Keshav Bandyopadhay : Un-customed Painter
Yesterday I received a call from my brother in law Mahesh that one of his colleague from Bombay Customs is having his exhibition of paintings and sculptures at Jehangir Art Gallery with some of his artist friends from Bengal. I have gone to see the exhibition and thoroughly enjoyed the work.
Kesav Bandyopadhyay is the artist, who creates sculptures out of the waste wooden material. The creations are so good that it is hardly believable. Kesav like so many middle class youngman loaded with degrees in paintings and music landed up in Custom Department as the parents did not find any merit in profession of a painter or musician. despite his irregular, long night shifts on Bombay Airport, Kesav did find time to pursue his passion. Gradually his flat was converted into a make shift studio. He used to collect waste material from different sources be it furniture wallah or kabadis and start giving shapes to his imagination. Wife encouraged him and rather tolerated his double shift. When I start doing a piece of sculpture, 'I do not have any specific size or shape bus apne aap ban jata hai' he quips. His two works drew attention of viewers, Krishan, Balbhadra and Subhadra as well as Musical Ensemble.
Another artist from Bengal, Dibyendu Basu comes from 24 Pargana district in West bengal. Basu spent his life close to nature, to be more precise ponds, rivers and riverlets. So his subjects are the marine creatures be it fish, frog, crab and every painting has got a distinct Dibyendu stamp on it. He also heavily draw inspiration from day to day incident. He read a news item that a man teased a tiger in Zoo, and ultimately tiger eaten his head and made a very interesting painting on it.
Bibekanand Mukherjee is from Bankura of Bishanpur and now teaches painting at Kalyani University. He has travelled abroad, done lot of shows in chicago, Osaka, Dhaka. He thinks a a modern hap young man, even his paintings interpret classical stories in today's context. An ensemble of eight big and small paintings shows that Krishna is in pond and his clothes have been taken away by Gopies who are bemusing from terrace of a house with his clothes. Bibekanand depicts young generation with his own chashma and this chasma is univesally present all across the paintings. He had displayed some of his paintings in Chicago few years back got tremendous response, earned so much money that could be able to purchase large apartment in Calcutta which is now his studio as well as residence.
All these artists come from different family backgrounds and have their own way to tell stories on canvass !
Kesav Bandyopadhyay is the artist, who creates sculptures out of the waste wooden material. The creations are so good that it is hardly believable. Kesav like so many middle class youngman loaded with degrees in paintings and music landed up in Custom Department as the parents did not find any merit in profession of a painter or musician. despite his irregular, long night shifts on Bombay Airport, Kesav did find time to pursue his passion. Gradually his flat was converted into a make shift studio. He used to collect waste material from different sources be it furniture wallah or kabadis and start giving shapes to his imagination. Wife encouraged him and rather tolerated his double shift. When I start doing a piece of sculpture, 'I do not have any specific size or shape bus apne aap ban jata hai' he quips. His two works drew attention of viewers, Krishan, Balbhadra and Subhadra as well as Musical Ensemble.
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| Kesav with his sculpture |
Another artist from Bengal, Dibyendu Basu comes from 24 Pargana district in West bengal. Basu spent his life close to nature, to be more precise ponds, rivers and riverlets. So his subjects are the marine creatures be it fish, frog, crab and every painting has got a distinct Dibyendu stamp on it. He also heavily draw inspiration from day to day incident. He read a news item that a man teased a tiger in Zoo, and ultimately tiger eaten his head and made a very interesting painting on it.
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| Dibyendu Basu with his marine characters |
Bibekanand Mukherjee is from Bankura of Bishanpur and now teaches painting at Kalyani University. He has travelled abroad, done lot of shows in chicago, Osaka, Dhaka. He thinks a a modern hap young man, even his paintings interpret classical stories in today's context. An ensemble of eight big and small paintings shows that Krishna is in pond and his clothes have been taken away by Gopies who are bemusing from terrace of a house with his clothes. Bibekanand depicts young generation with his own chashma and this chasma is univesally present all across the paintings. He had displayed some of his paintings in Chicago few years back got tremendous response, earned so much money that could be able to purchase large apartment in Calcutta which is now his studio as well as residence.
All these artists come from different family backgrounds and have their own way to tell stories on canvass !
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