An urban treat in rural maneuver

Anukul Chandra Majumdar, a young creative painter presents 35 recent paintings at his 11th solo exposition “An Urban Treat in Rural Maneuver”, that began on September 12 at the Shilpangan Gallery. The painter uses brilliant, thought-provoking and suggestive symbols of rural lives in urban contextuality.

He uses charcoal, acrylic bright colours and mixed media to depict the hard-laboured daily lives of urban people in an indirect way. The busy rickshaw pullers, auto drivers, street hawkers, bus passengers, footpath walkers, narrow lanes of an old town with ruined buildings -- all are presented vividly with fine and flashy expressions.

Anukul uses his restless brush strokes boldly in motions with emotions. His nostalgia about his rural days left behind peeps through in his city life now. The people whom he used to know and spend time with at festivals and celebration, as if he is meeting them in the concrete city streets of today are themes too. They are busy with their day-to-day lives in different professions to earn livelihoods in hardship and tenacity.

Anukul's creations, expressed with spontaneous impressions are narratives about human lives in suggestive ways. He uses coloured patches and assembles these together to glance into urban scenarios but with concealed rural backgrounds.

Anukul's creative manifestations in spectrums, compositions, spaces and drawings have earned him a signature of his own. The impressionistic journey through different measured colours, subjects, tones, spaces, textures and lines by Anukul proves him to be sensitive and cognitive and his paintings reflect these traits.

The exhibition remains open till September 25, from 12-8pm.

The writer is an architect and art connoisseur.