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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Exhibition at Academy of Fine Ats, Kolkata, 2009
Chiaroscuro is a group of sixteen artists showcasing more than forty paintings. What is interesting about the group, is that at first glance, it is not so much figures and landscapes but a riot of colours, relations between colours, cool and warm, translating, transmuting into varied interpretations. Colour-language infact. The idea of language brings to the mind the notion of translation and here the painters translates the sentences, phrases and words into visual images
V.Nagdas’s figures in lines and colour speak for themselves. His paintings do not weave a presence. They are the presence. The handling of the colours is deft and bold and at the same time lyrical.
The ghats at Varanasi in Pranam Singh’s canvas are bathed in a russet and gold light.The well defined steps of the ghats slowly fade away into the distant alleyways.Here the complex lines cohere into a straightforward representation.
Just the opposite one experiences when viewing Sudhangsu’s canvases.His landscapes are interesting because they refuse to maintain the fiction that it can arrest time. His paintings are fluid ,warm and inviting the spectator to take part.
Ananta Mondal’s paintings reflect a certain serenity through smoked veils.The colours are soft and sensitive creating a translucent world.
Avi Shankar Ain’s world of bells resonate in a green-turquoise meditative world.
Mithun Pramanik’s women are delicate and at the same time strong. This is reflected in the strong limbs depicted in soft colours and bold lines.
Ballari Mukherjee’s figures’s with textures add an extra dimension to the art work.
The image of a cow, whether against a backdrop of ochre or geometric gradation of green in Bhanu Prakash Das’s work are evocative.
Chandan Sengupta has created a surreal world where the human is locked up, a nowhere man.He has a fine sense of detailing without making the format heavy.
Bijoy Basak strokes create a world of varying intensity where the butterflies revolve in a circular motion, the circular time of creation.
Swaraj Das’s Krishna creates an atmosphere of poetry.Though thr red and the blue are contrast colours, yet, they merge lucidly to create a whole and the credit goes to the artist.
Sukhen Mondal’s women are sensuous and alive. He has enough power to transend the barrier between photography and painting.
Utpal Dutta paintings have a palpable quality.
The figures are bent in Tushar K. Pradhan’s work. A sense of magic realism permeates his artworks.With considerable skill he has maintained a balance between overworking and blank spaces.
Subrata Biswas divides his canvases into various shapes and out of it emerges forms in green and blue, red and yellow with shafts of black and white. The overall effect is like a mosaic.
For Diraj Roy money is the name of the game. This he depicts with a lot of imagination and brush power. The effect is magnetic.
The exhibition is like a Victorian blanket,eclectic. Each painter searching his reason to stay.
Sharmila Ray
Kolkata , October,2009.
V.Nagdas’s figures in lines and colour speak for themselves. His paintings do not weave a presence. They are the presence. The handling of the colours is deft and bold and at the same time lyrical.
The ghats at Varanasi in Pranam Singh’s canvas are bathed in a russet and gold light.The well defined steps of the ghats slowly fade away into the distant alleyways.Here the complex lines cohere into a straightforward representation.
Just the opposite one experiences when viewing Sudhangsu’s canvases.His landscapes are interesting because they refuse to maintain the fiction that it can arrest time. His paintings are fluid ,warm and inviting the spectator to take part.
Ananta Mondal’s paintings reflect a certain serenity through smoked veils.The colours are soft and sensitive creating a translucent world.
Avi Shankar Ain’s world of bells resonate in a green-turquoise meditative world.
Mithun Pramanik’s women are delicate and at the same time strong. This is reflected in the strong limbs depicted in soft colours and bold lines.
Ballari Mukherjee’s figures’s with textures add an extra dimension to the art work.
The image of a cow, whether against a backdrop of ochre or geometric gradation of green in Bhanu Prakash Das’s work are evocative.
Chandan Sengupta has created a surreal world where the human is locked up, a nowhere man.He has a fine sense of detailing without making the format heavy.
Bijoy Basak strokes create a world of varying intensity where the butterflies revolve in a circular motion, the circular time of creation.
Swaraj Das’s Krishna creates an atmosphere of poetry.Though thr red and the blue are contrast colours, yet, they merge lucidly to create a whole and the credit goes to the artist.
Sukhen Mondal’s women are sensuous and alive. He has enough power to transend the barrier between photography and painting.
Utpal Dutta paintings have a palpable quality.
The figures are bent in Tushar K. Pradhan’s work. A sense of magic realism permeates his artworks.With considerable skill he has maintained a balance between overworking and blank spaces.
Subrata Biswas divides his canvases into various shapes and out of it emerges forms in green and blue, red and yellow with shafts of black and white. The overall effect is like a mosaic.
For Diraj Roy money is the name of the game. This he depicts with a lot of imagination and brush power. The effect is magnetic.
The exhibition is like a Victorian blanket,eclectic. Each painter searching his reason to stay.
Sharmila Ray
Kolkata , October,2009.
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