Paintings by Ramkrishna Behara October 9, 2009

Paintings by Ramkrishna Behara. Ramakrishna Behera - Bose Pacia Kolkata is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of paintings by Ramakrishna Behera in Calcutta. The show is an expanded version of a preview exhibition which took place at Seven Art Ltd. in New Delhi in August during the Art Summit. The paintings of Ramakrishna Behera are most certainly landscapes and are inspired by real places: the caves of Ajanta, the mountains and monasteries of Ladakh, the countryside of Orissa and even the interior of the artist's home. Yet the works employ distorted perspectives and fold in images of outer space to become something more like psychological maps or hallucinatory visions. While their palette of colors is realistic, their spaces certainly are not. The surfaces of his paintings are buttery and their details are seemingly coaxed spontaneously from their making. Ramakrishna Behera was born in Orissa in 1977 and lives and works in Bhubaneswar. He is a self-taught painter and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Roorkee. He has previously participated in group exhibitions in Bhubaneswar, Kolkata and New Delhi. In 2007, the artist had a solo exhibition of his paintings and drawings at the All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society (AIFACS) in New Delhi.

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