THE REVISITING - Tempera Paintings exhibition at Sir C.V. Raman's house | AVIJIT DUTTA | KYNKYNY.

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A SOLO EXHIBITION BY AVIJIT DUTTA :
Linked together like the stanzas of a poem or a string of musical notes, the artworks function as a series to be viewed in totality. Nature is not just a symbolic presence but takes centrestage - dogs, antelopes, birds, butterflies and horses are not just interlopers in human, domestic spaces, but the primary residents of the crumbling mansions and regal, old-world settings. Rich in imagery, the layered, fluid compositions seem worn with patina just like life itself, signifying the passage of time, the complexity of human experience, and the multidimensional quality of the mind. The apparition-like images further represent a state of dissolution, as boundaries between past and present, inside and outside, and fantasy and reality, soften. The vintage, old-world framing is another distinctive feature of Dutta’s practice. “I am a lover of heritage, classical things and anything that has a timeless appeal. Being a resident and having practiced my craft in an old city like Kolkata , I am naturally attracted to that vintage effect. It's almost an obsession and also now I realise a part of my self expression”.
AVIJIT DUTTA :
Memory with its shifting sands, lies at the core of Dutta’s paintings. It serves as the capricious narrator, conjuring and unearthing haunting visions and images from the hidden recesses of the mind. Time-travelling, genre-crossing works weave through the tangle of the past, present and future in non-linear circles, following the unpredictable rhythms and movements of the human mind. Dutta does not see the past as a static or frozen moment suspended in time, but as a dynamic, shape-shifting story which he rewrites, reconstructs and transforms through the filter of emotions, metaphor and imagination into fantastical mindscapes, to be revisited again and again. Deeply influenced by the sights, smells and unique character of North Kolkata where Dutta is based, his art is tinged with nostalgia and elusiveness and saturated with mood, carrying the air of wandering through the bylanes of an old city or the abandoned rooms of a historic home or flipping through a forgotten but precious photo album.
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Tempera also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. Tempera paintings are very long-lasting, and examples from the first century AD still exist. Egg tempera was a primary method of painting until after 1500 when it was superseded by oil painting. A paint consisting of pigment and binder commonly used in the United States as poster paint is also often referred to as "tempera paint", although the binders in this paint are different from traditional tempera paint.
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 1888 - 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength. This phenomenon, a hitherto unknown type of scattering of light, which they called "modified scattering" was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. Raman received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and was the first Asian and the first non-White to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science.