Ganesh Haloi
Ganesh Haloi (* 1936 in Jamalpur , British India ) is an Indian painter.
Life
When Ganesh Haloi was born in 1936, his birthplace Jamalpur belonged to British India; today he is in Bangladesh in the administrative unit (division) Maimansingh . When India was partitioned, Bengal was also partitioned in 1947 , and as a result Haloi's home was suddenly in the eastern part of Pakistan . In 1950, three years after the division, he and his family had to leave home. They were initially placed in a refugee camp in the Indian state of West Bengal and were then sent on to other neighboring Indian states twice. In 1951 Ganesh Haloi moved to Calcutta alone at the age of fifteen . There he began an artistic training at the Government College of Art and Craft , which he graduated in 1956.
In 1957 he took up a position as a senior artist at the Archaeological Survey of India and examined and documented the murals in the Ajanta Caves for six years . From 1963 until his retirement he taught at the Government College of Art and Craft . In 1967 he visited an exhibition of modern British sculptures, which introduced him to a reduced artistic language of forms and the search for pure forms. Since 1971 he has been a member of the Indian Society of Contemporary Artists .
At documenta 14 in summer 2017, Haloi was represented with works on paper in Athens and Kassel, and in Athens with two bronze sculptures .
Haloi lives and works in Calcutta. He has an extensive collection of folk art and art books.
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Haloi's main painting technique is gouache on paper.
The intensive preoccupation with the paintings of the Ajanta caves left traces in his artistic work. She refined his painting skills and inspired the choice of colors in his first works, which show a resemblance to Ajanta pigments. He began as a figurative painter with motifs of the poor rural population, including portraits of young children who stare at the viewer in tattered clothes. This was followed by early paintings with rock formations and layers of rock influenced by the style of Cubism .
The works of his latest creative period are to a certain extent an abstract variant of landscape painting, in which he constructs layers of different earthy tones. On the one hand, these works have the rigor of architectural drawings, on the other hand they are open to improvisation , including jagged lines and circles. Their conceptual vocabulary is influenced by Buddhist philosophy . Despite their closeness to the style of abstract painting, Haloi's works resist a clear classification in the categories available to us.
The traumatic experiences of his youth, including the famine in Bengal and the uprooting due to his flight, had a formative influence on his work. However, one does not see it directly in his contemplative and cheerful pictures, which were created in the 21st century. In this context, Haloi said in an interview that once the pain has reached a certain intensity, you no longer feel pain.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Soumitra Das: Haloi for Documenta 14. In: www.telegraphindia.com. April 20, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Natasha Ginwala: Ganesh Haloi. In: www.documenta14.de. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Veteran Indian artist represents modern Indian art in a two-city exhibition in Europe. In: indianexpress.com. May 16, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Amrita Jhaveri: A Guide to 101 Modern & Contemporary Indian Artists. India Book House, Mumbai 2005, ISBN 81-7508-423-5 , p. 115.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haloi, Ganesh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jamalpur |