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Sambuddha DuttaguptaBorn 1956,Darbhanga, BiharStudio: 1761B/6, Govindpuri Extension, Kalkaji,New Delhi 110019Mobile +91 9871 983978email [email protected]
EDUCATIONDiploma in Fine Arts - 1980 (Painting) from Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship, Kolkata
EXHIBITIONSAcademy of Fine Arts (Annual) 1979-1980,Kolkata. Academy of Fine Arts (Mid Summer) -1980,KolkataAIFACS - 1980,New Delhi,Chandigarh Birla Academy of Art & Culture (Annual) 1982-1985, 1989 - 2001,KolkataNational Exhibition of Art - Lalit Kala Akademi, (Rabindra Bhavan),New Delhi - 1985, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkat1986,Bharat Bhawan (Biennial) - Exhibition at Roopankar Art Gallery, Bhopal-1985,Inaugural Exhibition at Regional Art Center of LKA -Bhubaneswar - 1988.“Young Faces” - an exhibition organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata - 1989“Calcutta Through The Eyes of Painters”- an exhibition organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture to celebrate'300 years of Calcutta' - Kolkata & Mumbai, - 1990Exhibition with two painters - Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata - 1980, Shridharani Gallery (Triveni Kala -Sangam),New Delhi - 1982 Exhibition with three painters -Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata - 1982 Several exhibitions with a group in Delhi,Kolkata & Mumbai since 1980 to 2001. Exhibition on the occasion of 'Vishwa Banga Sammelan' at Academy of Fine Arts,Kolkata - 2000,Group show with seven artists at Lalit Kala Akademi (Rabindra Bhavan), New Delhi - 2004 Group show at Pragati Maidan,organised by 'Bengal Association' New Delhi - 2006
SOLO EXHIBITION Exhibition of paintings & drawings at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata - 1989 Exhibition on multimedia works (Digital Painting) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata – 2004 'Dreams of Liberation' an exhibition of paintings at Birla Academy of Art , Kolkata - 2007
OTHER ACTIVITIES Executed a project of Mural through Physically Challenged children of RCFC at there Hospital building (Orthopedic Building) & M.I.Block at Rehabilitation Center For Children, Motilal Gupta Road,Behala,Kolkata and at Mohananda Brahmachary Hospital at Behala,Kolkata sponsored by Interlink,Kolkata
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION 'Ashoka Hotel', organized by ITDC, New Delhi - 2007,'Welham Boys' School', Dehradun - 2007,Pragati Maidan organized by 'Bengal Association' New Delhi - 2006,'Max Mueller Bhawan' (Young Artists' Workshop), Kolkata - 1982
COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi and other private collections India & abroad.
She-I Medium Acrylic & oil on canvas
The Dream of LiberationAs the viewer can immediately see these works almost exclusively on womanhood. If some of the compositionsare in a semi realistic mode, e.g. the portrait of a young woman engrossed with her physical being elsewhere, sheis also seriously dreaming. These last works are more imaginatively inventive for instance “Launching II”, Womanin Landscape II”. In several such works are fliers - dragon flies of the upper air. At places the contrast between woman and the jean clad suggested, perhaps pointing out the present day living carried on, on different planes.“Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all, say something! If other compositions converge on sociological exploration, virtually speaking, still others may be intrinsically enjoyed, forgetting all else. Colours plus forms, when done consummately, very often make us put a work themes on the backburners! When we come back to subjects at all, we have already had our pay-off of delight. contd.........
Launching IIAcrylic & oil on canvas
The Dream of LiberationThe artist has a number of such works, in a wild, abandoned mood. Mr.Duttagupta is within his rights to tackle what he fancies but we, the viewers, pine only for sustenance for the eyes - both the outer one, as finally the inner one. He has a few such works. Life being difficult, he has the paucity of time to take his art to the inevitable next step, and the weeding out of the potentially good, from the utterly thrilling. Artists need time, just more time.
I will end by making a few reflections up asides on the artist's preoccupation with eve, not that his work is a feminist tract. It represents in some ways what is a visual record of the processes of human consciousness raising itself. It appears as though these woman dreamers wish to tear down the walls that hem them in a crippling social system. They also mean to break. the male - female convent leading to mutual repression and exploitation. Here then is a kind of real sisterhood which is an interplay of multifarious reveries and year rings. A philosophy of liberation, may be celebrating the spirit and flesh of all womankind. This of course applies as well to Indian society, at moments crassly tradition bound.
I would myself, say that the real liberation of women will only come when all separations, both physical and psychological between humans are done away with by engaging the consciousness of women, as also the social order. That is, when love is seen as not mere passion but as comradeship (regardless of civil status, sex or country). Well, even as we enjoy certain of these works on the sensorial plane, they may set off larger matters, whether or not the artist intended them.
Keshav Malik
Long way to go..water color on paper
The Dream of Liberation
Back to the future Acrylic on paper
The DestinationAcrylic & oil on canvas
SHEAcrylic on paper
InteriorAcrylic & oil on canvas
RoamingAcrylic & oil on canvas
Enraptured IIIAcrylic & oil on canvas
She Iwatercolor on paper
The Flying Café` Acrylic & oil on canvas
The Café`Talk Acrylic & oil on paper
She & the landscape Acrylic & oil on canvas
LeelaAcrylic & oil on canvas
Enraptured IAcrylic & oil on canvas
Enraptured IAcrylic & oil on canvas
Lady with a flower Mixed media on paper
The JourneyAcrylic & oil on canvas
She & the rickshaw puller Acrylic & oil on canvas
Dilli, Diwali & Dilwali Acrylic & oil on canvas
She & the flower seller Acrylic on paper
From The Widow Light Acrylic on paper
The FacesAcrylic on paper
SHE & THE BIRD Acrylic on canvas
Composition XAcrylic on canvas
Enraptured VAcrylic on canvas
PORTRAIT IIAcrylic on paper
My Recent Works
SHE & THE FLYING BIRD Acrylic on paper
THE DREAMER Acrylic on paper
FROM MY HEART Acrylic on canvas
COMPOSITION I Acrylic on canvas
COMPOSITION II Acrylic on canvas
COMPOSITION III Acrylic on canvas
COMPOSITION IV Acrylic on canvas
COMPOSITION VI Acrylic on canvas
EVOLUTION OF THE MANKIND Acrylic on canvas