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Kazi Ghiyasuddin began his two weeklong solo exhibitions of 42 artworks at Chitrak on February 10. Passive colour, skilled methods, soft brushstrokes, clear colours and imagery are the elements that make up the striking paintings of Ghiyasuddin. His enthused images whip up a symbiotic bond with rain, a combination of panoramic and vision that enables the artist to use rain’s most elegant views with advantage.
   An expatriate living in Japan, Ghiyasuddin’s images of rain are found in his use of deep droplets and geometric shapes while the backdrop of soft gentle colours marks them.
   His images cannot be explained; they have to be felt. For, every single line and dot, the fading trail of colours on Ghiyasuddin’s canvas exudes different moods and feelings. The frailty of his lines and unique colours are consequential from the natural world and has grown from a more customary approach to abstractions that improve panoramic sights and imagination.
   His hunt for magnificence and for deliberation on rain has influenced him to hold up in his work a vivacious amiable image of rain.
   ‘I have more than a dozen dealers to represent my works around the world. In Tokyo, I have four representatives and others in Koushu, Okinawa and Khanajawa. I have participated in many art fairs in Japan, Korea and Argentina, and have partaken in group shows in Europe and the USA,’ says the artist.
   In this he has combined his reminiscence for the Japanese natural environment, and what he experienced around his studio in Savar, where he laboured for his current show.
   He tries to present harmonization of colour in his works with little pretence. He has used colours with submissive finery for giving a discrete message via his work.
   ‘I would like to commend the leaning towards experimentation in our artists,’ suggests Ghiyasuddin.
   Ghiyasuddin always tries to ensure a sound blend between colours and forms. Colour, texture, visible and invisible lines are the most predominant aspect of his paintings.
   He also explores varied possibilities in this natural occurrence by contrasting rain alongside dissimilar backgrounds such as the different times of a day and the six seasons of a year.
   This provides his creations with a unique quality of introspective inclined complexity.
   Today he works in both watercolour and oil.
   He includes his feelings and emotions, along with what he sees around him.
   ‘I express what I understand. I did a lot of realistic academic work as a student, and continued in the same genre, putting in a lot of labour into my landscapes. My experimentation is a progress from my youthful days.
   I believe in being forward looking, and progressing with the times,’ adds the artist.
   Ghiyasuddin’s canvases are lavish in abstract images of rain. But this abstraction does not impede the viewers’ perception of the artist’s feeling. The canvases, wearing layers of washes of transparent colours, rather compose different expressions that are incarnate in the symbol of rain.
   His spontaneous soft brush-strokes give expression to his feelings and moods.

To mark Amar Ekushey, the Nazrul Institute has chalked up a three-day programme. The event began on Sunday.
   A hand writing and a Nazrul Sangeet competition were held on the occasion where a number of children participated.
   The institute will organise a poetry recitation programme at 4:00pm on the second day.
   Professor Ashraf Siddiqui, chairman of the Nazrul Institute Trustee Board will chair the event while poet Al Mahmud will be present as a special guest.

NTV will air Bhasar Larai at 4:25pm on February 21. The programme is being moderated and produced by Ahmad Mostafa Kamal and Alfred Khokan respectively.
   Badruddin Umar will be present as the guest and speak on the subject.

The Dhaka Film Society will give out certificates to the students who participated in script writing workshop last year at a programme today at 5:30pm at Alamgir Kabir auditorium at 62 Science Laboratory Road, Dhaka.
   President of the Bangladesh Federation of Film Societies Morshedul Islam will be present as the chief guest and Zahirul Islam Kochi will chair the function. Zahidul Rahim Anjan and Dewan Shamsur Raqib will be present among others. Aparna Sen’s new release, Fifty Park Avenue will be shown later.

A Bosnian film has won the Golden Bear award at the 56th Berlin Film Festival. Grbavica, by director Jasmila Zbanic, looks at the aftermath of the mass rape of women during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian war.
   British directors Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross were awarded the Silver Bear for best director, for their film, Road to Guantanamo. Two films won the Silver Bear: Offside, by the Iranian director Jafar Panahi and Danish-Swedish film A Soap.

Starring
   Reese Witherspoon, Mark
   Wahlberg
   Borrowing the premise of Fatal Attraction and the mood of Scream, this highly-charged thriller retreads some familiar ground to good effect.
   Wahlberg (The Perfect Storm, The Truth About Charlie), also known as Marky Mark to his music fans, gives his best performance to date, as a psychotic teen with a deadly obsession - his love for his girlfriend. So just how twisted is he?
   Well, let's just say he'll do anything to defeat anybody who gets in his way - including her family!
   A superbly executed thriller, disturbing to the core, but compulsive throughout. And a word to the wise - stay seated until the film comes to a complete standstill.