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ananya
banerjee
Ananya, a double graduation in commerce and law, both from the University of Calcutta, is
also a trained artist who did her diploma in fine arts from Birla Academy of Fine Arts in the city
and later from Academy of Arts, Romford in England, followed by short courses in fine art and
sculpture in Germany at Düsseldorf and Volkhochschule. The varied experiences have helped
to endow her work with refined aesthetics and technique. In a fine assimilation of abstraction,
landscape and realism and a strong palette there is a mystique appeal to her work. She paints
in oil, acrylic, charcoal, conte, crayons and mixed media on canvas and paper in varied shapes
and sizes. Her work has been exhibited in several shows at leading galleries in Mumbai and
Kolkata besides at Dusseldorf and other cities in Germany, Dubai, Paris and Holland besides
charity shows. The artist lives in Mumbai and works from her studio in the city.
The END is essentially not the end, it’s just the beginning...I believe the Almighty
is the best painter. How else can one explain such boundless blooming nature or
the countless hues of colour in our daily lives? Despite all the progress mankind
has made through science and technology, none of us can unveil the true essence
of nature beyond its superficiality. As an artist I am not here to replicate nature,
just attempting to celebrate it, observing the intricacies of a flourishing flower
bud or the purity of a sapling that elevates my mood to soaring heights. Searching
for beauty in mundane objects is one of my obsessions. Peeling old walls with its
cracks and ruins, an old piece of wood, stone surfaces covered with algae, falling
leaves or a leafy branch of a tree, the concept of rebirth all fascinate me. As wreckage
is a sign of past existence, presence of life nascent in debris gives me hope. Thus
metaphorically, the end is essentially not the end, it’s the beginning. Life goes on
with its metamorphosis. The old gives place to the new and the fresh replaces the
antiquated and erstwhile.
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Past Present and Future
36” x 48” | Mixed Media on canvas (gold, silver and copper gliding) | 2010