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Sunmanto CHOWDHURY biography | artworks | events

Man has always immortalized power. This power has been in many forms and shapes, in as fluid as ideas or as concrete as religion, law and state. Through these prints I have tried to extract and portray the power of women. Since the Genesis (The Bible), the woman has been a symbol of anti-god, anti-establishment and hence of sin. But in some cultures like mine (Hinduism), she (Durga, Kaali) has been a symbol of absolute power, one who battles both gods and demons to assert her identity. With such hindsight and knowledge, my prints try to seek for the power in today’s women, who, like their male counterparts, are caught in an array of socio-cultural flux but have more responsibilities, limitations and also prejudices running against them. These prints have a lot of influence from the folk tales and other religious stories that I had heard as a child. The stories of Durga and Kaali, the Hindu goddesses of power, are quite evident in the prints. But I would now like to foray into other cultures and societies that have a whole lot of anecdotes, folktales and other cultural determinants that tell stories of woman-power. All that, I believe is of not much significance unless I experience it first hand. For books, they just advertise a point-of-view. It is in immersing oneself in another culture that one gains an insight and develops a perspective of the other dimensions of power. Later on Iam using some more elements like,interier ,nature,animals,some important things of our life in my painting.Some common things Iam introducing in my painting through my point of view[ monkey, buffolo]. Texture is one more importent element.Iam creating some texture thrugh printmaking process.It''s all about nature and power of day to day life, but I Myself like to be more intemate with this.So my work is going through the process

 

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