Emami Chisel Art Blog

Violence is the most archaic form of human expression and existence. The early man perpetrates violence on Nature for the benefit of his own existence. This was the beginning of the conflict between Man and Nature. As civilization progressed, man learned ills of violence, but still continued in some form or other. As things stand now the early conflict between man and nature, has changed into MAN v/s MAN, CIVILIZATION v/s CIVILIZATION, RACE v/s RACE, CASTE v/s CASTE, RELIGION v/s RELIGION, etc. One can give many names to this violence, to the extent that it can be labeled as Terrorism. The revolutions, wars, terrorism all use force to achieve their goals, but the devastation it leaves behind makes permanent scars on the human, political, psychological, economical, and social psyche . There are multiple effects of this devastation in every field of human activities including artists. How do we respond to such situations? There are art historical examples, were artists responding immediately/instantaneously and sometimes much later, when everything seems to have sunk in. Similarly the representation of such situation have varied and will vary, the technique and language of such representations can be as broad as possible.

Emami Chisel Art along with nine other galleries in Kolkata has decided to put up shows on the question of Terrorism/Violence in our lives. As an artist, one can go down the memory lane and retrieve old wounds/scares or to the immediate past to articulate our hopes, fears, anxieties, despairs, etc.

The   artists participating in the ECA show are Sumedh Rajendran, Masooma Syed, Naeem Mohaemen, Remen Chopra, Vivan Sunderam, Minal Damani, Subba Ghose, Pushpamala N, Maneswar Brahma, Vibha Galhotra, Ritendranath Roy, Indrani Nayar Gall, Abesh Bivore Mitra, Prajakta Potnis, Rima Kundu, Debashish Barui, Surekha, Amitava Battacharya, Soma Chakraborty, Mrinmoy Debbarma, Binu Baska, Anindita Dutta, Veer Munshi, Helen, Bill Davis, Katherine Jones, Sharmila Samant, Tushar Joag, Tapati Chowdhury, Savi Savarkar, Prasanta Sahu, Stefan Roemer, Biswaranjan Kar. This show will open on 3rd of April and will continue till 18th April 2009 at Emami Chisel Arts. Emami Tower, 687 Anandapur, E. M. Bypass. Kolkata 700 107 from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm daily except Sundays. 

Emami Chisel Art Pvt Ltd, proudly announces Ganesh Chandra Basu’s solo show, which is a tribute to art lovers and industrialists Shri R.S. Agarwal & Shri R. S. Goenka, Joint Chairman, Emami Group of Companies & Connosseur of Art. The Exhibition starts on 19th February, 2009 at 6 p.m. at Emami Chisel Art, Emami Tower, 687, Anandapur. E.M. Bypass, Kolkata – 700107 and we will be on show till 4th March 2009.

Gen Next III, an exhibition of young and talented artist was held at Aakriti Art Gallery from October 1st to 15th, 2008. Deviating from the earlier two Gen Next shows, it conceived of organizing an event, which did not just showcase fresh talents but could look for stimulus through to other accompanying events like the artist camp which was held on 2nd and 3rd October at Emami Chisel Arts Pvt Ltd, as well as a half a day symposium which tried to raise questions on the recent issues related to Contemporary Indian Art. Apart from the Gen Next Artists, some of the senior artists like Aditya Basak, Amitava Dhar, Akhilesh,Chandra Bhattacharya,Chattrapati Dutta,Manish Pushkale,Partha Pratim Deb, Samindranath Majumdar, Sekhar Roy, Sunil De,Tapas Konar , Yogender Tripath also participated. Since it was a two day camp, all the artists were vigorously involved in finishing their work. Art critics and artists Shukla Sawant, Abha Seth, H.A. Anil Kumar, Prayag Shukla and others participated in the symposium.49 works produced during the camp is being exhibited at the Emami Chisel Art Gallery from 10th to 15th February 2009. Some of the artists names selected in the Gen Next III Exhibition and also participated in the Camp are Mathew Tom, Korou KH, Serena Scappagnini, Amit Kalla, Prandeep Kalita, Sutanuka Giri, Nantu Behari Das, Saptarshi Nashkar, Anirban Dasmahapatra, Ashraful Hasan and others.

Detail of the exhibition you can check online at
http://www.emamichisel.com/gennextlll_exhibition/gennextlll_01.htm