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Ranadip Mukherjee (the expressionist artist) Born: 17 Dec 1968, Jamshedpur, India After doing his graduation from one of the oldest art institution named Government College of Art & Crafts from the historical city of Kolkata. Ranadip successfully entered in the field of contemporary art in India since 1991 when he was the final year student of the art college. In 1992 Ranadip mounted his iconic ‘IDEAL COUSTUME’ SERIES in the most prominent place in the 16th floor of TATA Centre in Chowringee Square, when he was in his early 20’s. The’ COUSTUME SERIES’ emanates from his fascination of the bright and eye-catching costumes worn by ladies. An attempt had been made to blend realism with fluid abstract brush in the same surface. In this show the artist paid tribute to the legendry Mother Teresa to whom he meet in Kolkata before he started his art career. In the backend of 1994 his visit Ranadip first visit in England, he had few shows of there. When he was in London, he even tried installation art when he was enraptured by the thought of visitors viewing his art to the accompaniment of Bach’s music. Ranadip had four one man shows in different years in Moot Hall, near Carlisle, Cumbria, UK. Ranadip’s experiment gave birth of a series which was called ‘Ruins’ in late 1999 and continued till 2001. In this time he was fascinated by the dilapidated by the architectures of the old cities in India. In those works, Ranadip has markedly shifted the traditional idea of subject to certain signifiers and putting them together which combined lead to a concept. He makes his paintings self-evident with the presence of those aspects that are not hindered by the distance of time and space. In his recent Banaras series which he was working on since more than One Decade, he says that “what I see I don’t paint but what I feel I paint “. Banaras for Ranadip is the oldest city brings to his heart a melancholy, and a sense of continuity. In his Banaras series his works sometimes the forms come like tiny episodes of a play, sometimes the forms just seep into the canvas almost of their own volition. He has painted nearly 150 canvases on Banaras. Ranadip’s ongoing Banares series his personal, emotional and expressional tribute to a city which he has fallen in love with.