural exchange was a great experience. Other artists expressed their desire to come and exhibit in Bangladesh. Art connoisseurs from Japan, China and Taiwan liked our work and invited us to their countries, in turn," says Kanak.
In Korea, Kanak studied Mahayana Buddhism which is different from the prevailing Hinayana branch of Buddhism prevalent in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. She studied the temples and the monks. "The difference lies in the way of the prayer," says Kanak, "The aspiration for Nirvana and the belief in Buddha, however, remain the same." She went to Myanmar too to study Buddhist philosophy, which she had represented in her work in Bengal Gallery in 2005. She hopes to dwell on the same subject in her future exhibit-- having studied the similarities and differences in the way of life of the monks there and here in Bangladesh. A lot of saffron, gold and orange will be seen again in Kanak's future work, as also witnessed in her present canvases in her studio in Dhanmondi.
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