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Longing

November 3, 2007- February 8, 2008

Reception: November 2, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Prabuddha Dasgupta

Bodhi Art

535 W 24th St

Bodhi Art is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of photography by Prabuddha Dasgupta. This body of work comprises 41 black and white images, carefully selected from work done over a span of few years and hallmarked by his bold, individualistic sensibility.

A self-taught Indian photographer, Dasgupta grew up in the cultural chaos of post-colonial India. His 1996 publication of “Women”, a controversial collection of portraits and nudes of urban Indian women shocked the conservative Indian middle class. 200 years of Victorian morality imposed by the British had almost erased sexuality from artistic expression in India, the very home of the Kamasutra. This body of work reinstated the nude to its rightful place in the Indian cultural discourse.

Longing is an impressionistic and intimate visual journal of memory and experience based on the everyday: family, friendships, places known, spaces occupied, journeys remembered, romantic encounters, seen not in the context of a specific time and place, but through the very personal, unfixed gaze of memory. These works explore issues of identity, gender, sexuality and relationships in the background of a complex, multi-layered, conservative society in the throes of radical change.

Dasgupta has exhibited widely including at the Waterman’s Art Center, London (2000), NAP/Photo Biennale, Brescia (2004) and Franco Maria Ricci, Milan (2005). He has published extensively including his book “Ladakh” (Viking Books, 2000) and in “Nudi” (Motta Editore, Milan) and “India Now – New Photographic Visions” (Textuel, Paris). He is the recipient of the Yves Saint Laurent grant, for photography in 1991 and his work is in the collection of many individuals and institutions, like the Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy, and Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy.

The artist lives between New Delhi and Goa.

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Location   Gallery Bodhi Art Address 535 W 24th St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-352-2644 Fax 212-352-2638 Hours Tue-Sat 11-6 Nearby: All 5 galleries at 535 W 24th St

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