Art Ichol Journal

july
‘THEN AND NOW’
Drawings on Paper and Bronzes by SAKTI BURMAN, GANESH HALOI, SUHAS ROY,
NIRANJAN PRADHAN, JOGEN CHOWDHURY, SUNIL K. DAS, JAYA GANGULY
and PARESH MAITY.
BURMAN’S paintings evoke the look of a weathered fresco transporting the viewer into
a dream-like world. HALOI’S motifs have precise association with experiences that have
shaped his life, and ROY depicts the female body with sensuality and romance, while
NIRANJAN PRADHAN’S presentation of lyrical sensibility is coupled with sharp lines
of geometry. JOGEN CHOWDHURY marries traditional imagery with the zeitgeist of
contemporary painting and a Bengali sensitivity, while SUNIL K. DAS interprets and
intellectually transforms experiences before presenting them. JAYA GANGULY’S oeuvre
conveys an enigmatic air through structural compositions that are tense yet forceful, and
PARESH MAITY creates magic with vibrant colours and dynamic strokes.
august
‘DISAPPEARING DIALOGUES’
NOBINA GUPTA
Many facets of life are at the edge of crisis. We can choose to
turn a deaf ear, but these facets are potent with the future of
our own existence. Using pen and ink on paper, NOBINA
GUPTA presents an interactive, visual debate. Creating a
dialect between the material and non-material and conveying
disillusionment in the stability of the material world, this
exhibition proposes to instigate a cultural response. Raising
questions about current paradigms of development and
sustainability, the artist initiates intimate personal encounters
with the viewer. A plea to preserve what we can, before the
world as we know it, disintegrates into the warp of time.