Students' Biennale 2021: Finding Traces of the Marvellous in Nature
Artists: Moumita Basak, Akshay Maiti, Santanu Dey. Curated by Adip Dutta.
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.
Untitled by Moumita BasakKochi-Muziris Biennale
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.
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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