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Sakti Burman's paintings evoke the look of a weathered fresco, depicting figures in hues that the viewer feels were once vivid, but are now faded. They transport one into their dream-like worlds, where the perspective...
Sakti Burman's paintings evoke the look of a weathered fresco, depicting figures in hues that the viewer feels were once vivid, but are now faded. They transport one into their dream-like worlds, where the perspective and composition is often that of medieval icons. Burman has mastered both pointillism and the marbling effect, achieved by blending oils with acrylics, which enhance the fresco-like, enthralling appearances of his works on paper and canvas.
In the artist’s work, reality mingles with the world of his dreams. Though realism surfaces in Burman’s paintings, often in the form of past and present members of his own family in India and France, he constantly and assuredly returns to the dream world. On Burman's canvases, one finds mythical creatures that tell ancient tales of courtly romances, bringing alive an enchanting world of comely maidens, children astride elephants, flutists, fruit laden trees, exotic flowers, birds and beasts; a lost paradise, where all creatures dwell in harmony. Each work is captivating, luminescent and delicate. Working in his Paris atelier, Burman is in close communion with this private universe of enchanting creatures. Engaging with grace and beauty, he creates a sense of tranquility in his art.
Born in 1935, Burman studied at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata, and later at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. The artist had his first solo exhibition in 1954 in Kolkata, and has since exhibited widely across the world including at venues like the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Piccadilly Gallery, London; Galerie Doucet et Coutureau, Paris; Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan; and Galerie Sagar, Zurich.
Burman has participated in several group shows, some of the most recent including 'Faces of Indian Art' organized by Art Alive at the Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi; ‘Understanding Oneness in Diversity’ at Kitab Mahal, Mumbai; ‘An Evening in Paris …Rome…London’ at Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata; and 'Resonance' organized by Art Musings at Museum Gallery, Mumbai, all in 2007. Burman was awarded the Medaille d’Argent au Salon de Montmorency and the Prix des Etrangers, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1956.
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BIODATA
Sakti Burman's paintings evoke the look of a weathered fresco, depicting figures in hues that the viewer feels were once vivid, but are now faded. They transport one into their dream-like worlds, where the perspective and composition is often that of medieval icons. Burman has mastered both pointillism and the marbling effect, achieved by blending oils with acrylics, which enhance the fresco-like, enthralling appearances of his works on paper and canvas.
In the artist’s work, reality mingles with the world of his dreams. Though realism surfaces in Burman’s paintings, often in the form of past and present members of his own family in India and France, he constantly and assuredly returns to the dream world. On Burman's canvases, one finds mythical creatures that tell ancient tales of courtly romances, bringing alive an enchanting world of comely maidens, children astride elephants, flutists, fruit laden trees, exotic flowers, birds and beasts; a lost paradise, where all creatures dwell in harmony. Each work is captivating, luminescent and delicate. Working in his Paris atelier, Burman is in close communion with this private universe of enchanting creatures. Engaging with grace and beauty, he creates a sense of tranquility in his art.
Born in 1935, Burman studied at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata, and later at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. The artist had his first solo exhibition in 1954 in Kolkata, and has since exhibited widely across the world including at venues like the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Piccadilly Gallery, London; Galerie Doucet et Coutureau, Paris; Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan; and Galerie Sagar, Zurich.
Burman has participated in several group shows, some of the most recent including 'Faces of Indian Art' organized by Art Alive at the Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi; ‘Understanding Oneness in Diversity’ at Kitab Mahal, Mumbai; ‘An Evening in Paris …Rome…London’ at Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata; and 'Resonance' organized by Art Musings at Museum Gallery, Mumbai, all in 2007. Burman was awarded the Medaille d’Argent au Salon de Montmorency and the Prix des Etrangers, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1956.
Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata (1956)
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Maison de l'Unesco, organized by Unesco, Salles Miro, Paris, Art Alive, New Delhi, Aicon Gallery, New York
2007 Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2006 Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 Retrospective, organized by Apparao Galleries, Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat
Centre, New Delhi.
2001 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, Art Todat, New Delhi
1999 Atlantic Gallery, New York organized by Apparao Galleries
1998 Salon d' Automne, Paris Espace Eiffel Branly
1997 Cloitre de la Dame Blanche, La Rochelle
Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris at Tokushima, Myazaki and Osaka
1996 Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris at Wakayama and Sapporo
1995 Apparao Galleries, Chennai
1994 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1992 Centre of Contemporary Art, New Delhi
1990 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1989 Semaine Culturelle Indienne, Eaubonne, Val d'Oise
Fondation Firmin Bauby, Perpignan XX salon du Grenier a sel, Orleans
1988 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1988 Sista Art Gallery, Bangalore
Hommage a Rabindranath Tagore, Galerie d'art de la Place Beauvau Galerie presences, Bruxelles
1986 Galerie das Kunstabinett, Gogh, Allemagne
Hotel de ville de ville d' Agen Centre Culturel de la ville d' Agen
1985 Galerie Schemes, Lille Centre Cultural de Saint Denis Maison de Van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise
Galerie Untenburg, Zurich
1984 Musee Denon, Chalon-sur-Saone Galerie d'Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris Kunsthandlung Osper, Cologne
1983 Galerie Sagar, Zurich
1982 Contes et Legendes, Galerie d'Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris Galleria Cecchini, Perugia
Galleria Lame, Bologna
1981 Galerie de la Rue Ancienne, Geneva
1980 Galerie de Bernardi, Aachen Musee de Blois, Blois Musee de Villeneuve-sur-Lot
1979 Galerie Gerard Sauret, Libos
1978 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
Chanakya Art Gallery, New Delhi
1977 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai Kunika Chemould, New Delhi
1975 Galerie de l'Hotel Meridien, Nice
1974 Galerie Arts et Beaux-Arts de France, Paris
1973 Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Genoa
1971 Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan
1970 Galerie Doucet et Coutureau, Paris Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1967 Piccadilly Gallery, Mumbai Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1965 Kunika Chemould, New Delhi
1964 Scott and Faure Gallery, La Jolla, California
1963 Galerie Saint Placide, Paris
1962 Ashoka Gallery, Kolkata
All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, Delhi
1961 Piccadilly Gallery, Mumbai
1958 Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1956 Ecole des Beaux- Arts
1954 Art and Industry, Kolkata Select Group Exhibitions
2007 Understanding Oneness in Diversity, Kitab Mahal, Mumbai An Evening in Paris …Rome…London, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
2006 Sensuality, Perception and the Self, Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New
Delhi
2004 Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Gallery 27, London Confluence 2004, AICON Gallery, New York
2003 Mappings, Exciting New Links Between the Ancient Cultures of India and Egypt,
organized by Uttarayan (Baroda), Visual Art Gallery, India habitat Centre, New Delhi
and Bayer ABS Limited Gallery, Baroda
Portraits of a Decade, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
Celebration of Color, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery and The Times of India,
Mumbai, New Delhi
The Said and the Unsaid, organized by The Committee of the Jehangir Art Gallery and
Apparao Gallery, Mumbai
Shanti Path, Tao Gallery, Mumbai
2002 Aspects of Modern Indian Painting, New York organized by Saffronart and Pundole Art
Gallery, Mumbai Return to Eden, Art Musing, Mumbai
2001 Three Burman, Sakti, Maite and Maya, Art Today, New Delhi Art of Bengal, Past and Present 1850-2000, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
and CIMA Gallery, Kolkata Burman', Sakti, Maite, Maya', Mediatheque du Lamentin, La Martinique
Indian Contemporary Art, organized by Saffronart, Hongkong
Indian Contemporary Art, organized by Saffronart in collaboration with Apparao
galleries, Los Angeles
A Treasure Trove, Paintings from B.K. Birla Family Collection, Birla Academy of Art
and Culture, Kolkata
2000 Sigmund Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams', organized by University Art Museum,
Birghamton, New York
Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna
Indian Art Through The Ages, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, organized by Indian Fine
Arts Society, Singapore
The World Is Round And Time Is Cyclical, Art Today, New Delhi
Paradise Revisited, Art Musings, Mumbai
Shatabdi – Reflection on a Century Past, organized by CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
Festival des Cinemas d'Asie, Salle des Ursulines, Vesoul
Paper, The Terrace Garden, Triveni kala Sangam, New Delhi
The Family 3, Sakti Burman, Maya Burman and Jayasri Burman, Apparao Galleries,
Chennai
