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This is an archive article published on July 6, 2010
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Three mid-career artists are bringing a splash of colour and spreading some cheer through their quirky artworks on display at Nature Morte gallery.
Written by Georgina Maddox
July 6, 2010 01:27 AM IST
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Three mid-career artists are bringing a splash of colour and spreading some cheer through their quirky artworks on display at Nature Morte gallery. The moderately priced canvases of artists Dileep Sharma,Jayanta Roy and Jaya Ganguly are loaded with funky art that will appeal to many of the emerging collectors in the city. Both Roy and Ganguly are Kolkata based artists: but while Gangulys work is reminiscent of the Romantic melancholia that the citys artists are known for,Roys work echos the hip urbanism that one sees in Mumbai-based Sharmas psychedelic works.
My canvas has evolved from a highly independent and personalised style. It is a semi-abstract approach that captures the vigour of tribal masks,but at the same time I have distorted them to convey my own interpretation of angst, says the 50-year-old Ganguly. Her palette is reductive and refined and her themes range from the iconic Mother Kali to torrid dream-scapes.
Roy,on the other hand,belongs to the generation whose preoccupation with the multi-media is obvious. I like to work with typical media-inspired images and arrange them like puzzles which the viewer can then decode to get several implied meanings, says the 35-year-old Roy. Take for example his work titled Adda. It is a giant tea cup filled with faintly visible images of famous people from the news. Along side these are photo-realist images of common men who seem dwarfed by all these media giants. With a touch of wry humour Roy comments on the medias infatuation with celebrities,and the increasing similarities between politics and show business.
The 36-year-old Sharma plugs into popular demand and comes up with psychedelically coloured images of FIFA and the Commonwealth games. These events have gripped the public and I wanted to capture that energy and craze, says Sharma,whose pop art is a light-hearted but graphic take on everything from the latest fashion that has enthused generation next to an animal friendly green planet.
The exhibition is on at Nature Morte gallery from July 5 to 31. For more information call 4174-0215.
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