KNMA presents Re-citing land Ganesh Haloi : Six Decades Of Painting

In Words of Ms. - Roobina Karode, curator of the exhibition: Resonating with the artist’s practice, curatorially, the show is conceived as a kaleidoscope, evoking Haloi’s inscape of shifting configurations and vantage points. The artist is invested in capturing the imperceptible quality of the experience itself, which ceaselessly forms and re-forms in the unmitigated flow of time, quite like a ‘thoughtwriter’, unfolding new and free-flowing perceptions, not confined to the artist alone. What one encounters today while looking at a vast mine of painterly evocations accumulated through 60 years or more is both a discovery and a struggle, a flux, where the surprise of life is depicted as a cryptic weave of sightings and reciting.

Ganesh Haloi (b.1936) was born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). He moved to Calcutta in 1950 following the Partition of India. The trauma of displacement left its mark on his work as it did on some other painters of his generation. Since then his art has exhibited an innate lyricism coupled with a sense of nostalgia for a lost world. In 1956, he graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta. In the next year, he was appointed by the Archaeological Survey of India to make copies of Ajanta murals. Seven years later, Haloi returned to Calcutta. From 1963 until his retirement, he taught at the Government College of Art and Crafts. He has been a Member of The Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta since 1971.

Exhibition on view till: 11th January 2023

Exhibition Venue: Jehangir Nicholson Gallery Second Floor, East Wing Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, 159/161, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort, Mumbai 400023

Timings: 10:15 am - 6 pm Open on all days