"Sakti Burman: works from 60s-80s" a solo art show by artist Sakti Burman at Aakriti Art Gallery Pvt. Ltd, F-213/A, Old M .B Road, Lado Sarai > 11am-7pm on 7th to 28th August 2015
Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm (Sunday Closed)
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"Sakti Burman: works from 60s-80s" a solo art show by artist Sakti Burman
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Aakriti Art Gallery Pvt. Ltd, F-213/A, Old M .B Road, Lado Sarai, New Delhi - 110030
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Entry : Free
Venue : Aakriti Art Gallery Pvt. Ltd, F-213/A, Old M .B Road, Lado Sarai, New Delhi - 110030
Venue Info : www.aakritiartgallery.com | Nearest Metro Station - 'Saket(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : "Sakti Burman: works from 60s-80s" a solo art show by artist Sakti Burman showcasing the mixture of artistic philosophy of the east and the west. His works are mainly translucent but radiates a classic amalgamation of earthy & vibrant hues of colors, but ends up displaying a blend of soothing color tones.
Sakti Burman's current art show is an assimilation of the artistic philosophy of the East and the West. In his personal life he has gradually moved from eastern regions towards the west. In spite of his permanent settlement in Europe his contact with the country did not cease. Between 1960 and 1970 he visited extensively to most of the art centers of India like Ajanta, Ellora, Sanchi, Khajuraho, Elephanta etc. Assimilation of the forms of the earthly, yet ethereal Italian Frescoes with the jubilant and enlightened classical ethos of Ajanta and the dream world of medieval miniatures has gradually been internalized to build up the translucent joyous imageries of his paintings, where the mythologies of both regions, orient and occident and the events of his personal life have merged into a harmonious tune.
Burman is not only a painter. During the recent time he has come out as very successful sculptor also. His works are mostly figurative. But the association of the figures defies the general norms and logic of reality. They create a world of dream defying the prevalent law of gravity. The reality is heightened towards an environment of surreal. His technique plays a vital role towards this direction.
Apart from drawings he paints mostly in three mediums: oil, water color and pastel. There is a chromatic orchestration in his oils, very jubilant and ecstatic even within a structural orientation. Once he accidentally invented the technique. While working with oil in normal technique suddenly a drop of water fell on the pigment causing the pigment to burst into pointed atomic splinters and scattered around the space shattering the normal character of reality. He then developed this process of pigmentation to achieve his contemplated goal. In the present show barring four oils most of the paintings; about twenty in number are in water color executed between 1960 and 1980. In his water colors he transforms vacuity of the space into a divine light of the sky through treatment of his figurative forms.
The second characteristic of his water colors is the use of texture. Pointillist texture is an essential feature of his oils. The same is present in his water color also. But the transparency and subtlety of application of chromatic points bring out a different character in his water colors. This nobility is the essence of his expression. In oils it is ecstatic, more colorful, where as in water color it is more refined and restrained. The artistic identity that Sakti Burman created in the modernist field of post-1960-s art is a kind of spirituality through a sensation of love for the life.
ABOUT SAKTI BURMAN
Sakti Burman was born in Calcutta in 1935, but spent his early childhood in Bidyakoot, a village of East-Bengal, now in Bangladesh, whose nature and environment, the jubilant greenery and melodious flow of water in rivers have made permanent mark in his consciousness. He lost his mother at the age of three or four. The submerged grief of that loss has lingered in his memory throughout his life. From there his family moved to Dibrugarh in Assam in 1943, the year of devastating famine. Completing his schooling there, Burman came to Calcutta in 1951 and got admitted in Government School of Art. After completing his diploma in Fine Arts he moved to Paris in 1956, and joined the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. The artist had his first solo exhibition in 1954 in Kolkata, and has since exhibited widely across the world including venues like the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Piccadilly Gallery, London; Galerie Doucet et Coutureau, Paris; Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan; and Galerie Sagar, Zurich and many more. He visited all the art centres of Europe and ultimately settled permanently in Paris, where he married his life partner artist Maite Delteil. In Europe he was fascinated by the forms and ideas of Pierre Bonnard, Matisse and Chagall.
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Entry : Free
Venue : Aakriti Art Gallery Pvt. Ltd, F-213/A, Old M .B Road, Lado Sarai, New Delhi - 110030
Venue Info : www.aakritiartgallery.com | Nearest Metro Station - 'Saket(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : "Sakti Burman: works from 60s-80s" a solo art show by artist Sakti Burman showcasing the mixture of artistic philosophy of the east and the west. His works are mainly translucent but radiates a classic amalgamation of earthy & vibrant hues of colors, but ends up displaying a blend of soothing color tones.
Sakti Burman's current art show is an assimilation of the artistic philosophy of the East and the West. In his personal life he has gradually moved from eastern regions towards the west. In spite of his permanent settlement in Europe his contact with the country did not cease. Between 1960 and 1970 he visited extensively to most of the art centers of India like Ajanta, Ellora, Sanchi, Khajuraho, Elephanta etc. Assimilation of the forms of the earthly, yet ethereal Italian Frescoes with the jubilant and enlightened classical ethos of Ajanta and the dream world of medieval miniatures has gradually been internalized to build up the translucent joyous imageries of his paintings, where the mythologies of both regions, orient and occident and the events of his personal life have merged into a harmonious tune.
Burman is not only a painter. During the recent time he has come out as very successful sculptor also. His works are mostly figurative. But the association of the figures defies the general norms and logic of reality. They create a world of dream defying the prevalent law of gravity. The reality is heightened towards an environment of surreal. His technique plays a vital role towards this direction.
Apart from drawings he paints mostly in three mediums: oil, water color and pastel. There is a chromatic orchestration in his oils, very jubilant and ecstatic even within a structural orientation. Once he accidentally invented the technique. While working with oil in normal technique suddenly a drop of water fell on the pigment causing the pigment to burst into pointed atomic splinters and scattered around the space shattering the normal character of reality. He then developed this process of pigmentation to achieve his contemplated goal. In the present show barring four oils most of the paintings; about twenty in number are in water color executed between 1960 and 1980. In his water colors he transforms vacuity of the space into a divine light of the sky through treatment of his figurative forms.
The second characteristic of his water colors is the use of texture. Pointillist texture is an essential feature of his oils. The same is present in his water color also. But the transparency and subtlety of application of chromatic points bring out a different character in his water colors. This nobility is the essence of his expression. In oils it is ecstatic, more colorful, where as in water color it is more refined and restrained. The artistic identity that Sakti Burman created in the modernist field of post-1960-s art is a kind of spirituality through a sensation of love for the life.
ABOUT SAKTI BURMAN
Sakti Burman was born in Calcutta in 1935, but spent his early childhood in Bidyakoot, a village of East-Bengal, now in Bangladesh, whose nature and environment, the jubilant greenery and melodious flow of water in rivers have made permanent mark in his consciousness. He lost his mother at the age of three or four. The submerged grief of that loss has lingered in his memory throughout his life. From there his family moved to Dibrugarh in Assam in 1943, the year of devastating famine. Completing his schooling there, Burman came to Calcutta in 1951 and got admitted in Government School of Art. After completing his diploma in Fine Arts he moved to Paris in 1956, and joined the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. The artist had his first solo exhibition in 1954 in Kolkata, and has since exhibited widely across the world including venues like the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Piccadilly Gallery, London; Galerie Doucet et Coutureau, Paris; Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan; and Galerie Sagar, Zurich and many more. He visited all the art centres of Europe and ultimately settled permanently in Paris, where he married his life partner artist Maite Delteil. In Europe he was fascinated by the forms and ideas of Pierre Bonnard, Matisse and Chagall.
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"Sakti Burman: works from 60s-80s" a solo art show by artist Sakti Burman at Aakriti Art Gallery Pvt. Ltd, F-213/A, Old M .B Road, Lado Sarai > 11am-7pm on 7th to 28th August 2015
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