Dwip Gallery reopened with Shamset Tabrejee’s ‘Random Vignettes’
Photos: Monon Muntaka
In spite of a pandemic looming over us, noted poet and painter Shamset Tabrejee was inspired to create a series of new paintings, which are currently being exhibited at Dwip Gallery in Lalmatia, Dhaka. Random Vignettes is the artist s second solo exhibition, showcasing his signature vibrant acrylic strokes and multitudes of abstract forms, created with the intention of understanding time and the reality of what we have all been living through lately. In its own language, his art expresses thoughts and realisations derived from the chaos.
So dynamic are his expressions that the exhibition s curator, Mustafa Zaman, distinguished artist, author and art critic, brings into comparison with Tabrejee the likes of Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das. Amidst Tabrejee s drawings of Dhaka s modern and mechanical lifestyle as well as society s varying conflicts, what the curator praises most ab