Paresh Maity
It takes one through the vibrant maze of Maity’s illustrious career spanning across 40 colourful years and consists of 120 artworks comprising watercolour paintings, drawings, sketches, video art and a film and sound installation about water. It highlights the watercolours which are his principal tour de force — from miniatures of student days to gigantic works from recent years.
This show aims at capturing the melancholy, impermanence, fears, and intense transient nature of life itself. Being born and brought up in a coastal region, water has played an important and integral part in Maity’s life as an artist and he draws deep inspiration from it. “I have always been very close to nature and all my works have been inspired by various facets of nature. In fact, I believe no artist can flourish without borrowing from nature. This retrospective exhibition will showcase a few watercolour paintings, mostly landscapes that I have drawn at various stages of my life. They had all been drawn at the very places I visited and give a peek into my wanderlust,” shares Maity.
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Artist and Painter Paresh Maity spoke exclusively to India Today about his latest exhibition in Kolkata. Paresh Maity is exhibiting his art in Kolkata after a gap of six years. Watch the full interview.
Seeing how the idol makers brought the Goddess Durga to life, a seven-year-old child from a remote village in Midnapore’s Tamluk area tried his tender hands in clay molding and even managed to sell a few pieces at the local fairs for as little as 10-15 paise in the early 70s. Who would have thought back then that some 48 odd years later that very child’s artwork would sell at a premium all over the country and beyond? That’s Paresh Maity for you.