Joydip Sengupta

Equinox Shift
September 22 - October 27, 2007
Kolkata

Joydip Sengupta: "Equinox Shift"
September 22 – October 27, 2007


Bose Pacia Kolkata is proud to announce a solo exhibition of paintings and works-on-paper by the artist Joydip Sengupta. The works on view range from 2002 to 2007, with the majority created in the past two years. The exhibition will open to the public on Saturday, September 22nd and continue to Saturday, October 27th.

In both large-scale oils on canvas and small-scale watercolors on paper, Joydip Sengupta presents vignettes from contemporary Indian life interlaced with images from ancient mythology and motifs from decorative friezes, jalis and textiles. The end results are complex puzzles that weave together a myriad of influences and experiences, brought together by the artist's deft handling of surfaces, textures and colors. Often dizzying, always oscillating between the representational and the abstract, a pointed iconography and random absurdity, Joydip's works are rich and multi-layered, much like life itself.

The artist was born in New Delhi in 1973. He received his BFA in 1998 from the Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan and his MFA from the College of Art, New Delhi in 2000. In 2001 he studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Great Britain. He has held solo exhibitions of his work at the Swiss Embassy (in collaboration with Nature Morte) and Arushi Arts in New Delhi and Gallery Art World in Chennai. He has participated in a number of group shows in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Vadodara, and Singapore. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and a wide variety of private collections in India, Europe and the United States.

Bose Pacia Kolkata is a partnership between two galleries: Bose Pacia in New York (est. 1994) and Nature Morte in New Delhi (est. 1997). The gallery is open everyday from 11 to 7 and closed on Mondays. For more information and press photographs, please contact Bhavana Agnihotri at 98307-61742.