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Artworks
Tanmoy Samanta b. 1973
The Germination, 2021Gouche on rice paper
(HSN Code: 970110)28 x 22 inchesCopyright Tanmoy Samanta, 2021Many 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...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.Exhibitions
The Shape of Home, TARQ, Mumbai, 2021
Literature
Art Blogazine, The Shape of Home, Oct 28, 2021
https://www.artblogazine.com/2021/10/the-shape-of-home-tanmoy-samanta-solo.html
Publications
Spiralled Memories, Reflections on Tanmoy Samanta's The Shape of Home
Catalogue Essay by Ranjit Hoskote
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