Multiplicity – an exhibition of diverse artworks by KG Subramanyam
Born in a Tamil family of Kerala, hundred years ago, K. G. Subramanyan’s (1924 – 2016) early education got disrupted by his imprisonment for participating in the Quit India Movement of ’42, that changed the course of his life. Freed he joined Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, to actively be with nature and 1 living tradition, ncorporating innovation, for necessary changes, through the practice C visual arts; as a student first and then as a teacher, like his own mentors Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij and Benode Behari Mukherjee. His mission later led him Baroda and to places. But Fate brought him back to his home of choice, Santiniketan. But as he decided to give to his adopted home, something to remember his mentor, for the life activity of his choice, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Subramanyan endowed his house to Visva Bharati, for research and archival works. Among other contributions to visual arts of modern India, Subramanyan will always be remembered for mentoring a number of talented artists all over India.
Sk Sahajahan, a painter, and his textile painter wife Shrabani, of Santiniketan will always be in gratitude to their Manida, not only for his mentorship, but also for naming their daughter Krittika. The Sahajahan couple, thus forever, remember their Manida, whenever they would organize a programme or an exhibition at their newly opened art-activity centre. Some of K.G. Subramanyan’s works collected by Sahajahan, therefore are appropriately presented for the exhibition Multiplicity an exhibition c of diverse artworks at Krittika Arts Space Santinikaten.
-Pranab Ranjan Ray (Eminent Art Historian and Critic)
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