About

Mantu Das was born in Assam, in 1986. He moved to Santiniketan for study painting at Visva-Bharati,Santiniketan and graduated in 2010. He finished his master’s degree in also painting from Visva-Bharati University in 2012.

Currently working in a Space Studio Baroda, India.

He is eager to experience the ambience and translate them through his paintings and new media works.

His current practice focuses on pictorial satires through regional history and fables. He construct his  images from common narratives with which every single viewer could connect. In most of the cases when we take the position of the onlooker, we enjoy various acts in the society which have deeper sociological, political or religious context hidden underneath. The real and unreal spaces collide constantly with each other but still their existence is realized in the presence of one another. Taking references from the popular and mundane he tries  to re-establish facts through personal fantasies, myth and narratives. The constant ironies and contestations between opposing facts and figures helps him to shape an imaginary space of  his own. Where the  prolonged associations with new people will infuse new thoughts in him. Such new thoughts would be the inception of new narratives. His mental fabrics will be woven in new threads collected at the works. As His practice is not only limited to two dimensional surfaces he would like to create some interactive works through which he could engage more people. The digital world has been part of  his process thus in such a long span he could like to do a few works exploiting digital media. So he could rather keep himself open to the yet to be unveiled possibilities and would engage himself accordingly.