22 November,2010 07:57 AM IST | | Shree Lahiri
Theu00a0Guide tells you about an art exhibition by a Bengali artist and art restorer who believes that mixing colours is a taboo
If you are a fan of vibrant colours and find them uplifting, chances are that you will love Sukanta Basu's vibrant hues. The Bengali artist's paintings play on the effect of colours, light and shade and his latest exhibition, The Source Unknown, follows in his earlier tradition.
A former student of his and current art restorer, Giri Kumar, says,u00a0 "He is my guru and apart from being a painter, he is an art restorer as well. So, he is very particular about the techniques and the material used."
Scientific and disciplined is his art, Sukanta doesn't believe in sketching or outlining before filling in the colours. "My main preoccupation is that colours should be used by placing them on top of each other, not by mixing them.
We don't need to put on light, light was already there. It is structured by darker colours to give it shape. The mixing is in the viewer's mind," he says.u00a0
The genre of non-representational art (a form of abstract art) is often misunderstood and people often ask Sukanta whether there is a face or some object hidden in his works. "There is no face.
To appreciate non-representational art, one has to resist habitual meaning-making tendency, lose it altogether. One who constantly seeks an established concept of shared understanding cannot enjoy pure aesthetic pleasures. Non-representational art is art for art's sake," he concludes.
Till: November 27, 10.30 am to 8 pm
At: Waves Art Gallery, B204 Parmar Trade Center, Sadhu Vaswani Chowk.
Call: 40064059
