Shuvaprasanna
Shuvaprasanna (born October 20, 1947 in Kolkata as Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya ) is an Indian painter who lives and works in Kolkata. He graduated from the Indian College of Art. He presented his works at numerous solo exhibitions in Kolkata, New Delhi , Geneva , Essen , Ludwigsburg , Mumbai , Dhaka , Munich , Augsburg , Paris and New York . Every year he is represented with his work at group exhibitions in India and internationally.
"His pictures often show stylized animals, especially birds, or people, enigmatic pictures full of melancholy, hieroglyphics from a distant world, surreal dream images and real decay, scenes of earthly forlornness and symbols for hardship and the end of time. More recently (around 2005) there are surprisingly new and optimistic images of the promise of divine peace, motifs of spiritual harmony, dreamy flute players instead of croaking crows and a series of Krishna images "(Philipp Grieb). His techniques mainly include charcoal , oil, and acrylic .
Shuvaprasanna founded the College of Visual Arts in 1976 and the artists' village Arts Acre in northern Kolkata in 1984. He has received several awards and prizes. He is married to the artist Shipra Bhattacharya . His son-in-law Aditya Vikram Sengupta and his daughter Jonaki Bhattacharya made their debut film (in Bengali) "Asha Jaoar Majhe" (Labor of Love) successful in 2014 (including Best Debut Director Award , Venice International Film Festival , 2014).
In 1986, the German writer Günter Grass , himself a sculptor and graphic artist, stayed in Kolkata from August 1986 to January 1987 and became friends with Shuvaprasanna. The later Nobel Prize laureate for literature and the Indian painter cultivated this relationship until the German author's death in 2015. On several trips and exhibitions in Germany, Shuvaprasanna expanded his contacts to German friends and artists and others in the following decades. a. in Dresden , Augsburg and Munich . In the film documentary "Shuva and me - A Journey with Shuvaprasanna" (2013) the Indian filmmaker Goutam Ghose captured encounters between the Indian artist and Günter Grass and friends in Germany in September 2012.
Shuvaprasanna and his wife are co-founders of the Arts Acre Foundation , an Indian foundation that has set itself the goal of promoting art and culture in India with the construction of a large art center in the east of Kolkata and the idea of the artists' village in an ambitious, larger framework continues. This center has been in operation since 2014.
Web links
- Shuvaprasanna Retrospective, Vita
- Pictures, exhibitions, biography
- Arts Acre Foundation
- Shuvaprasanna on ContemporaryArt
literature
- Sushma Bahl (Editor), Black Brown & The Blue - Shuvaprasanna. Roli Books, New Delhi 2011, ISBN 978-81-7436-827-0
- Chitrotpala Mukherjee, Shuvaprasanna - Vision: Reality & Beyond, Art Indus, New Delhi, 1999, ISBN 81-87670-00-2
- Günter Grass, showing tongue, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Frankfurt / Main 1991, ISBN 3-630-61970-3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shuvaprasanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bhattacharya, Shuvaprasanna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolkata |