(2005, BFA / 2008 MFA Painting)
vinitadasgupta.03@gmail.com
Vinita Dasgupta melds her Bengali heritage and cultural inspirations with transnational iconography and ever evolved more in-depth artistic endeavours. From provoking global pop imagery and diverse iconographic scans her works have expanded through intensive multi-stage creative processes, to a more recent embrace of flora and botanica imagery in recognition of climatic crises. As the artist herself attests that she is ever an explorer and incorporating metaphors in her realms of expression.
One sees Dasgupta’s work of art in a changed context, freed from the curtain of traditional aesthetics which separated absolutely art from non-art. Now she is embracing more naturalistic metaphors and abstract compositions. One that continues to push the boundaries of definition, questioning its external manifestation of form or defined technique and materials. Rather it realigns, mixing the abstract and the unknown with the energy, effort, and inner processes. It depends just as much on the recognition and diffusion of novel and known ideas.
Allegory plays a heightened role in Dasgupta’s perception, drawing upon idiosyncratic aesthetics and imagery, she weaves her own tapestries. Inherently based not only upon the reasoning mind but garnering myriad senses, set to evolve and manifest the instinctive forces that lie beneath the surface of consciousness.