Agameoforderandchaos
Paintings, digital images, drawings and light — made by hand, by improvisation, in Kolkata.
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Preparing the canvasNo AI — only intuition
000Susmit Biswas
Kolkata
Kolkata
(01) — StatementChaos→ Order
“If you look, you may not leap.” — Solo exhibition, Akar Prakar, 2008
(02) — Five rooms196 works
- IPaintingsAcrylic storms on flat fields of cobalt, vermilion and cadmium.057
- IIDigitalTechnology used to blur what can and can’t be done by hand.038
- IIIDrawingsThe pleasure of mark-making, pared down to line and pressure.039
- IVBrush & InkThe autonomy of the calligraphic gesture — magenta, black, paper.023
- VLight PaintingsGestures drawn in air on Kolkata streets, with photographer Shailpik Biswas.039
(04) — Light Paintingswith Shailpik Biswas, photographer
Drawn in air,
held by light
Long exposures on Kolkata streets at night — the calligraphic gesture, freed from the paper. Move across the frame to draw with light.
See all 39 exposures →(05) — Review“Agile and Unrestrained”
Theseimagesarehighlystylisedmusicalscores—whenoneseesthesepaintingsonealsohearsrhythms.
ImprovisationColourZenTribal artCalligraphyKind of BlueMark-makingKolkataImprovisationColourZenTribal artCalligraphyKind of BlueMark-makingKolkata
(06) — FilmCollaborative performance
Improvisation with saxophone & paintings
(07) — The WallEvery mark,
Every mark,
at once
196 works across five practices on one endless wall. Drag, fling, get lost.
Enter the Wall→(08) — Solo exhibitionsFull CV →
- 2017Flow and FrenzyGallery Manora, Bangalore
- 2016A Game of Order and Chaos52A, Kolkata
- 2015Towards the Boundless52A, Kolkata
- 2008If you look, you may not leapAkar Prakar, Kolkata
- 2007Further ImprovisationsAlliance Française du Bengale, Kolkata
- 2005ImprovisationsOxford Bookstore Gallery, Kolkata
- 2003Recent PaintingsAkar Prakar, Kolkata
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