The exhibition, Spiritual Abstraction offers the artists’ quality to communicate a chosen divinity in terms of his ability to conceive realistic as well as abstract images
It is said that true art reflects a spiritual, immaterial voice from the hardships of life - states not what one feels of fear but acts of what he believes. A good artist is one who possesses a spiritual state as well as experience. But it takes a real connoisseur to recognise the true potential of an artist.
Sanchit Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition by Dipak Banerjee which has been curated by Arun Ghose.
‘Spiritual Abstraction’ will be inaugurated by Ansari Ghulam Ali on Friday, in the presence of renowned artist Krishen Khanna on March 24 at the Sanchit Gallery at DLF South Court Mall, Saket, New Delhi.
Dipak, who lives and works in Kolkata, says his work is “realistic depictions of spiritual abstraction, instead of abstract colours on canvas.”
His art is a journey different from the other artists of the Tantric and traditionalist vision in his ability to reference to Vedic/Yogic and acquire an artistic freedom to paint imagery from other religions with tantric attributes.
His exhibition titled Dipak Banerjee’s artistic quality to communicate a chosen divinity both in terms of his ability to conceive realistic as well as abstract images. He also offers a typical type of his painting that in poetry is not a modern idiom but it is what is termed as classical.
Sanchit Art Gallery represents the best of contemporary Indian art and it specialises in showcasing quality artworks by artists of various age groups. It also aims to bridge the gap between artists working in India and abroad by establishing a platform for them with publication of fine and colourful coffee-table books on Indian contemporary art.
The gallery is spacious enough with glass engravings for display of domestic and international clientele. It had also partnered with a Spanish gallery to show Picasso and Braque, among others, at the India Art Fair.
Banerjee’s art beyond the pedestal constructs all the images around the body of organic economic reality against a compelling powerlessness quality of Tantra and often explored its disturbingness with the same elements of what charm the common people’s life.
His main pictorial attraction however remains hidden in his intimate explication of the colourful mythology these figures have.
A Bengal artist, born in 1936 and a graduate of the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata, Dipak Banerjee is best remembered for his long association with the well-known group of artists from Kolkata that challenged the idea of aesthetics in modern Indian art. His imagery is undoubtedly rooted to the unique culture of Bengal.
Talking about his philosophy, Banerjee says, “Each school of painting in India, and in the present series, which will be open to the public from March 25 to May 2, has its own visual vocabulary. A cupola of Tantric symbols and to some extent, a mingling of the Indian miniature and abstract expressionism.”
Sanchit Art aims at major art programmes in the forthcoming months.
Some noted artists whose works to be shown in future by Sanchit Art include Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, K. Laxma Goud, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Neeraj Goswami, Paresh Maity, Ram Kumar, Sakti Burman, Seema Kohli, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Satish Gujral, Sujata Bajaj, Thota Vaikuntam and many others.