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Brush with creativity - artists share platform

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NAMITA PANDA Published 12.09.13, 12:00 AM

Bhubaneswar, Sept. 11: Promising artists from three east Indian states have come together with a creative platter of paintings and sculptures at an exhibition under way at Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi in the city.

The 3G group, as they call themselves, include six artists — each from Tripura and Assam — and five from Odisha. The youngsters have explored subjects as versatile as the nature, human mind, society or just abstract images. One of the most unique elements in the displays is the usage of exclusive medium for the art.

The Sunflower series by Sonali Mishra of Bhubaneswar is made of close dots filled in with various shades throughout the paper. Bhubaneswar boy Soumya Ranjan Nayak, in his eight frames of Dream in Kitchen, uses the peelings of onions and garlic, dried chillies and bay leaves to depict interesting images. “I have not defined the images thus formed very clearly, so that the viewer may get intrigued and decide for himself. But yes, there are few forms that came into my mind when I observed these peelings,” said the artist.

Rumki Dutta from Tripura has created a spiritual scene in Shelter After Death. She has chosen softer shades and used thick textures to make her work attractive. All her works have a symbolic image of umbrella.

Dream by Prasenjit Debnath, also from Tripura, is a series of paintings with thick acrylic paint used to create flowers. Biswajit Dutta and Sagar Roy from Assam have used a variety of shades to depict human behaviour. While Dutta shows greed in the image of a chair, Roy captures the innocence of childhood in My Child.

Artist Parameswar Samal has created a view full of glowing fireflies at night. “This is exactly how a city looks like from an aerial viewpoint in the evening,” he said.

The most appreciated work so far in the exhibition is Sudhi Ranjan Maharatha’s ceramic work on fish. While in some sculptures he shows freshly caught prawn and fish ready for sale, in others there are bundles of fishes mostly to be taken home by the fisherman. The sculptures — all in ceramic and fibre — depict cats waiting to taste the fish.

The exhibition concludes on September 15.

It was also displayed in Calcutta at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture last week.

“This is our second year of working together. There is a lot we learn from each other and also it is wonderful to see the encouragement by viewers here,” said Jayanta Paul, another talented artist from Tripura.

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