Dipankar Dasgupta, we are also shown a world that is bleak, empty, and sometimes dark. The rough side of existence is juxtaposed with ornamentation, which can be interpreted as the divisiveness of a caste system or modern society’s enticing cover-up, distracting us from the darker, bleaker side of an industrialized world. Dasgupta shows the devastation left behind when an industry has eaten its fill and moved on to greener pastures. Modern architecture is depicted as a maze of jagged lines and, like Patel, man and nature is shown connected by wires rather than the natural flow of energy and emotion between all living things.
“Connectivity I &II” and “The Hill, The Moons, The Sea…” communicate the advancement in the world of technology while three waning celestial bodies trapped in an eclipse, hover over the lifeless golden hill. In this body of paintings the surface of the canvas serves as a signifier against which the artist develops on his language of coded symbols.
5 comments:
I enjoyed reading about this artists work, originally his work did not excite me but learning more about it has helped me to appreciate it more.
getting across all that paint on the brush must be murder
quite the stylistic achievement to put this down on canvas
from a logistics point of view
wonderful to see in person.
This picture makes me think of falling leaves.
A lot of this stuff it's like he's got his eye on the future with his foot in the past.
This article really inspired me to learn more about the artist.
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