Layapa Stencil painting (Layapa Art)

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Layapa Art (Stencil Painting) -by FIROZ MAHMUD

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Layapa Art (Layapa oil painting on shaped canvas stressed on wood panel with stencil technique)
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-Firozmahmud
I make Layapa painting on objects and shaped canvas using stencil technique. The ‘Layapa’ is a Bengali word which means anoint or plaster. ‘Layapa’ is the term I use for applying paint on canvas or on objects in a manner used for anointing or plastering by women on clay hut in South rural Bangladesh. Traditionally, people in the countryside live mostly in clay hut and mother of each family meticulously apply many layers of thick-liquid mud, mixing with cow dung on the wall and floor of the hut. They have some belief and philosophy behind it.
I make painting, with my south-eastern historical image I visualize in my mind through local manuscript and scroll and I paint the way rural people anoint mud and dream on hut.

For Layapa painting, the canvases are deformed with own process. I want to deconstruct the idea of painting using stencil-layapa technique to deform the border of the frame and prefer not to terminate the painting image of vague history inside the frame. I apply very thick layers of oil painting. The technique of rendering method is from our traditional rendering mud on clay hut and stencil technique is taken from Japanese Ukiyo-e (woodblock) precess.
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Firoz Mahmud works with several media including installation, Layapa Art (a Bangladeshi stencil technique), Urgency of Proximate Drawing (NinKI: UoPD), text, video and photographs which are based on Bangladeshi socio-political culture, myth, tradition and pop culture. Mahmud's large-scale project 'sucker'wfp21, a 26 foot fighter aircraft considers the interplay of militarism and war produced through public tax and revenue.

Firoz Mahmud (born Khulna, Bangladesh) graduated from received a BFA from Dhaka University, an MFA from Tama Art University and a PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts. He attended Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. He has shown his work in group exhibitions including the Aichi Triennal, Aichi, Japan; Sharjah Biennale, Dubai, UAE; Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt; Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal, Echigo-Tsumar, Japan; Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Dhaka; Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany; Rochester Contemporary, New York; Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong; S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium; Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Rijksakademie VBK, Amsterdam and Metropolitan-Gallery Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark. Upcoming exhibitions include Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo; Yokohama Triennale 2011, Japan, Bengal Art Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Sep/2011 and South Asian Contemporary Art exhibition at Asia House, London).
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