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About the Artist

Kalicharan Gupta was born in Haryana and has studied at Jamia Millia Islamia & College of Art, New Delhi and Kanpur University. Looking at the canvasses we realize that Kalicharan is giving us a visual narrative of tackling issues of the environment, fine lines and colour zones and dark and light tonalities sometimes spookily rendered, give rise to thoughts of global warming and man’s current rate of effect on planet Earth. With his From the Window series it is as if he has painted the sky and the scene that is reflected in chaotic confusion. Closer scrutiny shows that we could think of many things –it could be a factory in the distance that pumps out smoke, while in the foreground a smog of infinite details beckon us and we could imagine it being observed by a tethered sparrow resting on a withered branch.

His Celebration series makes us think of how human beings have been recording their own existence and experiences at least since the creation of the cave paintings. Embellished through ritual and passed on through generations, myths and tales have formed beliefs and offered escape from the mundane. The vehicle of story enhances empathy and creates catharsis while giving the viewer the opportunity to suspend disbelief through the medium of visual narrative. Kalicharan’s Celebration series gives us the dichotomy. Here are abstractions that are born out of experience –and in each canvas the artist is telling us about varied stories of origin, answering questions displayed in tandem with the meaning of existence.