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It has been said a countless times but needs to be said again:
Paramjit Singh is India’s finest landscape artist.
After an absence of nine years, this is Singh’s third one-man show in Kolkata.
Landscape painting, whether in oils or water colours, has been relegated to the back benches of Art. But this does not diminish the skills and value of the art form.
Consider, depicting Nature, treating it to twenty myriad perspectives, light and texture and with each work, creating something powerful, original and virtually real.
Landscapes can be either paintings of an actual site, realistically portraying nature; or it can be to depict the experience of being in that place in the painting. Paramjit Singh’s art, belongs to the latter definition. He takes the viewer to the space and not vice-versa. Singh’s works are multiple, refracted memories; light is an important aspect of landscape Art, with Singh, light is used to rekindle memory. It isn’t only light but also, movement, sound and texture which make Singh’s canvasses lavish, romantic descriptions. The paintings revive our sense of nostalgia for nature and its beauties. By painting beauty, Paramjit Singh, does not simplify - the complexity comes through the sensations we experience while watching his paintings. There is both an attraction for the tangible world (of nature) and a rejection of the peril in nature – or nature in peril.
Paramjit Singh’s talent lies in how he immortalizes through Art, our memories of moments of sheer beauty.
For exhibition information: Gayatri Sharma [cimacal@vsnl.com]
For enquiries: Animesh Dey [cimagallery@dataone.in] |
