Art Collection Schlichtner. Künstler.

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Name des Künstlers/der Künstlerin

Sagar Sarkar

Geburtsort

Bangladesh

Ausbildung

2021 ongoing
Academy of Fine Arts, Magister Artium (on going), Department of Drawing Veronika Dirnhofer, Vienna, Austria.

2015 to 2019
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bachelor’s (B.F.A.), Drawing and Painting, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2013 to 2015
Notre Dame College, Higher Secondary Certificate (H.S.C), Humanities, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Workshops

2013
NDNSC Photography program.

2012
DUPS basic photography workshop.

Certifications

2013-2015
Attend Notre Dame Nature Study Club at college.

2013
Life Time Membership (NDNSC).

2013
NDNSC Photography program and successfully completed G.T.P.(Ground Training Program),
P.T.P.(Photography Training Program), O.M.P.T. (Office
Management Training Program) and took part 20 hour field work.

2013
Basic Photography Training Program. A short course about operating digital Camera and manual Camera,
Developing photo manually by using darkroom.

Skills

Photoshop
Doing publications, and some print base work like cover printing and photo manipulation.

Illustrator
Illustration base drawing, digital storyboarding and some design base project.

Lightroom
For photo post processing using a digital photo editor from 2014.

Photography
Manual and digital camera base photography and manual photo developing and digital print media.

Storyboarding
Working in a Rohinga base project with Red Crescent Society, doing a instruction base storyboarding and illustration in 2018 to 2019.

Solo-Ausstellungen Auszug

2021
Hybrid NFT Exhibition, Vienna, Austria.

2018
Annual Exhibition, Department of Drawing and Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Zainul Gallery, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2015
International Nature Summit Photo exhibition, Notre Dame College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2nd National photography exhibition (DUPS), Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2014 & 2015
ACU photography exhibition (The Pixel Prize), Sydney, Australia.

Auszeichnungen

2015
International Nature Summit Photo award.

2014
The pixel prize award 2014: First position.

Grants

2020
Brihotto Home Art Project, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2015
Faculty of Fine Arts Merit Based Scholarship,
University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Workshops

2013
NDNSC Photography program.

2012
DUPS basic photography workshop.

Publications

2015
NISHORGA, An annual club magazine, about nature, humans and society. A group publication.

Artist Statement

I am Sagar Sarkar from Bangladesh and are since recently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. I have completed my BFA from department of painting, University of Dhaka. I paint and work based on object-orientation using new media. At the beginning of my art practice, I was influenced by Kafka’s magic realism and Jackson Pollock where I was attracted by the concept of space and time. I am also motivated by Pollock’s expression with feelings rather than illustration.

When I paint, I don’t think too much, just help myself for “go with the flow”. My paintings release me from inner torment and painting hours work as a meditation. My paintings reflect my consciousness and subconscious behavior. According to Hindu scripture (Bhagavad Gita): ‘The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument’. In my paintings surfaces overlap and create and finally generate a composite image. The process of my painting is the sum of several decisions and is the result of many overservations in time and space. I transform my thoughts into painting. I usually work with oil pastel and acrylic on canvas in a large scale and paint minimalistic patterns and formations. I also work with digital media both still image and motion image. My work process is strongly guided by the idea of transformation and metamorphosis.

I have found rare concepts from Shakespeare which are sometimes similar with the concepts of Hindu scripture which lead me to think about life style. I observe that the world is a stage and people are the actors of Shakespeare´s stage plays. Now I am at the stage of understanding people and previous historic events, but I just observe and never take that as a final decision.

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