Sakti Burman
One of India’s finest contemporary artists, Sakti Burman is a painter, sculptor and lithographer. His paintings are a tapestry of mythic and fantasy content and rich colours. Born in Kolkata in 1935, Sakti Burman studied at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata, and later at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Burman uses pointillism and a marbling technique achieved by blending oils with acrylics to create fresco-like works on paper and canvas. Burman’s paintings often evoke a surrealist universe, with its unique imagery drawn extensively from Hindu and European mythology as well as from the private reservoir of artist’s own memories. Populated by humans, animals and cityscapes that have a dream-like element to them, Sakti ...
One of India’s finest contemporary artists, Sakti Burman is a painter, sculptor and lithographer. His paintings are a tapestry of mythic and fantasy content and rich colours. Born in Kolkata in 1935, Sakti Burman studied at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata, and later at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Burman uses pointillism and a marbling technique achieved by blending oils with acrylics to create fresco-like works on paper and canvas. Burman’s paintings often evoke a surrealist universe, with its unique imagery drawn extensively from Hindu and European mythology as well as from the private reservoir of artist’s own memories. Populated by humans, animals and cityscapes that have a dream-like element to them, Sakti Burman’s paintings are fine specimens of surrealism. His defining oeuvre owes largely to his technique of marbling, which he arrived at after years of experimentation. Burman travelled to Italy in 1958 and his encounter with the frescoes of Giotto, Piero de la Francesca and Simone Martini inspired him to assimilate their monumentality and textures in his works. The artist had his first solo exhibition in 1954 in Kolkata, and has since exhibited widely across the world including at venues like the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Piccadilly Gallery, London; Galerie Doucet et Coutureau, Paris; Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan; and Galerie Sagar, Zurich.
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