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ARTIST ABU TAHER
Abu Taher, will be 70 years old by next year, is one of the highly acclaimed artists of Bangladesh and he has been painting for a considerable period of time. His style of work is ever-changing. He never sticks to a style for a very long period of time rather he synthesizes his brush with his inner feelings which is the main reason of variation in styles in his works and also the main source of feast of colours in his paintings. Despite this drifting nature he just some how clings to his main preoccupations such as geometry. His work has been distinctive for its careful arrangement of textured surfaces, which gives it a tactile quality. Current exhibition shows a continuation of his predilection for texture and rhythm. Indeed, his paintings, which often appear crowded and cluttered with intermingling lines and scattered forms, reveal a fine compositional balance from a certain distance. One realizes that this corrected perspective is a contribution largely of colour and forms that emerge from an interplay of line, texture and form/figure. The aggressive nature of his execution is then offset by an emergent vision of concord, where man and nature, life and experience merge. His works tend to take the viewers to the nature where beauty and power merge with each other without losing concurrency.

But he maintains-and his canvases clearly show-that it is harmony and not chaos that he aims at; not tension, but a resolution of tension; not the world falling apart, but a world healing itself. The inclusion of a number of paintings in the exhibition that reveal the artist's deeply felt concern for life and humanity shows Taher's understanding of the human scene is not tentative or fitful. While these paintings do not exclude his modernistic aspirations, which, in any case, are realized at stylistic and formal levels-the paintings do reflect artist Abu Taher's growing concern for 'raw life.' Abu Taher is a distinguished artist, who has been a vital force in the qualitative development of modern art in our country. As an abstract expressionist of the sixties, he left a deep impression on many of the younger generation of artists. Even in his mid-seventies, his tireless creative energy still explores new grounds. Taher’s distinct individuality and language, his ability to chart new areas of art with ease and style will remain an example and inspiration to others.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Abu Taher was born in 1st November,1936 at Charpara Majumdar House, Cheora, Chauddagram, Comilla, Bangladesh. In 1960, he married Meherunnesa and is blessed with two daughters and two sons. In 1963, he graduated from Inst. of Fine Arts, Dhaka. He is a full-time painter in his studio at 'Shoibal', 365, South Kafrul, Dhaka Cantt, Dhaka.

PRESENT POSITION
Freelance Artist

EDUCATION
1963 : BFA, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka University

AWARDS
1965 : 'Honourable Mention' at the all Pakistan National Art Exhibition, Pakistan Arts Council, Dhaka. 1973 : 'Silver Jubilee Award' at the Silver Jubilee Art Exhibition of Bangladesh College of Arts & Crafts, Dhaka 1974: "Shilpakala Purashkar" at the 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka. 1990 : 'Honourable Mention' at the 9th National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka. 1994: "Ekushe Padak", the Highest Civilian Award for Contribution in the Field of Painting in Bangladesh. 2007: "Atish Dipankar Padak", for outstanding contribution as an artist. 2011: "Sultan Padak" by the SM Sultan Foundation on the 86th birth anniversary of the world-renowned artist at Sultan Mancha of Narail Government Victoria College, Narail, Jessore.

WORKSHOP AND SEMINAR
1989 : SAARC Painters Workshop, Simla, India 1994 : International seminar of 8th Triennle, India, organised by Lalit kala Acdemy, New Delhi, India 1995 : Water Colour Workshop in the Sundarbans, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka 1998 : Water Colour Workshop, organised by Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1998 : Dui-Banglar Artists Workshop, Sponsored by Kolkata Nandanik, Kolkata, India 1999 : Workshop of Contemporary Bengali Artists, organised by Bengal Foundation, Dhaka 2002 : Contemporary Asian Art Workshop 2002, Dhaka [organised by Bengal Foundation and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy]

MEMBER JOURY COMMITTEE
1994 : 10th Young Artists Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka 1997 : Khulna Division Paintings Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka 1998 : 12th Young Artists Art Exhibition at Chittagong, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka 2004 : International Children's Art Biennale, Bangladesh Shishu Academy, Dhaka

SOLO EXHIBITION
1980 : Zainul Gallery, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka 1993 : National Museum Gallery, Dhaka 2000 : Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka 2004 : Bangladesh High Commission, Canberra, Australia 2005 : Sydney, Australia 2005 : Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka

GROUP EXHIBITION
1964 : Prints Show, Organized by Arts Ensemble Galleries, Dhaka 1965 : All Pakistan National Art Exhibition, Dhaka 1966 : Exhibition of Pakistani Paintings, Commonwealth Institute, London Abstract Paintings of East Pakistan sponsored by the German Cultural Institute, Dhaka and Chittagong, 5th Tehran Biennale, Iran 1970 : Expo 70 Tokyo, Japan 1973 : Contemporary Art of Bangladesh, Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai, India Silver Jubilee Art Exhibition of Bangladesh College of Arts & Crafts, Dhaka 1978 : Contemporary Art of Bangladesh, Bonn and Berlin, Germany 1980 : Festival: Asian Art Show, Fukuoka, Japan 1983 : 5th Triennale India, New Delhi 1985 : Contemporary Art of Bangladesh, Kualalampur, Malaysia 1990 : SAARC Paintings Exhibition at Simla and Delhi, India 1995 : Contemporary Art of Bangladesh, Moscow, Russian Federation 1998 : Thirty Painters from Bangladesh, Osaka, Japan; Epar-Bangla Opar-Bangla Exhibition and Workshop, Kolkata, India; Selected Artists of the Fifties, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka; Contemporary Art of Bangladesh, Sudo Art Museum, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan 1999 : Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Saju Art Gallery, Dhaka; Contemporary Paintings from Bangladesh, Gallery Hill Gate, Kyoto, Japan; Paintings from Bangladesh, Nagoya, Japan; Fifty Years of Bangladesh Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka University; Exhibition of the works of Contemporary Bengali Artists, Shilpakala Academy [organised by Bengal Foundation] 2003 : Exhibition of the works of the Contemporary Asian Art Workshop 2002, Shilpakala Academy Gallery, Dhaka [organised by Bengal Foundation and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy] 1975-05 : 1st to 16th National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka 1981-04 : 1st to 11th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Dhaka

MAJOR COLLECTION
National Art Gallery, Dhaka; Bangladesh National Museum, Dhaka; Nordness Gallery, New York; Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Banga Bhaban and Ganobhaban, Dhaka; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh; Sangsad Bhaban, Bangladesh; Atomic Energy Commission, Dhaka; Kolkata; Nandanik, Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Gallery Sambala, Kopenhagen; Bengal Foundation Dhaka and many other individual and institutional collections at home & abroad.