WINDOWS, FRAMED
Drawings by K. G. Subramanyan
5 February – 28 February 2026.11 a.m. – 10 p.m.
At Waypoint
32b, Sarat Bose Raod, Calcutta 700 020
On view till Saturday, 28 February 2026.
[. . .] The notion of grid first came to him in New York where, since his studio space was small, he had to work on small canvasses and piece them together to gain in size. This led him to do Diptychs and triptychs; initially this was only a practical convenience but soon he began to see the formal possibilities it offered and made the concept a part of his compositional structuring, even using the form for the prints he made at Prat Institute. This concept continued in his paintings even after he returned to India, usually in the form of a window. The window/grid functioned as a geometrical counterpart to the organic / gestural and heightened its dramatic verve. As a see-through barrier it also served to make the viewers aware of their voyeuristic role.
—R. Siva Kumar
This exhibition is a small glimpse into K G Subramanyan’s windows and grids.
Myth and Reality Imagined
Bronze Sculptures by K.P. Soman
7 February – 28 February 2026. 11 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.
At Seagull Books Store
36c S. P. Mukherjee Road, Calcutta 700 025
On view till Saturday, 28 February 2026.
Myth and Reality Imagined is a recent body of small- format artworks by K. P. Soman. Here, the artist has experimented with the traditional method of bronze casting and folk elements to create a stirring myth of contemporary realities.
Born in Kottayam, Kerala, K. P. Soman first obtained a post-graduate degree in natural sciences, then transitioned to the plastic arts and trained in painting at the Kerala Institute of Arts.
He graduated in sculpture from MS University in Baroda in 1982. He lives and works in Kerala.
Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan and The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Kolkata, present
The Art of Suranjan Basu
[1957 – 2002]
20 February – 9 March 2026. 10.30 a.m. – 5.30 p.m.
At Nandan Gallery,
Kala Bhavana, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan
Born and brought up in Santiniketan, Suranjan Basu graduated from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, in 1980 and then attended Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, for his post diploma in 1982. Deeply engaged in printmaking—especially woodcuts—since the late 1970s, he participated in numerous collaborative experiments with artists in Kolkata until a Lalit Kala Akademi Research Grant (1983-84) led him to New Delhi’s Garhi studios where he integrated mural concepts into printmaking. After teaching at Gyan Bharati School for a few years, in 1990 he returned to his roots at Kala Bhavana and taught there for the rest of his life at the same time as he curated exhibitions and introduced digital media into the curriculum.
Basu played a key role in forming ‘The Realists’—an artists’ collective focused on socially engaged art practices. He also participated in numerous art camps and exhibitions across the country as well as exhibited abroad, in London, Bradford and Amsterdam
He passed away after a brief illness on 3 April 2002 in Santiniketan.
A posthumous retrospective was organised by the Realists in 2002 at Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, and by Seagull Foundation for the Arts in 2008 in Calcutta.
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The Idea of Belonging
The journal contains a compilation of talks delivered at the History for Peace annual conference held in Calcutta, August 2024.
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