Madhusudan Chaudhuri

About Mr. Madhusudan Chaudhuri
[Sculptor, Painter, & Commercial Artist]

Madhusudan Chaudhuri was born at Balurghat in West Dinajpur, West Bengal, India in the year 1939. Having spent his childhood and adolescence there he moved to Calcutta for his art education and received his training as a commercial artist at the Govt. College of Arts and Crafts. But all along his tenure as a student of commercial art he was haunted by a sense of discontent for not studying his first love - painting and sculpture. Thus, after receiving his degree in Commercial Art, he decided to follow the dictates of his heart and took up sculpture as his next course of study under the guidance of Chintamoni Kar who was also his mentor.

Madhusudan Chaudhuri has always remained a sculptor in the traditional sense having believed in the kind of work which Sir Herbert Read would have described as 'an art of solid form, of mass, and its virtues ... related to spatial occupancy' and has never deviated from it.

To contact the sculptor regarding any queries, you may phone
Tel : +91 33 2359 8425 / Mobile : 9433475414

You may write to – AC-38, Flat no. 2, Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 700064

Email : chaudhuri.madhu39@gmail.com
For details, refer to www.madhusudanart.com

Exhibitions

Open air Sculpture Group Show, Kolkata – 1966 and 1671 organised by Sculptors Guild, Kolkata.
Group show at All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi – 1967.
Solo Exhibitions of sculptures and Paintings at Gaganendra Pradarshashala, Kolkata (1984, 1994, 2005).
Open Air Sculpture Show, Kolkata, organised Rajya Charukala Parshad, I & CA Dept. Govt. of West Bengal (2004, 2005).
Participated the ‘Wood Carving Workshop’ organised by the Rajya Charukala Parshad, Govt. of West Bengal (2004, 2005).
Participated the ‘Dokra Casting Workshop’ at Bhaskar Bhavan, Narendrapur, Kolkata.

Sculptures Installed

Bronze bust of Sisir Kumar Bhaduri, the doyen of Bengali theatre, done for the Sisir Mancha (Theatre), Kolkata Information Centre, Govt. of West Bengal. Honoured with a bronze plaque by the Govt. of West Bengal (1985).
Bronze bust of Girish Ghosh, installed at Girish Mancha (Theatre), for the Dept. of Information and Cultural Affairs, Govt. of West Bengal.
Portrait of Maestro Ustad Allauddin Khan installed behind the Rabindra Sadan, Dept. of Information and Cultural Affairs, Govt. of West Bengal.
Sardar BallavBhai Patel in Nasik, Maharastra.
Made terracotta (burnt clay) murals on the life line of Bharat Pathik Raja Rammohun Roy. These are on the concept of the League of Nations, Farmer’s Rights, Women’s Education, Abolition of the Suttee, and so on (10 panels).
Made Vitrified terracotta murals (Two panels) on Women’s Development, State Urban Development Authority, Kolkata (Total Area - 84 sq ft).
Made 3 panels of Vitrified Terracotta Murals on Education i.e. Ancient Age to the Modern Age i.e. the Age of Computers (Total Area – 118 sq ft).
Bronze bust of Rabindranath Tagore (2 ½ ft.) installed at Balurghat, West Bengal.
Bronze bust of Head Mistress, Sova Majumdar, installed at Balurghat Girls’ High School, West Bengal.
Nisith Ranjan Acharya, Head Master, Balurghat High School, Balurghat, West Bengal.
Bronze bust of Henry Vivien Derozio at Derozio College Rajarhat, Kolkata.
Dr. Bidhan Roy, IIM Joka, Kolkata.
Three Martyrs (8 ft. high) at Balurghat, West Bengal.
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose (bronze), Salt Lake City, Kolkata.
Acharya prafulla Chandra Ray (bronze) Salt Lake City, Kolkata.
Acharya Girish Basu (bronze bust) Kolkata.
Mangal Pandey (bronze bust) installed at Barrackpore.
Santhal Poet Sadhu Ramchand Murmu (3 ft.) at Jhargram, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, 2006

Awards

Poster designing award on Gandhian Themes, New Delhi.
Award on Tableau designing for Govt. of West Bengal.
Awarded for Sculpture on Kalidas, Meghdoot, Akhil Bharat Chitrakala & Murtikala Pradarshani, Madhya Pradesh.
Award on Coin design, Govt. of India.
Stamp design on Asiad, Govt. of India.
Stamp design on Olympics, 1976.