Artist Kalicharan Gupta's splendid style and rich play with colours are interwoven with emotions and experiences. His intriguing, colourful figures and black and white impressions are on for view here in the capital.The show titled, "Selected works by Kalicharan Gupta" is on at Art Konsult, Hauz Khas Village, till April 18.The selected works announce a sudden feeling of adaptation to a new environment, habitat, and societal structure -- a caressed bondage. They bring out realism by representing the agony, anguish, and displeasure lives of the downtrodden.The artworks enunciate the making of an artist -- one who is well rooted to his motherland and has developed his sense of ideation with the environment that has affected his mindset. Gupta has advanced towards a fast-moving city life in search of an identity, to nurture his dreams, and to embrace new surroundings.
He feels that his journey to the land of Sauras (a tribe of Orissa) taught him the importance of the self, indigenous culture and their naive relationships. "Over the years my works were born out of my observations of people that I saw in places I had visited," Gupta said. "I have always had an interest in studying populations wherever I went. Owing to that interest, my observations always went deeper into their lifestyles and the simplicity of their everyday being," he added.Each of his paintings portrays vibrancy infused with subtlety -- depicting an energetic precision and expressing a wonderment of rhymes and rhythms existing within him.The exhibition is linked to a larger commentary on urban living. Through the little granular strokes, he tries to examine the root cause and repercussions of themes such as urban expansion, migration, climate change, and popular icons in minutiae. "With man's progressive commoditisation, art has to sacrifice some of its loftier ideals," said the artist. "The grainy texture is the overview of life in a metropolis that is truly uncanny given the stillness and inanimate quality of his subjects even as he unravels moorings in an urban jungle," he added.