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Sakti Burman - Untitled
Watercolour on Paper
30 x 20 inches
Born : 1935 Kolkata
Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris
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 feel, referencing multiplicities of time and place. His art drew extensively from Hindu and European mythology, as well as from the artist’s own memories. Suggesting surrealism, his paintings are populated by humans, animals and cityscapes that are dreamlike in appearance. 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.
Burman has participated in several shows, some of the most recent including The Beholder’s Share by Jehangir Art Gallery and Art Musings in Mumbai in 2016; A Private Universe by Art Alive Gallery in New Delhi in 2015; Rituals and Reasons: Invoking the Sensual in Art, at Apparao Galleries in Chennai in 2014; The Wonder of it All, a retrospective exhibition by Pundole Art Gallery and Apparao Galleries in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai in 2012, Archetype and Enraputured Gaze at Aicon Gallery in London and New York in 2009; Faces of Indian Art organised by Art Alive at the Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi; Understanding Oneness in Diversity at Kitab Mahal, Mumbai; An Evening in Paris …Rome…London at Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata; and Resonance organised by Art Musings at Museum Gallery, Mumbai, all in 2007. Burman was awarded the Medaille d’Argent au Salon de Montmorency and the Prix des Etrangers, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1956.
Sakti Burman lives and works in Paris.
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 'The Beholder’s Share', Jehangir Art Gallery and Art Musings, Mumbai
2015 'Sakti Burman 60's - 80's: The Divine Desire Paintings of Sakti Burman, Aakriti Art Gallery, New Delhi
2015 'A Private Universe;, presented by Art Alive Gallery at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2012 'Linear Extensions', Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2012 'The Wonder of it All', Retrospective Exhibition presented by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai and Apparao Galleries, Chennai at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata; Dakshina Chitra, Chennai
2011 'Yesterday Once Again', Apparao Galleries, Chennai
2011 'Pages From a Sketch Book', Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 Exhibition of Serigraphs, organized by the Serigraph Studio at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi; Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai; Apparao Galleries, Chennai; Sumukha Art Gallery, Bangalore
2009 'Archetype', Aicon Gallery, London
2009 'Encaptured Gaze', Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 'Encaptured Gaze', Jehangir Art Gallery; Art Musings, Mumbai in association with Aicon Gallery
2008 'Encaptured Gaze', Art Alive, New Delhi
2008 'Now and Then', Maison de l'Unesco, organized by United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at Salles Miro, Paris
2007 Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2006 Organized by organized by Pundole Art Gallery and Apparao Galleries in Chennai and at Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2006 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 ‘Retrospective’, organized by Apparao Galleries at Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2002 Organized by Art Today, New Delhi and Pudole Art Gallery, Mumbai at Art Today, New Delhi
2001 Organized by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai and Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2001 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Organized by Apparao Galleries at Atlantic Gallery, New York
1998 Salon d’ Automne, Paris, Espace Eiffel Branly
1997 Organized by The Town Hall at Cloitre de la Dame Blanche, La Rochelle
1997 Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris in Tokushima, Myazaki and Osaka
1996 Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris at Wakayama and Sapporo
1996 Organized by Apparao Galleries at Visual Art Center, Hong Kong
1995 The Gallery (Apparao Galleries), Chennai
1993 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1992 Centre of Contemporary Art, New Delhi
1992 ‘Hommage a Beaudelaire’, Galerie d’Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris
1990 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1989 Semaine Culturelle Indienne, Eaubonne, Val d’Oise
1989 Fondation Firmin Bauby, Perpignan
1989 XX eme Salon Du Grenier a Sel, Orleans
1988 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1988 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1988 Sista Art Gallery, Bangalore
1988 'Hommage a Rabindranath Tagore', Galerie d’ Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris
1988 Galerie Presences, Bruxelles
1986 Galerie Das Kunstabinett, Gogh, Allemagne
1986 Hotel de ville de Clermont –Ferrand, France
1986 Centre Culturel de la Ville d’ Agen
1985 Galerie Schemes, Lille Centre Cultural de Saint Denis Maison de Van Gogh, Auvets-sur-Oise Galerie Untenburg, Zurich
1984 Musee Denon, Chalon-sur-Saone, Galerie d’Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris
1984 Kunsthandlung Osper, Cologne
1983 Galerie Sagar, Zurich
1982 'Contes et Legendes', Galerie d’Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris
1982 Galleria Cecchini, Perugia
1982 Galleria Lame, Bologna
1981 Galerie de la Rue Ancienne, Geneva
1980 Galerie de Bernardi, Aachen, Musee de Blois, Musee de Villeneuve-sur-Lot
1979 Galerie Gerard Sauret, Libos
1978 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1978 Chanakya Art Gallery, New Delhi
1977 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1977 Kunika Chemould, New Delhi
1975 Galerie de l’Hotel Meridien, Nice
1974 Galerie Arts et Beaux-Arts de France, Paris
1973 Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Genoa
1971 Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan
1970 Galerie Doucet et Coutureau, Paris
1970 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1967 Piccadilly Gallery, London
1967 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1965 Kunika Chemould, New Delhi
1964 Scott and Faure Gallery, La Jolla, California
1963 Galerie Saint Placide, Paris
1962 Ashoka Gallery, Kolkata
1962 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1961 Piccadilly Gallery, London
1958 Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1956 Ecole des Beaux- Arts, France
1954 Art and Industry, Kolkata
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 'Rituals and Reasons: Invoking the Sensual in Art', Apparao Galleries, Chennai
2011-12 'Reprise 2011', Aicon Gallery, New York
2011 'Aureus 2011', Gallerie Nvya, New Delhi
2010 '10 x 10', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2010 'Dali's Elephant', Aicon Gallery, London
2010 'Besides Paris', Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2010 'The Living Insignia', Gallery Ensign, New Delhi
2010 'Modern Folk: The Folk Art Roots of the Modernist Avant-Garde', Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 'Think Small', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2007 'Faces of Indian Art', organized by Art Alive at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2007 ‘Understanding Oneness in Diversity’, Kitab Mahal, Mumbai
2007 ‘An Evening in Paris …Rome…London’, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
2007 'Mirror', Gallery Nvya, New Delhi
2007 'Resonance', organized by Art Musings at Museum Gallery, Mumbai
2006 'Shadanga', organized by Gallerie Ganesha at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2006 ‘Sensuality, Perception and the Self’, Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2006 'Making of Divinity', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2006 'Two 2 Tango', organized by Gallerie Nvya at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2006 'The New Space', Art Space, Dubai
2004 ‘Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings’ by Sakti Burman, Jayasri Burman, Maya Burman, Maite Delteil and Paresh Maity, organized by Visual Arts, London at Gallery 27, London
2004 ‘Confluence 2004’, AICON Gallery, New York
2004 'A Vision: Looking Back/ Looking Forward', Apparao Galleries, Chennai
2004 'Indian Artist for France', organized by French Embassy at Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
2003 'Works on Paper', organized by Gallery Threshold at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2003 ‘Mappings, Exciting New Links Between the Ancient Cultures of India and Egypt’, organized by Uttarayan, Baroda at Visual Art Gallery, India habitat Centre, New Delhi and Bayer ABS Limited Gallery, Vadodara
2003 ‘Portraits of a Decade’, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2003 ‘Celebration of Color’, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery and The Times of India, Mumbai, New Delhi
2003 ‘The Said and the Unsaid’, organized by The Committee of the Jehangir Art Gallery and Apparao Gallery, Mumbai
2003 ‘Shanti Path’, Tao Gallery, Mumbai
2003 'Master Strokes', Art Musings, Mumbai
2003 'Fair and Furious', organized by Art Alive at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2003 'The Celebration of Color', Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi and Times of India, Mumbai
2002 ‘Aspects of Modern Indian Painting’, New York organized by Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2002 ‘Return to Eden’, Art Musings, Mumbai
2001 ‘Three Burman’, Sakti, Maite and Maya, Art Today, New Delhi
2001 ‘Art of Bengal, Past and Present 1850-2000’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai and Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2001 ‘Burman’, Sakti, Maite, Maya’, Mediatheque du Lamentin, La Martinique
2001 ‘Indian Contemporary Art’, organized by Saffronart, Hongkong
2001 ‘Indian Contemporary Fine Art’, organized by Saffronart in collaboration with Apparao Galleries, Los Angeles
2001 ‘A Treasure Trove’, Paintings from B.K. Birla Family Collection, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2000 Sigmund Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’, organized by University Art Museum, Birghamton, New York
2000 Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna
2000 ‘Indian Art Through The Ages, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, organized by Indian Fine Arts Society, Singapore
2000 ‘The World Is Round And Time Is Cyclical’, Art Today, New Delhi
2000 ‘Paradise Revisited’, Art Musings, Mumbai
2000 ‘Shatabdi – Reflection on a Century Past’, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2000 Festival des Cinemas d’Asie, Salle des Ursulines, Vesoul
2000 ‘Paper’, an exhibition of works on paper, The Terrace Garden, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
2000 ‘The Family 3’, Sakti Burman, Maya Burman and Jayasri Burman, Apparao Galleries, Chennai
1998 Christie’s Auction, Indian Contemporary Paintings, London
1998 ‘Multimedia, Art of the 1900’s’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1998 ‘Within The Fame’, Apparao Galleries, Hongkong
1998 ‘The Art of Charity’, Mumbai
1997 Displayed along with works of Picasso, Chagall and Miro at Tokushima, Myazaki and Osaka, Japan
1997 ‘Chamatkar: The Indian Metaphor’, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata at Whitley’s Art Gallery, London
1995 Christie’s Auction, Indian Contemporary paintings, London
1995 ‘Autumn Exhibition’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata at All Indian Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1994 ‘Drawing 94’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
1993 ‘Helpage India’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1983 L’Art Fantastique, Musee de Belfort, France
1981 Figuration Actuelle, Chateau des Hayes, France
1980 Galerie Jean Marbach, Mulhouse
1980 Galerie Schemes, Lille, France
1980 Musee de Villeneuve – Sur- Lot, France
1980 Musee de Blois, France
1975 The Hermitage, Leningrad
1975 Pouchkine Museum, Moscow
1964 Chemould, Kolkata
Participations
2013 'The Naked and the Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 'Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art', from the Collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin at Museum Oglethorpe, Atlanta
2011 'Resonance', Art Musings, Mumbai
2011 'Celebrations 2011', Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Art Celebrates 2010', represented by Gallerie Ganesha at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the Commonwealth Games
2010 'Summer Show 2010', Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Celebration 2010', Annual Exhibition, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007 'Art Paris', Abu Dhabi
2007 'India Art 2007', organized by International Institute of Fine Arts at House of Lords, London
2007 Invited as 'Artist in Focus', at Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2007 ‘17th Anniversary Show’, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
2006 ‘17th Anniversary Group Show’, organized by Gallerie Ganesha at Gallerie Ganesha and The Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2006 'Harmony Show', Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2005 'Harmony Show', Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2005 'Spirit Set Free', Golden Jubilee Show, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
2003 Anniversary Exhibition, Art Musings, Mumbai
2002 'Palette 2002', Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
1998 ‘Harmony Show’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1984 International Graphic Art Exhibition, New Delhi
1982 V Internatinal Triennale, New Delhi
Honours and Awards
Medaille d’argent au Salon de Montmorency
1956 Prix des Etrangers, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Prix de la ville de l’Isle-Adam Medaille d’or, Salon des Artistes Francais, Grand Palais, Paris
Medaille arts, Science et Letters
Medaille au Salon de Juvisy
Invite d ’honneur, Colombes
Invite d’honneur, Douai Invite d’honneur, sainte-Maxime
Invite d’honneur, English Les Bains
Invite d ’honneur, Delle
- Creator:Sakti Burman (1935, Indian)
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Kolkata, IN
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU604313153492
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