Artworks by Santanu Maity, Amritah Sen & Sumona Jana July 16, 2009

Artworks by Santanu Maity, Amritah Sen & Sumona Jana. Since childhood the melody of Tagorean philosophy has always guided Santanu Maity's work. It has created a desire within to view the everyday life with an imaginative vision. The urge to see the objects around us differently and touch them with the magical strokes of the artist gave birth to the symbol of bees. His creative motivation flowered as he delved into the action of the bee with a keen sense of analytical observation and then tries to visualize the same in splashes of calculated colour. His canvases thus acquire the status of analytical abstraction seldom sees elsewhere. Amritah Sen, a co-student of the two others showing together in this show, looks at her present body of work as if introspecting her own life. 'Halfway' means the middle of the road and, 'halfway' is about stopping for a while and looking back at all the things left incomplete at different juncture along with the remaining bits and parts of them still in my hand. This special feeling of already living half of her life demanded a bit of math-practice compelling her to calculate life - just for the sake of record - asked me to look back for a while. Since her mathematical ability, she confesses candidly, is quite under-developed, she ended up with this set of works that displays a specific feeling. The third member of the trio, Sumona Jana, is a print-maker with a difference. She uses 'viscosssssity; technique of the trade to create unique art works without scope of duplication of usual print-making. The individual artistic spirit of Sumona is lonely and alone even in this race of living in the concrete jungle of urban atmosphere. Her creative spiritual acumen allows her to fill her loneliness with elements of thoughtful beauty giving her a unique identity. As the artist herself continually creates, she herself becomes an object harmonizing rhythmically the subtle beauty of each form she touches. In this continuous process she forms an imaginative paradise in the minds of each person who envisions these soft textural forms in her etchings. And as the negative space of white or black gives life to the positive object, one craves for this universe of peace.

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