Artistic Career
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Pritish Nandy has held six shows of his paintings, drawings and calligraphy. The first was a calligraphy and water colours show called Looking Within with painter Samir Mondal in Gallery Ashish Balram Nagpal, Mumbai in 1990. The second was a calligraphy and drawings show called Images: The Poet and the Painter with painter Manjit Bawa which was held at CAA, the Centre for Contemporary Art Gallery, New Delhi in 1991 and then at Gallery Ashish Balram Nagpal, Mumbai. The third was a solo exhibition by Nandy called Drawings for My Childrenwhich was shown at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and at Gallery 88, Calcutta in 1991. The show was accompanied by a street play in Calcutta in which Amitabh Bachchan and Anupam Kher participated.
Then, after eight years, came another solo show called Maverick: Poems of Love and Longing at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 1999. The next show was Bored at the Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2008. The sixth show was again a collaboration, this time with painter Paresh Maity, of calligraphy and water colours based on Shesh Lekha: The Last Poems of Rabindranath Tagore which Nandy had translated for the first time in 1973. This show was held with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India to commemorate Tagore's 150th birth anniversary and was shown at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and then at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai and finally at CIMA, the Centre for Indian Modern Art in Calcutta during 2011.
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