Gifted with an eye for details, Nabi is known not only for his paintings, engravings and drawings, but also for scathing and witty cartoons. One of the foremost painters of the present time, Nabi’s distinctive handling of bright colours and sharp line-drawings place him in a class apart. Better known as Ranabi (b. 1943, Chapainawabganj), he graduated from the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Dhaka in 1964 and went on to study printmaking in the Athens School of Fine Arts under a Greek government post-graduate scholarship (1973-76). His awards include the Promoters Prize, Inter Graphic-80, Berlin (1980), Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Award in the 9th National Art Exhibition (1989), the Ekushey Padak (1993), Agrani Bank Award for Best Juvenile fiction ‘Charidike Juddha’ (1995) and SM Sultan Padak (2002). Nabi is 13 times recipient of the National Book Centre prize (1968-90). He was the first Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. In 2006 Bengal Foundation produced a 35 min film titled Smritir Thikana (directed by Manzare Haseen Murad) on Rafiqun Nabi.

Chief Guest: Prof Khan Sarwar Murshid. Special guest: Qayyum Chowdhury and Mahfuz Anam, Editor, The Daily Star.Watercolour, drawings and woodcut prints. 70 works displayed. 35 min film ‘Smritir Thikana’ produced by Bengal Foundation and dir Manzare Haseen Murad, screening- Bangladesh Documentary Festival (15-18 Feb 2007).

Press conf- 18 Nov 2006
Opened on Monday, 20 November 2006 at 6p.m.

Date: 20.11.2006 – 03.12.2006
Venue: Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts