| Contemporary Art India launched its website officially
on 8th and 9th September 2006, with a well-attended show and cocktails
at Kolkata’s prestigious Bengal Club. There was a fantastic
turnout of artist’s and and appreciative art lovers at the
event which was inaugurated by eminent Indian artist, Paritosh
Sen.
The function was covered by several periodicals,
as well as a number of TV channels. The ‘Telegraph
Metro’ of 10th September 2006 reads –
“’ Not long ago, there was just one private art gallery in the city
and that too was interested more in framing pictures than in organizing art shows,’ recalled
veteran artist Paritosh Sen at the launch of the new art website, www.contemporaryart-india.com
at the Bengal Club on Friday.
The
two-day show featured the current ensemble
of 47 artists available on this website.
Curators Roshmi Raychaudhuri and Baidehi
Chatterjee said that the site would, apart
from functioning as a sourcing and sales
outlet, play an active part in disseminating
information on trends in modern Indian
art, artworks and artists.
The show is mainly meant to focus on upcoming
and unrecognized talents, but there are
several big names keeping them company.
From the sketches of Rabindranath Tagore
to Nikhil Biswas’s ‘Migration’ and ‘Storm
Horses’, from Paritosh Sen’s ‘Girl
Eating Corn’ to Reba Hore’s ‘Friends’,
they all mingle with the experimental and
often refreshing works of the young and
not-so-young artists.
The
moon in Prakash Karmakar’s Landscape
hasdropped like a golden ball under the palm
tree, Paresh Maity’s Courtyard depicts
an old north Calcutta home, Chhatrapati Dutta’s
untitled work celebrates the experience of
coming apart through torn books and loose
clothes’ hooks, Sajal Roy captures
the First Step a child takes with his mother’s
support, lines and contrasting colours bring
out the sense of emptiness and space in Subhra
Chatterjee’s Solitary, Munindra Rajbongshi’s
Profile, Malay Saha’s Outside the Window...
all catch the eye.”
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