At the upcoming art show, Concresence, six artists with varying cultures and creativity quotients will come together to showcase their works. Artist Puneet Kaushik’s coral beads and stainless steel wire, Pritam Bhatty’s multiple digital images, Preetha Kannan’s mangroves with photographic references comprising of numerous painted dots, Ratna Gupta’s body casts and latex genomes, Chandra Bhattacharjee’s cross hatched figures, and Rajan Krishnan’s pure paintings — it’s a coalescence of varied mediums and concerns — a Concrescence.
Chandra Bhattacharjee’s canvases are a mix of dusty colours, imbued with a pristine quietness and deep fervour reflected in the archetypal faces he has painted. “Every work of mine is a story of all that I see, all that I want to see, a sum of my experience and involvement with my surroundings. Being a figurative painter, my subject is mostly the human being. Through a facial expression or a body position, I seek to interact with them,” says Chandra.
Puneet Kaushik, another participating artist, says about his works, “They depict the surface layering, the self within and out. Like if you scratch the surface/the superficial self of any individual, you discover the real self. It is finally in the eyes of the onlooker to see the beauty or the ugliness and it is he who is provoked to see ‘the self within the self’.”
At Lalit Kala Akademi,
November 17-23