Discover art, past and present with two exhibitions travelling to Bangalore this week

Discover art, past and present with two exhibitions travelling to Bangalore this week

Young at Art

Mithun Dasgupta, a 29-year-old talented Bengali artist has managed to grab the attention of the art world with his surreal pieces of work.
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A winner of a couple of awards from the West Bengal government, Dasgupta's work Illusions is showing at the Right Lines art gallery.

Dasgupta told us in a phone interview that he often looks back on his past experiences, childhood and surroundings for inspiration that is reflected on his present canvases.

Dasgupta's art has more to it than what meets the eye. In his own words he has a style of burying a story within a story in his creations.
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Dasgupta himself admits to placing double entendres in his canvas. He said, "My paintings have an overall subject but with a closer look you'll see a totally different story."

The artist's method of expressing himself centers on the identity crisis and cultural war that's drowning the country's young.
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Dasgupta commented on the subject and said, "I can no longer recognise my own people, our rich Indian culture has been merged with foreign mores and it is creating an identity crisis."

Visitors to the gallery can look forward to some disturbing and eerie expressions of modern Indian images juxtaposed with war, cultural and colonial symbols and their decay.u00a0u00a0
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At: Right Lines Art Gallery, Indiranagar
On: April 7 to April 15
Call: 2527 2827u00a0

Time Travel
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Look at eighteenth century India through the eyes of artists like Thomas Daniell and his nephew William who traveled through the country studying the culture of the land.
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Or live through the pre-independence era with John Lockwood Kipling, the father of famed author Rudyard Kipling.

Or with Balthazar Solvyns, the Flemish artist, who's little known collection of etchings on the life of Hindus in India can be seen at the travelling exhibition: Indian Life and Landscape by Western Artists.

Travelling from the famed Victoria and Albert Museum, London this exhibition is coming to Bangalore's National Gallery of Modern Art.

u00a0The artists featured in this exhibition are acquainted with India and their experience of travelling through the country is the subject of this display and offer a glimpse into the past that made India what it is today.

At: National Gallery of Modern Art, Palace Road
On: April 9 to May 23
Call: 2224 0767