‘Instinct + Organic’
Charcoal Group Art Exhibition
On November 22, 2024, the 5th solo exhibition titled ‘Aunusriti’ featuring 100 paintings by renowned Bangladeshi artist Samar Majumder was inaugurated at ‘Bhumi Gallery’.
The exhibition of 100 paintings painted with poster paint on paper was inaugurated and the chief guest was Professor Syed Manjurul Islam, a renowned literary critic and writer of Bangladesh.
This exhibition delves into the raw, unfiltered impulses that drive human inventiveness and the vital elements of nature that shape our world. “Intuition & Core” explores the reciprocal relationship between the instinctual, often obscured conscious urges that inspire artistic expression and the organic forms and materials that provide the medium and subject. The works featured in this exhibition initiate the internal, instinctive motivations of the artist and the external, organic world, creating an interchange that celebrates the purity of human emotion and the understanding of nature.
Image Gallery
Tarun Gosh, an artist who initiated this curated workshop, delved into the aesthetics of organic powders as pigments and the core of charcoal black carbon residue, which has been used by artists since prehistoric times, especially for its effect of creating chiaroscuro—the magic of light in the darkness. He instigated a contemplation and rendering that allowed artists to mold raw materials into their expressive temperaments. As a participatory artist, he performed the interplay of elements in various translations and informative moods. The studio space in the gallery became a celebrative performance of ancient rituals, making marks and creating surfaces of sensation.
Here the artist elaborated their visual language reshaping an inventive tendency where natural, stint and the thoughts of individual artists can emancipate a constructive experience of playfulness.
The images created by the artist are a contemplative journey through various contexts, each a distinct narrative within the broader canvas of human experience. Some of these works explore the structural of urban life, capturing city environs with an acute sensitivity to mood and cultural resonance.
In these pieces, one can discern the hurried energy of urban spaces, the interplay of light and shadow on architectural forms, and the silent stories etched into the fabric of the city.
The ethereal landscapes, where the solitude of nature is laid bare. The artist employs materials in their most primal states—pigments in powdered forms, evoking the rawness of earth, and dust bound by water, which, as it dries, leaves behind a residue of its essence, a testament OF RELATIVE PRESENCE IN INFINITE IMPRESSION. These landscapes are rendering aloneness, where the viewer is invited to wander through spaces of memory and recall.
In some pieces, charcoal sticks merge with modern factory paints, creating a dialogue between the ancient and the contemporary. The use of ink and traditional pigments in others further enriches this interplay, each medium bringing its texture and history to the canvas. This multifaceted approach to materials is the blending of different worlds, times, and traditions into a cohesive, narrative.
The studio space in the gallery transforms into a stage for a celebratory performance of ancient rituals. This ritualistic aspect is not just about making marks or creating surfaces of sensation; it is about connecting with the very roots of playful expression. The act pulsates the tactile and the tangible, where each mark is imbued into a presence.
The visual images evoke a spectrum of responses. There is a tangible tactility to the surfaces calling the intangible, a realism that draws the viewer into the world depicted. At the same time, there are impulsive drives and moments of raw primordial. These works navigate various routes: they incorporate folk motifs that resonate with memory, contemporary signs that anchor them in the present, sketchy impulses that suggest fleeting moments, and academic approaches that demonstrate technical, and symbolic syntheses that delve into the inner psychic realms of superficial and beyond tendencies.
