Samit Das, Jayanta Roy, Susanta Mandal
04 - 27 Sep 2008
SAMIT DAS, JAYANTA ROY, SUSANTA MANDAL
New Works
September 4 - 27, 2008
New works by Samit Das, Susanta Mandal, and Jayanta Roy
Opening on September 4th and continuing to September 27th, 2008.
Nature Morte will present new works in a variety of mediums by three young artists in September.
Samit Das (born 1970) is perhaps the best known of the group. Originally from West Bengal and a graduate of Shantiniketan, Das has lived in New Delhi since 1996 and has been exhibiting his works throughout India for the past ten years. He usually combines photography, painting and collage into mixed-media works that start with architectural imagery and expand into urban landscapes. On display will be a succinct body of works (photography, sculpture and collage) that use as their starting point the New Bengal Hotel of Mumbai. Close to Crawford Market in central Mumbai, this large establishment has organically evolved over time, in many ways resembling the artist's own investigations into assemblage and juxtaposition. Das documents and re-creates details of the hotel to create a playful installation that mimics the haphazard nature of the hotel's architecture and the comings and goings of its clientele.
Susanta Mandal (born 1965) studied painting at both the Government College of Arts and Craft in Kolkata (BFA, 1990) and the Benares Hindu University (MFA, 1993) and today lives in New Delhi. Though trained as a painter, Susanta has always shown a keen sensitivity to forms and materials. This has manifested itself in his mature works that are kinetic sculptural installations, sometimes referencing the flatness of painting but also involving ephemeral materials. His machines are always low-tech and their mechanisms are exposed. His new work at Nature Morte will involve both bubbles and shadows to create a theatrical tableaux.
Jayanta Roy (born 1973) continues to live in his home city of Calcutta, where he graduated from the Government College of Arts & Crafts in1997. His paintings posit graphic elements and flat colors against a clever wit and sharp sense of design. His subjects are symbols, as they appear in both everyday life and art history, how they trick us into belief or seduce us into complacency.
Nature Morte is open Monday through Saturday, from 11am to 7pm and closed on Sundays. For more information, contact Geeta Bajaj at (011) 4174-0215.
New Works
September 4 - 27, 2008
New works by Samit Das, Susanta Mandal, and Jayanta Roy
Opening on September 4th and continuing to September 27th, 2008.
Nature Morte will present new works in a variety of mediums by three young artists in September.
Samit Das (born 1970) is perhaps the best known of the group. Originally from West Bengal and a graduate of Shantiniketan, Das has lived in New Delhi since 1996 and has been exhibiting his works throughout India for the past ten years. He usually combines photography, painting and collage into mixed-media works that start with architectural imagery and expand into urban landscapes. On display will be a succinct body of works (photography, sculpture and collage) that use as their starting point the New Bengal Hotel of Mumbai. Close to Crawford Market in central Mumbai, this large establishment has organically evolved over time, in many ways resembling the artist's own investigations into assemblage and juxtaposition. Das documents and re-creates details of the hotel to create a playful installation that mimics the haphazard nature of the hotel's architecture and the comings and goings of its clientele.
Susanta Mandal (born 1965) studied painting at both the Government College of Arts and Craft in Kolkata (BFA, 1990) and the Benares Hindu University (MFA, 1993) and today lives in New Delhi. Though trained as a painter, Susanta has always shown a keen sensitivity to forms and materials. This has manifested itself in his mature works that are kinetic sculptural installations, sometimes referencing the flatness of painting but also involving ephemeral materials. His machines are always low-tech and their mechanisms are exposed. His new work at Nature Morte will involve both bubbles and shadows to create a theatrical tableaux.
Jayanta Roy (born 1973) continues to live in his home city of Calcutta, where he graduated from the Government College of Arts & Crafts in1997. His paintings posit graphic elements and flat colors against a clever wit and sharp sense of design. His subjects are symbols, as they appear in both everyday life and art history, how they trick us into belief or seduce us into complacency.
Nature Morte is open Monday through Saturday, from 11am to 7pm and closed on Sundays. For more information, contact Geeta Bajaj at (011) 4174-0215.