Journey in the Painter's world...Art Fair 4 featuring Niladri Mahajan

Art Fair 4 presents Niladri Mahajan in A journey in the painter's world....

In Niladri's paintings reality filtrates down in a deeper realm of consciousness, a well-balanced proportion between generalness and peculiarity. They represent universe as being organized in geometric forms from which observed irregularities and impurity; boredom and randomness give away to underlying equilibrium, “ the inner spirituality of things” as he says.

 

Art is to Niladri's  the synthesis of our experience, observation and their meaningful production of aesthetic objects by using skill and creative imagination, an expression of our inner and outer world which we inhabit in living a life- may it be real or transformed. It depicts the uniqueness of an artist’s thought process and their presentations in the terms of lines, form, space, colour, shape, silence and utterance as the spatial constraints. 

"Life is a chance to meet the limitless possibilities. We are here to fulfill our meanings, be it immediate or distant. We hope, dream and live for to achieve that state. And it is our journey, the moments of travelling make us happy… whether we reach our destination or not."

-Niladri Mahajan

We are glad to have Niladri as one of our talented artists paving the way. A writer,port and a painter.....the world seems to be listening to the creatives....a heart to heart with the painter.

Have you exhibited your works before? 

I have not exhibited before and starting it with ART FAIR, so excited a lot; for communicating with the world around me with a new language and new arrays of thought, that has been my childhood passion and the dream across a spread… my paintings – my belongings and existence.

 

Tell us something about what you do?

I am a counseling psychologist and live in Kolkata. Recently I also did a Masters in Computational Biology. I hold a diploma in Fine Arts and trained in Dhrupad and Western Classical Music. I like to do gliding and scuba diving, have a strong inclination towards photography and cinema; astronomy and artificial intelligence, a team member of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) of University of California, Berkley. Afternoon walks are my favorite and the changing seasons. I write poem both in English and Bengali.

I think Kolkata is a magical city. Being brought up here always make you feel an aura of nothingness and nostalgia; mingling between the ordinary and uncommon, a sharp and hazy delineating boundary of a singular life story that you can found here. Art here is the heartbeat of life. Many prestigious galleries, artists, events and our ADDA are woven in daily life and the transference. You can spend years here without even slightly aware of time, space and your orientations and think it’s just yesterday you are here.  

How did Art came to you and became your passion?

I started my drawing when around thirteen years old. I spent my childhood observing and absorbing the colour, form and nuances of Dutch masters like Vermeer, Rembrandt. They are the all-time favorites of mine. Lately but specially Cezanne, Monet, Degas, Theo Van Doesberg, Franz Kline and Rodin.

My works are a synthesis of philosophy of DE STIGL, modernity of OP ART and unique colour gradients of ABSTRACT EXPRESSENISM, rich intrigues of hues as seen in INDIAN KANGRA MINIATURES. These are the very essence of my influence that incite me to draw and paint by creating a filtered reality that can be found in Ragas, in their inherent abstract but meaningful association with our world.

 

What you like to work on?

Apart from abstract I love a lot portrait, landscape and still life, particularly in watercolour and pencil.

What is creativity to you?

Hmmm… though creativity does not has any watertight compartments; as till now I didn’t blend my poetry with paintings very much, though some epiphenomenal occurrences are there. Somewhere and somehow they are confluent but in paintings I am experimenting with a particular genre that magnifies, represents and obliterates our day to day experiences and humane archetypes.

"I meet Sufia, our Curator, “THE LITTLE ENTERPRENEUR OF ART” at a book launch, since then we are friends. Its only one year and I noticed some exceptional qualities in her as a connoisseur, organizer and artist. She is very down to Earth; always the girl next-door and an intellectual who likes to lend her every effort for the expanded world around her. A balanced working example of left and right hemisphere. And I am really looking forward to Art Fair and excited to met all the other artists.."

 If you have loved and cherished art and artists, then we expect you to grace Art Fair from 26th to 30th April'15 in Chemould Art gallery, 12 f parkstreet, park mansion, near giggles.

And enjoy five days with singers,musicians,poetry and art because Art Fair is where art meets appreciators....

Curated by Sufia Khatoon