Arindam chatterjee biography of albert
Arindam chatterjee biography of albert camus.
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Around 2007 – after more than a decade of intense engagement – Arindam Chatterjee slowly moved away from abstraction, allowing figurative elements in his works.
Arindam chatterjee biography of albert
Like many painters of his generation and before that in post-independent India, he carried expressionism toward abstraction. Yet, even as abstraction may have guaranteed greater freedom, one can see that Chatterjee was never entirely at home in purely nonobjective.
As he explains, one of the reasons behind this decisive shift in his art practice is his growing dissatisfaction with expressive abstraction, which he felt was not so effective a language to capture the true faces of the world, which emerged battered and bedraggled from the debris of civilization: Abu Ghraib, the unquiet Gulf and Middle-East, Guantanamo Bay and numerous atrocities close home.
Created between 2017 and 2023, through the Covid phases, this body of works in the exhibition shows