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Artist Statement:
The Aesthetic Gesture
my attitude towards art
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1.
Life is a splendor.
This splendor is manifested
through various dimensions all
around us, as well as within
our self. It is an eternal
continuity of harmony – a
variable balance between all
the contradictions and
diversities. It’s a journey
from the beginning of the end
towards the end of the
beginning.
And we are the blessed, the
chosen ones; and life goes on
– with and/or without.
2.
When we think or/and speak of
our ‘self’, the ‘self’ becomes
highlighted, focused to our
consciousness. And thus
everything else defuse into a
sense of nonexistence, a sense
of nothingness, a sense of
‘void’.
Contrarily, when we think
or/and talk about anything
else, i.e. the ‘sense of
other’, the ‘self’ defuses
into the whole and becomes a
part of the ‘void’.
And when we focus on
‘everything’, the ‘self’ and
the ‘other’ loose their
viability and defuse into the
whole. Thus the focus gets
split and ‘everything’ becomes
synonymous to ‘nothingness’,
the ‘void’.
Each and every moment, in each
and every act that we perform
– knowingly or unknowingly –
our sense of being keep
changing sides. The ‘self’,
the ‘other’ ...
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Sanjay Sen Gupta Biography:
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Age
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33
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
Not intersted |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Reading books, listening to music, watching films, travelling etc. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Ink
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Post-Impressionism - (1885 - 1905)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
None
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Many
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Eastern traditions |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
Because, it was inevitable.... |
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| Your Personal Biography |
BIRTH
1974, Kolkata
EDUCATION
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Continuing PhD Programme [ Fine Arts ] since 2006 [ Wooden Idols of West Bengal : an aesthetic approach ] University of Calcutta
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Master of Visual Arts [ MVA ] in Painting, 2002
Bachelor of Visual Arts [ BVA ] in Painting, 2000
Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata
PREVIOUS RESEARCH
Calligraphic Emotion in the paintings of Rabindranath Abanindranath Nandalal
Dissertation Paper for MVA [ Part II ] 2000-2002
EXHIBITIONS
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Group Shows
Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 2005
Metropoliton Art Salon, Kolkata 2003
Rabindra Bhawan, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi 2002
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Participations
“Painted Delights”, organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata 2007
Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture , Kolkata
2006, 2005, 2002
Annual Exhibition of Govt College of Art & Craft, Kolkata
2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996
Annual Exhibition of Shilpa Sarit at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 1996
CAMP
Artists’ Camp 1999
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration
Mussoorie, Uttaranchal
HONOUR
Kishory Roy Award 2001
Annual Exhibition of GCAC
COLLECTION
Several private collections in India and abroad.
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