Sculptural presentation of young Kanta Kishore Moharana

[Contemporary]

Kanta Kishore was born and continued his childhood in a traditional
carver(maharana) family near Bhubaneswar, Orissa. His father, elder
brothers all are related with artistic work for their livelihood. From
his childhood Kanta kishore has played with carving tools , wood and
other materials. Practicing sculptures is only job from childhood; he
has played with many more different mediums to create different
sculptures. He has got a bachelors degree in Fine Art from B.K.College
of Art and Crafts and studied master degree at Govt. College of Art
and Crafts Kolkata. At his time at Kolkata, he has experimented with
different local mediums with his own concepts and got appreciated
among all his contemporary sculptors. Now a days he is mostly
fascinated towards social issues, human daily life related problems,
like urbanization and globalization.


Artist is realizing this problem of society because he/she is a
element of base not that glorifying supper structures. Mother feeding,
women violence, labor rally , child labor, starvation, unemployment
and recent terrorist activities in Indian social life etc. are the
sculptural presentation of Kanta Kishore. If you see his conceptual
works on news paper series, everybody just falling in love at first
sight, He is mastered in carving and when he picks marbles, it
produces some wonderful pieces. Now a days he is working on books ,
carving white marbles and adding some metal to it, those are just
lovable.

In this lovely medium Marble, Kanta kishore has started with News
Paper series and then got some installations on Labor Rally, by
installing carved marble chapels at Tina Ambani’s Harmony Show 2007 he
expressed his concern on this social issue. Besides his skill in
Marble, he has worked in many different materials like wood, granite,
fiber and bronze. His work gives situational thoughts, one of his news
paper series shows child labor and other with other issue, it’s just
like reminding you everyday about these social issues and it will
eradicate only if society will come up.

When his works were exhibited at New Delhi this year at India Habitat
Centre, art lovers and critics were just got surprised, everybody
puzzled, asked many questions about how many days it has taken and how
much patience you have etc. Then his work ‘Golden Chili’ was the
centre of attraction at Ashok Art Gallery’s stall in Art Expo India
2008 Mumbai. Kanta Kishore is a very talented young Indian sculptor;
you can see his recent original works on display at India Art Summit
2008.

The Ashok Art Gallery is internationally known for one of its most
important holdings: more than 2000 major works by the world’s most
significant Artists.Over the past years, as Ashok Art Gallery has
become a major centre for contemporary visual art, the Gallery has
built a strong collection of contemporary work of different artists.
Last year we became a sponsor of the STANDUP-SPEAKOUT Artshow,
Organized by Art Of Living Foundation and United Nations.Organized an
International Contenmporary Art Exhibition including artists from USA,
The Nederlands, Pakistan and India.We have also participated at Art
Expo India 2008 Mumbai and India Art Summit 2008 New Delhi.
Kanta Kishore lives and works in Bhubaneswar, Orissa.

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