Najib Tareque, (born September 5, 1970, as Abu Najib Mohammed Tareque) is a Bengali artist, printmaker and writer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is best known for his new media artworks and being one of the pioneers of online art galleries in Bangladesh. Tareque was the founding member of Jolrong, one of the first online art galleries in South Asia.[1] Since 1987, he has been part of various group and solo exhibitions both in the country and abroad. He has participated more than twenty individual and joint exhibitions in the country and abroad.
Abu Najib Mohammad Tareque was born on September 5, 1970, in Borogur Gola, Dinajpur, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). His father was Tamizuddin and mother Nujratun Nisa. Tareque is the fifth among seven siblings. Due to his father's career, his childhood and early life span were in Thakurgaon, Rajshahi and in Dinajpur district.[2]
The birth of art is in the deepest part of the brain death is also there. An art piece is the skeleton of art. In the sells market, art is not sold, the skeleton of art is sold there. The buyer builds up his own taste by buying art pieces. A child creates art in order to prove its existence. Without expression, it has no other way to prove its existence. With the growth of age, its fact of expression grows more. According to the clash of different opposite fact, the child gets attracted by different social rules & regulation, in addition to that, sexual role or the recreating power which is to preserve the existence or creativity hides his spontaneous form of expression. Social existence becomes like his own existence when he feels that he and the society are the different forms of the same existence, he is the unit of the society, his creativity becomes spontaneous again. Abstraction is not a style. The soul of art is found in abstraction. The extremely delicate angle of vision creates abstract art or breaks down the temporary impenetrable wall. God is the symbol of loving urge, sexuality is the proof of creativity.
Tareque is mainly a printmaker. However, he did numerous work in the several mediums including oil, water, and acrylic, but he mostly on the mix-media.[9] Tareque's earlier works highlighted nature, structure, figures, sketches, and portrait became the subject of his paintings. His portraits and figures are considered as semi-realistic and often surrealistic or impressionistic.[10] Most of his paintings have vibrant colours, and the backgrounds feature dominant movement. Initially, a multivariate fragility was noted in his paintings, which often recall the works of Fauvist artists.[11]Paul Klee's painting are often remembered when analyzing the space and intention of Tareque's painting "Antarer Anusandhan" and "Naree Banam Naree".[11] Tareque has often used the Arabic alphabet and the use of words in the art of painting.[10] Tareque has attempted to create his own art form by synthesizing various painting doctrines rather than following a specific one. There is a logical appreciation about the life of artist Tareque in the opening words: "God is amorphous, inactive, and absolute emptiness, religions are the historic events for the human society, which increasingly becoming history. Those who have a lack of knowledge of history are either religious, maybe anti-religious, or antipathetic."[2]
In 1994, two of his solo exhibitions were organized.[5] "Joy Manabata" is his first solo exhibition which was held in May 1994 with Alliance Française in Dhaka.[12] Most of the 42 paintings of the exhibition were the subject matter of the human. Where the human form has been depicted in the form of Durga, Nomad, Ravana, Ullas, etc. Some paintings of Tareque, who believe in the Evolution theory, are found in the resemblance of the non-human face with the human body, through which he has expressed his desire to illustrate the ugly image of the human.[9]
In 2009, he participated in the group exhibition held in Mumbai, India.[2] He got acquainted[3] with the illustration of book covers and literary magazines, fashion design, etc.[6][13] In Bangladesh, he tried to turn the traditional illustrations of the book covers into modern art.[5]
In 2015, Tareque took the initiative to create an artists' hub and launched a gallery, Studio 6/6, in Mohammadpur, Dhaka,[14] with his daughter, Taiara Farhana Tareque, as co-founder.[15] After initial launch of the studio has hosted several exhibitions, workshops, and events featuring artists from different talents, as musicians, painters, writers etc.[15]
"Art Makes Us Human"
Art Makes Us Human
Online-based conceptual virtual art project Art Makes Us Human starts since July 2015 through the social media Instagram.[1] Later in May 2016, a solo exhibition of the project was organized in the Studio 6/6 Gallery located in Dhaka. It was the first physical exhibition of its kind in the country,[1][16] featuring approximately 15 prints of digital paintings.[14] As a part of the project, Tareque composed his old and new combination of decoration,[17] using many of his previously drawn illustrations for various books, newspapers and magazines.[16] The colourful artworks mostly used bold strokes, striking colours and enthralling patterns to create human faces and figures, birds and different geometric forms.[14] Since its online launching nearly more than 1500 artworks have been published under the project,[14] in various social media including Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Facebook.[17]
Personal life
Najib married Bangladeshi painter Farhana Afroz Bappy. They have a daughter Taiara Farhana Tareque (born 1994), she is also a young artist, and a son Farhand Abu Tamjiad. In 2015, the artist family launched Studio 6/6, an art spaces based in Dhaka.[18][19]
In April 2017, a joint exhibition of this couple was organized in Dhaka at their own art gallery named Studio 6/6 under the heading "Nirman" ("Construction").[4][20]
12Jinnat Jan Kabir (May 21, 2016). Mahmud Anwar Hossain (ed.). শিল্পী নাজিব তারেক ও তার নতুন প্রদর্শনী[Artist Najib Tarek and his new exhibition]. protidinersangbad (in Bengali). Archived from the original on February 2, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
1234Al Imran. শিল্পী নাজিব তারেকের স্টুডিওতে[In the studio of artist Najib Tareque]. banglamati.net (in Bengali). Archived from the original on February 2, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
↑Atindriyo, Chakrabarty (March 9, 2016). And those Other Ghost Of Love (Ied.). Antivirus Publication. Archived from the original on January 30, 2021. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
↑বইমেলায় সাংবাদিকের বই (in Bengali). poriborton. February 23, 2017. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
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