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Bhubaneswar, Nov 2: ‘Colour Palette’, an exhibition of paintings by seven artists from West Bengal, got under way at Lalit Kala Akademi here Wednesday. The exhibition, which is to go on until November 8, features 45 paintings by the septet of artists who are exhibiting their works in the city for the first time.
The works of each artist at the exhibition has a distinctive touch, be it in the way colours have been used or in the patterns, and it makes the title most appropriate for the exhibition.
If landscapes are the forte of Biswajit Chowdhury, the works of Biswajit Jana, Soma Banerjee and Sutapa Guha portray veins of spirituality.
The beauty of acrylic and water paintings at the exhibition elegantly betray the fact that some of the artists behind these works are born artists who only had to teach themselves what was innate. Subhasish Das, a 40-year-old artist, for instance, had taken to painting as a hobby; now brush, colours and canvas are integral parts of his life and his acrylic-on-canvas painting of lord Krishna is grabbing the attention of many a visitor. “I prefer to work with acrylic and oil plastering. I have used both in this painting of Lord Krishna,” Subhasish said of his work.
According to Subhasish, the team of artists including him, had decided to hold the show in Bhubaneswar to explore the space for their work outside Bengal. “This is my first exhibition outside Kolkata. I have been painting for the past 30 years and plan to hold a solo exhibition soon,” Subhasish said.
About 14 landscapes in water colour by Biswajit Chowdhury reflect the natural wealth of West Bengal. “I mostly work with water colour. I travel a lot and landscapes and nature inspire me at lot. If my paintings on Kolkata are an amalgam of modern lifestyle and nature, my paintings of remote districts of Bengal show the simple and natural beauty of mother earth,” he said.
The works of Nagen Sarder, by contrast, depicts the struggles of the human mind and carry the message of dealing with the duality of nature. “Struggle has become a part of our day to day life, but how we handle them positively is very important. There is an animal inside us, which sometimes guides or misguides us. We need to identify whether this animal intends to destroy us and if it means to destroy us, we should destroy it,” Sarder said.
