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Shyamal Mukherjee
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Shyamal Mukherjee is an artist who has spent his entire life in Calcutta, only venturing out to attend showings of his works, and only speaking in Bengali. He was born there in 1961, and spent all of his college years in Santiniketan, first completing his BFA in 1987, and then his MFA in 1989 from the Rabindra Bharati University.
In Mukherjee`s work, we see the Bengal School strong figurative tradition being carried ahead and...
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Shyamal Mukherjee is an artist who has spent his entire life in Calcutta, only venturing out to attend showings of his works, and only speaking in Bengali. He was born there in 1961, and spent all of his college years in Santiniketan, first completing his BFA in 1987, and then his MFA in 1989 from the Rabindra Bharati University.
In Mukherjee`s work, we see the Bengal School strong figurative tradition being carried ahead and interpreted in a very contemporary idiom. Mukherjee says he loves to travel alone in new places on buses and trains since, "Most of my inspiration comes from observing people." It`s not surprising that every figure in his body of works has a separate and interesting story to tell. Most of the people Mukherjee paints are performers of some type, putting on an act for everyone else - something all of us do everyday of our lives. Mukherjee`s figures are dressed in the bright, almost gaudy orange, red and green costumes that street performers wear, but their eyes are gazing and drawn, their faces almost cartoon like and their fingers podgy, making the irony and pathos that surrounds them extremely evident. For one of his recent shows in Mumbai, the artist decided to use beggars and street vendors as the subject of his works, essaying their pitiable condition in his trademark style.
The artist also likes to focus on the fact that each individual has a great deal in common with every other one. This is why he paints people in pairs or larger groups, highlighting that though they are physically separate and unlike each other, there is no real difference between their characters and behaviours.
Mukherjee`s favourite medium is reverse oil or acrylic painting on transparent acrylic sheets, and he swears that although he may change his themes and subjects, inventing new ones for new shows, he will never give up painting in this medium. Although Mukherjee loves to paint, he says he has many other hobbies. He teaches children in his spare time, and says that he learns more from them than they realize. He also collects rural artworks and the crafts of Bengali artisans.
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Born
1961
Kolkata
Education
1989 Master of Fine Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009-10 Galleria, New Delhi
2006...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009-10 Galleria, New Delhi
2006 Art ‘N’ Soul, New Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 ‘The Human Psyche’, Galleria, New Delhi
2001 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai, Kolkata
2008 ‘Art from Bengal’, Art Elements Gallery, New Delhi
2001 Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2001 Galleria, Mumbai
2000 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai.
2000 Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2000 Galleria, Mumbai.
2000 Vinyasa Art Gallery, Chennai.
1999 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1999 Pegasus Art Gallery, New Delhi.
1999 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai.
1999 Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai.
1999 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
1999 Vinyasa Art Gallery, Chennai
1999 Art Today, New Delhi.
1998 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 Vinyasa Art Gallery, Chennai.
1997 Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai.
1997 Arpana Caur's Art Gallery, New Delhi.
1997 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1996 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai
1995 Variety at Gallery La Mere, Kolkata
1992 Tata Centre, Kolkata
1992,95 Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendra, Kolkata
1991 ‘Encounter’, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1991 ‘Introduction’, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1991 ‘New Generation’, The Centre Art Gallery, Kolkata
1990 ‘Encounter’, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1985-90 Academy Mid Summer Exhibition; West Bengal State Arts Exhibition
Participations
1997 Art Access Week, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai
1994 Friendship'94, Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Kolkata
1992 Friendship'92, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1985-98 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Arts and Culture
1985-90 Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1985-90 Annual Exhibition, Indian Society of Oriental Arts, Kolkata
1996 Monsoon Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
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