| Ranadip Mukherjee |
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Ranadip's richly picturesque style expresses itself in a variety of media – oils, pastels, watercolors, acrylic, mixed media and collage. His images, usually framed in bands of color embellished with metaphoric and stylistic detail, are rich in symbols drawn from history, mythology, popular culture and religion. Though mainly figurative, elements of abstraction are present in some earlier compositions. Never pinned to a single perception, his works are, in their rich variety of motifs, perspectives, moods and themes – mythological, cultural and personal – many-faceted responses to life's endless diversity
Defined forms, patterned structure and a dynamic use of color to reinforce symbolic imagery, are other distinctions of Ranadip's style. His message in ‘ Bombay ' is implicit in his use of virile red and fecund green to dramatize the painting's marginal motifs of the phallus and of explicit sexuality; which accent other fragmentary motifs mirroring tenderness; as well as the main image, framing a wistful girl at her lonely window.
Though the artist loves using vivid, well delineated color, he displays equal aptitude for drama with deep dull tones in his mural, ‘Tribute to Guernica '; and for evocative variations on neutrals, in his spiritual ‘Light of the Body'. Ranadip uses color suggestively – rainbow bands poignantly fencing in ‘My Fair Lady' from cold blue darkness; and hazed gradations of warm orange and ochre cushioning a dove, a flower and two somnolent women in the stillness of a balmy ‘Afternoon'.
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About the Artist
Born: 1968 Jamshedpur India
Education: First Class First, Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2005 Jehangir Art Gallery , Mumbai
- 2002 Moot Hall, Brampton , Carlisle , UK
- 2001 Taj Art Gallery , Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai
- 2000 Moot Hall, Brampton , Carlisle , UK
- 2000 Nehru Center , London
- 1997 Jehangir Art Gallery , Mumbai
- 1996 Gallery Art and Soul New Delhi
- 1995 Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan London
- 1994 Tagore Center London
- 1994 Artage Gallery Kolkata
- 1993 Jehangir Art Gallery , Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions & Participations
- 2005 Art Camp by Tata Steel, ‘Art in Industry'
- 2004 Goa Art Gallery Goa , ‘Christian Art'
- 2003 Art Camp, Hotel Kenilworth, Kolkata
- 2000 Harmony Show Mumbai
- 1997 Tollygunge Club, curated Gallerie La Mere Kolkata
- 1996 Chitrakoot Art Gallery Kolkata
- 1996 Taj Art Gallery , Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai
- 1996 Bombay Art Society Annual Mumbai
- 1995 Gallerie la Mere Kolkata
- 1994 Madras Art Fair
- 1993 Birla Academy Kolkata ‘Young Faces in ‘Contemporary Indian Art'
- 1993 Artage Gallery Show in N.Delhi
Awards
- 1989-1992 G.C.A.C
- 1996 Bombay Art Society
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