Kurchi Dasgupta

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birthname = Kurchi Dasgupta
birthdate = 1974
location = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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nationality = Indian
field = Visual artist, writer, translator
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movement = Abstract art, Miniature art, oil painting
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Kurchi Dasgupta (born 1974 in Kolkata, West Bengal) is an Indian painter, writer and translator. She currently lives in Kathmandu, Nepalcite web
title = Kurchi Dasgupta - About the artist
publisher = Saatchi Gallery
url = http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//25041.html
accessdate = 2008-06-12] , where, in April 2008, she was witness to the abolition of the monarchy which had reigned in Nepal for 240 years and the transformation of Nepal into a federal democratic state.

Background

Dasgupta gained a diploma in Commercial art in 1994 and earned a Master of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 1998. She was the Chief Eexecutive Officer of the Society For the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Films (The Ray Society) for two years until 2006. She was also the head of Lotus Print publishing house for three years. She shares her time between Kathmandu and Kolkata at the moment, with her son and husband.

Artistic work

As an artist she specialises in abstracts and miniatures using gouache. She is currently focussing on bringing the two disparate, yet similar, worlds of film and painting together, through a series in oil on canvas, on world cinema to be shown in London in September 2008. Her painting was selected by Nokia out of thousands of paintings and was showcased on their official website in 2007. She has also illustrated the Bengali translation by Maitreyi Nag of the 1984 Daniel Pennac novel, "L’Oeil Du Loup".

She says of her work, "I try and recontextualise everyday reality by drilling into the very core of the ‘sub’ or ‘Ur’ conscious. My aim is to provide the viewer/participator with a new set of tools with which s/he can interpret the world around. And within."

Writings

Her major published works include "The Death Trap" (translated from Bengali) of Sunil Gangopadhyay, published in 2003."Possessions" is a translation of the award winning Bengali novel by Shyamal Gangopadhyay, "Kuberer Bishoy ashoy", was published in 2007. Currently, she is translating the Sandipan Chattopadhyay novel, "Ami o Banabihari".

She has also published a number of short stories and written screenplays that have been made into films.

elected exhibitions

She had a Group Show (major) at Bricklane Gallery, London in July 2007. In September 2008 she will have a one week exhibition of her paintings at the M.P. Birla Millennium Art Gallery, London.cite web
title = Art Gallery - Future Exhibitions
publisher = Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, UK Centre - Institute for Indian Art and Culture
url = http://www.bhavan.net/art_future.asp
accessdate = 2008-06-12]

Published works

*"The Death Trap" (2003)
*Possessions" (2007)
*"Nekrer Chokh" (illustration) (2007)

ee also

*Indian_art

References

External links

*http://www.equilibriarte.org/eqmember/4457