Anil Karanjai (1940-2001) Retrospective Exhibition at Open Palm Court Gallery, IHC, Lodhi Road > 10am-8pm on 26th March-2nd April 2011
Time : 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
Entry : Free
Event Details : Anil Karanjai (1940-2001) Retrospective Exhibition.
Excerpt from Santanu Ganguly's Article : Like all major retrospectives of important artists who have passed away, the proposed exhibitions of works by the late Bengali artist, Anil Karanjai, will explore and project the oeuvre of the artist and throw light on his lifelong achievements as well as his contribution to Indian and world art, Presented by Asha’s Salon d’Art and Juliet Reynolds, art critic, wife of the artist and Managing Trustee, The Anil Karanjai Memorial Trust.
In 1962 he co-founded United Artists. Their studio, named ‘Devil’s Workshop’, attracted artists, writers, poets and musicians from across India and abroad. The group established the first art gallery in Benaras in a rundown teashop called the Paradise Cafe, frequented by some of this vibrant city’s most colourful characters. He was an active member of the Bengali radical group, the Hungry Generation, otherwise known as the Hungryalism Movement, composed in the main of writers and poets. The movement had close interaction with the Beat Generation poets, amongst whom Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky.
This was Anil Karanjai, the quintessentially anti-establishment artist recognized by the establishment, and honoured with a National Award by Dr. L.P. Sihare, Director of both the National Museum and the National Gallery of Modern Art.
Karanjai was a master draftsman and colourist and his potential mastery was already evident at a very early age. One of the main aims of the exhibitions will be to project his mastery over diverse media and to reveal the evolution of his enormous skills over a career spanning four decades.
It has been almost ten years since Anil Karanjai died, leaving behind an enormous body of work that has, sadly, remained invisible to the general public. In Remembrance, the exhibition to be held at the Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre from 26 March to 2 April 2011, will present a selection of his drawings, portraits in dry pastel and charcoal, paintings in transparent and opaque water-colours, oil, conté, crayon, taking the viewer through his early work that could be described as confrontational, to the work of later years that reflects the artist’s deep concerns as an environmental activist.
“My paintings,” Anil once said, “are a dream, a dream of nature,” adding that “the role of today’s artist is to heal the wounds inflicted by our society”.
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Place : Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre ( IHC ), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Set Attending / Not Attending status below :Excerpt from Santanu Ganguly's Article : Like all major retrospectives of important artists who have passed away, the proposed exhibitions of works by the late Bengali artist, Anil Karanjai, will explore and project the oeuvre of the artist and throw light on his lifelong achievements as well as his contribution to Indian and world art, Presented by Asha’s Salon d’Art and Juliet Reynolds, art critic, wife of the artist and Managing Trustee, The Anil Karanjai Memorial Trust.
In 1962 he co-founded United Artists. Their studio, named ‘Devil’s Workshop’, attracted artists, writers, poets and musicians from across India and abroad. The group established the first art gallery in Benaras in a rundown teashop called the Paradise Cafe, frequented by some of this vibrant city’s most colourful characters. He was an active member of the Bengali radical group, the Hungry Generation, otherwise known as the Hungryalism Movement, composed in the main of writers and poets. The movement had close interaction with the Beat Generation poets, amongst whom Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky.
This was Anil Karanjai, the quintessentially anti-establishment artist recognized by the establishment, and honoured with a National Award by Dr. L.P. Sihare, Director of both the National Museum and the National Gallery of Modern Art.
Karanjai was a master draftsman and colourist and his potential mastery was already evident at a very early age. One of the main aims of the exhibitions will be to project his mastery over diverse media and to reveal the evolution of his enormous skills over a career spanning four decades.
It has been almost ten years since Anil Karanjai died, leaving behind an enormous body of work that has, sadly, remained invisible to the general public. In Remembrance, the exhibition to be held at the Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre from 26 March to 2 April 2011, will present a selection of his drawings, portraits in dry pastel and charcoal, paintings in transparent and opaque water-colours, oil, conté, crayon, taking the viewer through his early work that could be described as confrontational, to the work of later years that reflects the artist’s deep concerns as an environmental activist.
“My paintings,” Anil once said, “are a dream, a dream of nature,” adding that “the role of today’s artist is to heal the wounds inflicted by our society”.
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Anil Karanjai (1940-2001) Retrospective Exhibition at Open Palm Court Gallery, IHC, Lodhi Road > 10am-8pm on 26th March-2nd April 2011
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