Mantu Das

My artistic practice revolves around painting and multi-sensory installations. My works are
mostly narrative in expression. They reflect and address socioeconomic and cultural realities of
our time. I often address subaltern histories. My work at times attempts a re-reading of known
visuals in a contemporary social context. The existence of multiple realities coerces us to
question the mundane activities, thus my works reconstruct time and space through the
imaginative. The viewer confronts reality through unreal situations. Taking references from the
popular and mundane I try to re-establish facts through personal fantasies, myth and
narratives. I believe narrative and representational works in general have the potential to make
a viewer introspect their own situations and makes them more conscious about their actions. . I
believe through ironical and satirical imagery my work can create a cathartic effect on the
viewer.  In my recent body of works the basic idea was to play with multiple yet connected
narratives. Here the chosen motifs reconstruct multiple yet connected narratives through the
forms on the chosen surface. The interplay of calculated imagery emerges at an interval,
representing a chosen theme. Ideas of...

MFA in Painting, Visva- Bharati, Santiniketan

ART FAIR :
BLIK BLIK – 2019 a festival of light at DEPO2015, Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2019
ASYAAF (Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival) , Seoul, Korea, 2015
India art fair - 2014,New Delhi, displayed at Galeries de Daniel Besseiche, Paris, France
IKONO ON AIR festival, Germany curated by Frank Barthalemy – 2013 -2014
SOLO :
Variable Incomplete story at Kala – Bhavan old building - 2012
MY WORLD - 2011 at ITC WINDSOR AND GALLERY SERENDIP , BANGALORE
GROUP:
CIMA summer show, CIMA art gallery , Kolkata , 2019
CIMA awards show at GEM cinema hall, Kolkata, 2017
Indo-Korean Young Artists exhibition Emerging Canvas - IV at Seoul, Korea2016 A walk elsewhere, Pier- 2, Khaosiung ,Taiwan Curated by Mei-hsi WU - 2015 The Web of Water art exhibition curated by Sandhya Gajjar – UK, 2014 "Urbanscapes"- at 1 MG Road Mall, Bangalore,2014
The Baroda March at the CSMVS formerly known as The Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai -2014
Time will tell, art and aesthetc, Delhi,2013 Own an original, art and aesthetc, Delhi,2013
“Fluid” Site gallery, Baroda, 2013
"GenNext - IV" Aakrti art gallery- 09, Kolkata
"The Vision" India International center - 09, New Delhi Burland Art Gallery- 09, U.K
51st national exhibition ,Lalit ka...