Myths Legends & Surreality A Solo Exhibition by Sabya Sachi Ghosh 9th– 15th July, 2011, Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, Delhi

New Delhi: Artist Sabya Sachi Ghosh will present his Solo Exhibition of Paintings “Myths Legends & Surreality”, from 9th July 2011 to 15th July, 2011 at the Visual Arts Gallery, Gate Number 2, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodi Road, Delhi.

While the artist has based his canvases primarily on Indian Mythology, his mixed media and sketch works has emerged from his impressions and experiences through the arts from cultures as well as the universality of the creative faculty, inherent in all human beings. The artist believes that ‘Myths and legends of a culture create an aura of pride for its people. Legends of a race are the ‘creative’ history of its past<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past>. Historical realities aside, the wisdom found in legends are as concrete as the idea of creation.’

About The Collection

““Myths Legends & Surreality”,” is a collection of paintings done over the span of several years. The idea for this exhibition had incubated in the year 2010, where the Artist was residing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, working as a teacher at the Delhi Public School, Riyadh. Therein in the staunch Sunni Wahhabi kingdom he had to clandestinely paint these huge canvases of Hindu gods and goddesses. According to Sabya Sachi this task was ‘very dangerous’ as he took quite a risk of discovery by the religious police, who strictly prohibit and condemn such exposition of artistic creativity through incarceration and then subsequent deportation.

The oil on canvases is his newest and most passionate creations where he has literally made the optimum use of all space available. , The large pieces of surfaces depict scenes from the Mahabharata, Purans and legendary tales of bygone eras. Sabya Sachi’s mixed media works are creative pieces which surreally depict the cataclysmic events in space billions of years ago. He calls those events the ‘primordial creative phase of the universe’ the true creation before all ‘creation’ was to happen.

About The Artist

Born in West Bengal, Agra based artist Sabya Sachi Ghosh is a teacher by profession. Self taught he is one of the newer artists to enrich the repertoire of what Indian artists have to offer the world today. Drawn to mixing and experimenting with a range of mediums he has created canvases in acrylic, oils and mixed media. He is an avid reader and a motorcyclist. He loves visiting villages in different regions of Bengal and also travelling to various places in India and abroad. As a self taught artist he was inspired to mix colours by looking at the works of great masters like Dali, Vermer, Miro, and the renaissance artists of Europe. He says that these great masters were the catalyst that fired his imagination. As a conscious being he is aware that his creative instincts are also the result of him belonging to a civilisation that is nearly five thousand years old.

He has been part of several Group shows with Exhibitions in Bordeaux, France, the gallery Artist’s Circle, Kolkata etc. Sabya Sachi Ghosh conducted his first solo exhibition of paintings and photography (on vinyl) in the Gallery Artivisual, Jodhpur Park, Kolkata (2008).

He has attended an art workshop held at Petra, Jordan and participated in paper reading on the topic ‘Relevance of Art in promoting cultural understanding among nations’ at an art workshop in Amman, Jordan. Sabya Sachi Ghosh has also published a paper titled ‘Of Fish and Beef, the New Recipe of the Muslim Identity: A Journey through the Cultural Prism of Bengal’ in the book ‘Muslim and Media Images: News versus Views’ – Oxford University Press, 2008.