Unknown Artist
30 x 33 cm; 12 x 13 in
Jogen Chowdhury is fascinated by history and the years that he spent in the Handloom Board brought him closer to the feel of textiles. Having experienced the traumatic effects of Partition, dislocation and a sense of isolation, his figures reflect an intractable solitude. This work done on a silk cloth is reflective of his understanding of the tensile nature of the contour. His imagery is organic and emerges as lucid and lithe lines from within. Chowdhury?s works are also social and political comments; he either protests or sublimates the injuries to or of the human condition. Jogen Chowdhury?s ability to juxtapose contrary emotions, the real and imaginary and the known and the unknown, make his art not only a form of self expression but a reflection, of a collective and subjective consciousness.