Nightmare Painting

Sourav Chatterjee’s paintings, sets a similar key or rather a tone, which pits man against nature, man against the fruits of his own progress and broods on the present. Man and man made objects are often made to look trivial in the lap of the infinite nature. The paintings are visually enthralling and, at the same time, emotionally disquieting. In his own way, Chatterjee mourns the human interventions in nature in the form of rampant industrialization and technological advancements- in short ‘the progress of mankind’. Each of his canvas almost goes through tonal shifts- from a wide-eyed amazement of nature’s beauty to moody ominousness, growing anxiety and palpable edginess, which finally settle into a melancholy image. There is this sense of otherworldliness, through the dwarfing of everything human in relation to nature, almost a creation of a second, invisible canvas; pointing out, mankind’s siege on mother nature, in the eye, like the off-stage trumpets in Mahler’s 1st and 2nd , which evoke a sense of distance, a distance of imagination. The ‘second canvas’ also calls us from far away, and from within, like voices of the ‘dead’; the call for mankind to stop, to reflect, to turn our gaze inwards. The main canvas creates space for its metaphorical counterpart. The result is an open-ended present.»

Painting:Tempera on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:9 W x 14 H x 1 D in

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