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• Name: Sambuddha Duttagupta
• Gender: Male
• Birthday: 6-Jun-1956 (Age: 52)
• Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India

Entries Written: 40 entries
Comments Written: 49 comments
Signup Date: January 6, 2008
Last Login: August 18, 2008

About Me
Sambuddha Duttagupta
Born Darbhanga, Bihar, India
Studio: UG-1,R-19/2,Ramesh Park
Laxmi Nagar, Delhi 110092
Mobile +91 9871 983978
email sambudhamaya@gmail.com

Statement
The Dream of Liberation

As the viewer can immediately see these works almost exclusively focus on womanhood. If some of the compositions are in a semi-realistic mode, e.g. the portrait of a young woman engrossed with her physical being elsewhere, she is also seen seriously dreaming. These last works are more imaginatively inventive- for instance the 'Launching II’, 'Woman in Landscape II'. In several such works women are almost fliers - dragon flies of the upper air. At places the contrast between the traditional woman and the jean clad is suggested, perhaps pointing out at the present day living carried on, on different planes. "Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all, say something! If other compositions converge on sociological exploration, virtually speaking, still others may be intrinsically enjoyed, forgetting all else. Colours plus forms, when done consummately, very often make us put a work themes on the backburners! When we come back to subjects at all, we have already had our pay-off of delight. The artist has a number of
such works, in a wild, abandoned mood. .
Mr.Duttagupta is within his rights to tackle what he fancies but we, the viewers, pine only for sustenance for the eyes - both the outer one, as finally the inner one. He has a few such works. Life being difficult, he has the paucity of time to take his art to the inevitable next step, and the weeding out of the potentially good, from the
utterly thrilling. Artists need time, just more time. I wish him a bonanza of precisely that.
I will end by making a few reflections up asides on the artist's
preoccupation with eve, not that his work is a feminist tract. It represents in some ways what is a visual record of the processes of human consciousness raising itself. It appears as though these woman dreamers wish to tear down the walls that hem them in a crippling social system. They also mean to break. the male - female convent leading to mutual repression and exploitation. Here then is a kind of real sisterhood which is an interplay of multifarious reveries and year rings. A philosophy of liberation, may be celebrating the spirit and flesh of all womankind. This of course applies as well to Indian society, at moments crassly tradition bound.
I would myself, say that the real liberation of women will only come when all separations, both physical and psychological between humans are done away with by engaging the consciousness of women, as also the social order. That is, when love is seen as not mere passion but as comradeship (regardless of civil status, sex or country). Well, even as we enjoy certain of these works on the sensorial plane, they may set off larger matters, whether or not the artist intended them.

Keshav Malik
Padmashree

Education
EDUCATION
Diploma in Fine Arts - 1980 (Painting) from Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship, Kolkata

Biography
EXHIBITIONS
Academy of Fine Arts (Annual) 1979-1980,Kolkata. Academy of Fine Arts (Mid Summer) -1980,Kolkata
AIFACS - 1980,New Delhi,Chandigarh Birla Academy of Art & Culture (Annual) 1982-1985, 1989 - 2001,Kolkata
National Exhibition of Art - Lalit Kala Akademi, (Rabindra Bhavan),New Delhi - 1985, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 1986,
Bharat Bhawan (Biennial) - Exhibition at Roopankar Art Gallery, Bhopal-1985,
Inaugural Exhibition at Regional Art Center of LKA -Bhubaneswar - 1988.
“Young Faces” - an exhibition organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata - 1989
“Calcutta Through The Eyes of Painters”- an exhibition organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture to celebrate
‘300 years of Calcutta’ - Kolkata & Mumbai, - 1990
Exhibition with two painters - Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata - 1980, Shridharani Gallery (Triveni Kala -Sangam),New Delhi - 1982
Exhibition with three painters -Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata - 1982
Several exhibitions with a group in Delhi,Kolkata & Mumbai since 1980 to 2001.
Exhibition on the occasion of ‘Vishwa Banga Sammelan’ at Academy of Fine Arts,Kolkata - 2000,
Group show with seven artists at Lalit Kala Akademi (Rabindra Bhavan),New Delhi - 2004
Group show at Pragati Maidan,organised by ‘Bengal Association’ New Delhi - 2006

SOLO EXHIBITION
Exhibition of paintings & drawings at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata - 1989
Exhibition on multimedia works (Digital Painting) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata – 2004
‘Dreams of Liberation’ an exhibition of paintings at Birla Academy of Art , Kolkata - 2007

OTHER ACTIVITIES
Executed a project of Mural through Physically Challenged children of RCFC at there Hospital building (Orthopedic
Building) & M.I.Block at Rehabilitation Center For Children, Motilal Gupta Road,Behala,Kolkata and at Mohananda
Brahmachary Hospital at Behala,Kolkata sponsored by Interlink,Kolkata

WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
‘Ashoka Hotel’, organized by ITDC, New Delhi - 2007,‘Welham Boys’ School’, Dehradun - 2007,
Pragati Maidan organized by ‘Bengal Association’ New Delhi - 2006,
‘Max Mueller Bhawan’ (Young Artists’ Workshop), Kolkata - 1982

COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi and other private collections India & abroad.

My Interests: (4)
Living in the colorful world, mixing people, traveling, reading

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