Monday, June 18, 2012

What drives Arunanshu Chowdhury’s artistic passion?

“My work happens to move with time and life around. The latter is ever changing, and so are my creations,” this is how Arunanshu Chowdhury sums up his art practice. His work is broadly based on the ubiquitous urban environ.

He employs metaphors that strike a peculiar relationship with the broad theme of his compositions. Derived from diverse sources such as advertisements, television, newspapers and personal memories, they all form part of a curious repertoire of motifs that the artist has employed abundantly in his creative processes.

His art is inspired by changes in immediate social and physical landscape of which he is a keen observer. His creations are replete with objects and images encountered commonly. They capture a curious reflection of daily activities associated with routine lifecycle.

The artist effortlessly weaves various living and non-living objects, as diverse as flora, insects, butterflies, birds, ants, musical instruments, knives, spoons, chair, etc. into his seamless compositions. But their juxtaposition is never random. He applies a certain thought behind the construct of his images that harbour a strong visual and conceptual link to each other. They together build on the pictorial surface a unique artistic language imbued with immense socio-political significance. Significantly, he repeats the same thought and often the same composition, modifying it for a completely new ‘version’.

According to him, it’s a chain of thoughts that elongates itself. One work leads to another, and to a newer thought. I tend to look at the same thought, the same composition in a new light. The resultant artistic output is a take-off from the one that precedes it, employing the same image like an afterthought.”

It’s a continual process, he adds, “Thoughts and ideas are bound to overlap and spill over as I indulge in reinterpretation of the same thought or incident. In fact, this holds true for many artists who create different version of the same subject.”

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