Download PDF (33 K)SAKTI BURMAN
Born 1935, Kolkata
Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata (1956)
Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris
Sakti Burman's characteristic imagery resembles weathered frescos. As he depicts his figures in hues that
seem once vivid, and are now faded, he immortalizes his subjects. He transports his viewers into a dreamlike world. Perspective and composition evoke medieval icons. Burman also uses a marbling effect,
achieved by blending oils with acrylics, and applies the paint in a pointillist fashion.
"Through my works I return to my native roots, to my childhood and that transitory world of innocence".
Burman's mythical creatures tell ancient tales of courtly romances and enchanting worlds: comely maidens, children astride elephants, flutists, fruit laden trees, exotic flowers, birds and beasts.
The artist lives and works in Paris.
Select Solo Exhibitions
2008 Maison de l'Unesco, organized by Unesco, Salles Miro, Paris
Art Alive, New Delhi
Aicon Gallery, New York
2007 Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2006 Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 Retrospective, organized by Apparao Galleries, Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat
Centre, New Delhi
2001 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
Art Todat, New Delhi
1999 Atlantic Gallery, New York organized by Apparao Galleries
1998 Salon d' Automne, Paris Espace Eiffel Branly
1997 Cloitre de la Dame Blanche, La Rochelle
Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris at Tokushima, Myazaki and Osaka
1996 Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris at Wakayama and Sapporo
1995 Apparao Galleries, Chennai
1994 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1992 Centre of Contemporary Art, New Delhi
1990 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1989 Semaine Culturelle Indienne, Eaubonne, Val d'Oise
Fondation Firmin Bauby, Perpignan
XX salon du Grenier a sel, Orleans
1988 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1988 Sista Art Gallery, Bangalore
Hommage a Rabindranath Tagore, Galerie d'art de la Place Beauvau
Galerie presences, Bruxelles
1986 Galerie das Kunstabinett, Gogh, Allemagne
Hotel de ville de ville d' Agen
Centre Culturel de la ville d' Agen
1985 Galerie Schemes, Lille Centre Cultural de Saint Denis
Maison de Van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise
Galerie Untenburg, Zurich
1984 Musee Denon, Chalon-sur-Saone
Galerie d'Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris
Kunsthandlung Osper, Cologne
1983 Galerie Sagar, Zurich
1982 Contes et Legendes, Galerie d'Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris
Galleria Cecchini, Perugia
Galleria Lame, Bologna
1981 Galerie de la Rue Ancienne, Geneva
1980 Galerie de Bernardi, Aachen
Musee de Blois, Blois
Musee de Villeneuve-sur-Lot
1979 Galerie Gerard Sauret, Libos
1978 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
Chanakya Art Gallery, New Delhi
1977 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
Kunika Chemould, New Delhi
1975 Galerie de l'Hotel Meridien, Nice
1974 Galerie Arts et Beaux-Arts de France, Paris
1973 Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Genoa
1971 Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan
1970 Galerie Doucet et Coutureau, Paris
Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1967 Piccadilly Gallery, Mumbai
Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1965 Kunika Chemould, New Delhi
1964 Scott and Faure Gallery, La Jolla, California
1963 Galerie Saint Placide, Paris
1962 Ashoka Gallery, Kolkata
All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, Delhi
1961 Piccadilly Gallery, Mumbai
1958 Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1956 Ecole des Beaux- Arts
1954 Art and Industry, Kolkata
Select Group Exhibitions
2007 Understanding Oneness in Diversity, Kitab Mahal, Mumbai
An Evening in Paris …Rome…London, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
2006 Sensuality, Perception and the Self, Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New
Delhi
2004 Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Gallery 27, London
Confluence 2004, AICON Gallery, New York
2003 Mappings, Exciting New Links Between the Ancient Cultures of India and Egypt,
organized by Uttarayan (Baroda), Visual Art Gallery, India habitat Centre, New Delhi
and Bayer ABS Limited Gallery, Baroda
Portraits of a Decade, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
Celebration of Color, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery and The Times of India,
Mumbai, New Delhi
The Said and the Unsaid, organized by The Committee of the Jehangir Art Gallery and
Apparao Gallery, Mumbai
Shanti Path, Tao Gallery, Mumbai
2002 Aspects of Modern Indian Painting, New York organized by Saffronart and Pundole Art
Gallery, Mumbai
Return to Eden, Art Musing, Mumbai
2001 Three Burman, Sakti, Maite and Maya, Art Today, New Delhi
Art of Bengal, Past and Present 1850-2000, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
and CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
Burman', Sakti, Maite, Maya', Mediatheque du Lamentin, La Martinique
Indian Contemporary Art, organized by Saffronart, Hongkong
Indian Contemporary Art, organized by Saffronart in collaboration with Apparao
galleries, Los Angeles
A Treasure Trove, Paintings from B.K. Birla Family Collection, Birla Academy of Art
and Culture, Kolkata
2000 Sigmund Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams', organized by University Art Museum,
Birghamton, New York
Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna
Indian Art Through The Ages, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, organized by Indian Fine
Arts Society, Singapore
The World Is Round And Time Is Cyclical, Art Today, New Delhi
Paradise Revisited, Art Musings, Mumbai
Shatabdi – Reflection on a Century Past, organized by CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
Festival des Cinemas d'Asie, Salle des Ursulines, Vesoul
Paper, The Terrace Garden, Triveni kala Sangam, New Delhi
The Family 3, Sakti Burman, Maya Burman and Jayasri Burman, Apparao Galleries,
Chennai
1998 Christie's Auction, Indian Contemporary paintings, London
Multimedia, Art of the 1900's, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
Harmony Show, Mumbai
Within The Fame, Apparao Galleries, Hongkong
The Art of Charity, Mumbai
1997 Displayed along with works of Picasso, Chagall and Miro at Tokushima, Myazaki and
Osaka, Japan
Chamatkar, The Indian Metaphor, organized by CIMA , Kolkata at Whitleys Art Gallery,
London
1995 Christie's Auction, Indian Contemporary paintings, London
Autumn Exhibition, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata at All Indian Fine Arts and Crafts Society,
New Delhi
1994 Drawing 94, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
1993 Helpage India, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1984 International Graphic Art Exhibition, New Delhi
1983 L'Art Fantastique, Musee de Belfort
1982 V Internatinal Triennale, New Delhi
1981 Figuration Actuelle, Chateau des Hayes
1980 Galerie Jean Marbach, Mulhouse
Galerie Schemes, Lille
Musee de Villeneuve – sur- Lot
Musee de Blois
1975 The Hermitage, Leningrad
Pouchkine Museum, Moscow
1964 Chemould, Kolkata
Honors & Awards
Medaille d'argent au Salon de Montmorency
1956 Prix des Etrangers, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Prix de la ville de l'Isle-Adam Medaille d'or, Salon des Artistes Francais, Grand Palais, Paris
Medaille arts, Science et Letters
Medaille au Salon de Juvisy
Invite d'honneur, Colombes
Invite d'honneur, Douai Invite d'honneur, sainte-Maxime
Invite d'honneur, English Les Bains
Invite d'honneur, Delle