Students' Biennale 2021: Finding Traces of the Marvellous in Nature

Artists: Moumita Basak, Akshay Maiti, Santanu Dey. Curated by Adip Dutta.

Growth II Growth II by Santanu DeyKochi-Muziris Biennale

Finding the marvellous in nature

The three artists Moumita Basak, Akshay Maiti, and Santanu Dey all explore and draw out nature's marvellous elements, respectively through sculptures, drawing and installations.

Growth I Growth I by Santanu DeyKochi-Muziris Biennale

Santanu Dey is a student at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.

Untitled by Santanu DeyKochi-Muziris Biennale

In Dey's work, as curated by Adip Dutta in Expanse, the artist moves through landscapes to look at land.

Untitled by Santanu DeyKochi-Muziris Biennale

His works, romancing with landscape, move on to the question of ownership, boundaries, ecology and industrialisation.

Vegetal form Vegetal form by Akshay MaitiKochi-Muziris Biennale

Akshay Maiti is a student of Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.

Vegetal form Vegetal form (Alternative View)Kochi-Muziris Biennale

In his sculptures, he captures vegetal forms in unusual positions.

Untitled by Moumita BasakKochi-Muziris Biennale

Moumita Basak is a student at Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. 

By being the blueprint of a creative thought, it remains unmasked and is often raw in its appeal.

In temperament and character, it shares the elements of writing until a point arrives in visual practices, when drawing becomes like a surrogate of speech.

Untitled by Moumita BasakKochi-Muziris Biennale

Complex mark-making practice that depict layered visual formats of chaotic  foliages and floral motifs

Reflecting on the practices oscillating between the ideas of drawing, diagram and visual writing.  

Film by Moumita BasakKochi-Muziris Biennale

Moumita's mark making on paper captures the many details of flowers and plants.

The Students’ Biennale seeks to complement and strengthen the fine arts education system in India and is the largest educational initiative of the Kochi Biennale Foundation. The fourth edition was led by a team of five artists and art educators – Adip Dutta, Archana Hande, Manoj Vyloor, Suresh K Nair and Vasudha Thozhur, and featured 314 student artists from over 62 education institutions across India to produce approximately 45 projects.

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Compiled and Edited by Mala Yamey

https://experimenter.in/artists/33-adip-dutta/biography/
https://www.instagram.com/moumita1243/
https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Akshay-Maity/B8BD495669A34CC7
https://www.artzolo.com/artist/santanu-dey

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