City Desk :
Fostering the studio-based artistic practices for painters in Bangladesh with a prime focus on popularising the medium of Printmaking, Cosmos-Atelier 71 has been patronizing up-and-coming and talented artists through its exclusive ‘Artist Residency Programme’ for more than a decade.
Generally held twice on a calendar year, the ‘Artist Residency Programme’ returned at the Cosmos-Atelier 71 at the Cosmos Centre, Malibagh, in the capital which has been running from September till December this year, after being put on hold for a while due to the ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19.
Four talented and young painters and visual artists in the country – Iqbal Bahar Chy, Farzana Rahman Bobby, Kamruzzoha, and Abu Kalam Shamsuddin, Assistant Professor, Drawing and Painting Discipline at Khulna University, participated in this year’s residency programme. Etching Aquatint, Wood Intaglio, Drypoint, Collagraph – these are the four mediums they utilized during the tenure of this programme, based on their respective themes, reports UNB.
“Envisioned by late eminent Bangladeshi artist Kalidas Karmakar who is revered as the guardian angel for the Cosmos-Atelier71 as its founding member and lifelong adviser, the residency programme provides the optimum blend of peace and absolutely astounding surroundings for the painters with all the modern types of equipment and amenities for Printmaking. Inside our serene and welcoming environment, painters work intensively and independently in the atelier, and that was the motto behind the residency programme which we are glad to host this year after its hiatus due to the global pandemic of Covid-19,” Sourav Chowdhury, Executive Artistic Manager at Gallery Cosmos and Cosmos Atelier71, described the initiative to UNB.
