Not a Dream, Not Peace, Not Love

Arindam Chaterjee’s exhibition titled “Not a Dream, Not Peace, Not Love” is a collection of recent works by the artist.

Arindam a Kolkata-based noted painter is known for his highly experimental and critical works, reflecting our fragile existence in a time of mindless violence, anomie, arbitrary power rule and repression. The exhibition includes his extensive body of paintings –most never shown before– created between 2017 and 2023.

Chatterjee, who studied art in Kolkata and Santiniketan, began his career as a successful abstract artist, which he abandoned around 2007 and gradually moved towards figurative art. The paintings show a highly experimental yet easily recognizable style, crossing elements of expressive abstraction with powerful realism. In contemporary art historical discourse, he is close to the group of artists, writers, and poets who, in a highly critical-poetic manner and through the depiction of brutal facts, images, and emotions, try to capture the true faces of civilization, which turns into its opposite and becomes barbaric. His work, mostly on paper, shows non-conventional, non-functionalist medium use and material experimentation, addressing, to some extent, the bare life and Schimittan’s notion of emergency and state of exception.

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