{"id":2734,"date":"2022-12-21T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T06:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2023-09-10T15:31:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T10:01:47","slug":"amitabh-sengupta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/amitabh-sengupta\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Exhibition of the works of Amitabh Sengupta at the Kalakendra Art Gallery, Auroville\""},"content":{"rendered":"

A major show of the woks from Amitabh Sengupta is on display at Kalakendra Art Gallery, Bharat Nivas, Auroville. In cooperation with Sarala’s Art Centre<\/a> 70 paintings predominantly from the last decade can be seen. For the opening of the exhibition on Dec 16th<\/sup> 2022 the secretary of Auroville and the director of the Alliance Fran\u00e7ais lit the candle.<\/p>\n

Amitabh Sengupta was born in Calcutta in 1941 and graduated from Govt. College of Arts & Crafts, Calcutta in 1963. From 1966 to 1969 he received a scholarship for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was witnessing the 68 student revolts. From 1977 until 1981 he joined the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, where he became Head of Creative Arts. He exhibited in India, Nigeria, Europe, and USA and currently lives in Calcutta.<\/p>\n

The works by Amitabh Sengupta show a vast spectrum of styles. It is impressive to see how much he engaged with western modernist tradition and yet maintained his roots in Indian traditions. We can see this in the colours, the traces of written words, the iconography. Going through the exhibition there are echoes of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Cy Twombly, Anselm Kiefer, Pierre Soulage, Jasper Jones, Paul Klee and many more.<\/p>\n