New Age magazine reports: To introduce Murshida Arzu Alpana’s artworks, Millenia Gallery in Florida recently said, ‘her painting is a fascinating mix of Asian and European cultures…. moving from free forms to abstract figuration. Ms Alpana has a sophisticated — and seemingly inherent — mastery of explosive colour with subject references from the cultural traditions of her uniquely diverse homeland.’
Born in 1961, Murshida Arzu Alpana, a Berlin-based expatriate Bangladeshi artist, did her Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Institute of Fine Art of the Dhaka University in 1983.
One year after joining the Institute, Alpana left for higher education with a scholarship under the German Academic Exchange Programme at the Universitãt der Künste in Berlin in 1992.
Alpana’s teachers, who are also honoured as the living legends in the world of art, Rebecca Horn, Helmut Otto, Karl Horst Hödicke, Bernd Koberling, KB Marwan, Walter Stõhrer and others appreciated Alpana’s works highly.
‘Seeing my work, the professors at my university were very impressed and had extended the one-year scholarship to a second year. When I was a student they used to refer to me as “master” of silkscreen print and glass painting,’ Alpana said with much joy and enthusiasm in her voice. They thought it to be “poetic”.
She earned the Best Overseas Artist Award in oil, from ROSL Golden Jubilee Trust in London in 1992. One year later, she got the second prize in acrylic in the 7th and 8th Annual International Exhibition of Miniature Art in Toronto. Her silkscreen print was commissioned as the 3rd Graphik prize of Griffelkunst in Hamburg in 1995. A series of two hundred works of the artist was commissioned by a congregation of computer experts in Hanover in Germany in 2003. At home, Alpana got the Khawaja Shafique Ahmed Memorial Award for watercolour in 1980; Best Award in oil in 1982 in her class and Best Award for oil in the Shilpachariya Zainul Abedin all media competition in 1983.
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OTTO, Helmut
Greenwich Village, New York
Biography
At the age of 22, Helmut moved to Berlin and studied at the University of Fine Arts, a move that secured his future as an artist. In 1962 he was awarded a scholarship and moved to Paris to train with the leading 20th Century artist Johnny Friedlaender. On returning to Berlin in the mid 1960's Helmut continued his studies and in the 1970's worked as a teacher for the international German-American John F Kennedy School in Berlin. In 1980, at the age of 43, Helmut was appointed as a Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, and was quickly elected to the position of Head of the Art Department, a position he held until his retirement in 2000. In the last 37 years, Helmut has exhibited 29 times across Germany. His most recent exhibitions have been at the German-Japanese Society, Berlin, the Kreissparkasse Bank, Nordhausen and Galerie Taube, Berlin.
Barbed Wire
Rooftops in Frigiliana
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