SAMIR AICH

A product of the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, Aich graduated in 1978. Samir Aich has been exhibiting regularly in Kolkata and all over India. He has had several solo shows all over India: to name a few, Kolkata in 1981, 83, 84,86-90, 93, 94, 99, 2000; New Delhi in 1981; Mumbai in 1985 and 87 and in Chennai in 1994. Samir Aich has been painting almost for three decades now. He started out as a neo realist and gradually moved into semi-abstract figurative themes. His art borders abstraction and Aich often uses unusual surfaces and media to express his creative thoughts, which are passionate, expressionistic and bold. He plays with dark colors with an organic overtone, powerful, scratching and emphatic dots, which together conjure a spectacular visual rendering, which is at once sensitive and powerful. His favorite medium is oil on canvas, but he also does work in acrylic and mixed media. Since the turn of the last century, he has been constantly experimenting with new pictorial concepts and ideas concentrating on essential structural details in composition, but never exactly throwing the elements of semblance overboard. His sculptures and installations are complimentary to his painted expression