Dates: November 10-22, 2015
Venue: Alliance Française
About
Bangladeshi artist Rakeeb Hassan’s first ever one-man show took place in Kenya in 1994. His paintings are the colour of everything – what we think or what we can’t think, what we see or what we can’t see, assembling i all to portray a universe of freedom, free thought and tolerance.This exhibitions pays homage to the murdered bloggers of Bangladesh and to the lost loves in Kenya’s terror attacks.
Paintings by Rakeeb Hassan
Dates: November 10-22, 2015
Venue: Alliance Française
About
Bangladeshi artist Rakeeb Hassan’s first ever one-man show took place in Kenya in 1994. His upbringing in Bengali language, literature and art, his formative training in fine arts in Kenya, his immigrant experiences in the UK and Canada, continue to influence Rakeeb’s art. His brush is constantly balanced in space, abstractly capturing fleeting glimpses of images which come in ethereal forms. His paintings are the colour of everything – what we think or what we can’t think, what we see or what we can’t see, assembling it all to portray a universe of freedom, free thought and tolerance.This exhibition is homage to the slain bloggers of Bangladesh and to the lost lives in Kenya’s terror attacks.
Rakeeb Hassan returns to Kenya for an exhibition of his recent works. Having lived in Kenya in the 1990s and studied fine arts in Kenya, Rakeeb held several solo exhibitions here before emigrating to Canada in 2000. Rakeeb has also exhibited in the UK, India, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Canada, and has worked on a choreographic project in France, in Montpellier and La Rochelle. Rakeeb’s stylized and colourful paintings are inspired from folk art, African masks and flora and fauna.
Opening July 12th at 18:30
