Farrukh Khosru :
Ilham Ahsan Kalimullah, 8, a Grade-II student of Adamjee Can’t Public School & College, dreams to be an architect. But what inspired him to be so, Ilham explains while talking at his 1st solo art exhibition that concluded recently at city’s Lalmatia area, “I want to change the face of the world with my new ideas of architecture. My buildings, I wish I will design some day, will be of new shapes, space and interior looks in new colours where there will be birds, butterflies, fishes, grasshoppers and trees all around.” Oh! You can call it a living place with all marks of nature, said an imaginative, inquisitive Ilham.
Ilham’s dreams, we wish it comes true; will thus make a new urban architectural traits blessed with nature what the city citizens are deprived of now living in this contemporary Dhaka which virtually has turned into a jungle of concrete having no touch of nature or greeneries, more so the city has hardly any breathing space except the Ramna Green and Sangshad Complex.
Ilham proved his genuine love for nature in the show of his paintings that reflect a scenic beauty beyond a concrete city living. 8-year old Ilham in his drawings has shown clarity of perception about the objects around us in a cosmopolitan sense along the earthly reality. Most objects of the paintings are symbols of obsolete single life gripped with loneliness leaving the viewers in a world separated for a long from their origin. A butterfly living alone in a white landscape just tells us that we’re becoming gradually confined more within the four walls of so-called civic amenities. The lone fish swimming in a dark background only proves that nowhere we can have a sigh of relief or we are here bound to breath in an unreeling black seemingly in an unending urban melancholy.
The show tilted ‘Ensuring Road Safety for Children’ was organized by JANIPOP Children Wing (JCW) on 30th July at JANIPOP Project Office in Lalmatia. Brig Gen SM Ferdous, ndc, psc inaugurated the exhibition.
While asked about road safety as used in the title of his art illustration, Ilham replied in a rather depressive mood, with a gloomy shade over his face, “actually I feel nervous when I’m at a road crossing on my way to school or home. None bothers to care for kids like me, even not willing to lend a helping hand in crossing the highly jam-packed roads in the city. Street upsets us with frequent mishaps. Especially, I think, children are the worst victims of road accidents. They have to often lose their parents, relatives as well as their friends whom they had played with just a few hours ago. I’ve even seen children got hurt and become crippled physically in such fatal but careless road accidents. You just look at the news outlets, may it be a page of a newspaper or breaking news of a TV channel or at their news scrolls; accidents almost grip all the news. I, therefore, wish to dedicate my energy and efforts to those kids victimised in road crashes and named my first exhibition appealing for ensuring safe-roads for children so as to appeal to the people to stop such pre-matured deaths of budding kids or even the elders because human life is preciously valuable and worth living.”
Being asked as to who inspired you most in drawing, Ilham replied, ‘my father Prof Dr Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah is my inspiration as well as fan too. Though most of the time he remains busy with his students (Dr Kalimullah is the Pro-VC of Bangladesh University of Professionals), but whenever he can manage, he gives me time, encourages and allows me to be bold in drawing the pictures. I try to follow my father as he suggests, and my Mom also. Advocate Itrat Amin Kalimullah, my mother, is indeed an endless source of my inspiration. I am quite fortunate that my mother is an artist also. She had by now three solo art exhibitions – two in UK and another in Bangladesh. I am much fascinated with her arts pointing at some pieces of his mother’s paintings. My uncle Tamim, who is a great artist of repute, is an inspiration to me,” said Ilham.
There were about sixty art pieces of Ilham in the exhibition. Most of them are of water-colour. Some are oil paintings, sketch, collage and acrylic. Ilham has also mastered in sculpture, especially in using clay.
He pays gratitude to his art teacher Faiyaz who has specialisation in sculpting. Ilahm says, my art teacher taught me how to make best use of colour, why and when it is to be in appropriate measure and shades. My school teachers are also of much help to me in pursue my paintings. They always appreciate my paintings much and encourage me always.
The exhibition drew sizable audiences and profound appreciations from the visitors. Some drawings have already been sold on the spots. At the end of the day, it was a good show. n
Ilham Ahsan Kalimullah, 8, a Grade-II student of Adamjee Can’t Public School & College, dreams to be an architect. But what inspired him to be so, Ilham explains while talking at his 1st solo art exhibition that concluded recently at city’s Lalmatia area, “I want to change the face of the world with my new ideas of architecture. My buildings, I wish I will design some day, will be of new shapes, space and interior looks in new colours where there will be birds, butterflies, fishes, grasshoppers and trees all around.” Oh! You can call it a living place with all marks of nature, said an imaginative, inquisitive Ilham.
Ilham’s dreams, we wish it comes true; will thus make a new urban architectural traits blessed with nature what the city citizens are deprived of now living in this contemporary Dhaka which virtually has turned into a jungle of concrete having no touch of nature or greeneries, more so the city has hardly any breathing space except the Ramna Green and Sangshad Complex.
Ilham proved his genuine love for nature in the show of his paintings that reflect a scenic beauty beyond a concrete city living. 8-year old Ilham in his drawings has shown clarity of perception about the objects around us in a cosmopolitan sense along the earthly reality. Most objects of the paintings are symbols of obsolete single life gripped with loneliness leaving the viewers in a world separated for a long from their origin. A butterfly living alone in a white landscape just tells us that we’re becoming gradually confined more within the four walls of so-called civic amenities. The lone fish swimming in a dark background only proves that nowhere we can have a sigh of relief or we are here bound to breath in an unreeling black seemingly in an unending urban melancholy.
The show tilted ‘Ensuring Road Safety for Children’ was organized by JANIPOP Children Wing (JCW) on 30th July at JANIPOP Project Office in Lalmatia. Brig Gen SM Ferdous, ndc, psc inaugurated the exhibition.
While asked about road safety as used in the title of his art illustration, Ilham replied in a rather depressive mood, with a gloomy shade over his face, “actually I feel nervous when I’m at a road crossing on my way to school or home. None bothers to care for kids like me, even not willing to lend a helping hand in crossing the highly jam-packed roads in the city. Street upsets us with frequent mishaps. Especially, I think, children are the worst victims of road accidents. They have to often lose their parents, relatives as well as their friends whom they had played with just a few hours ago. I’ve even seen children got hurt and become crippled physically in such fatal but careless road accidents. You just look at the news outlets, may it be a page of a newspaper or breaking news of a TV channel or at their news scrolls; accidents almost grip all the news. I, therefore, wish to dedicate my energy and efforts to those kids victimised in road crashes and named my first exhibition appealing for ensuring safe-roads for children so as to appeal to the people to stop such pre-matured deaths of budding kids or even the elders because human life is preciously valuable and worth living.”
Being asked as to who inspired you most in drawing, Ilham replied, ‘my father Prof Dr Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah is my inspiration as well as fan too. Though most of the time he remains busy with his students (Dr Kalimullah is the Pro-VC of Bangladesh University of Professionals), but whenever he can manage, he gives me time, encourages and allows me to be bold in drawing the pictures. I try to follow my father as he suggests, and my Mom also. Advocate Itrat Amin Kalimullah, my mother, is indeed an endless source of my inspiration. I am quite fortunate that my mother is an artist also. She had by now three solo art exhibitions – two in UK and another in Bangladesh. I am much fascinated with her arts pointing at some pieces of his mother’s paintings. My uncle Tamim, who is a great artist of repute, is an inspiration to me,” said Ilham.
There were about sixty art pieces of Ilham in the exhibition. Most of them are of water-colour. Some are oil paintings, sketch, collage and acrylic. Ilham has also mastered in sculpture, especially in using clay.
He pays gratitude to his art teacher Faiyaz who has specialisation in sculpting. Ilahm says, my art teacher taught me how to make best use of colour, why and when it is to be in appropriate measure and shades. My school teachers are also of much help to me in pursue my paintings. They always appreciate my paintings much and encourage me always.
The exhibition drew sizable audiences and profound appreciations from the visitors. Some drawings have already been sold on the spots. At the end of the day, it was a good show. n
