Landscape Summer Show 2023 opens at CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
Landscape Summer Show 2023 opens at CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
Moon Moon Sen inaugurates exhibition that unravels the story of landscape art in India from the 19th Century to the present
My Kolkata Web Desk
Published 05.05.23, 09:39 PM
Artists float rose petals in water at the opening of Landscape Summer Show 2023 at CIMA Gallery, Kolkata, as actress Moon Moon Sen looks on
All photos by Amit Datta/My Kolkata
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The exhibition, which opened on May 5 and will continue till July 15, showcases Indian landscape art from the early 20th Century to the present; from miniatures, early 19th Century oils and classical watercolours to modern and post-modern graphics and paintings
Actress Moon Moon Sen inaugurates the exhibition as Pratiti Basu Sarkar, chief administrator, CIMA, looks on
Moon Moon Sen takes a tour of the exhibition with Rakhi Sarkar, director, CIMA. Landscape Summer Show 2023 tells the story of landscape representation in India with the works of Abanindranath Tagore, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Gaganendranath Tagore, Ganesh Haloi, Gopal Ghosh, Jamini Roy, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Paresh Maity, Rabindranath Tagore, Ramkinkar Baij, Shakila, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay and Paresh Maity among others
Artist Bikash Bhattacharjee’s daughter and granddaughter at the exhibition. Seen in front right is The Green Light, an oil-on-acrylic work by Suraj Kumar Kashi, an artist from Bihar. On the left is the Dawn Series, prints on archival paper by Buku Sarkar
Glory of Paradise by Paresh Maity, an oil-and-acrylic work on canvas
Prashant Patil, an artist from Maharashtra who studied at Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, with his work 'Howrah 1980' (medium: glue gun on net cloth)
An acrylic-on-canvas work by Babu Xavier, an artist from Trivandram known for breathing life into his canvases with vivid colours and fantastical creatures
Artist Veer Munshi’s oil and acrylic on canvas titled 'Shrapnels'. Human suffering caused by social and political turmoil is a recurrent theme in the works of the artist from Kashmir