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| Artist
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| Ajit Chakraborty |
| Born: | 1930, Chittagong (now in Bangladesh).
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| Art education: | Govt. College of Art & Craft, Calcutta, 1954 and Vysokaskola Umelec Koprumuslova, Prague. Spent three years in Prague in 1958-61 under "Exchange of scholars programme" between India and Czechoslovakia.
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| Present Occupation: | Professor of sculpture, Kala Bhavana Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.
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| Exhibitions participated in: | Indian Arts exhibitin in 1962-63 in London and Edinburgh; Sao Paulo Biennale in 1969 and 1971; II eme Biennale International De La Petite Sculpture, Budapest, 1973; "Modern Asian Art-India, China & Japan", Fuknoka Art Museum, Japan, 1979; 1st (1968), IInd (1972) and IIIrd (1975). Indian Triennale of World Art, New Delhi and many other at the national level and group shows in the country.
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| Award: | AIFACS, New Delhi, 1962. |
| Solo exhibitions: | Prague, 1961, Calcutta, 1962 & 1972, New Delhi, 1965 & 1970. Member of Society of Contemporary Artists since 1961.
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| Mail to: | Kala Bhavana, P.O. Santiniketan-731235, West Bengal.
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| Quote-Unquote |
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"One may or may not agree with my creative thinking my method but nobody would deny that I am committed to both sculpture and painting; my commitment comes from a very intrinsic urge. The reactions of the connoisseur, ranging from praise to criticism, always work upon me as the necessary feedback which goes a long way in shaping my professional obligations.
In sculpture, I feel inclined to the unending quest of three dimensional tactility in order to ensure the impact of forms. The means that help me create the forms for my sculpture are never conclusive; they are rather elusive. Materials, be they meant for a glyptic or a plastic piece of sculpture, offer me ample scope for re-thinking, back and ahead.
In painting, things are more or less emotionally handled by me. The kind of method that I pursuer in painting presently has overcome the so-called limitations which confronts me in my sculpture. Painting, to me, is an opportunity where I breathe freely and where I prefer not to super-impose any ideas which I nurture so carefully and fondly in making sculptures. There are a good many painters-sculptors and vice versa who explore the root of creative imagination. I modestly venture to achieve this end."
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