Dattatraya Apte
(b. 1953)
Dattatraya Apte (b. 1953) obtained a Diploma in Drawing and Painting from Govt of Maharashtra and BA Honours from University of Pune. He did his Post Diploma in Printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda in 1980. He has been a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust which put him under the guidance of Prof. Jacky Perry at Glasgow School of Art. Apte has participated in numerous important exhibitions, including the ‘The Print: Matter in Matrix’, Gallery Latitude 28 at Sridharani Gallery, New Delhi; International Biennale of Prints, Bhopal; IV International Art Triennale, Maidacis, Poland; the 14th exhibition of the Korean Graphics Society, Seoul; Swarnarekha-Golden Jubilee Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi. He is the recipient of several awards including AIFACS award, National award, honorary mention in Print Biennale, Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal. He is a founding member of ‘Indian Printmakers Guild’ and has assisted Anupum Sud in curating ‘Mini Print Exhibition’, a travelling exhibition for Gallery Espace, New Delhi. His works are in collection of several private and public collectors in India and abroad. He is driven by surfaces which invite him to look at, smell and feel by moving hands over them with purposeful analytical thoughts; to understand the structure, character of the material, colour, arrangement of various elements, natural or altered with human intervention become a starting point for his work. The environment in which one lives or has lived, witness changes, brought in by various factors, for years together, through all seasons, leave various abstract impressions. These impressions linger in his mind and oscillate like a pendulum of the eternal clock of the life cycle. Prompting hims to concentrate his thoughts and energies toward his practice. He lives and works in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
