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An exhibition brings together five artists from Bengal
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A MAZE OF EXPERIENCES Chhatrapati Dutta's paintings are relatively sober in content and construct
The group show Addressing Unreason, currently on at Gallery Sumukha, has five artists from Bengal exhibiting their works.
Chhatrapati Dutta's assemblage of terracotta heads and media circulated images of violence is suffused with political allusions as the title Purulia 1996 To Godhra 2002 — Superimposed Realities suggests. "We live in a time of simulacrum/pretences, encircled by violence," says Dutta. "My assemblage deals with the issues of our proximity to, involvement in, and the impact of this violence." Chhatrapati's paintings are relatively sober in content and construct, with the artist employing a combination of maps and scissors "to relive the maze of experiences existing in a city".
Abhijit Gupta too endeavours to present his account of the urban chaos through a series of frenzied city snapshots. "My present suite of works is somewhat biographical and stem from the need to examine my own philosophical indecencies," says the former activist and researcher for indigenous art forms. "They are therefore cathartic and intended as a means to lay bare the ambiguities that inform their genesis, process and the adopted method of validation." They do appear sturdy, but some of Abhijit's works tend to become bombastic and even confusing.
A mid-career, multi-dimensional artist, Paula Sengupta has "constructed" a book in the form of a bioscope, accompanied by an audio track. Narrating the story of a fish that journeyed from the high Himalayas to the rivers of the deep South in search of adventure, Maccapuchare — The Brave And Beautiful One makes an interesting if ambitious exhibit. No. 8, Shorts Bazaar/ # 8 Short Street? which uses furniture, linen and other odd things, is also quite refined despite its apparent theatricality. Riddhi Narayan Nandy's pleasing but cleverly manipulated digital prints and Sujay Mukherjee's loud, pompous and pretentious images also form part of the show.
The exhibition concludes on Friday, August 4, at Gallery Sumukha.
ATHREYA
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