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Birla Annual Art Exibition , 2008 |
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ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2008 |
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Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkatta was founded 41 years ago in 1966 by Sri & Smt B.K. Birla. In its preamble, it promised to dedicate itself for the cause of Indian Art and Artists. Keeping its mind open about its obligations, this year as a part of its major activities, it had organized its 41st Annual Exhibition. All India affair, this exhibition represented the works of Indian Artists hailing from various parts of India including Delhi, Udaipur, Indore, Mumbai, Baroda, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Banaras, Bhubaneswar, Manipur besides Kolkatta, Shantiniketan and from other parts of West Bengal. This huge exhibition was a unique experience about the experimentations that are being carried out in contemporary art in various corners of India.
This exhibition is a successful effort of our Honourable Vice- chairperson Jayashree Mohta and sincere co-operation of all the staff of the Academy. The participation of senior artists, eminent scholars and intellectuals are deeply appreciated by the Academy.
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09-Jan-2008 |
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02-Feb-2008 |
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REVELATION 2008 |
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| Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata feels extremely honoured to organize an excellent exhibition of paintings entitled ‘Revelation 2008’. The exhibition includes paintings of nine male and female painters of tremendous potentialities and excellence. Painted in different techniques and adopting fascinating colour schemes, each painting lays such themes that have relevance with the time. There are deep studies of human characterizations also. Each of these expressionistic composition penetrates ones soul and compels to ponder over it for a little while. And finally, it commands our appreciation Birla Academy from its very inception, patronesses such exhibitions so that promising and talented artists get a right platform to show their skill to a larger section of art lovers in our society. |
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25-Mar-2008 |
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20-Apr-2008 |
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SVIKRITI 2008 |
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Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata in the competitive section of its Annual Exhibition, 2008 nominated six young and upcoming artists for award on achieving excellence in their area of respective specialization. The said artists were Smt. Gargi Das ( Tempera Painting ), Shri Partha Dasgupta and Shri Timir Brahma (Acrylic Paintings), Shri Bhaskar Lahiri (Drawing), Shri Susanta Pal (Graphics) and Shri Bhabotosh Sutar (Sculpture). Besides the prize money and citation, Birla Academy to encourage these artists further, is sponsoring this exhibition of today entitled 'Svikriti - 2008' exclusively on their recent works. The idea being to offer these young artists a platform to display their talents before a wider art lovers and connoisseurs.
This has been one of the various ways by which Birla ACddemy tries to fulfill its obligations to the society. The Academy remains reasonably concerned about the National Heritage and at the same time, it is trying its best to make itself fully equipped as a place of pilgrimage for the contemporary Indian artists. Its deep concern for the young upcoming artists is well known. The Academy has made it a principle to extend necessary help and co-operation to upcoming artists so that they could carve a niche among the established group of contemporary artists in India. It is hoped that the above mentioned six young artists would carry on their quest for beauty with sincerity and devotion and would surely receive their due recognition in our society.
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26-Jul-2008 |
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17-Aug-2008 |
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Nature Invited |
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Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata is sponsering an exhibition of Wooden Sculptures entitled Nature Invited. The exhibition includes thirty three sculptures chiselled by eminent sculptor Shri. Manik Talukdar.The proposed exhibition is to be inaugurated on 1st November, 2008 by Smt. Sarala Birla, Chairperson, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata.An active member of Society of Contemporary Artists, Kolkata. Shri Talukdar carved out mostly young female beauties. An analysis of the faces of these females would show that they belong to the different ethnic stock but they betray certain common nuances of young female bodies. Some of these females are found having suprahuman qualities while others are human, earthly and essentially sensuous. Though most of his compositions are figurative in nature but there are few where our sculptor, for a change, opted for abstruction specially in the treatments of couples. What are finds that lively young female forms have been conceived from lifeless wooden log and these females are seen entwined with leaves, stems and creepers. Mr. Talukdar takes his young beauties to the forests. He brings logs from the woods and with his creations, he returns them to the woods .
Here lies the mystery of his journey -----The Nature Invited. |
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01-Nov-2008 |
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19-Nov-2008 |
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42 Annual Exhibition 2009 |
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Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata is observing this year its 42nd anniversary. To mark this august occasion, the Academy is organizing its magnanimous 42nd Annual Exhibition of Art. This huge exhibition is being inaugurated on Friday, 9th January, 2009. The said exhibition would remain open for visitors’ everyday from 3PM to 8PM except on 23rd and 31st January, 2009 and Mondays.
Approximately 1300 artists from all over India extended their participations with their recent works. However, due to the paucity of space available in the Academy, the works of about 500 artists are going to be accommodated in the galleries of which 200 artists of prominence are participating on invitation.
The exhibition lays bare a panorama of different kinds of artistic approaches with the applications of fascinating ideas and technologies. Both figurative and abstract compositions are to be noticed and riot of colours pervades from one gallery to the other. However in certain cases, the abstractions look more realistic. Produced from both conscious and subconscious minds, the works of art presented, evince, on the one hand, recent challenges in life while there are compositions replete in peace, harmony, tranquility and contenment. A visit to this exhibition, like a magic carpet, would take you away for a while from the world of stark realities to a land of blissful delight.
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09-Jan-2009 |
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01-Feb-2009 |
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NAVARASAS |
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NAVARASAS
NAVARASAS
The exhibition ‘Navarasas’ brings together nine stalwarts of Indian art. Ranging from self-taught to highly accomplished academicians and pedagogues, the one thread that runs through all their art practices is their commitment to modernism.
Their individual art practices represent the many divergent strands which chart the evolution of modernism in Indian art.
The legacy that Jai Zharotia, Niren Sen Gupta, Nand Katyal, Shobha Broota, Suhas Nimbalkar, Amrut Patel, Jagdish Chander, Prem Singh and Kalicharan Gupta represent is rooted in this time, when artists sought to formulate an artistic idiom that synthesised traditional Indian art with international trends such as impressionism, cubism and expressionism.
Together, the work of these nine artists helps us trace the emergence of crucial trends and understand the context and relevance of modernism. They are symbolic of Indian modernism’s rejection of a blind adoption of internationalism, stressing instead on developing an indigenous modernism rooted in its own specific contexts.
The Rasa theory emphasizes the role of the ‘rasika’ or recipient: the beholder who absorbs the rasa from art. On encountering abstract forms in a painting, as rasikas we have to shed our propensity to be rooted only to the recognizable objects in the world around. Seeing with the mind’s eye and perceiving through our instinct, we would then be moved by pure colour, by un-recognizable images that move beyond mundane representations.
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14-Mar-2009 |
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08-Apr-2009 |
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Ray Images |
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Birla Academy of Art and Culture with the collaboration of Satyajit Ray Society, Kolkata has organised a unique exhibition entitled Ray Images in its first floor gallery. The exhibition, which is considered first of its kind in the world includes art works of and still photographs taken by Satyajit Ray, the doyen and legendary figure of Indian cinema.
The exhibition begins from 3rd May and continues till May 17, 2009 from 3pm to 8pm daily except Mondays and May 13, 2009.
The exhibition has been organised to mark the 88th birth day (b. 2nd May) of late Satyajit Ray. The exhibition is a part of a week long Satyajit Ray Festival 2009.
The other programmes in Birla Academy include a quiz contest on 5th May on Ray’s life and work, a debate on 6th May on the motion : Bengali Cinema has forgotten the Heritage of Satyajit Ray and on 7th May, screening of films by Ray.
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03-May-2009 |
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17-May-2009 |
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SVIKRITI--2009 |
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SVIKRITI
Birla Academy of Art & Culture is organising ' SVIKRITI' - an exihibition of paintings , sculptures , drawings and graphics of the awardees in the Annual Exhibition 2009 of the Academy . The artists are :
Amlan Dutta
Anupam Das
Avijit Mukherjee
Debashree Das
Harjit Saha
Manjushree Chakraborty
Sujit Karan
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08-Aug-2009 |
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30-Aug-2009 |
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45th Anniversary of Calcutta Painters |
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45th Anniversary of Calcutta Painters
Calcutta Painters, a group of famous artists had set out for a journey in 1964 with the strong conviction of reflecting the socio-political realities of the time keeping in view contemporary global scenario. In their quest of ultimate truth, these artists never surrendered their national identities. They journeyed for forty five years. The path of their journey was undoubtedly uneven but they braved to move on in trying and challenging situations. Some of the members of this group, however, deserted on the way and a few travelled to the path unknown. But the journey continued despite a number of pitfalls and painful ordeals. During the span of its forty five years eventful journey, the members of this group maintained a very high profile in the field of Indian art and made significant and memorable contributions. Some of its members became nearly legendary for their extra ordinary skill, acumen and insight.
Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata naturally feels proud to host the 45th Annual Exhibition of this renowned group. This historical group show includes the works of twenty eight of its present members, works of ten past members and of five departed members. Each member of this group has already created a permanent niche in the field of contemporary art. I sincerely believe this exhibition of the members of Calcutta Painters has enough potentialities to command respect and appreciation from the connoisseurs and art lovers not only of Kolkata alone but this is going to be appreciated nationally and internationally. I would like to pay my homage to the departed members and would like to take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to the rest of the participants of this exhibition
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03-Nov-2009 |
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15-Nov-2009 |
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Golden Jubilee Exhibition of Society of Contemporary Arts |
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Society of Contemporary Artists is a communion of likeminded painters, printmakers and sculptors who have relentlessly striven for the last fifty- years for sake of art. From the end of the 1950s to the most recent and extreme stages the grant has endeavoured to define contemporary trends and structures of modernism of the last century and the post modern inclinations of the 21st century. The group has been keen to contribute to the mainstream of Indian art of recent times in ways that have been diverse, controvertial and revolutionary. It has always projected the image of man’s constant search of himself and his insistence of personal freedom in visual artistic terms, in an innovative and experimental fashion.
Society of Contemporary Artists is perhaps the longest surviving art group not only in India but also in the World. Groups of Artists since Neo-classicism led by David and Ingres shortly turned to Romanticism of Delacroix and Gericault and finally ushered in Impressionist and Post Impressionist movements. No groups since then have survived a decade in any part of the World till today. Of the ten original sowers of the seed of the SCA movement only one, Sanat Kar is with the group. Others have died or left the group. After the group was formally formed and registered the founders steered the group and put it on course. Beside Kar, Sunil Das and Suhas Roy are still active as founder members.
Society of Contemporary Artists has contributed some of the best known figures in the present day Indian art world that include Somenath Hore, Nikhil Biswas, Shymal Dutta Ray, Ajit Chakraborty and Bikash Bhattacharya to name only the best known. A list of present day members attached to this will give you an overview of the formidable strength and the totality of its creative vision and power. Society of Contemporary Artists has survived because it has respected the rights of the individual artists and given each of them a creative space to work in peace and tranquility. Moreover older generations of artists have passed away or retired but new younger members have been inducted and given a seat in the table of the brotherhood.
At Birla Academy of Art & Culture , Society of Contemporary Artists will celebrate its 50th year with an exhibition that will have works of every artists who were with the group. This will capture the variety and vitality of its contribution to contemporary art. |
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08-Dec-2009 |
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27-Dec-2009 |
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43rd Annual Exhibition |
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Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata completes today its glorious journey of 43rd years. The journey has been quite long and therefore, it is high time for a retrospection. Forty three years back when it was founded, it took certain pledges. It promised to preserve the artistic and cultural heritage of India on the one hand and on the other, it also assured to promote the visual and performing arts. The Academy maintains a wonderful museum with a huge collection of traditional and contemporary art. The collection of this museum has been an on going process and every year it is being enriched with the additional of unique and rare collections. Though we feel that much has been done in this regards but even then, there is much more there to do.
Among the various other activities, the Academy organises a number of exhibitions in its galleries to bring together the significant works of our country’s contemporary artists established or yet to be discovered. However, the organization of an Annual Exhibition every year in the month of January has been the biggest activity of our Academy. This year about one thousand artists extended their participation from all over India. However, owing to the paucity of space, we could display the works of about four hundred artists and these are presented in the five galleries of our Academy. This 43rd Annual Exhibition of the Academy has been a huge affair and one can witness in this the latest scenario of contemporary Indian art practiced in different parts of India. The exhibition includes a number of works of such upcoming artists who enlisted their names in the competitive section. In the competitive section, the Academy every year offers six awards in six categories of art. This year eight out standing young artists are awarded as in the categories of Sculpture and Graphics, the awards are shared. The Academy also assured to sponsor an exhibition in near future with the works of these awardees. This is done first to give these upcoming and talented artists a platform to show their expertise and talents.
This huge exhibition is like a feast that awaits your discerning eyes. The exhibition includes fascinating compositions in all mediums of art and it opens up a colorful panorama of the hopes and despair, life and time, resolve and resurrection of our artists as an outcome of their conscious, subconscious and super conscious minds.
This unique exhibition lays bare numbers of pleasing figurative compositions. Equally exciting are the compositions in abstract expressions. Curiously enough, the abstractions in some of these works, to my mind, look more real than reality itself.
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09-Jan-2010 |
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31-Jan-2010 |
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East City |
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East City
Kolkata: Before the campaign.
A one person exhibition by Leena Kejriwal.
Curator: Shaheen Merali
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05-Feb-2010 |
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05-Mar-2010 |
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