Krishna Gopal Ranjit
Krishna Gopal Ranjit’s paintings juxtapose the abstract with concrete, the unlimited universe with the objects and images of our surroundings, and the stillness with movement. The ambience of his paintings create sublime in the sense that as we view his paintings, they take us beyond our imagination, the viewer and the viewed are fused, the world trembles as in the earthquake of high magnitude, the tides in the sea flow as in a tsunami.
Krishna Gopal Ranjit’s paintings juxtapose the abstract with concrete, the unlimited universe with the objects and images of our surroundings, and the stillness with movement. The ambience of his paintings create sublime in the sense that as we view his paintings, they take us beyond our imagination, the viewer and the viewed are fused, the world trembles as in the earthquake of high magnitude, the tides in the sea flow as in a tsunami.
The artist realizes a sense of apocalypse, the end of the world, the upside down of the buildings, towers, hills and the civilizations. Temples, mosques, monasteries and churches are swinging like a leaf in the cosmic cyclone. The rage sweeps and gulps everything. What is visible, is the storm of light and the milky way. The paintings suggest the transition between the beginning and the end of the universe.
In some paintings, Saraswati, the goddess of learning, the primordial mother plays the veena (a musical instrument) before the world begins. The cosmic rhythm and music flows from centre to periphery.
In a painting, the lightning and the thunderbolt bigger than the atmosphere floods the white the Himalaya with the flashing light foreshadowing the disaster.
The volcanic eruption of the energy scatters the molten lava across the world.
He creates a sense of big-bang through centripetal and centrifugal forces. The universe is conversed into a ball, and the single mass is expanding and moving outward to create planets and stars as dust particles. Life, movement, change, speed, rhythm and music are the properties of Krishna Gopal Ranjit’s paintings.
Even in such turmoil and tsunami, the Buddha remains calm and firm in his meditation. This is the enlightenment and nirvana of the Buddha. The cosmic energy is flowing toward him and going back to the universe.
Date of Birth: 1935
Solo Shows:
2011: Nature Rage, Fusion Studio, Kathmandu, Nepal
2005: Moonlight Panorama, J Art Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal
2005: Himalayan Views, J Art Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal
2005: Nature and Culture, Nagaoka, Nigata City, Japan
2004: From Nature to Culture, Pokhara, Nepal
2003: Living Culture, Gallery 9, Kathmandu, Nepal
2001: Passsing Culture, J Art Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal
1999: The Foggy Morning, J Art Gallery, Nepal
1999: New Horizon, J Art Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal
1999: Himalayan Views, J Art Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal
1998, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1991, 1989: J Art Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal
1972: Thailand
1972: Nepal Association of Fine Arts, Kathmandu, Nepal
1969: Nepal India Cultural Center, Kathmandu, Nepal
Group Exhibitions:
1965-1972: Participated in National Art Exhibitions, organized by Nepal Association of Fine Arts
1997: Participated in art show organized by Fuji Television of Japan
1970: Participated in Expo-Japan
Awards:
Felicitated by Nepal Association of Fine Arts for outstanding contribution in development of Art in Nepal
2004: Honor and Felicitated by Newa Khala of Pokhara
2000: Rastriya Prativa Puruskar
Consolation award on 7th National Art Exhibitions, Kathmandu
1997: International award from Fuji Television of Japan
RNAC Silver Jubilee Medal
2000: Felicitated by the Commercial Artists’ Association of Nepal
2010: Ambassador for Peace, Universal Peace Federation, Interreligious & International Federation for World Peace, Korea
Travel: Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand
Collections:
In Nepal and many private collections around the world
