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A tribute to an artist

Bindu Shajan

NEW DELHI: "Lyrical Mudra", a retrospective of prints, drawing and paintings by celebrated artist Sanat Kar, will open at Visual Arts Gallery of India Habitat Centre here this coming Tuesday, August 1.

The five-day exhibition is being brought to Delhi by Gallerie Navya, which was earlier mounted at Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai in collaboration with Gallery Akar Prakar of Kolkata and Gallery ArtsIndia of New York. The exhibition will travel to New York in October.

Born in Kolkata, Sanat Kar's career spans over half a century as print-maker, painter, sculptor and teacher. This exhibition pays tributes to all these dimensions of Sanat Kar, an artist and an academician. Sanat Kar was also a professor and principal of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan.

"The clear lyrical nuances in his lines and the hand mudras that have been long associated with the traditions of classical art of sculpture, paintings and dance, form an integral part of the artist's style. We are exhibiting 70 pieces of his work," says the director of Gallerie Navya, Tripat K. Kalra.

As an artist, Sanat Kar did not restrict himself to just exhibiting his works, although he has participated in a considerable number of solo and group shows at home and internationally. While following the more traditional practice of printmaking as opposed to the digital or photographic techniques followed, the artist even within this framework has developed techniques of wood and cardboard intaglio and engraving on san mica.

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