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Just risk

A picture is worth a thousand words. And it rightly speaks about the mind of the artist. Gallery Espace presented the works of two artists: Birendra Pani's work titled Risk and The Anecdote and its Shadow by Tanmoy Samanta. While the work of Birendra described the common and most often debated topic - the westernisation of Indian culture, Tanmoy Samanta painted common objects. Birendra Pani, who is a graduate from Santiniketan, deals with the grey area that we Indians are living in, through the medium of Gotipua dancers of Orissa. The Gotipua dancers are males living lives as a female. Birendra feels that Indians are neither traditional any more, nor modern like the Europeans. So through their lives he communicates the "grey area" and the "irony". The work has been named `Risk' because there is a risk of losing our traditions. While Tanmoy uses simple objects like lock and key, a fish with a hook, watermelon and a knife and other things that you see everyday, his paintings question. They evoke a thoughtful response. Birendra's subject is straight. Tanmoy has used gouache on rice paper/ canvas as his medium. What is common in both the artists works is that they both stress upon the materialism found in the society and its ills.

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