Calligraphy of Touch and Gaze by Jogen Chowdhury on 18th Feb'16 (From The Collection of Rekha & Prshant Lahoti) till March 20th.
A Calligraphy of Touch and Gaze by Jogen Chowdhury: Selected Works 1986-2006.
This exhibition will provide a wonderful opportunity for everyone to see Jogen Chowdhury creative expression of unbroken line over five decades. His passage from `Tiger in the Moonlit Night` to social imbalances of recent times where he was even inspired by Picasso’s `Guernica` is a significant journey of an artist committed to human concerns.
Jogen Chowdhury’s art has long straddled the conventional boundary that separates the graphic from the painterly, to splendid effect. In this, he differs markedly from many of his contemporaries, who were obsessed with apprenticing themselves to a single, supposedly magisterial medium, usually oil on canvas. Jogen’s drawings often gain the amplitude of colour and ripen into paintings; his paintings are often as sparely and startlingly delivered as drawings. Enjoying the experience of working with graphite, ink, dry as well as oil pastel, watercolour – and improvising combinations of these – he operates in a mixed-media idiom. As we see from this selection of the distinguished artist’s works over the last two decades, Jogen’s images are crafted from the adroit orchestration of diverse and even divergent media.
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