Soliloquy of an anguished mind
2nd Solo Painting Exhibition
pixelated paradox
by Ratnashwar Sutradhar
From 15 November to 15 December 2022
Nordic Club, Dhaka
Seemingly, we are living in an age of self-esteem; sturdy and stout enough to manifest our everyday-life, depicting profound thoughts and opinions on egoistic ways of living as well as being, in a sense of projecting self-entity. Ironically, all such bold aptitudes are regardless of the real world that we use to deal with. Rather, even adopting the continuous bewilderment of the visual reality, we are discovering and articulating ourselves quite differently in the inescapable stream of social media. But what actually happen into the real world where we are able to move on with our bodily entities? Are we that strong and potent enough watching an injustice in front of our eyes? Or, ignoring the countless crimes the numerous strong virtual souls are normalizing sins even when the victims are compelled to pay off? Here, an unprecedented paradoxical mood lies; being simultaneously strong and ignorant at the same time in any socio-political realm.
But, amongst all these perplexed feelings some sensitive souls can but speak out in their own ways; depicting sheer expressions of their silent agony as helpless witnesses to such societal atrocities. Artist Ratnashwar Sutradhar, in his exhibition Pixelated Paradox, is depicting his anguish as such a sensitive soul, being midst of the societal chaos and injustice happening around us. As a painter, artist Ratnashwar has had a persistent aptitude of experimenting thoroughly as he tends to pursue the ways of visual manifestation at his exquisite artistic style and approach. Thereby, as a craftsman, he deliberately fragments colors from his palette to possible vibrant shades maintaining both the analogous and complimentary positioning among them and then places them on his canvas in an order of side-by-side square shaped tints. In such way, very consciously he uses to articulate an image as a culmination of orderly placed color patches of square shapes which resembles the technique of the French pointillist Georges Seurat from the late nineteenth century…
Dhiman Sarkar
Art Writer and Assistant Professor
