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The present show revisits a historical moment in art history with the works of four great acclaimed Masters of Indian art: Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Gopal Ghosh, and Gobardhan Ash and also makes an attempt to question a number of just stated such ‘little tested assumptions’ at a time when more mass culture has spawned its spurious harmonies. As debased modernism retreats more and more into deviance and dissonance, Aakriti Art Gallery feels the need to raise the most searching questions in…See More

EmanationCelebrating an extraordinary sixty years of innovation, creation and colourful expression. Samir Mondal, who turned 60 in Mach 2012, concludes the series of celebrations of this occasion by creating another special show of watercolours – ‘EMANATION’Paintings done in his masterly, inimitable style with watercolours on archival Arches paper. Watercolours that dance and flow to his tune. Watercolours showing fluidity, a transparency yet richness that no other artist can match.In keeping…See More

Here in this exhibition  works of the printmakers, Abdul Salam, Amitabha Banerjee, Atin Basak, Kasa Vinay Kumar, Rajesh Deb, Sayak Mitra, Soghra Khurasani, Vijay Bagodi, V Nagdas  living in India scrutinize the living reality, which is diverse, but direct and different position of art confront the viewer in an overwhelming and dizzying fashion-exciting that it contrasts the work of major printmakers with widely disparate styles. Private and public, past and present, the psyche and the social…See More

Aakriti Art Gallery cordially invites you  on the celebration of  105th Birth Anniversary of Shri Gobardhan Ash(1907-1996), who had always been a pilgrim of intensity and an itinerant traveler. In the course of a career spanning nearly seven decades he dedicated himself to a quest for an imagery that can carry the freight of his early memories, realism, of living in a country, a politico-social conditioning (the famine period of the40s in Bengal), a politics of identity and language and above…See More

Each sculptor and their practice and method in this show carries the essence of their language, life, success and how their work helped to unfurl the epoch and understanding of a practice- about their own experience and understanding that is profound and timeless. Contemporary Sculpture in India and the works of the 20 sculptors living in India scrutinize the living reality, which is diverse, but direct and different position of art confront the viewer in an overwhelming and dizzying…See More

The earlier drawings of Satish Gujral struck a chord with above all the people who, like Gujral himself, had passed through one of the most agonizing times of modern Indian history – the Partition and its aftermath. Those drawings, with a strong expressionist verve and a deep humanistic concern brought pain and despair back to our consciousness.The present set of drawings however, done over a period between 2005 and 2011, unfold an entirely different approach. These delightful drawings…See More

See Exhibition Detail onlineRajesh Deb’s spirited and agile interlocution of a lost world of nineteenth century Calcutta is ageless, tells us engraved stories of a cultural space as we read them again and again: bristling with drama, thick with dialogue, vividly rendered and studded with astringent apercus and submerges them to the present tropes of…See More

The exhibition has been titled as Social And  Political Injustice  Trends in Contemporary Art 2011 and will be showcased from September 9th , 2011 at the aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata itself. The participating artists are a young contemporary bunch including    Tapas Biswas , Subrata Biswas,   Akhil Chandra Das,   Nantu Behari Das,  Mithun Dasgupta,  Priyanka Lahiri, Sagar Bhowmick,  Partha Guin, Prandeep Kalita, Pappu Bardhan, Swapan Kumar Mallick,  Ketan N  Amin,  Debashish Dutta and Buddhadev…See More

‘Visual Ventures,’ curated by Dr. Saba Gulraiz, aims to bring together these diversified visions and expressions at one place. The exhibition will feature those select artists from various parts of India who are successful in creating a strong visual language through which they are venturing forth to communicate their artistic sensibilities. The exhibition is a collective endeavor to present a glimpse of this boundless, myriad world of vision. The visual journey of each of these artists carries…See More