O N L I N E TRUNK SHOW 16 September -15 October 2020 A Capsule Collection of 9 Artworks PARESH MAITY Hope Paresh Maity has returned, in his recent series of nine aquarelles, titled ‘Hope’, to an early and memorable phase of his career when he produced lambent waterscapes redolent of Bengal’s Ganga delta. Dominated by dramatically illuminated skies, his recent waterscapes are punctuated by occasional sailboats, isolated signs of the human presence in nature’s grand theatre of wind, cloud, and wave. These scenes, reminiscent of fraught moments of pause or passage in the cinema of Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, stir us deeply. Maity presents the clouds as dunes and the overcast sky as an upward tilting beach. Or might the sky be a tide coming in, dissolving the horizon? The moody sea shimmers past dreaming trees or surges up in mountains of water. Against storm and current, the sailboats hold out, vulnerable yet defiant. Ranjit Hoskote Hope - 1 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020 Hope - 2 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020 Hope - 3 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020 Hope - 4 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020 Hope - 5 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020 Hope - 6 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020 Hope - 7 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020 Hope - 8 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020 Hope - 9 watercolour on paper 12” x 12”, 2020 Paresh Maity (born Tamluk, 1965) is strongly associated with his paintings, rendered in a distinctive palette of shadowed yellows, vivid greens and burnished brown tones. At the same time, Maity welcomes departures into sculpture and installation. He has done several large scale installations in prominent public spaces and important private collections. Paresh Maity received a BFA from the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, and an MFA from the College of Art, New Delhi. He has held 100 solo exhibitions all over the world, including at the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, and Art Stage Singapore. Maity has shown in several important exhibitions and platforms, including the Chivas Studio, New Delhi and Mumbai (2011) and ‘Shesh Lekha, Poems by Rabindranath Tagore’ in collaboration with Pritish Nandy (National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai, 2011). His solo exhibitions with Art Musings include ‘Montage: Moments: Memories’ (2009), ‘Symphony of Silence’ (2013) and ‘Vision into Infinity (2017). His works have been acquired by major institutions across the globe, including the British Museum, London, the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata. Several books have been published on his art. Among his public commissions is a monumental painting at Terminal 3, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi. Maity has been honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri. The artist lives and works in New Delhi. .