» The works of Indian-Norwegian painter and digital artist
Mamta Baruah Herland have been widely exhibited internationally and represented in
Works by Mamta Baruah Herland
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private, public and corporate collections.
Now, she is having her first exhibition in India at the Nehru Center Art Gallery. Mamta’s acrylic paintings are a combination of naturalistic and abstract expression, created by various techniques. The artist also makes use of technology as her collaborator as she also practices a range of mediums including photography, digital printmaking and video. She allows her artwork to expand in different possible artistic dimensions and genres; the result is a combination of the aesthetic of technology with a sense of spirituality and transcendental emotion. Hence, Mamta’s images refer to the blurred boundaries of rationality and magic, reality and dream, and highlights the move from the old logic of rationality to a utopian dream society.
A catalogue review of her exhibition ‘Emotions in Motion’ sums up her work best: ‘Her works dissolve the illusion of true space — she creates images in a dimension neither true to perspective, nor graphically flat; instead, the images exist in a sort of dream-place... These mystical images explore the links between technology and emotion, reality and dreams, rationality and magic.’ Despite her diversified application of various tools and mediums, the content of Mamta’s work is emotional and reflective. The final artefact of her visualisation defines no limit of medium or substrates.
The exhibition is on at the Nehru Centre Art Gallery till April 20th
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