Four acclaimed artists - Aditya Basak, Chandra Bhattacharjee, Jaya Ganguly and Samir Aich - have portrayed their depictions of Mahabharat at an ongoing exhibition at the Birla Academy of Art & Culture. While Jaya Ganguly built her paintings around her construal of incidents in the epic, Samir Aich saw himself as a strident warrior in Kurukshetra. For Aditya Basak, the Mahabharat was the world’s most egregious genocide whereas Chandra Bhattacharjee’s empathy was with the inevitable loneliness of the epic heroes. A special thematic score for this exhibition has been arranged by renowned composer Shri Debojyoti Mishra.
While 20 paintings will be on display at the Birla Academy of Art & Culture till November 17, simultaneously, a set of 25 small format works will be exhibited at Gallery Charubashona in the Jogen Choudhury Centre for Arts from November 11-17.
