[Reader-list] Invitation-an art show 19th -26th February 2008

[info at contemporaryart-india.com]

Hello friends,

I'm writing to tell you about an art show being presented in Kolkata  
this month:

Venue: Birla Academy of Art & Culture, (2nd floor), 108 Southern  
Avenue, Kolkata 700029.

Dates: 19th February ? 26th February 2008 ; Time: 4.00 pm ? 8.00 pm

Event: "Windows on the World" - a solo show of paintings by Ranadip Mukherjee,
presented by Contemporary Art-India, Kolkata

A graduate of the Government College of Art & Crafts, Kolkata, the  
artist, now based in Mumbai, has had 22 solo shows in India and abroad.

In his present series, Ranadip Mukherjee sets out to discover that  
essence of place, those forms and colours of mind and spirit that  
inhabit and give shape to a city or a physical community ? the  
quality, which makes them ?the type of some great idea ?whose image  
dwells on the memory of man  ...?  For as surely as men create cities,  
cities too grow into live entities that temper the minds of men.

The journey starts in Varanasi,  a city which the artist sees as a  
work of art, and moves to Sarnath to explore the nature of the aura,  
the many faces of charged stillness ? serenity, austerity, tenderness,  
transcendence ? that are revealed to him in the Buddha. Finally, he  
follows the river towards the teeming hub of Kolkata. An effusion of  
images drenched in sepia shades of nostalgia throng his canvas ?  
cultural icons, urban markers, historical figures, artistic and  
religious heritage interwoven with glimpses of daily life ? people,  
lifestyles and landmarks forged in the flux and ferment, heat and  
light of the city?s evolution.

This exhibition will be interesting viewing for anyone who has ever  
been fascinated by the ?charge? that is palpable in any of the great  
cities.

Best,

Roshmi Raychaudhuri
www.contemporaryart-india.com

Or view it online at:
http://www.contemporaryart-india.com/index.php?page=exhibition_in&th_id=11