Ganesh Haloi

Ganesh Haloi
Ganesh Haloi
Born	1936 Jamalpur
Nationality	Indian
Known for	Visual 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 3 March 2020.
2. "An unflinching gaze". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
3. "Artist Ganesh Haloi gets state award for autobiography". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
4. "Veteran Indian artist represents modern Indian art in a two-city exhibition in Europe". The Indian Express. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
5. "Ganesh Haloi". Akar Prakar. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
6. Pioneer, The. "Memories on canvas". The Pioneer. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
7. "Form and Play: A new exhibition highlights how Ganesh Haloi's paintings oscillate between the seen and the sensed". Firstpost. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
8. Das, Soumitra (13 January 2018). "In Ganesh Haloi's expo, geometric forms get a life of their own". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 3 March 2020.
9. "Bengali beauties on canvas". The Asian Age. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
10. "Sense & Sensation". Akar Prakar. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
11. "Thistledown in the wind". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 5 July 2022.