"Fragmented Earth - The Last Call" a solo exhibition by Gopal Samantray at Art Konsult, 23, Hauz Khas Village > 3rd August-5th September 2012

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Time : 
3rd August : 6:30 pm onwards - Opening
4th August to 5th September : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm - Exhibition on View

Entry : Free

Place : Art Konsult, 23, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi-110016
Venue Info : www.artkonsult.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Green Park(Yellow Line)'

Event Details : 'Fragmented Earth - The Last Call' a solo exhibition by Gopal Samantray. 
Born on 6th June 1976, in Orissa, Gopal Samantray did his Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in 2002 and his Master’s in 2004 from B. K. College of Art. His works were auctioned at the likes of Art Bull Autumn Auction in 2011 in Delhi and Plan India Auction in Pune in 2012. His shows include Paradigms and Perspectives by Indigo Blue Art at Singapore and at Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi in 2012. Between 1997 and 2012, he has been a part of several group shows around the country. He was awarded the B. K. College of Art award twice and the Trust for Regeneration of Environment and Economy (TREE), sponsored by ORHDC and HUDCO.
“What is art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of real.” – Rabindranath Tagore.
Gopal Samantray is among those artists who have emerged with a distinct identity of their own in the last few years. From the visual perspective he has an uncanny grasp of the pictorial language. Gopal does not speak the complex language of intellectualism or conceptualism but the colours and forms which he has arrived at after tough experiences and practice betray an uncanny ‘local intelligence’.
The viewer need not enter into an unnecessary intellectual struggle. The strong and imaginative texture Gopal has achieved today is the result of a diversity of experiments with colours. The creation of this texture even involved a variety of experiments with tea leaves.
Gopal’s world has no time for abstraction and where a man or a woman do exist they are there as images in the mediums of stone or metal. The images which have achieved the status of museum icons do haunt him – if Michelangelo’s ‘David’ of Florence Museum, ‘Venus’ of Louvre, or the mysterious ‘Shalbhanjika’ of Gwalior do enter his paintings, they create quite another world in the middle of nature, birds and wild animals. Tigers, zebras, elephants, gorillas or kite- or eagle-like birds are integral to Gopal’s world. The Bengal tiger and the zebra especially inspire him a lot. But the particular metropolis where Gopal finds these animals standing, there the balanced and imaginative use of colours and texture attributes to his canvases a pictorial vocabulary complete in itself.
His last frontier is his pictorial language and Gopal Samantray has been continually and courageously experimenting on this frontier. The fact is that a true artist’s creative urge really is to draw a painting not a poster. Gopal currently lives and works in Delhi.

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