Over several years Adip Dutta (b. 1970, Kolkata) has immersed himself in the nightscape of the city, relooking at the sculpturality of form left behind in empty spaces of bustling footpaths, wares sold on streets tightly packed with tarpaulin and discarded items of daily use. Often, he sculpts trees and fallen branches in bronze in an extension of his exploration of form, but also as witnesses to his ethereal vision of the nightscape. Evident in the bronze sculptures is Dutta’s gaze that invites the viewer to renew value, we assign as a society, to objects that are everyday and occupy our field of vision.

Adip Dutta is currently 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. Solo Exhibitions: 2017 By Darkling Ground, Experimenter, Kolkata; 2013 Of Cages, Trappings & Pain, Selma Feriani Gallery, London; 2012 In Pain I Redeem Love, Experimenter, Art Dubai. Group Exhibitions: 2021 Nestled: Adip Dutta & Meera Mukherjee, Experimenter, Kolkata; 2019 Shadow Lines: Experiments with Light, Line and Liminality curated By Meera Menezes, Shrine Empire, Delhi; 2019 Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents, Experimenter, Kolkata; 2018 I Wish to Let You Fall Out of My Hands (Chapter II), Experimenter, Kolkata and Experimenter at Art Dubai, Dubai; 2015 Soft City, Range Gallery, Kolkata; Ramaniyam, Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad; Land of No Horizon – II, Experimenter, Kolkata; Multimedia Works, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata; 2014 War or Peace, curated by Mrinal Ghosh, Gallery Kolkata, Kolkata; Drawings, for 25 years of Gallery Espace, Gallery Espace, New Delhi; Beneath the Black, a drawing show, Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata; Land of No Horizon, Nature Morte, New Delhi; Invented Identities, curated by Paroma Maiti, Shrine Empire, New Delhi; 2013 Urban Narratives, curated by Nanak Ganguly, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo; 2012 Drawings, Gallery Espace, New Delhi.