firoz mahmud

9 of 80 slides projection on painted board at Setagaya Art Foundation, Tokyo, 2005,

wooden board, size: 180x 90 cm (erected from the wall)

About Artwork

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Firoz Mahmud`s Artwork based on Socio-natural undiscovered histories or images, social custom, caste culture and stratification in our daily life, myth, interaction between death and belief.

He considers himself as Non-Methodic Cross-Media Artist. He works on oil" Layapa" paintings on shaped canvas, installations, video, sculpture, text art and objects which show a playful, sensual, subtle and process-oriented style.

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Technical Method and Base of Process
He mostly uses stencil style using masking tape and `Layapa` oil paint that he makes by himself with some ingredients. ‘Layapa’ is the term I use for applying paint in a manner used for anointing or plastering. The reason is that traditionally, people in the countryside of Bangladesh or entire India live in clay huts. Rural people apply many layers of thick-liquid mud, mixing with ‘Cow Dung’ very meticulously and very nicely on the wall and floor of hut. They use only jute fiber as a brush anoint by hand. His style of painting is similar to the way rural people render with mud.

http://www.otafinearts.com/artists-firoz-mahmud.html

Basic of Concept

Rural people have some belief and philosophy behind it. People still keep cows and cows give different sources for living from milk, to cow dung cakes for heating - to crop cultivation.

Cow Dung is another source of their energy that is, they make Cow Dung Cake drying on sunlight.

They sell or burn cakes for them selves for cooking as energy. Firoz`s canvas or painting surface is shaped or rough-edged in irregular side. He does not see painting surface as canvas, he see canvas as painting object/surface. Rural eople break cakes into different sizes to insert into clay oven hole to fire. Cow dung bears different history and essence in it. Cow eat grass or different leaves or bush in different placeses around. Some dung hold grass, some leaves, some crop, some dust or cow owners made husking stuff. So, different Cow Dung Cake bears different images or histories that how they came from.

Rural people believe that the smell of cow dung used on the hut will keep all their cows more energetic and alive and they will be able to help the cultivation of crops. Another reason is that they believe the cow is their mother (Hindu belief); the milk can be drunk, but the meat cannot be eaten. I make painting on object as on part of Cow-Dung Cake rather than canvas surface. Though my made green is not exact color to Cow-Dung, but it is the closest color from primary color chart. I make this odd-green color from different materials and liquid chemicals along with company product.

Green is his country’s color, it appears in every season and everywhere from land to mountain to tree. It appears in flag, governmental logo,seal, mark, transport. I make shape of canvas basing on concept and subject of painting.

Traditionally, stencil is widely used in countryside. This is remarkably used during the election periods for canvass, writing candidate’s propaganda and logo mark of vote.

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Friday, May 23, 2008

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