| Debabrata Chakrabarti |
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Speaking of his art, Debabrata Chakrabarti says ‘…nature and man commingle and arrive charged with meaning. Within the framework of the canvas, the woman’s body is an extension of nature itself, as also the times we live in …thus my canvas comes closer to the universal truth, and its color and shape are determined by it.”
Subtle watered textures add an almost mystical dimension to Chakrabarti’s shimmering colours, often patterned around incandescent spaces of luminous white light.
While women and children are the artist’s most consistent themes, and emotion or haunting lyricism his most pervasive mood, his works also carry for the most part a trenchant social message; whether the defenselessness of exploited children, the subjection of women to social oppression, or the vulnerability of a pair of siblings who confront their shattered world in the numbing stillness ‘After the Earthquake’.
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About the Artist
Education : Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata, 1971
Exhibitions
Solo
- 2001: Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 1998, 1995, 1993: Center Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 1991: Habiart Art Gallery: N. Delhi
- !991, 1990, 1989: Genesis Art Gallery, Kolkata
Selected Group Exhibitions & Participation
- 2006: Several major exhibitions at Kolkata, N. Delhi, Chandigarh, New York, Singapore & Bangkok
- 2005: Annual Exhibition, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2005: Annual Show, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
- 2005: Annual Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
- 2005: Group Show, org. “concern India’, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Kolkata
- 2004: Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art & Culture Kolkata
- 2004: Annual Exhibition, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2004: Idiyas Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 2003: Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art & Culture Kolkata
- 2003: Annual Exhibition, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2003: ‘Freedom’, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2003: ‘Durga’, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2002: Annual Exhibition, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2002: ‘Freedom’, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2002: ‘Durga’, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2002: Annual Show Birla Academy of Art & Culture, N. Delhi & Kolkata
- 2002: ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, Schoeni Art Gallery, 21-31, Old Bailey Street, Central, Hong Kong
- 2002: ‘An Arbit Ganga Presentation’, Royal Calcutta Turf Club, Kolkata
- 2002: Annual Show, Doumos Art Gallery, N. Delhi
- 2001: Annual Show, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2001: ‘Freedom’, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2001: ‘Durga’, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2001: Annual Show, Birla Academy of Art & culture, Kolkata & N. Delhi
- 2000: Annual Show, Birla Academy, N. Delhi
- 2000: Annual Show, Birla Academy, Kolkata
- 2000: Annual Show, Birla Academy, Mumbai
- 2000: Annual Show, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2000: ‘Freedom’, Annual Exhibition, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 2000: ‘Durga’, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 1999: ‘Durga’, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 1999: Annual Show, Birla Academy, Kolkata
- 1999: ‘Talents of Bengal’, org. Galerie la Mere at Artist’s center, Mumbai
- 1999: Gandhara Art Gallery at Bharatiya Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore
- 1999: ‘Millenium Show’org. Address Gallery, Kolkata
- 1999: Group Show org. Birla Academy, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi
- 1999: Annual Exhibition, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 1999: ‘Freedom’, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 1998: Annual Exhibition of Eminent Artists, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 1998: ‘Durga’, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 1997: ‘Durga’, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 1997: Calcutta Metropolitan Art Festival, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
- 1996: ‘Art for Hearts’Sake’, exhibition & Art auction org. with Sotheby’s of London, Nehru Center, Mumbai
- 1996: Annual Exhibition, Galerie la Mere Kolkata
- 1994: Genesis Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 1993: Emerald Isle Gallery, Kolkata
- 1993: Center Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 1992: ‘Changing Images’Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1992: Lalit Kala Eastern Zone Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
- 1991: Exhibition of four Artists, Sanskriti Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 1991; Exhibition of Five Artists, Gallery BF 14, Kolkata
- 1991: Annual Exhibition, Gallery BF 14, Kolkata
- 1991: ‘Tagore in Contemporary Eyes’, Center Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 1989: Gallery CB 56, Kolkata
- 1971 –1973: Annual Exhibition Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
AWARDS
- International ‘Shelter Award’for ‘Creative Painter’by Shelter Promotion Council, India
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