15th Oct – 17th Dec 2022 | Gallery Art Exposure, Kolkata
Gallery Art Exposure presents ‘The compulsive act: drawings by Jogen Chowdhury’, a solo exhibition by Jogen Chowdhury.
Jogen Chowdhury’s drawings are characterized by distinctive lines which function not only to shape the visual forms from life but they also draw out what is supposedly out of sight or buried deep inside the psyche. Lines with various insinuations and width, sharp or soft, squiggly or aggressive, keep moving around the reality seen and felt and burrowed deep into the psychic realm of human existence. Stylistically speaking, the drawings range from a tender naturalism and expressionism at one end to a highly evolved personal idiom imbued with instinctual drive at the other end. They often overlap to form a characteristic style and tendency of their own, eschewing the trap of a singular style or technique and allowing the creative impulse to innovate a variety of modes to express and convey his stream of…