Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) will host the inauguration of a solo painting exhibition titled ‘Impression of Surroundngs-4’ by Mohiuddin Ahmed Mohim in La Galerie of AFD on Friday at 5:30pm.

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy former director Syed Jahangir will be present on the occasion as the chief guest. Eminent artist Hamiduzzaman Khan, additional secretary (retd.) Finance Division Mohammad Emdadul Hoque, and entrepreneur and director Janata Bank Sangita Ahmed will be present as special guests. AFD director Bruno Plasse will welcome the guests and preside over the opening ceremony.

Born in Banimardon, Muladi in Barisal, in 1976, Mohiuddin Ahmed Mohim has long been viewed as an art activist in Bangladesh, practicing with his own style of painting. Mohim earns his reputation in art through his continual innovation which led him to explore in recent years the experimental possibilities applied and urban image-making.

Mohim finished MFA from University of Development Alternative in 2004. In the exhibition ‘Impression of Surroundng-4’, he will showcase works from his recent painting series. They are glorious yet enigmatic images, and no wonder, for Mohim creates them with an elaborate process he has devised himself. Using neither physical objects nor sensitive grounds, he sources different intensities and colours image. In his paintings, yellow, tawny orange, pale green and grey refractions and shadows articulate relief and reverse shapes.

‘Impression of Surrounding-3’ at Gallery Cosmos at Gulshan in Dhaka in 2013, ‘Impression of Surroundings-2’ at Dhaka Art Centre in Dhanmondi in 2012,  and ‘Impression of Surroundings-1’ at Drik Gallery, Dhanmodi in the capital in 2011 were his major and notable solo shows.

The exhibition will be open to all until 11 April 2015 in La Galerie, AFD from Monday to Thursday (3:00pm to 9:00pm), Friday and Saturday (9:00am to12:00pm and 5:00pm to 8:00pm), except for Sunday.