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Aakriti Art Gallery is seeking to recruit 2 Gallery Interns to join the team at an exciting time before a busy forthcoming exhibition and art fair period.
Location: Kolkata
Key Responsibilities will include:
The Ideal Candidate will have:
These are immediate openings and the selected candidates will have to join immediately. To apply please send a covering letter and curriculum vitae to relation@artnewsnviews.com by 5th of August 2015.
Aakriti Art Gallery
(A unit of Chisel Craft Pvt Ltd)
Orbit Enclave, First Floor
12/3A, Picasso Bithi (Hungerford Street)
Kolkata-700 017
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SERIGRAPH, 1990 Collection Anant Art Delhi
Jyoti Bhatt’s Ganesha serigraph original was part of his solo exhibition at Bihar Museum Patna last year. Bhatt told me the beauty of Ganesha is its form that transcends all faiths and unites minds.
Known as the giver of counsel and remover of obstacles for humans and deities alike, although his elephant-headed form lends a playful quality, Ganesha's significance is profound…
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PRAMOD MANN : TREE NYMPH Black marble
ART PILGRIM, DELHI
On a pedestal stood a black marble head, a face of aquiline features, it had a charisma that drew me to its compositional control and clarity of thought. Instantly I wanted to know who it was and I was told the name of Pramod Mann. In 31 years I have never come across his name or work, but this work called Tree Nymph drew me into its maw.
I came back…
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RICHARD AVEDON PORTRAITS:
Yesterday I came across a stunning expressive portrait of Edward Gorey taken by the brilliant Richard Avedon.This black and white study is at once austere and full of a deep sense of calm as well as a rare melancholy that is born of meditation. It has Gorey's cat nestled around his neck like a warm furry muffler. The cat is comfortable seated in reverie curled around her master's nack happy to have a place to sink into langour as it were.
This image…
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Aakriti Art Gallery, in its wonderful journey of over a decade, has created a niche for itself in Indian Art. With the purpose of serving its audience with the finest strokes by the Masters as well as the budding artists, Aakriti has never failed to amaze its patrons. Having established a footing in Kolkata, Aakriti is ready to continue its cultural and artistic rendezvous with art aficionados in Mumbai. In the seventh edition of the India Art Festival at Nehru Center, Worli, its…
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Affordable September
Art Mela
8th – 29th September 2018
With the festive season setting in, Aakriti Art Gallery is hosting the 6th edition of the ‘Affordable September Art Mela’ in…
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Two artists, Shripad Gurav and Nandini Raikar amongst many others, won accolades in the category of painting amongst 6000 entries, conducted by the Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation this year.
Shripad Gurav is shaken by the behaviour and habits of the people of Goa. Their way of dressing arouses him. His art is also influenced by the genesis of Portuguese families.…
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Born in Goa in 1924, FN Souza was the first post-independence Indian artist to achieve acclaim in the west. He was also the founding member of the Progressive Artists group in 1947 and is best known for his inventive human iconic forms, particularly ‘heads.’
“Head”, 1956, 29.5” x 21.75”, Watercolour on paper, Image Courtesy :…
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Verodina De Sousa is a renowned multi-talented Goan sculptor with more than 25 years of experience to her hood. She graduated from the Goa College of Art and with a degree in painting.
Starting off as a potter and to make ends meet with her husband and painter, Francis De Sousa, she resorted to pottery. At a later stage, she moved off to sculpting in search of a continuous self-realization, thereby transforming her thoughts to forms and figures. Always eager to learn and employ new…
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Rabin Mondal has almost completed seven decades of a glorious journey with his art without a break. In August 2015 he had a solo exhibition at Gorky Sadan of Kolkata, titled ‘Colours of Freedom’, organized on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of Indian freedom. At the inauguration of the show he said in his…
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Art Day @ The Royal Calcutta Turf Club
In support of Naktala Shilpi Astha
9th of December ,2017 12pm onwards
When Art blends with Horse racing then you get the blending of Aakriti Art Gallery and the Royal Calcutta Turf Club coming together to jointly host a day dedicated to Art alongside the thundering of hooves. The activities and programs are Seven horse races which would also…
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Ramkumar, in his illustrious career encompassing seven decades, has created hundreds of enchanting works in the genres of drawing and painting. These works make us rejoice and observe the singular way in which he has used lines and colours – diligently and imaginatively, to explore the ‘tales’ and persona of a figure, a landscape or of an ‘abstract’ feeling or just the tale…
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Remixing Charm: Post-Painterly Art of the Local
3rd – 25th July, 2015
At
Aakriti Art Gallery
Orbit Enclave, First Floor
12/3A, Hungerford Street
Kolkata-700 017
Phones: +91 33 22893027 / +91 33 22895041
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Life is a like a palette stirred and mixed with different shades of emotions. Even if they are represented as either joy or sorrow, the in-between layers of emotions can be infinite just like the countless hues of colours that blend between the black and the white. P R Narvekar is one of the pioneer artists of our times in the country…
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‘A requiem, a prayer, a song’, an exhibition of works by contemporary artists is an elegy to collective pain of humanity. They evoke a sense of melancholy, a sense of the fading song, the desperate prayer. All that remains to be sung is the requiem. The exhibition would be curated by Ina Puri, dedicated to the legendary artist Rajendra Dhawan. The exhibition hosted by Aakriti Art Gallery, Delhi would be held from 31st January-28 February’ 2015.…
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The gradual evolution of Modernism in India in the post-independence era is also a unique tale of artistic endeavours, unending struggles and progression of vision against all odds by the artists to give birth to and deliver their individualistic language/s in art that made them the great Masters of Indian art of the twentieth century. The artworks of these Masters thus stand on their own to mark the emblematic journeys of each creator and the empowerment and enlightenment they could attain…
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Kolkata formerly Calcutta is a city shrouded in time warp basking in its earlier glory as the former capital of the country. Established in 1690, the city has ben immortalized time and again over the past three centuries, through art and litrature. Artists and photographers and writers have often embarked on a journey to reveal the mysteries of Calcutta. Many an adjective has been used to capture the essence of the city. Some romanticize the idea of Calcutta calling it,’Jewel of the East’, ‘…
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Kolkata formerly Calcutta is a city shrouded in time warp basking in its earlier glory as the former capital of the country. Established in 1690, the city has ben immortalized time and again over the past three centuries, through art and litrature. Artists and photographers and writers have often embarked on a journey to reveal the mysteries of Calcutta. Many an adjective has…
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Bachhawat Foundation is a not for profit organization dedicated to literature, art and culture. Set in the serene atmosphere of suburban Kolkata at Badu, providing equipments and opportunity for artist, printmakers and sculptors to channelize their creative energies. The foundation has been instrumental in hosting art camps and workshops. The state of the art sculpture and printmaking studio provides for a rare opportunity for the artist to practice their craft.
The Bachhawat…
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‘Abandoning his stringent-abstractionist persona, Ramkumar declares himself as an amorist of the landscape. The true object of his art is not to render the landscape, but to love it: the true subject of his art is the landscape as Beloved.’- Ranjit Hoskote
Ramkumar, one of the most prolific names in Indian contemporary art, born in 1924, would be celebrating his…
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Aakriti Art Gallery is one of the most vibrantly active venues of art in India. It exhibits a range of works of artists who are groundbreaking contemporary visionaries, young upcoming talents or historical masters. Founded in 2005 in Kolkata, the Gallery today has more than 1000 works in its collection which are put on display by rotation.
One of the core initiatives of Aakriti which is perused at tandem with the regular programme is the promotion of young upcoming talent. Providing them a platform to launch their artistic careers, stock their works and even buy the work outright that shows creativity and creative uniqueness motivates us as much as exhibiting for famous personalities from the art world.
Aakriti believes in representing a broad spectrum of visual language, style and concepts to reach out to the art community and beyond. It has always been our endeavor to increase awareness, understanding and appreciation of art forms . The new website would equip you with various new features. Our new website gives you the opportunity to navigate through the artworks in the gallery, information about forthcoming events and activities that happen throughout the year.
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