GENESIS BY NANDAN PURKAYASTHA: A Solo Show By Nanadan Purkayastha

An overview of Nandan’s works denotes a sense of ecological and historical supplication. The lush world he depicts is not one in which humans maintain their dominance, autonomy, or forbearance. The works command our attention, the faces in his drawings and paintings share an unabashed expressivity, though perhaps such a characterization lends too much credence to the contemporary as well as classic perspective. In his tryst with tides of time and place Nandan presents a case for preserving the status of our own species and sloughs off pretension as he combines humans with nature’s rhythms.

- Uma Nair