FAWAZ ROB (Hardcover)

This is the first book in English that talks about "Printmaking art in Bangladesh". This is a book on Fawaz Rob's retrospective of a decade long Intaglio art. A culmination of 92 plates on various subjects that led up to the grand exhibition in Charukola in 2025.

Fawaz Rob writes, "The most important thing I learned is that ‘I don’t know anything.’ This is not fake humility. I truly feel that there's a long road ahead of me and I am just warming up. It takes a lifetime to truly understand or master any form of art. Hokusai and Matisse did their best work in their 70s.

The art of intaglio Printmaking is a difficult and expensive adventure. It requires endless hours in a dirty studio and a lot of mind-boggling steps to produce a piece art. To be honest, one has to be a little crazy to stay in this line of business. A day labor earns more and even your fellow artists look down on you. But the other truth is that the world of Intaglio art is an amazing journey. One can create unimaginable beauty with it."

This is a gorgeous book with 92 artworks of Fawaz Rob. It is full of insights on Charukola, art for activism and intaglio printmaking in Bangladesh