Sagnik Royverified

Active since 2016

Sagnik Roy (b. 1998) is currently practicing a multi disciplinary medium and language. His artworks are not just a demonstration of competent application of paint but also offers a feeling of his homage to the subject matter. These area based works bear witness to his long-standing abstract landscape practice. His works are a metaphor or personification of nature itself. Structural forms, shapes, texture and surface are the chief parts of his works. He creates textures to map the architectural land through impasto brushstrokes and pigment. The texture develops layer by layer through continuous repair and erasure. The process of memory perception, identification and familiarization with textural bodies and eroded surfaces continue through tactile sensations. The landscapes depicted in his works do not bear witness to any particular known place or period in meteorological terms. These surfaces and objects are formed through uncertainty, absence and accidental playfulness. The textural body consists of unexplored tracts of land, smoky heaps, scorched surfaces, the construction and deconstruction of mundane and extraterrestrial worlds. His works create a lonely, quiet, rough or smooth place where time seems to stand still. Deserted, eroded surface, plateau, hill, dry branch, bark, rock, swamp - all give birth to old memories and emotions. Sagnik responds to the irresistible calls of his surroundings and hence they become the chief subject of his compositions. Instead of living objects, numb, inanimate objects that exist in space are a part of his visual dialogues. This very silence and solitude of nature is the soul of his works. Sagnik tries to evoke the inherent quality of light inside the melancholic chiaroscuro layer. Roy finds inspiration in Jibanananda Das's poems, and films of Tarkovsky, Miklos Jancso and Bergman. Their works make him feel the touch of a nebulous, ashy, dreamy, illusory surface in every moment of consciousness and subconsciousness. Sagnik wants his viewers to identify these unseen objects and forms, unknown to them, mysterious, symbolic where they can reconcile with his lonely, elusive fragments of memories.
Sagnik has completed masters in Fine Arts (painting) from Rabindra Bharati University’. He has participated in exhibitions like 57th BIRLA ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2024, 55th BIRLA ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022, West Bengal State Academy Annual Exhibition 2023, Paschimbanga Charukaka Utsav 2023 organized by Rajya Charukala Parshad, Annual exhibition of Rabindra Bharati University (2022 , 2023), Painting exhibition at "Jehangir Art Gallery"(Mumbai) organized by Camel Art Foundation (2023), Annual exhibition of Indian art college (2020, 2019), Group exhibition in "Academy of FineArts"(2020) named "Glance", Group exhibition in "Gaganendra Shilpa Pradarshashala"(2019) named "Nandanik", Work selected in "Ami Art Festival" (2019 and 2020) organized by "Kolkata Center for Creativity"(Emami Art), Online display in “The Environmental Situation Room” curated by Helen Frederick and Kala Chapal Trust, Online display in "The Art Documentor Project, curated by Manashri Pai Dukle. He has also been a part of workshops like Japanese Sumi-ink painting workshop under Misako Shine in Charubasona (2023), Participated in "Camel National Art Camp" at Ajanta, Maharashtra organized by Kokuyo Camlin (2022), "Life and Legacy" of Netaji on the occasion of Netaji's 125th Birth Anniversary organized by "National Gallery of Modern Art" and "Ministry of Culture" (2021), River Festival Painting Event under Laily Thompson and Sumantra Mukherjee (2020), performing art workshop entitled "Science, Art, Life Choir and Conference" which was part of an contemporary event named "Five Million Incidents" under Shreyans Iyer in Goethe Institute, Max Muller Bhavan(2019), painting event (workshop) entitled "Virasat Se Jugalbandi" under artist Jraj Dassani in Indian Museum(2018). He has also been honoured with “Indian Art College Alumni Association Award 2020", for best painting and "Certificate of Merit" from Rabindra Bharati University Annual Exhibition 2023.