In the sixth edition of Vision’20, a few artists bring out the visual aspects of life on their canvas

An amalgamation of nature, movement, human activity, a manifestation of the artists, their experience and observation of their surroundings are intertwined for the sixth edition of the group exhibition Vision’20.

The contributing artists Ajay Ghose, Biswapati Maity, Gautam Pramanik, Jyoti Prasad Mallick, Karna Puri, Manoj Sarkar, Rabindranath Choudhury, Saroj Basu, Subrata Biswas, Tapas Basu, Tirthankar Biswas and Tilok Mandal have interwoven these ideas and developed them further. 

Rabindranath Chaudhury one of the senior contributing artists whose work has been collected by various institutions across the globe says, “In my current series, I am experimenting with colours, forms, textures, and perspectives to uncover the deepest crevices of the human psyche. Nature always haunts me and unleashes my mind a profound thrill with all her beautiful things.”

In the exhibition, one can find unity in Ajoy Ghosh’s excellent intertwining of nature with mythology or, in the meditative vibes of Karna Puri. While the paintings of Tilak Mondal teach the world tenacity through womanhood, Tapas Basu’s works are an amazing example of finding peace in the beauty of nature and contemporary society. As Manoj Sarkar takes you through an adventure of many aspects of human life, Thirthankar Biswas’ will make you live through the moment of the topic in his canvas.

Tapas Basu’s work reflect an expression of the inner world with eclectic colours. The award-winning artist says, “My work is inspired by the beauty of nature and contemporary society, where life is captured in a symbolic, yet surrealistic approach through colours and forms.

Along with them are displayed Biswapati Maity and his feminism, Gautam Pramanik and his colours, Jyoti Prasad Mallik painting humble lives, Rabindranath Choudhury, Saroj Basu and Subhrata Biswas who create a different world with their works. All of these critically acclaimed artists bring out the visual aspects of life on their canvas, overwhelming us into an epitome of non-visual feelings.

Most of the artists contributing to this exhibition have been inspired by Nature, and everything that surrounds us. Biswapati Maity says, “Although Nature is the main inspiration of my paintings, I am heavily influenced by human figures and its behavior. In my paintings, human figures come out in a very natural way. Sometimes it can be a full figure and sometimes it may be only the face.”

Nature is a dominant theme for most artists, it’s beauty and the magical colours can draw anyone to itself, however, as Tirthankar Biswas explains, sometimes inspirations are realistic and sometimes semi-realistic, “The common denominator in my paintings is a moment, movement and force.  It can be a sixer from an energetic cricketer, it can be an escaping deer from an approaching tiger, it can be an out-posted hut from a flash flood or it can be a swinging head of palm tree with monsoon wind. The variation of the medium is also just like my subject. I use from diluted ink to pencil, pastel, charcoal, acrylic and oil colour depend upon the demand of the subject. The recent works belong to the semi-realistic category with the medium of oil  on canvas.”

(The exhibition will be held from January 3 to 9.)