‘Faces of Bengal’ puts a spotlight on Bengal artists of every era

The exhibition ‘Faces of Bengal’ at Hyderabad’s State Artwork Gallery recreates a mini Bengal for artwork lovers. With round 65 works on show, the distinctiveness of this group present (till April 7) is that 33 distinguished artists of Bengal ranging from the 50s have been featured. From Somnath Hore and Sukanta Das, Jogen Chowdhary, Suhas Roy and Subrata Gangopadhyay to Paresh Maity, Subrato Chowdhary, Subrata Das and Sunirmal Maity… the present has solely Bengali artists together with those practising in Hyderabad like Sumanto Chowdhury, Tanmay Santra and former bureaucrat Chandana Khan.

By Paresh Maity
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Curator Susanta Das is worked up at organising his first present in Hyderabad. “I’ve heard concerning the artwork, artists and artwork lovers of this place; This assortment relies on the works of some grasp painters from the post-independence interval to the current. All of the artists taking part on this exhibition are well-known and proficient,” he says. A lot of the works are from his assortment and a few others are from the artists.

Susanta has been planning the present for the previous six months. Initially, he had deliberate the present in Pune, the place he had hosted an analogous present in 2018. “I’ve curated exhibitions throughout India however by no means within the South. Now after I received a possibility I made a decision to begin from Hyderabad,” he says including that Chandana Khan performed an enormous half in bringing the present right here. “ It is because of her assist that this present grew to become a actuality.”