Who바카라�s The Darkest Of Them All

Art, they say, imitates life. Bose Krishnamachari, an internationally acclaimed artist from Kochi, has done precisely that with his latest series of installations, titled 바카라�The Mirror Sees Best in the Dark바카라�, on display at the Emami Art Gallery in Calcutta from December 2, 2019. The 바카라�dark바카라� in Krishnamachari바카라�s artwork reflects the turmoil over Kashmir, citizenship, NRC and our increasingly polarised society.

According to Ranjit Hoskote, a noted art critic, through the installations, Krishnamachari 바카라�confronts the increasingly extreme discourses that shape our consciousness. In Bose바카라�s handling, these discourses crystallise around keywords that then become slogans, deployed in the witch hunts and debased debates that characterise a polarised society바카라�.

Indeed, in his installations, various notions like god, religion, casteism, regionalism, racism, narcissism, nationalism, technology, and capitalism are highlighted as our present-day obsessions. Though the artist바카라�s anger is evident, he expresses that subtly by experimenting with forms and material바카라�shuffling among word, images and assemblage. Some of the installations in the exhibition stand out, such as 바카라�Religion바카라�, in which he uses acrylic mirror (made by traditional artisans in Thrissur, Kerala), wood and neon light.

His condemnation of the trajectory taken by modern society is best reflected in his series of installations titled 바카라�Obsessions바카라�. In these, he uses wood carved frames, acrylic mirrors and ornamental glass. On these are inscribed bold letters made of various materials like graphite, copper, steel, granite, bronze, ceramic and marble. Like his forms, which are minimalist as well as maximalist, his message is both subtle and loud. 바카라�Bose explores the thresholds at which potentially unifying concepts like nationalism can become unhealthy obsessions, dividing the world into Us and Them,바카라� says Hoskote. Indeed, Bose has put before us a 바카라�mirror바카라� and invites us to have a hard look at ourselves.