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Artist Profile
| Arun Bain |
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ARUN BAIN :
"I wanted to take a dive into the deepest core of the man’s psychological set up. Where we are completely bared without any materialistic bondage. Where we are absolutely stark naked with ultimate freedom. A world without any disguise of pride or egoistic inhibitions. A man of solemn truth.”
This man for Arun Bain is a solitary being. Sometimes he is represented in his paintings as the ascetic flute player. Sitting in the void. It doesn’t occupy any space; it is a space which is intangible yet visible. For Bain the real man within is that real man of silence. A man who resides in solitude the icon of tranquility. Bain's quest is to depict this man. "The father of human evolution. He is the Buddha, He is the nature, the universe. He is the semantic form of the paradoxical natural phenomenon. Being lost into the doldrums of external world, we have forgotten him. He who reaps in keat's words. He who tranquilizes himself in the Epics of Homer. He who departs himself from earthly legacies and submerges into the world of his own thought sitting high above the gusty gate way of hell. The real thespian of the enlightenment."
Though the artists has done his masters in print making from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University Baroda, his urge express himself without the technical limitations saw him gravitating towards painting. Bain feels that a painting allows him the freedom to explore a range of possibilities without hampering his flow of thoughts. Color is an important element for him and he uses color to explore the wider paraphernalia of his psychological world.
Of late almost every canvas of Bain’s has a black serpent, the artists interpretation of the the primordial aspect of nothingness. As the artist says "As if the dilemma of the artificial real and real have taken a broader shape to mingle with each other…..this mutiny of real among the cacophony of unreal will surmount into a sweet lullaby of melancholic tune on my canvas and would signify through an un-identifiable tint.”
The artist lives and works in Kolkata.
Education
- 2001 Master of Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda.
- 1998 Bachelor of Visual Art, Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship, Kolkata.
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2007 ‘Of Human Bondages’, Gallery 88, Kolkata.
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2008 'Confronting Globalization', MonArt Gallerie, Kolkata.
- 2006 Galerie-88, Kolkata.
- 2006 ‘Hyderabad Pearls’, Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda.
- 2006 Sanskriti Art Gallery and Artspace India, Kolkata.
- 2005, 04 Feb Group Show at ABS Bayer Gallery, Baroda.
- 2004 ‘Different Angles’, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata.
- 2003 Archer Art Gallery, Ahmedabad.
Participations
- 2004 Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy Of Art and Culture, Kolkata.
- 2001 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi.
- 1999,2000,04 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
- 1999 Bombay Art Society, Mumbai.
- 1999 West Zone Cultural Centre (W.Z.C.C), Nagpur.
- 1999 National Exhibition organized by Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi and Jaipur.
Honours and Awards
- 2004 Department of Information and Culture, West Bengal, Kolkata.
- 2001 Merit Award, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
- 1999 National Scholarship by Human Resource Development, New Delhi.
- 1997 President Award, Indian College of Art, Kolkata.
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