Tanmoy Samanta b. 1973

Many artists and poets identify themselves with creatures — Tanmoy identifies himself with birds, so the images of birds keep coming back to his works.
Our mythologies, fairytales and songs are full of birds as a metaphor for all immaterial things. He is fascinated about birds and how this simple yet immensely variable creature can beautifully hold the universal dualities such as — familiar and strange, presence and absence, macabre and fantastic, moment and eternity. In these paintings, the form and structure occupy its own space, of solitude and oblivion.