Omar Zafar’s show featured a blend of interactive paintings and sculpture. In this approach, Zafar replaced the usual canvas with a magnetic surface. Vinyl coated magnets were rearranged on the ‘canvas’ (the magnetic surface) by the viewer, giving shape to abstract forms. The themes surrounding ‘Creatively Interactive Painting’ were taken from the effects of contemporary cross cultural interaction. Omar Zafar was born in Dhaka in 1973. He graduated in Studio Arts from Clark University, USA in 1996.

Venue: Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts
Bengal Shilpalaya
House 275/F, Road 27 (Old), Dhanmondi, Dhaka
Tel. 8123115, 8123315
Time : 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 20, 2000

Exhibition Timings:
From 12 to 8 p.m. everyday, from 21-22 December, 2000 and 31 December 2000-9 January 2001 (24-30 December, 2000 closed for Eid ul Fitr)

Program:
Wednesday December 20, 2000
6:30 p.m. Guests take their seats
6:45 p.m. Address of welcome : LUVA N CHOUDHURY
DIRECTOR
BENGAL GALLERY OF FINE ARTS

Speech by special guest : NATIONAL PROFESSOR KABIR CHOWDHURY

Speeches by guests of honor : H. E. GEORGE PAPANDREOU
MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, GREECE

1. E. ABDUS SAMAD AZAD
   MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, BANGLADESH

Closing address : ABUL KHAIR
CHAIRMAN
BENGAL FOUNDATION

7:00 p.m. Joint inauguration of Mine, Yours, His/Her’s, Theirs and Everybody Else’s Paintings by the Greek Foreign Minister H. E. Mr. George Papandreou and the Bangladesh Foreign Minister H. E. Mr. Abdus Samad Azad
7:30 p.m. Dinner