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Artist: Rupchand Kundu ( India, 1961 - present ) - (Visit Kundu's Portfolio at absolutearts.com)
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Main Category: Painting
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Biography: B.Sc. (Graduate) from SETH ANANDARAM JAIPURIA COLLEGE
Art Graduate from Govt. College of Art & Craftr, Kolkata, with 1st Class in the year 1984
Work Experience
Chief Artist of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS (ISCON) for 3 years.
Visualiser of REDIFFUSION ADVERTISING AGENCY 2 years
Worked as a freelance Art Director, Director & Concept Writer for CHITRABANI STUDIO, Calcutta under FATHER GASTON ROBERGE for 10 years.
Worked as an Art Director with MRINAL SEN film “MAHAPRITHIVI”
Worked as an Art Director with CHIDANANDA DASGUPTA film “AMODINI”, produced by NFDC.
Worked as an Art Director with AMITAVA CHATTERJEE, film “KAALABHIRATI”.
Worked as an Art Director with SHYAMANAND JALAN, Telefilm “ALIKBABU” (HINDI)
Worked as an Art Director with AVIJIT CHATTOPADHAYA, Telefilm “SARGAM” (HINDIA).
Worked as an Art Director of many serials, Talk Show, Documentary Film produced by INFOCOM, AUDIO VISUAL ARTS, TELE CALCUTTA DOORDARSHAN, DELHI DOORDARSHAN, RAJA DASGUPTA, ASHOK VISWANATHAN, WINGARD, St. XAVIER COLLEGE, E.M.R.C. CHITRAVANI STUDIO, ZEE TV, ZEE ALPHA TV, ETV, TARA Bangla, N.F.D.C.
Worked as an Art Director with Director ANAJAN DUTTA, Film BARADIN produced by R.P.G
Worked as an Art Director with Ashoke Viswanathan for the Film “SWAPNER SANDHANE” produced by NFDC
Worked as an Art Director with URMI CHAKRABORTY, Film “HEMANTER PAKHI” produced by NFDC.
Worked as an Art Director with SHREE PRABHAT ROY for Films, “TUMI ELE TAI”, “SUDHU EKBAR BOLO “, “SE DIN CHAITRA MAS”
Worked as an Art Director with RAJA SEN for film ‘DESH’ produced by RAINBOW
Worked as an Art Director with BANDANA MUKHERJEE for the film “CHIRA SAKHA HE”.
Worked as an Art Director with SHREE TAPAN SINHA for series of six short films DAUGHTER OF THE CENTURY
Worked as an Art Director with SHRI TAPAN SINHA for the film “AJOB GAYER AJOB KATHA”
Worked as an Art Director with SHRI TAPAN SINHA for Hindi Film “ANOKHI MOTI”
Worked as an Art Director for many regional, national weekly Serials and Mega Serials like GOENDA BHAGWAN DAS, SAMPARKA, CHARITRAHEEN, THEATRE THROUGH THE AGES, RABINDRAN ATHER CHOTO GALPO, 100 YEARS OF INDIAN CINEMA, 100 YEARS OF INDIAN THEATRE, SATURDAY SUSPENSE, SAYED, CELL THREE, SHIPAI BIDRAHO, ANANYA, GAAN SHUDHU GAAN, KICHU SMRITI KICHU GAAN, POORAVI, AAT PAKHE BANDHA.
SA RE GA MA - 45 Episodes
MOHINI - 400 Episodes
EI TO JIBAN - 375 Episodes
EK AKASHER NICHE - 1175 Episodes
JODI PREM DILENA PRANE - 200 Episodes
Worked as an Art Director, Concept Writer & Director for the above 30 Advertisement Films or TV Commercials produced by INFOCOM, RAJA DASGUPTA, SAIBAL MITRA, TELE TALE, TRON VIDEO, WINGARD, like KITPLY, BATA, CLOSE UP, RED APPLE TEA, ANGORA WATCH, SHALIMAR COCONUT OIL, BERGER PAINTS, KHADIM, BOYS CHOCOLLATE, etc.
DIRECTOR
Worked as a Director & Concept Writer for 60 minutes documentary for UGC programme ‘THE CLAY FLESH AND THE SPIRIT”
Worked as a Director & Producer for 690 minutes documentary for UGC programme on ART DIRECTION & SET DESIGN
Worked as a Director for serial POORVI produced by ZEE ALPHA of 40 episodes
Worked as a Director BISWAS BHARA PRAN for Zee Alpha Production (60 minutes) Programme
Worked as a Director for 2000 31st Night for ZEE ALPHA (60 minutes programme).
Worked as a Director of Music Video RABINDRANATH TAGORE DANCE & SONG” for SAGARIKA MUSIC
INTERIOR DECORATION
Chinese Restaurant at TOLLYGUNGE CLUB
“CHICKIES” Restaurant at DOVER ROAD
“SONAR TARI” Restaurant at ANDERSON CLUB
EXHIBITION
Exhibits drawing & painting at Academy of Fine Arts in the year 1992 October
Exhibits drawing & painting at ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS in the year 1993 February (SOLO)
Participated BIRLA ACADEMY KALAMELA in the year 1993 December
Exhibits drawing & painting at SOURAV CENTRE OF ART AND CULTURE in the year 1994 (Solo)
Exhibits drawing and painting at BIRLA ACADEMY in the year 1995 October (Solo)
Exhibits drawing and painting at ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS in the year 2000 (Solo)
Exhibits Drawing & Painting at SWABHUMI Art Gallery in the year 2003 February (Solo)
GROUP SHOW
Birla Academy Show “TELE OF TWO CITIES” in the eyar 2004 (Kolkata)
Birla Academy Annual Show in the year 2004 at Kolkata
Birla Academy Annual Show in the year 2005 at Kolkata
Birla Academy Show “BIKASH BHATTACHARYA AND INSPIRATION” in the year 2005 at Kolkata
Birla Academy Show “BIKASH BHATTACHARYA AND INSPIRATION” in the year 2006 at Delhi
EVENTS & INSTALLATIONS
Pavilion, Stage Show & Fashion Show for State Bank, ITC, Singapore Airlines, Ashoke Hotel (Airport), Park Hotel, Nandikar Theatre Festival, Kolkata Doordarshan, Ananda Bazaar (Sananda Tillotama) and Calcutta Durga Puja Pandal & Idol.
AWARD
Got UJALA ANANDOLOKE AWARD & three time BFJA (Bengal Film & Journalist Association) AWARD for many film productions.
Got bBest Pavilion Award for 300 years of Calcutta Ceremony for STATE BANK OF INDIA
Got Best Pavilion Award for Travel Fair of SINGAPORE AIRLINES
Got many Awards for best installation Puja Mandap & best Idol for last several years. ASIAN PAINTS SARAD SAMMAN, ANANDA BAZAR, SNOWSHEME, PRATIDIN, CALCUTTA DOORDARSHAN, THE TIME OF INDIA, ATN WORLD, SHALIMAR, BANGLA LIVE DOT COM, RUPA TEXTILES, ZEE TV. TELEGRAPH, STAR PLUS – ANANDA BAZAR, STATESMAN, PRATIDIN, EXIDE, IMPACT ETC.
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Exhibition History: A man of infinitely gifted calibre whose palate of colours never ceases to amaze one, celebrated women's day in the accurately designed gallery representing the true metaphor of nature, art and womankind at Lokayata, New Delhi on 8th March, 2006, transforming a bare gallery with the touch and the feeling of the sublime. This beautiful set left Gursharan Kaur, Indira Goswami, Bindeshwar Pathak and several others spell bound. Chandan Chakraborty curator of Lokayata and an aficionado of art critiques his works and comments "This works are neither over ornamented, nor bordering on the edge of loud or garish. As a connoisseur of art his trained eye not only looks deeper beyond the surface, but enables him to aesthetically execute every project of his as a masterpiece in its own right.
His talent as an artish has seem him at the Academy of Fine Arts, the Birla Academy and Sourav's centre for Art and Culture where his paintings and art works were exhibited singularly, but being of an extremely modest nature he has done several group shows with renowned artists.
His creations can be admired in Kolkata at the stunningly decorated Chinese restaurant at Tollyguange Club and at the very elite "Sonar Tari" restaurant at the Anderson Club.
A humble , hardworking, master craftsman, a mature and cultivated artist, Rupchand Kundu has not only created a niche for himself in the geography of Indian Art, but his artist acumen cannot be rivalled. In his own words he says, "my bachelor's degree in science from Seth Anandaram Jaipuria College, served me no higher purpose since my lifelong passion in the arts took my educational career to pursue an arts degree from the Government College of Art & Crafts in Kolkata where I acquired a first class distinction in the year 1984." But in the course of the next few years his science background proved invaluable as an art director in the film world. His keen technical eye helped his perspective in assembling and crafting the brilliant and extraordinary sets of films such as "Baradin" directed by Anjan Dutta, "Swapner Sandhane" directed by Ashoke Viswanathan, Urmi Chakraborty's film "Hemanter Pakhi", Raja Sen's "Desh", Tapan Sinha's series of six short films "Daughter of the century and "Anokhi Moti".
Also as an art director he has worked on serials, talk shows, documentary films, for several well known television channels the likes of Doordarshan in both Kolkata and Delhi, Zee TV, Tara Bangla, E.TV. directing for as many as 1175 episodes of the mega serial "Ek Akasher Niche", 400 episodes of "Mohini". In the area of advertisement films and television commercials not only was he the art director but worked in the capacity of a concept writer and worked for big banner names like Burger paints, Khadim, Close-up, Bata to name just a few.
A man of various talents he is undoubtedly meritorious and has been awarded the BFJA Award three times for film production, the SBI award for best pavillion at the 300 years Calcutta Ceremony, Singapore Airlines Award for best pavillion at the Travel Fair. In the last seven years his commendable efforts helped him bag several accolades and adulations for Best Puja Mandap and Best Idol from the Telegraph, Star Plus, Asain Paints, The Times of India and Statesman.
In a country where the limelight, credit and ovations are consistently given to the stars, the actors & directors, some rather important people are forgotten, those whose endeavours backstage help bring about the true magic of cinema. In tmes such as these Rupchand Kundu would like more acknowledgements and awards for the technicians, the backstage and sets crew.
In this give and take liaison the human race revolves around, through his last project titled Earth Under The Sky at the Habitat Centre, New Delhi on World Environment Day he seeked through determination to give society an in depth view into the pathetic lives of the "prostitutes" for whom we are responsible and guilty to have labelled a section of womanhood as sinfull, illegal, poisonous and immoral. This project of his take us to a journey through the history of a necessary evil that prevails in our society order "SEX TRADE".
Truly it is safe to conclude that his muse is his own spirit that is as effervescent as the essence of life and his heart brimming over with concern in a paradigm of uncensored paradox.
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