The third solo art exhibition of Zahangir Alom titled ‘Songs of Soul’ began at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD).

Zahangir worked as a "resident artist" of Oriental Painting Studio for a long time and developed his own style of watercolour wash technique.

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The maturity of his colour mixing is the unique quality of his painting. Some of his works are semi-abstract, and the mature arrangement of colours in the painting can be seen in conjunction with the maturity of his senses.

The melody of the music, the rhythm of the poem, and the dance of the female body are alluded to in his paintings. Sometimes "Gaudiya Nritya", sometimes "Desh", sometimes "Bageshree", sometimes "Khamaj" or ‘Malkauns" raga; sometimes the play of clouds; sometimes the afternoon of late-autumn; sometimes magical twilight; sometimes the beauty of Bengal; sometimes "Leelakirtan"; sometimes the subject-narrative of mythological anecdotes play in his paintings.

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He paints many images of flowers that are different from real flowers. Here, the colour comes with the charming message of form. The itinerant artist’s work celebrates visible nature, but his view of nature is not a close-up view.

He made a series of paintings based on the motifs of Bengal’s "Sarachitra", mixed with the new language of Bengali folk paintings. The inner flowers, female figures, trees, and foliage are arranged in an imagined alchemy, and although the painting is a traditional wash method, it is full of three-dimensional mixed-colour play.

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This exhibition includes works in the watercolour wash technique. The shape of the figure is similar to a heap of clouds in the movement of colours, and while there is no attempt at clarification, the figures (mostly female figures) appear as real flesh figures. This skill has been acquired through his long practice and watching the work of oriental artists in the studio.

In most of his works, he has used red, blue, yellow, orange, and black colours with the same brightness. There remains the expanse of standing trees, the glimmer of light through the gaps in the trees, and the evocative silhouettes of childhood memories in his paintings. Almost every work has a touch of blue. The monsoon, rain-drenched nature, the smell of the earth, and the colour of the air are saturated in the melody of nature’s music.

Anis A Khan, Member, board of governors at the Society for Promotion of Bangladesh Art; Prof Mohammad Eunus, chairman of Art Bangla Foundation; Zareen Mahmud Hosein, director of Shasha Denims Limited and Prof Dr Malay Bala of Department of Oriental Art, Faculty of Fine Art at Dhaka University attended the event as special guests.

The exhibition will be open to all until Saturday, November 11, from Monday to Saturday, 3 to 9 pm.