Here you can see a selection of Anshuman Dasgupta Visva-Bharati Mural’s that accompanied is tele-presentation for the third workshop, Iniva March London 2014.
K. G. Subramanyan, Black and White Mural, detail, courtesy Anshuman Dasgupta
K. G. Subramanyan, Black and White Mural, detail, courtesy Anshuman Dasgupta
K. G. Subramanyan, Black and White Mural, detail, courtesy Anshuman Dasgupta
K. G. Subramanyan, Mastermoshai Studio Mural, detail, courtesy Anshuman Dasgupta
K. G. Subramanyan, Mastermoshai Studio Mural, detail, courtesy Anshuman Dasgupta
K. G. Subramanyan, Mastermoshai Studio Mural, detail, courtesy Anshuman Dasgupta
This is a collection of photographs taken by Dutch Art Institute student and network collaborator Eona McCallum during the second workshop, Kolkata and Santiniketan, West Bengal – 30 January to 8 February 2014.
In the grounds of Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Tagore’s House in Kolkata
At Santiniketan West Bengal
The Kala Bhavan campus, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan
Anshuman Das Gupta is currently teaching faculty in the Art History department in Kalabhavan, Santiniketan (Visva Bharati University) and is affiliated to the Curatorial Knowledge programme in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, London University as a PhD candidate.
He was born in 1967 in Kolkata, India. He did his graduation in Art History from Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, and Post Graduation in Art History from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S University, Baroda in 1990 and 1992 respectively.
His essays and seminar papers have been published in several journals and publications like the Marg publications- Art & Visual Cultures in India 1857- 2007 (2009), Akbar Padamsee (in Press, 2009) and Contemporary Indian Sculpture, among others.Anshuman has taken up several curatorial assignments at various times, which include; exhibition organized by the French Embassy in Delhi on the birth centenary of Antonin Artaud in 1996, Khoj International artists’ workshop events in Bengal in 2006, Ramkinker Baij Centenary exhibition in Santiniketan in 2007, ‘Santhal Family: positions around an Indian sculpture’ for the Museum of Contemporary Art, MuHKA, Antwerp (a collaborative curatorial venture) in 2008. He has participated in around thirty national and international seminars, including Patterns of Reflection: writing contemporary Indian art (Oct, 09, Santiniketan- Lalit kala and kala Bhavan) Periferry in Guwahati, Assam (2009); MuHKA, Antwerp (2008); seminar organized by ZKM & MMB in Delhi (2008). He also organized the Ramkinker Baij Centenary international seminar in Santiniketan in 2007.
