16 September -15 October 2020

TRUNK SHOW

A C a p s u l e C o l l e c t i o n o f 9 A r t w o r k s

O N L I N E

PARESH MAITY

Hope

Paresh Maity has returned, in his recent series

of nine aquarelles, titled ‘Hope’, to an early

and memorable phase of his career when he

produced lambent waterscapes redolent of

Bengal’s Ganga delta. Dominated by

dramatically illuminated skies, his recent

waterscapes are punctuated by occasional

sailboats, isolated signs of the human

presence in nature’s grand theatre of wind,

cloud, and wave. These scenes, reminiscent

of fraught moments of pause or passage in the

cinema of Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, stir

us deeply. Maity presents the clouds as dunes

and the overcast sky as an upward tilting

beach. Or might the sky be a tide coming in,

dissolving the horizon? The moody sea

shimmers past dreaming trees or surges up in

mountains of water. Against storm and current,

the sailboats hold out, vulnerable yet defiant.

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Ranjit Hoskote

Hope - 1 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020

Hope - 2 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020

Hope - 3 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020

Hope - 4 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020

Hope - 5 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020

Hope - 6 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020

Hope - 7 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020

Hope - 8 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020

Hope - 9 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020

Paresh Maity (born Tamluk, 1965) is strongly associated

with his paintings, rendered in a distinctive palette of

shadowed yellows, vivid greens and burnished brown

tones. At the same time, Maity welcomes departures into

sculpture and installation. He has done several large

scale installations in prominent public spaces and

important private collections. Paresh Maity received a

BFA from the Government College of Art and Craft,

Kolkata, and an MFA from the College of Art, New Delhi.

He has held 100 solo exhibitions all over the world,

including at the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, and Art

Stage Singapore. Maity has shown in several important

exhibitions and platforms, including the Chivas Studio,

New Delhi and Mumbai (2011) and ‘Shesh Lekha, Poems

by Rabindranath Tagore’ in collaboration with Pritish

Nandy (National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and

Mumbai, 2011). His solo exhibitions with Art Musings

include ‘Montage: Moments: Memories’ (2009),

‘Symphony of Silence’ (2013) and ‘Vision into Infinity

(2017). His works have been acquired by major

institutions across the globe, including the British

Museum, London, the Rubin Museum of Art, New York,

the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and the

Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata. Several books

have been published on his art. Among his public

commissions is a monumental painting at Terminal 3,

Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi. Maity has

been honoured by the Government of India with the

Padma Shri. The artist lives and works in New Delhi.