Displacement
by Birgid Uccia The following essay is based on the exhibition ‘Displacement’ by Abir Karmakar, held
at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke subsequent to the 3rd Kochi-Muziris Biennale
2016. On display are large-scale interior paintings, executed in oil-on-canvas, from
the series ‘Home’ (2016), first showcased
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by Kamala Kapoor It has always been fascinating to see how ingeniously artists deal with narratives, especially their own. With 'Interiors', Abir Karmakar's second solo show of realistic oil paintings, his complex stories continue to evoke an inward looking world replete with imagined situations and layers of psychosomatic
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by Donald Kuspit Abir Karmakar’s “transgressive eroticism,” as Kamala Kapoor calls it, is certainly obviously provocative; but much more subtly - aesthetically - provocative, at least to my eye, is Karmakar’s reliance on tradition, not only the tradition of oil painting, as Sovom Som notes, but of spatial construction,
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