ICONOCLASH
AN EXPOSITION
RECENT WORKS OF CHHATRAPATI DUTTA
Date:
16th of January 2015 - 30th of January 2015
If space is taken as nature, it is always waiting to be filled or one may say, it is also a medium waiting to be colonized. This could primarily be done by the social practice of capitalism, through commercial images, signs and objects.
I think Chhatrapati conceives of space as a primordial one, a space that can receive fragmentary contents. He introduces disjointed things, people and habitat. He ignores a cohesive run down, representation is bound to fluctuations and ephemeral masquerading as stability, conflictual relationships embedded in an appearance of logic but still are meaningful either in oppositional or combinational sequences. What interests me is that in the primordial space he uncouples desires and needs and leaves it open. Curiously this is the space where middle class have taken up residence.
TWIN TOWER CHOCOLATE ACRYLIC ON BOARD 30x 48 IN 2004
TERROR BURSTS BLOOD GUSHES
SCISSORED EXISTENCE ACRYLIC AND SILK SCREEN ON CANVAS 50x 24 IN 2004
KIYA NO KIA ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 56x 30 IN 2004
JUKE BOX TO DISC JOCKEY ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36 x 84 IN 2004
COUPLE A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT V
COUPLE A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT TERRACOTTA WOOD AND PLASTER OF PARIS 62x 49 IN
COUPLE A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT IV
COUPLE A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT DIGITAL IMAGES ON BROMIDE AND FLEX SILKSCREEN ACRYLIC ON ACRYLIC SHEET AND COLLECTED OBJECTS 2005 FROM THE CATALOG
CHARKA TALES
AND THE COLOURS OF YOUR SHADOW REMAINS