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Stroke By Stroke
Stroke By Stroke
MANJULA NARAYAN discovers young, often unschooled artists and their creations at the Lalit Kala Akademi’s show in Goa
AWOODEN figure peers through his sunglasses at a poodle atop a gatepost. The dog seems to be returning his gaze rather sardonically. Perhaps it’s contemplating the correct response to an inane query; perhaps it’s deciding if it’s worth its while to jump down and take a nip at those wooden ankles. Turns out the man is wondering Is it that address?, the title of 31-year-old sculptor Tarun Maity’s work, one of the 11 award-winners at the Lalit Kala Akademi’s 51st National Exhibition of Art held from January 12 to 25 at the Goa Kala Academy in Panaji.
Elsewhere in the airy, Charles Correa-designed complex located on the banks of the Mandovi river, painted metal dogs bear a ‘Get Well Soon’ sign and silver flowers (Time to Gandhigiri by Lalit Bhartiya); a plump nude splays her shiny ceramic legs (Desire III by Manjushri Chakraborty); a squatter woman peers through morning mists into the camera that captures both the curves of the iron bridge in the background and its visual echo in the birdcages on a wire in the fore (Nari by Sunil Kumar Gupta); a medieval city quarter complete with looming gumbads caught in delicate watercolours (Smoking Morning by Ananta Mandal); and miniscule paper shopping bags with pictures of objects from scissors to locks, paintbrushes to clothes are caught, some as they fall, in a glass case (Untitled III by Debashree Das
READ MORE : http://www.tehelka.com/story_main41.asp?filename=hub240109stroke_by_stroke.asp
MANJULA NARAYAN discovers young, often unschooled artists and their creations at the Lalit Kala Akademi’s show in Goa
AWOODEN figure peers through his sunglasses at a poodle atop a gatepost. The dog seems to be returning his gaze rather sardonically. Perhaps it’s contemplating the correct response to an inane query; perhaps it’s deciding if it’s worth its while to jump down and take a nip at those wooden ankles. Turns out the man is wondering Is it that address?, the title of 31-year-old sculptor Tarun Maity’s work, one of the 11 award-winners at the Lalit Kala Akademi’s 51st National Exhibition of Art held from January 12 to 25 at the Goa Kala Academy in Panaji.
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Elsewhere in the airy, Charles Correa-designed complex located on the banks of the Mandovi river, painted metal dogs bear a ‘Get Well Soon’ sign and silver flowers (Time to Gandhigiri by Lalit Bhartiya); a plump nude splays her shiny ceramic legs (Desire III by Manjushri Chakraborty); a squatter woman peers through morning mists into the camera that captures both the curves of the iron bridge in the background and its visual echo in the birdcages on a wire in the fore (Nari by Sunil Kumar Gupta); a medieval city quarter complete with looming gumbads caught in delicate watercolours (Smoking Morning by Ananta Mandal); and miniscule paper shopping bags with pictures of objects from scissors to locks, paintbrushes to clothes are caught, some as they fall, in a glass case (Untitled III by Debashree Das
READ MORE : http://www.tehelka.com/story_main41.asp?filename=hub240109stroke_by_stroke.asp
Review of work( Mrinal Ghosh 27/7/2008)
The mysterious amalgamation of past and present ingrained in visual reality of Kolkata was very meticulously represented in these photographs. Another important event was launch of a book ‘Art Now A Glimpse: Collectors series I’ at Emami Chisel Art containing paintings of ten artists. A show of their works was also held from 23 April to 7 May. The artists included were Partha Pratim Deb, Tapas Konar, Aditya Basak, Jayashree Chakravarty, Sekhar Roy, Amitabha Dhar, Chandra Bhattacharya, Chhatrapati Dutta, Sunil De and Samindranath Majumdar. A sculpture show of Manjushri Chakraborty and Some Kumar Deb at Academy of Fine Arts from 1 to 7 needs to be mentioned. The ceramics of Manjushri were really exciting. Recent works of Prasun Roy were presented at Mon till 10. Weavers Studio hosted a show of Paresh Hazra titled ‘Medini Matir Kanna’ till 11. Pranabranjan Roy curated a show at Gallery Kolkata on the theme ‘Images of One’s Self’. The watercolours of Sekhar Baran Karmakar at Gandhara indicated enormous possibility of this young talent from Santinikatan. A retrospective of Tarun Dey was held at Yapanchitra. Sanskriti presented ‘The Street’, an exhibition of paintings by Yusuf Arrakal. Three days’ Signature Art Festival held at newly built Avani Signature Building of Park Street was an important event in the art environment of Kolkata. Various galleries and artists group joined it to make it jubilant and colourful.
Read More :- http://www.aakritiartgallery.com/gn3between.php
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