A Painter’s Portrait: Gogi Saroj Pal, Nilima Sheikh and Arpita Singh

December 19, 1997 | 6.30 pm
Little Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

This film is a series of portraits of five distinguished artists in Indian Contemporary Art who have contributed significantly to the growth of modern Indian Art. Produced and directed by K. Bikram Singh, the film traces the biographical and artistic journeys of each artist.

Jogen Chowdhury is known for his ability to successfully intersperse traditional imagery with ideas/ nuances of modern painting, in a dexterous combination of an urbane self-awareness and a highly localized Bengali influence.

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, a painter, art historian, writer and a poet, paints on formats ranging from hand-held paper to architectural scale, to bring the world he knows, sees and seeks, into his life; to illumine it in its complexities and contradictions, reinventing art history while painting.

Gogi Saroj Pal experiments with diverse mediums such as installation, painting, sculpture, graphic print, ceramics, jewellery, weaving and photography. The artist’s life and cultural identity is significant in her creative process, and she seeks to evolve and leave behind creative visual symbols as references to our times.

Amitava Das relishes in art its capacity to express an artist’s inner feelings. An eclectic spirit, his artistic agenda caters neither to moral and social obligations and his works always appear to be in transition without conforming to a particular style. He chooses the path of creative liberty and strives constantly for the autonomy of artistic expression.

Manu Parekh’s paintings provoke viewers to take notice of the world around them, through the emotion, pain and anguish expressed in the subjects of his paintings. The energy of the organic form, the inherent sexuality within these forms, are some of the elements in his work.