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Nitish Bhattacharya works with bright acrylic colors on large expanses of paper and canvas. His narratives may be described as passionate encounters between lines and hues. In fact, the degree of abstraction is so immense, that the viewer is compelled to question the content behind the inexhaustible layers of texture and colour, as well as the frantic movement of brush strokes that occupy his canvas. Somewhere amidst all the chaos,...
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Nitish Bhattacharya works with bright acrylic colors on large expanses of paper and canvas. His narratives may be described as passionate encounters between lines and hues. In fact, the degree of abstraction is so immense, that the viewer is compelled to question the content behind the inexhaustible layers of texture and colour, as well as the frantic movement of brush strokes that occupy his canvas. Somewhere amidst all the chaos, definite geometrical forms appear afloat the planes of colour.
Initially, the artist worked with realistic imagery, and his early body of work is predominantly figurative. Over time, however, Bhattacharya’s need to rid his pieces of excessive decoration and ornamentation seems to have pushed him to switch to abstract art or “non-representational art”, as the artist prefers to call it. Bhattacharya’s recent works are proof that the artist has been extremely successful in his endeavor to convert form into the formless. He does however affirm that this does not necessarily mean that he will never go back to a figurative idiom. He feels that as long as he’s putting his point across, the language he uses to do so is irrelevant.
Born in 1973, Nitish Bhattacharya completed his bachelor’s (1996) and master’s (1998) degrees in Painting from the Indore School of Art. He has participated in several group shows throughout India between 1994 and 1999. More recently, his works have been exhibited at ‘Expressions New York’ held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, in 2002; and at the Harmony Show at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, in 2003. His works are in prestigious private collections around the globe. In India, his works may be viewed at the Roopankar Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, the Jindal Art Foundation and at RPG Enterprises, both in Mumbai.
Bhattacharya lives and works in Mumbai.
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Born
September 17, 1973
Bhilai
Education
1998 Masters in Painting, Indore School of Fine Arts, Indore
1996 Bachelors in Painting, Indore School of Fine Arts, Indore
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Institute Of Contemporary Indian...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Institute Of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai
2003 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 Studio 51J, Mumbai
2002 Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009-10 'On Canvas -1', Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi
2009 'Beyond the Form', Bajaj Capital Art House; Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 Passage Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 Polka Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Organized by Red Earth Gallery at Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 Bentley Show, Polka Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007 Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2007 'Young Guns', ICIA, Mumbai
2007 Art Musings, Mumbai
2007 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ICIA, Mumbai
2007 Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore
2007 Kitab Mahal, Mumbai
2005 'New Colors of Sumukha', Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2005 National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2005 Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 Art Musings, Mumbai
2003 Organized by RPG at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2002 India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2002 Expressions, New York
2001 'Anadi', National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
2000 'Anadi', National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
1999 'Abstract Painters, Lakreen Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Nehru Center, Mumbai
1999 Millenieum Art Show at Rabindra Bhawan organized by
M.E.C. Art Gallery.
1998 Exhibition dedicated to J Sawaminathan at M.P Kala Parishad, Bhopal
1998 Art Indus, New Delhi
1997 'Rang Darshani', Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal
1995 Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad, Bhopal
1995 Fine Arts from Madhya Pradesh, New Delhi
1995 Exhibition organised by North Central Zone Cultural Centre (NCZCC), Allahabad
1995 The Gallery, Chennai
1994 Omkareshwar, Bhopal
1994-98 Eight Group Shows at Deolalikar Kala Vithika, Indore
Participations
2003,04,06 'Harmony Show', Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1994 Rupankar, Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal
1993,94,95,96,97 Indore
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