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Concerning the exhibition at Birla Academy, Calcutta

 

Article in THE TELEGRAPH
Friday 27 february 2004

 

Cross-cultural vision

Art with the participation of two like-minded Danish painters, captures the essence of the human and natural ambience of an undifined terrain. The confluence of Babita and Tinku Das, on one hand, and Lars Ahlstrand and Peter B. Franceschi, on the other, signifies a rare commonality of cross-cultural aesthetic visions which, arguably, can show up only in subtle abstract terms. While Ahlstrand's configurations are synthetically conceived, with colours given a free play, the essays of his compatriot seem to project an analytically designed space of abstract psysical gestures.
Babita's excursions in the realm of shapes and forms are emotionally charged and instantanous while tinku Das is given to creative introspection touching the heights of a universal language and thus builds bridges across disparate cultures and idioms.

Samir Dasgupta