Adip Dutta

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Adip Dutta (b. 1970) lives and works in Kolkata, India. He is a member of the Faculty of Visual Arts at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Education: 2000 Master of Visual Arts (MVA), Dept. of Sculpture, Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata; 1998 Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA), Dept. of Sculpture, Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata; 1994 Bachelor of Arts, Sociology Honours, University of Calcutta, Kolkata.

Select solo and group exhibitions include Bengal Biennale: Anka Banka, Kolkata, India (2024–2025); Nestled: Adip Dutta & Meera Mukherjee, Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2021); Shadow Lines: Experiments with Light, Line and Liminality, Shrine Empire, Delhi (2019); Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents (2019), Experimenter, – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata; I Wish to Let You Fall Out of My Hands (Chapter II), Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata (2018); Darkling Ground, Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2017); Soft City, Range Gallery, Kolkata (2015); Ramaniyam, Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad (2015); Land of No Horizon – II, Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2015); Multimedia Works, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata (2015); War or Peace, Gallery Kolkata, Kolkata (2014); Drawings, for 25 years of Gallery Espace, Gallery Espace, New Delhi (2014); Beneath the Black, a drawing show, Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata (2014); Land of No Horizon, Nature Morte, New Delhi (2014); Of Cages, Trappings & Pain, Selma Feriani Gallery, London (2013); Invented Identities, Shrine Empire, New Delhi (2014); Urban Narratives, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo (2013); Drawings, Gallery Espace, New Delhi (2012), among others.

About The Work

Courtesy of Experimenter, Kolkata

Adip Dutta’s practice has often investigated possibilities in re-looking at objects and sites of construction and tools of labour, by which he has attempted to find alternate value and meaning from them. In Tranquility is a large sculptural work which has a deliberately built element of ambiguity—resembling a ribcage, a skeletal form or a large carcass like structure which appears to have been excavated from an archaeological site. The camouflaged organic form remains open at both ends while being reminiscent of a cage. Even when it is entirely hand-crafted, the sculpture appears like an industrially manufactured object. Through an intriguing exploration of material and an anthropological study of form, the work provides a close insight into the ways and processes of Dutta’s mind.