Rao Kodanda
New Works
October 11 - November 1, 2008
Kolkata
Basist Kumar and Rao Kadonda
October 11th to November 1st, 2008
Bose Pacia Kolkata is pleased to present the work of two young and very talented painters. On large canvases, both meld figurative imagery with abstract passages, refined color with textural applications, iconography with personal expression. Both painters have only started to exhibit their works.
Basist Kumar is from New Delhi, where he received a BFA from the College of Art. He is now pursuing his MFA at the Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan, which he will complete early in 2009. His large-scale diptych paintings pair a human portrait with an abstracted element, sometimes geometric, sometimes organic, always with reference to nature. The two sides of the painting share a subdued palette and the shimmering expanses of sky or water. Painstakingly detailed and aggressively confrontational, Basist's paintings have the feel of Science Fiction, so other-worldly are his precise compositions and silvery skin tones.
Rao Kadonda, a native of Andra Pradesh, received a BFA in Vizag before studying for his MFA in Baroda. Trained as a printmaker, his paintings exploit highly-charged colors in unusual combinations within a fluid application technique. His subjects include figures, still lifes and genre scenes, but his landscapes stand out for their observation of the human condition. In all of Rao's works, blocks of saturated color melt and fold into one another, coalescing into readable forms, only to dissipate and dissolve again into pure pigment.
Bose Pacia Kolkata is a partnership between two galleries: Bose Pacia in New York (est. 1994) and Nature Morte in New Delhi (est. 1997). The gallery is open everyday from 11 to 7 and closed on Mondays. For more information and press photographs, please contact Bhavana Agnihotri at 9836287111
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