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The CIMA Summer Show begins Artworks by both senior and contemporary artists from across the country on display
The hate and dust of the Assembly elections or the fear factor of the second wave of COVID-19 seem to fade away as one steps into the island of calm that is CIMA Gallery displaying the annual Summer Show.
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On till July 3, artworks by both senior and contemporary artists from across the country are being showcased here. The CIMA Summer Show doesn’t have a particular theme and everything from watercolours to oils, collage to prints, sculptures to installations finds space within the gallery walls.
Rita Datta | | Published 23.01.21, 01:55 AM
A title is an anchor, but also a limiting tether. So Cima chooses to call its current show, on till January 30,
Untitled. It traces how, from vintage modernism to the fizz of contemporary colloquialism, concerns recur through stylistic shifts that five generations of Indian artists have negotiated.
If Jamini Roy’s post-Impressionism approaches the landscape with Wordsworthian romanticism, Paramjit Singh’s dense brushwork makes it an immersive experience. Gaunt, famished, existing on the margins, Somnath Hore’s figures in his etchings appear as non-beings in their abdication of agency, dissolving, in
Massacre, into smears the colour of dried blood; the marginalized remain fearful and mute in