Aicon Contemporary – “Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have To Take Me Home” by Avishek Sen
Aicon Contemporary presents a solo exhibition by artist Avishek Sen, “Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have To Take Me Home.” Each painting in the collection contains vivid imagery that brings forth connotations of conversation between man, animal, and nature. Sen also recurrently references the intersections between politics and faith in the work. Each viewing brings forth to light different layers and complexities hidden within the art – like being told a new story each time.
An essay by Rosalyn D’Mello highlights the intricacies of many of the individual paintings. She describes Offering (2020) as “masterful, not only because it is so marvelously rendered and shows Sen’s obvious elan with his water-based techniques but because of how he frames this study of a cross-section of a Jackfruit … Sen is focused on what the interior holds, and we sense the stickiness of the sap …”
Avishek Sen delights in “playful titles that suggest that you, the viewer, have arrived in the middle of a work’s plotline and that the work, itself, is part of a larger chronological sequence and is inter-linked to an all-encompassing mythical framework that is uniquely the consequence of his wild imagining,” writes Rosalyn D’Mello.
Each painting evokes the different senses: Sen’s uncanny detail to texture allows viewers to truly experience the art straight to its core. “Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have To Take Me Home” truly captivates the viewer to render themselves to the tensions within the art, and create the journey of rediscovery during each look.
