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ARTSCAPE
She sketches in quest of inner universe
Garima Pant
Artworks of Anjali Sengupta, Compassion
and Love and Affection .
THE YOGI AND THE TOWER: A painting of Amit Ambal.
BAGLA BHAGAT: The workmanship of Atul Dodiya.
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An exhibition of paintings, ‘Music of the Spheres’, by well-known artist, Shobha Broota, is on display at the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre till January 6.
The simplicity of her work and the techniques used transports the viewer to an altogether different world, from molecular formation in nature to cosmic formations. The artist has performed a number of solo shows across the country and abroad. Art critic Keshav Malik says, “Shobha’s work, in whatever medium, do not overtly claim any whiff of holiness. Not at all. Rather they are her effort to understand and work within the boundaries of an age-old convention, that of the basic harmony or purity of the underlying reality, as of inner reality. The discipline, preparation, effort, contemplation, as the musical sense of the inner ear that have gone into these works is palpable and one would not even dare to sum it up or even outline it. Still it must suffice to say that a lifetime close attention lies behind each of the work shown quite apart from the training in the fundamental skills of geometry, drawing and colour.” Shobha Broota in her long quest of artistic creations, has gone through a lot of changes and has painted various facets like portraits, human forms, birds, animals, insects and varying elements of nature- water, air and space.
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Works from Chhattisgarh An exhibition of graphics, paintings and sculptures from Chhattisgarh, ‘Bihanya’ or morning, was inaugurated by Prayag Shukla, an eminent poet, art critic and writer at the Lalit Kala Academy. It was a group show comprising artists like, Anant Kumar Sahu, Anup Kumar Chand, Chhote, Gajendra Kumar Soni, Hari Sen, Hukum Lal Verma, Kishor Kumar Sharma, Mahesh Chandra Sharma, Shubhra Chand, Sunita Verma and Yogendra Tripathi. The culture and tradition of Chhattisgarh were exhibited in its widest disparities. An insight into the mindsets of the people living in Chhattisgarh and their true spirits and colours, using a variety of modes and mediums.
Multifarious workAn exhibition of paintings titled ‘Myth and Reality’ by Dr Anjali Sengupta, will begin from January 5, at the Lalit Kala Academy. This multi-faceted personality is an MA in Visual Arts and has done her Ph.D on Tribal Art from the Rabindra Bharati University. Along with all these qualifications, she holds various important positions in many esteemed organisations. She has received numerous awards like ‘Bharat Nirman’ award from the Governor of Tripura in 1997. She also owns gallery ‘Mythos’ at Salt Lake in Kolkata. She is presently doing her D.Lit on ‘Ethnic Ornaments’. She has taken part in various solo and group exhibitions of paintings and sculpture in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata from 1984 to 2002. Her work includes, ‘Yantra’, ‘The Mother Goddess’, ‘The Living Myth’, ‘Draupadi’ and so on and so forth.
World within & withoutA group show titled, ‘Leela’ (Haridwar: worlds within worlds without), conceived by Renu Modi, exhibiting works by Amit Ambalal, Bhupen Khakhar, Anju Dodia and Atul Dodiya, is on view at Gallery Espace till January 9.
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