Sakti Burman Sakti
Burman was born in Calcutta in 1935. He studied art in Calcutta and Paris. From the
mid-50s, he has been living in Paris. However, he has been visiting and exhibiting in
India quite regularly.
Burman is a fine lithographer who can achieve an incredible range
of tonal and textural variations. He has illustrated several books such a collection of
Mallarme's poems. He has also published portfolios of his lithographs.
Burman's images are steeped in romanticism and fantasy. Europe and India
are fused in his imagination. Exotic birds and blooms sprout from unlikely places.
Sensuously painted women loll about in a mythical or oneiric landscape. The surface is
usually textured like aging frescos.
