Kartick Chandra Pyne: Artist and Person
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Date: 28 March 2025
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Venue: Seminar Room, Victoria Memorial Hall
Victoria Memorial Hall in collaboration with Kolkata Centre for Creativity presents Kartick Chandra Pyne: Artist and Person – a talk featuring art critic Nanak Ganguly, the artist’s eldest son Apan Pyne, and the artist’s student Basab Chatterjee in conversation with researcher and archivist Arkaprava Bose. This event is a part of the ongoing solo exhibition The Hidden Moon: An Exhibition of Artworks by Kartick Chandra Pyne (25 February – 30 March 2025) at VMH – bringing together KC Pyne’s paintings from various areas of his practices and phases of his long artistic career.
This bilingual conversation will reveal several new aspects of the artist’s life and career. While Nanak Ganguly will talk primarily about his work, placing him in the larger historical context of modernism in India, Basab Chatterjee and Apan Pyne’s anecdotes will help us understand the artist as a private person and teacher. Unlike many artists of his generation, Kartick Pyne, though admired for his work, maintained a low public profile. These reminiscences by his son and student will shed new light on his artistic practice and worlds of imagination.
The exhibition and its collateral events are free and open to all; however, normal entry rules will apply.
