Solo Exhibition of Subimalendu Bikash Sinha

Atanu Basu

In the field of Visual Art, Dr K G Subrsmanyan was made an UGC Emeritus Fellow in 1989. After him, SubimalenduBikash Sinha became the sole recipient of this honour when he was selected as a fellow in 2013 and till date, Sinha remains the only fellow in this field. He taught in Government Art College and Indian Art College as well, as a reader and later on, as the Principal. Though his forte was drawing and painting, he authored numerous articles and books on aesthetics, which are scattered in a number of journals in various parts of the country. He trained himself from the BanasthaliVidyapithGyanVijnanMahavidyalaya of Jaypur in the Jayapuri Fresco. In 1982, he trained himself in Italian Tempera. Very recently, in Academy of Fine Arts, his solo exhibition was organised under the theme: Verseof Line.The exhibition showcased about a hundred of his works in lines displaying his prowess in the realm of void feelings through drawings and paintings with a neat partition of the two media. His drawings of nude female figures, had expressed more a poetic sense and a rhythm than an open nudity per se. In a two dimensional surface, with black, sharp and thick lines he had presented his work which transcends beyond open nudity, and there lies his poetic rhythm. He does not attract his viewers with calculated twists, but with beautification through a human figure and this was his uniqueness. There were no symbolic character in the sense of applied art present in his work; the individual pieces were an amazing abstraction mingled into a pleasing composition giving rise to a rare aesthetic quality.

In his drawings, where solid black lines and tonal variations are quite apparent, he used dot tone, vignette, sometimes scratches to achieve variations with absolute brilliance. Particular pieces worth mentioning are the portraits of Arabinda, Rabindranath, BangabandhuMujibur. One would be filled with an ecstasy, an elation when one views his series of running animals, particularly the pieces depicting frogs, ducks and birds. His use of brush, nib, pen, sketch pen, felt pen, marker pen in rendering the lines are undoubtedly things to be remembered.

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Vol 57, No. 26, Dec 22 - 28, 2024