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The
Mahabharata An Impression
23 January – 11 February, 2010
Siddhartha Art Gallery Baber Mahal Revisited, kathmandu
Artist
Kurchi Dasgupta’s paintings are a remake of the Hindu
epic, The Mahabharata. However, do not expect the regular repeat
version of the popular epic. Dasgupta’s Mahabharata sustains
on the artist’s interpretation of its historical events
and essence. “I have come to realize that no artwork may
dare encompass the experiential range of the world’s longest
epic,” writes the artist. “My pieces, therefore,
merely try and unravel The Mahabharata’s multilayered
experience for the viewer/ participator,” she adds. “The
driving idea was not to visually document the epic as such,
but to document my response to it as a visual artist impelled
by her location in terms of history, culture, gender and exposure
to contemporary art practices.”
“The series hopes to involve the viewer/participator in
a journey of discovery… discovery of the artwork first,
then The Mahabharata itself. And finally, of the relevance the
epic holds for us today, relevance to the flesh and blood world
we are immersed in.”
Kurchi, born in 1974, and brought up in Kolkata, India, is a
student of commercial arts. She did her post graduation in Comparative
Literature. Kurchi renders modern Bengali masterpieces into
English, and has done editing, book illustration, publishing
and screenplays. A former CEO of the Society for the Preservation
of Satyajit Ray Films in India, she now lives and works in Kathmandu
with her husband and son.
‘My
Journey Through Art’ By Jhasendra Bikram Shah
7-
14 FEB, 2010
NEPAL ART COUNCIL, BABER MAHAL
Mrs. Sangeeta Thapa spoke of Mr. J.B. Shah thus: “I’m
going to be brave here. Mr. Jhasendra Bikram Shah is not a professional
artist,” during the inauguration of the latter’s painting
exhibition at the Nepal Art Council. Shah remained an army engineer
for almost 30 years, but his paintings showed his excellent long-hidden
artistic side. As the title suggests, “My Journey Through
Art” is J.B. Shah’s long and artistic journey from
throughout his life. Diversity was evident in his paintings as
the works varied from his earlier stuff that included different
colored sketches like that of a stone-carved elephant and a person
with a bamboo basket to the works of the latter phases where a
sophisticated play of lights and shades could be observed. J.B.
Shah, as mentioned earlier, is not a professional artist, but
had he decided to make art his career, he would surely have been
one to be reckoned with. And this exhibition more than proves
that.
Expression
of Trees
10
– 15 February, 2010
Imago dei, Naxal, Kathmandu
The artist dwells and delves in nature. Her recent exhibition
‘Expression of Trees’ also portrays the same inclination
with paintings of foliages. The brush strokes take an abstract
turn, with an amalgamation of vivid colors, mostly shades of
green and blue. “To Samjhana, trees mean not only the
most visible symbolic form of nature but also a strange comparative
metaphor of a human life,” writes Madan Chitrakar, artist
and art critic, as an introduction to Samjhana’s works.
“The diverse imagery of trees, foliage, stalks, trunks
and leaves in equally diverse hues and colors are mere reflections
of the state of mind of the artist,” he adds. “But
what makes this series more different and interesting is the
fact that Samjhana has well displayed her efforts to explore
deeper in trees as a source of her creative expression.”
Artist Samjhana Rajbhandari (Amatya) is also an art teacher
at Don Bosco High School, Kathmandu and a member of the School
of Creative Communication, Women Artist’s Group of Nepal
and Artists’ Society of Nepali.
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