10-01-2012

31-01-2012

Italy, Rome
Bibliotheque Bhaktivedanta, via Celsa 4/5

Posted by: paola-sarcina

Category: Exhibition

Field: Visual arts

Source www.uttamk2.com

What/Who: Uttam Karmaker. Menu of the day. Curator Manuela De Leonardis
When: From 10 to 31 January 2012. Opening Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 18.30
Where: Bibliotheque Bhaktivedanta, Celsa Str.4 / 5 - 00186 Rome, Italy


It is conceived as a work in progress Menu of the day, the new pictorial work by Uttam Karmaker, Bengali artist actives in Rome from the late eighties, presented in Rome in anticipation of his great personal exposition that will open in Dhaka (Bangladesh) in spring 2012. Under the title Menu of the day is presented an unpublished story that the artist has drawn day by day, between May and August 2011, drawing with graphite and colored with crayons on a white velvet paper roll of 25 meters. Karmaker explores his inner world, expressing himself with real freshness of expression, a language in which emerges a certain spontaneity of Bangladesh folk art. Through the metabolism of memories - starting from nature - he comes to a lyricism tinged with melancholy, but also irony. The form of the painting, the roll is linked to the classical tradition of the ancient Western and Eastern codes, but also to the popular strip of film that the artist watched fascinated as a child. Menu of the day is a kind of "Ramayana of the newspaper," impulsive storyboard populated of memory, feelings, residues of daily life, dreams and anxieties, accessible, fluid

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