THE LIVING EYE ART OF THE DEPARTED MASTERS
Date:
16th of August 2022 - 31st of August 2022
The past permeates our present in silent and sinuous ways. A collective cultural memory underpins the manners in which art is created and appreciated, and each creative moment holds within itself a million interfaces between memory, history, and the presentness of experience. There is both collusion and collision thus, with the works of our departed masters, and the aesthetic translations of experience they arrived at; the many-layered presence of time and timelessness in their works recalibrate our negotiations with our transformed present which celebrates the fast, the fleeting, and the transitory. It is probably time to connect anew with the slow times. Enduring times.
Most of the artists are from the sixties- those turbulent years of ecstasy and regret- and they carried deep within images of those times when a young nation was still trying to define itself, and a partitioned state was striving to come to terms with its testament of loss. In many of the works we get to encounter the broken, brittle human, even grotesque at times, in possession of an unwanted inheritance; in certain works there is also the presence of tenderness and a moment of communion, which is not a binary to distress, but an ingrained obverse which interrogates the very possibility of fulfillment. And it is this many-stranded translation of experience that speaks to us today.
SOMNATH HORE UNTITLED PENCIL ON PAPER 8 IN X 12 IN 1981
SOMNATH HORE UNTITLED PEN & INK 8 IN X 6 IN 1979
SHYAMAL DUTTA ROY 18 IN x 16.5 IN
ROBIN MONDAL KING & QUEEN OIL ON CANVAS 20 IN X 24 IN 1986
ROBIN MONDAL ACRYLIC ON MAGAZINE PAPER 11 IN X15 IN
PRAKASH KARMAKAR_ PEN AND INK ON PAPER 22 IN x15 IN
PARITOSH SEN RAVANA MOURNING THE DEATH OF HIS SON 40 IN x 36 IN 2006
PARITOSH SEN OIL ON CANVAS 18 IN x24 IN
NIKHIL BISWAS HORSES PEN & INK 6 IN X 10 IN 1961
KARTICK PYNE WATER COLOR ON PAPER 21 IN x 19 IN
K. G. SUBRAMANYAN ORIGINAL DESGIN FOR A BOOK COVER WATERCOLOR ON PAPER 10X15 IN END TO END 13 IN X19.5 IN 1988
GANESH PYNE GANESH PYNE PEN AND INK 8.5 IN X 11 IN
DHARMANARAYAN DASGUPTA 15 IN X 30 IN TEMPARA ON CANVAS 1990
BIMAL DASGUPTA UNTITLED OIL ON CANVAS 30 IN X24 IN UNSIGNED
BIKASH BHATTACHARJEE MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER 29 IN X 21 IN
BIKASH BHATTACHARJEE LITHO PRINT 17 X14 INCH 1977
BIJAN CHOWDHURY OIL ON CANVAS 6 IN X 7 IN
THE LIVING EYE ART OF THE DEPARTED MASTERS MONDAY 16th AUG 2022 TO 31st AUG 2022
SUNIL DAS UNTITLED WATER COLOUR ON PAPER 12 IN X 9.5 IN 2000
SUNIL DAS CHARCOAL ON PAPER 29 IN x21.5 IN 2003
SUHAS ROY ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 30 IN X 30 IN