In addition, another exhibition of Alpana has been running in Milan since May 13. Under the title Giorgio Gaber (drawn from the great Italian multifaceted artiste Giorgio Gaber), the exhibition is popular with art lovers. Alpana also performed classical music at the opening ceremony.

Born in Bangladesh in 1961, Alpana has had a successful career as a singer mostly in classical genre as well as a lecturer at the Institute of Fine Art in Dhaka, before settling in Berlin. In 1986 she got a scholarship to study at Shantiniketan; which changed her basic motif in painting. The untouched natural surroundings influenced and encouraged her to choose a new subject to paint. In Shantiniketan, the discussion about painting and theory had broadened her view of art.

There were many international streams of contemporary arts such as Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism (German, American) and Abstract Art. These trends gave her the chance to change her style of painting and prints in terms of using colour, form, line, composition, graphic quality and gestures of figures. The techniques like Tachisme, silkscreen printing influenced her works greatly. The other mediums she uses are oil, mixed media, acrylic, pigments, papers, textile, Acryl-glass, pencil, crayon, oil sticks and charcoal.

Her recent works can be considered as a message to the world of this millenium through the Cybernetic language of Art (which refers to the science of systems of control and communication among living beings and machines. This is also considered as the developed Kinetic Art.)

Mostly 210-300cm to 8-12cm in size Alpana's paintings depict figures and faces of people. Though most of her paintings concentrate on human portraits, they also include some high tech objects like computer, mobile, mouse, wire as well as the words of many technical terms like digital signs, code-numbers and computer commands.

Her involvement with classical music add extra nuance to her painting and operate on both sensual and intellectual levels.

Her painting, Sisters World of Music, received the best international artist award for the best work in oil by Royal Overseas League Arts (ROSL Arts) of London in 1992 and Roderick Lakin, director of the ROSL Arts, praised her 'strong sense of movement and colour'. This comment was drawn during her 'Digital Heads' exhibition.

She took part in several national and international exhibitions in many famous galleries. She got the honour of being the first Bangladeshi artist to display her paintings in the gallery of Parliament in Berlin in 2003. Even her paintings have been exhibited with some of the living celebrity artistes like Günther Förg, Nan Goldin, Karl Lagafeld, George Baselitz, AR Penk and many others.

Her paintings have been collected by Bangladesh National Museum, ROSL House of London, Herbert kind Gallery & Museum of UK, Schering Art Association Berlin and GTZ Eschborn.

'Alpana's decision to live in Germany has encouraged her to develop a highly idiosyncratic blend of Asian and European influences,' says one art critic. And in this fascinating mixture, lies Alpana's contribution to the world of art.