Global InformationChittrovanu Mazumdar information
Chittrovanu Mazumdar | |
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| Born | 13 October 1956 Paris, France |
| Known for | Multimedia Installation Art, Conceptual Art, Painting |
| Notable work | "New Work" "... and undated: Nightskin" "And what is left unsaid ..." |
| Style | Eclectic; Expressionist |
Chittrovanu Mazumdar (born 13 October 1956) is a contemporary Indian artist of Bengali-Indian and French descent. Mazumdar has been described as a "conceptual artist"[1] and a "post-structuralist"[2] while some critics consider it difficult to classify his oeuvre into a single artistic tradition or even into any consistent genre of his own.[1] Mazudmar has referred to himself as an "expressionist painter"[3] but has also said he generally prefers not to use "a particular word to qualify" his work because it comprises different kinds of media and forms,[4][5] and that art is more interesting when fully given over to the viewer's own experience rather than constrained by the prescriptive power of labels.[4]
Born in Paris, Mazumder spent most of his childhood in Kolkata and in a remote area in rural Jharkhand. He received his initial art education from his father, the renowned Indian Modernist painter Nirode Mazumdar (1916 –1982) and later, at the Calcutta Government College of Art & Craft. He first rose to prominence as a painter in the 1980s and 1990s and transitioned to installation work in the mid to late 1990s. He has often collaborated with Seagull Publications to design books and with Kolkata-based theater groups to design performance spaces.[6] As of January 2015, he lives and works primarily in Kolkata and is associated with the 1X1 Gallery in Dubai. Major exhibitions of his work have been presented in Dubai, Kolkata, London, Mumbai, New Delhi, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Rome, Singapore and Salzburg, among other places. His paintings are housed in the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and in several private collections internationally.[7]
- ^ a b Chakravorty Spivak, Gayatri (2009). "Tracing the Skin of Day" (in Undated:Nightskin). Dubai: 1X1 Gallery.
- ^ Cielątkowska, Zofia Maria. "European Culture Congress: Fascination Is Not My Way of Being: Zofia Maria Cielątkowska Talks To Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak".
- ^ "Chittrovanu Mazumdar's Captivating Creations (Artist Profile2)". The Arts Trust. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
- ^ a b Johny ML. Methods of Memory and Materials for Recollecting. 1x1 Art Gallery. 2009.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
thirdwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hoskote, Ranjit (2004). Secrecy and Evidence: Reflections on Chittrovanu Mazumdar's Recent Works. The Seagull Foundation for the Arts.
- ^ Yusuf, Muhammad (29 May 2014). "A radical in Rome". Gulf Today.