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Gorachand’s abstract canvases – with their dynamic lines carving suggestions of form into masses of vibrantly juxtaposed color – have the visually explosive quality of a Kandinsky composition. Glowing patches of color flow freely beneath expressively configured lines – thin and thick, surging and staccato – to evoke from the viewer, a sensory and emotional response that is no way related to any representation of physical reality.
In his abstracted ‘Landscape’ series, trees and fields, grass and earth. huts, hill and road are defined by broad swathes of color anchored with lines, dots, triangles and the barest suggestions of form. His ‘Eruption’ sequence is simplified into smudged masses of volcanic red yellow and black thrust through with spinning, surging lines, and massed configurations of noisy geometric shapes – all suggesting upward and outward motion.
In realistic mode, Gorachand’s figures – whether a pair of egrets fighting for fish underwater, or a woman cradling a duck in the water – similarly convey, with their strong sweeping lines and dense strokes and daubs of powerful color, a potent dynamism and feeling of surging movement.
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About the Artist
Birth: 1963, W. Bengal
Education: 1st Class in B.V.A (Painting) Rabindra Bharati University, 1989; 1st Class in M.V.A (Painting) from Rabindra Bharati University (on 2 yr. Scholarship) 1993
Selected Exhibitions and Participations
International
• 1997: 13th International Biennial of Humour and Satire in the Arts, Gubrovia-Bulgaria
• 1995: ROSL Annual Open Exhibition, London and Edinburgh
• 1992-1995: “Art for a Fairer World”, London, Glasgow, Cardiff
National & State
• 2004: All India Annual, Birla Academy Of Arts and Culture, Kolkata
• 2000: Camlin Eastern Region Art Exhibition, Calcutta
• 1999,1997, 1989, 1987: All India Annual Birla Academy of Art, Kolkata
• 1998: 1st All India Art Exhibition in Small Format, Hyderabad
• 1997: National Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bangalore org. Rashtriya Lalit Kala Academy
• 1997: Birla Kala Mela Open Air Exhibition
• 1996: 19th Rashtriya Kala Mela at Victoria Memorial Complex org. by Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendra
• 1995, 1991, 1990: Information Center Annual, Kolkata
• 1993,1992, 1991: State Academy Annual, Kolkata
• 1993: Annual exhibition of Contemporary Art, org. Muktadal, Howrah
• 1990, 1989: “Akkeo” Exhibition, Kolkata
AWARDS
• Scholarship from Rabindra Bharati University for M.V.A (Painting) course of 2 yrs.
• 2000: 1st Position at Camlin Eastern Region Art Exhibition
• 1995: Merit Award by Calcutta Information Center
• 1995: Merit Award by Emerald Isle Gallery, Calcutta Annual Challenge Contest
• 1991: Best Exhibit in Rabindra Bharati Annual Exhibition
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