CELEBRATE GOAN ART

SAMIR AICH

 
 

 

 

 

Artist Profile

BEGINNINGS

Born in Calcutta, West Bengal. Presently member of the General Council, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Lives and works in Kolkata.

EDUCATION

  • 1978 Graduated from Govt. College of Art and Craft, Calcutta.

EXHIBITIONS

1980 First group exhb., Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. 1981 Group exhb., Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. 1983 Group exhb., Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. 1984, 85, 88, 89, 90, 91, 96 Solo exhb., Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. 1986 Solo exhb., Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay. 1987 All India Youth Art Exhb., Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta. 1988 Young Faces in Contemporary Indian Art, organised by Lalit Kala Akademi, Regional Centre, Calcutta. 1988 Group exhb., Galerie 88, Calcutta. 1990 Solo exhb., Galerie 88, Calcutta. 1991 Solo exhb., Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay. 1991 Bengal Art Today organised by Galerie 88, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay. 1992 Contemporary Bengal Art, Madras. 1992 The Voyage, Gallery Om, New Delhi. 1993 Group exhb. in Singapore. 1993 Solo exhb., Apparao Gallery, Madras. 1994 Solo exhb., Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta. 1995 Group Exhb. in Calcutta and New Delhi. 1996 Exhb. in Paris. 1997 Sculpture show, Academy of Fine A

COLLECTION

National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Art Museum, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata. Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.

STYLE

Samir Aich is a tireless experimenter and has been busy accomplishing apparently impossible things. He has sought to `figurate` abstract concepts such as the primordial force of Nature, or its earthly counterpart, the animal spirit. Earlier on, his work depicted these concepts in the shape of a variety of awe - inspiring imagery. Such depictions of elemental mass and energy provided the viewer an initial cue to the inner world of this indefatigable painter, he soon shifted his plane of visual expression by endeavoring to accomplish another near impossibility, namely articulating in terms of the black pigment covering virtually the whole of the canvas space. One finds an echo of what the great Turner had tried to do when he wanted to picturise the night itself...

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