Verandah Art Gallery presents “Continuity”- an exhibition of paintings from artists of Bengal spanning over three generations
8th February, Kolkata: The art exhibition titled “Continuity …Amidst Change” will take place at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata and will be inaugurated by eminent danseuse Smt Priti Patel on 12th February at 6 pm. Curated by MS Myna Kakar, Gallery Manager, Verandah Art Gallery, this show will highlight the varying styles of some of the best names in the art industry like Paritosh Sen, Prokash Karmakar, Subhendu Porel, Niladri Paul, Sibsaday Chaudhuri and many others who have taken Indian art to the dizzy heights of esteem and glory. If multiplicity is the essential visual dialogic that determines the merging of tradition and talent, then it goes without saying that the artistic displays covering three generations will have to be of archival quality. Among the striking works that will be displayed, Kanchanmala’s “The Joining Lines” introduces the subject of woman gazed by a woman thus creating the double play of the surveyor/surveyed binary in one canvas done in charcoal and acrylic. Also Prokash Karmokar’s “In the Waves” and Arindram Chakravorty’s “The Diluting City I” among a host of other stellar works to be showcased at the salon are evidently representative of the pride of Bengal and its cultural mainstream-an aesthetic and intellectual movement which is still continuous…amidst change. For more info, please contact Joy Roy Choudhury at artvantage.uk@gmail.com
February 22, 2008 at 7:12 am
Idiyas Art Gallery presents its next showing entitled “ Realism and Surrealism ” – In this collection each canvas and each drawing is a manifestation of energy and professionalism, good taste and sure sense of color, regardless of the style in which the individual artist is working. Don’t let it seem too strange to you, but rather let it lead you on a journey to the “unreal” world of fantastic realism, to a play of charming and at the same time surreal characters, to a representation of the space traversed by time. The ever changing, phantasmagoric, and sometimes humorous vision of this unreal world underlies the ironical surrealism which is at the heart of each exhibit at our Gallery.
Participating artists include Tapas Sardar , Sanatan Dinda, Sukanta Das , Kartick Chandra Pyne , Prakash Karmakar, Suhas Roy,Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sujit Karan,Dewasis Das, Shyamal Mukherjee, Atin Basak,Sibsaday, Gourango Beshai , Bratin Khan & Ramananda Bandopadhyay amongst others.