Veteran artist Ganesh Haloi's six-decade artistic journey showcased at city exhibition

Artist Ganesh Haloi's six-decade-long artistic journey is currently displayed at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, in collaboration with The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. With more than hundred works on display, the exhibition celebrates his unique approach to abstract art, offering a captivating glimpse into Haloi's evolving artistic vision and his contribution to Indian art.
Talking about Haloi’s work, chief curator and director of KNMA, Roobina Karode, said, “Haloi’s practice through six decades has been curated to present his distinct approach to abstraction, drawn from his intense life experiences, leading us to a new evocation of space, from both memory and rumination on the everyday. His abstraction is free from narration and constraints of a prescribed curriculum.”


The exhibition will be on display till April 13. Art connoisseurs can explore Haloi's diverse paintings from his gouaches on paper, his fluent Chinese ink drawings on Japanese scroll paper, and tempera on board, along with his select works on Ajanta. “The city of Kolkata, where he has lived for more than five decades, will get to witness for the first time an entire gallery dedicated to his seven-year-long stay and assignment to study and document Ajanta murals, and also his own engagement with the ‘figuration’ by mastering the languorous line of Ajanta along with the understanding of color and space. The other gallery traces his explorations of space and surface, breaking down the patterns of land and nature into microforms," added Roobina.