Ganesh Haloi

Ganesh Haloi
Ganesh Haloi
Born1936
Jamalpur
NationalityIndian
Known forVisual Art

Ganesh Haloi is an India-based visual artist, curator, and author.[1][2] Ganesh Haloi's art has evolved through a series of transactions from pure landscape to the innerscapes.

Even though it is abstract, Haloi's works and his motifs have precise associations with the artist's psyche, his experiences and the upheavals that have shaped him and his point of view. "Everything begins in pain," says Haloi. He maintains high standards craftsmanship and his construction of tress, houses and the ambience of Kolkata that seems murky with a suppressed strength.

Early life

Ganesh was born in 1936 in Jamalpur village in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh) and spent much of his childhood. His family came to Calcutta, India in 1950 after the India-Pakistan Partition.[3][4][5]

Exhibitions

  • Form and Play (Kolkata and New York)[6][7]
  • Documenta 14 (Athens 2016, Kassel 2017)[4]
  • Poetics of Abstraction (Kolkata January 2018) [8]
  • Art: Bengal Now (Delhi January 2020)[9]
  • Sense and Sensation: Paintings in Ink and Brush at Akar Prakar. Curatorial Advisor: Debashish Banerji (2021)[10][11]
  • The Architectonics of Form: Scrolls by Ganesh Haloi. Curated by Jesal Thacker at Akar Prakar, Kolkata, 2022

Awards and recognition

  • Manojmohan Basu Smarak Samman for his autobiography Amar Katha[3]

References

  1. ^ "Ganesh Haloi's work on display at Kolkata's Akar Prakar". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  2. ^ "An unflinching gaze". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  3. ^ a b "Artist Ganesh Haloi gets state award for autobiography". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  4. ^ a b "Veteran Indian artist represents modern Indian art in a two-city exhibition in Europe". The Indian Express. 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  5. ^ "Ganesh Haloi". Akar Prakar. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  6. ^ Pioneer, The. "Memories on canvas". The Pioneer. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  7. ^ "Form and Play: A new exhibition highlights how Ganesh Haloi's paintings oscillate between the seen and the sensed". Firstpost. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  8. ^ Das, Soumitra (2018-01-13). "In Ganesh Haloi's expo, geometric forms get a life of their own". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  9. ^ "Bengali beauties on canvas". The Asian Age. 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  10. ^ "Sense & Sensation". Akar Prakar. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  11. ^ "Thistledown in the wind". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2022-07-05.