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Artists of the Week

Decay, struggle, abstraction and evolution from this week’s artists

Tribhuvan Kumar: Human learnings born from nature’s wisdom Themes that dominate the soul of Tribhuvan Kumar’s artwork, executed often via the medium of etching and wood, include human subjects like the families of labourers, as well as elements of nature like flora and fauna. The representation of the human body often morphs into a part […]

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Myriad urban tales, some natural inspiration

Charudatt Pande: Portraits of unforgiving detail Migration has been a prominent theme in artworks churned out by young Pune-based artist Charudatt Pande. He professes that his earlier works reflected some stereotypes of diversity — but later in his artistic trajectory, Charudatt adds, he delved deeper into the mundane observations of urban life, and began telling

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Artists of The Week: From soil to sea, with cityscapes in between

Avijit Dutta: Staying rooted to earth The objects we interact with make revelations about our existence, believe Avijit Dutta, who chronicles these mundane things and their connection to the surroundings in often stark frames. Using mixed media on paper, the artist says he likes to put a layer of soil or mud in his pieces,

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