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Kathmandu Falling Painting

Kurchi Dasgupta

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 54 W x 60 H x 2 D in

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About The Artwork

As I walked around the city after the first 7.8 richter earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, and then again on May 12 with innumerable aftershocks in between and after, I found the city of Kathmandu being held up by these makeshift, wooden beams. And an endless number of tarpaulins have been up against the blue sky as tents to shelter the thousands rendered homeless in a few seconds. This is my homage to a nation struggling to recover. And in memory of those lost to us forever. The yellow tapes bear 'danger' and 'stop' signs around the city to warn us away from those countless buildings about to come tumbling down. Sometimes it feels as if the sky might collapse any moment now...

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:54 W x 60 H x 2 D in

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I grew up in the intensely intellectual environment of Calcutta. My parents' active participation in the arts and the city's postcolonial cultural ferment gave a hands-on crash course that I took by default. The formal degree was taken in Comparative Literature, though. I have been writing extensively on art and that's reflected in my artworks, which are conceptual in nature even when restricted to the guise of paintings. Each is an exploration into whatever issue was bothering me most at that moment. The visual touch-points are usually sourced from random/incisive searches on the internet - because how the internet shapes and reflects us as a species interests me a lot. I have headed publishing ventures, been CEO of the Satyajit Ray Society, translated modern Bengali classics in the past. I live in Kathmandu now. And try and raise relevant questions through my work.

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