Odyssey of The Last One Decade 2011-2022, an art exhibition by Swagata Bose and curated by art historian and art critic Prasanta Daw brought to the fore the artist’s observations and emotions felt during her visits to different places in India. Exhibited at Maya Art Space from February 21 to 25, it was inaugurated by sculptor Tarak Garai, film director Goutam Ghose, painter Subrata Gangopadhyaya, writer Aditya Sen, sculptress Uma Roy Chowdhury, painter and KMC councillor Sheila Kapoor, singer Srabani Sen and others. “I made some of the sketches on spot sitting on jeeps and beaches as I became a witness of the people and place, breathing in the air and the atmosphere and my oeuvre is about my keenness to be close to nature and my subject revolves around people, animals, flora and fauna of different regions. After my successful exhibition on nudes called La Venus the Being and the Body, where my focus was figure centric, my interest shifted to the background like nature, giving it equal prominence, as much as my continued interest in the foreground, the people, the figures,” said Bose who captured Ravanwalas of Tatarpur, fishermen folk of Talsari in Orissa, sandhya arati in Har Ki Pauri, Haridwar and more in her large and small canvas.
Swagata with eminent art historian, art critic and curator Prasanta Daw, sculptor Tarak Garai and Aditya Sen
(l-r) Painter Subrata Gangopadhyay also dropped by, Swagata Bose with director Goutam Ghose and father Aditya Sen, eminent novelist