Emami Art is pleased to announce অ ব মা ন ব / a v a m ā n a v a, Arindam Chatterjee's second major solo exhibition, opening on 7 November 2025.

Deeply psychological yet ingrained in our shared experience, the set of around thirty works – mostly on paper – explores profound human ethics and Francis Bacon's concept of the Brutality of Fact. Encountering his recent works is an experience of witnessing the artist's unique pictorial ways of tearing down the stable, representational veils that hide the fact or truth of human existence, opening up a visual world which is unfinished, unfamiliar and confused.

Arindam Chatterjee is primarily a figurative painter. Having started his career as an abstract painter in the 1990s, he began pursuing figurative painting in the mid-2000s. His powerful, often troubling images of man and animal, which apparently look mythological or outlandish, are deeply linked to our social, political and cultural realities. He forged a singular style producing a large body of work which combines rich abstract pigmentation and medium work, and the images of pathos and irony.

We have used the word অ ব মা ন ব *in the sense Rabindranath Tagore has done it. The poet coins it as a translation of "sub-man" or "sub-human," which denotes an existence or position between that of a base animal and a fully enlightened human being. In this exhibition, we traverse the critical space of the sub-human as the artist endeavours to convey the point that he has experienced in his works, evoking *jijñāsā (the desire to know), terror, and menace.