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Rathin Barman

RATHIN BARMAN

Dimensional Distortion Experimenter 21 August–30 September 2020 Ballygunge Place, Kolkata
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Rathin Barman’s practice places architecture as a nodal axis and uses other disciplines in conjunction to expand from that plane yet keeping a continuous increasing or decreasing distance from the centrality of architecture that manifests as a form of expression. Simultaneity and dimensional distortion, therefore lies at the crux of Barman’s approach to the built environment.

Through a series of sculptures that employ materials such as concrete, metal, reinforced concrete board and brass, Barman carves a space between the physical, narrative and aspirational in his project. An imposing concrete wall sculpture inlaid with brass forms a drawing of a home culled from interviewing families that have occupied old homes for decades, sometimes reconstructed from visits to these sites over years and at times expanded from recollecting structures that once existed. Interspersed are three-dimensional reinforced concrete board works that are made from narrative aspirations of people who strive to move into other modular forms of housing and leave behind a past grandeur of a large structure of co-habitation. For Barman, architecture is anthropology, history, poetry and psychology operating at the same time.

Barman’s project functions like an open loop almost akin to a spiral – conceptually, visually and materially viewed like a curve which emanates from a single point of entry into the curve, yet by simultaneously adopting other disciplines, it moves farther away as it revolves around that initial point of entry. At the same time, the relative spirality of his approach to the built environment allows Barman the possibility to collapse his work back to that starting central point of architecture.

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About the Artist

Rathin Barman (b.1981) examines the nuances of the modern built environment as a tool for understanding socio-political history. Architecture is characteristically perceived as a fixed entity, central to validating history yet simultaneously existing outside it. To Barman however, architectural form has also served as an anthropological tool, in building a collective recollection of a place and its people.

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About the Gallery
Experimenter was co-founded by Prateek & Priyanka Raja in 2009. With a multidisciplinary approach, the gallery is an incubator for an ambitious and challenging contemporary practice. The program represents some of the most critical contemporary artists worldwide. Considered to be a ‘pace-setter’ for its region, the program extends from exhibition-making, to knowledge creation, through regular talks, performances, workshops and most importantly, through it’s much acclaimed, annual curatorial intensive, Experimenter Curators’ Hub. In 2016, its artist-book publishing wing, Experimenter Books was launched. Experimenter’s program is rooted in dialogue and dissent. In 2018, the Experimenter Learning Program (ELP) was launched. ELP enables discussion, debate and learning in fields of contemporary and performing arts, curatorship, film, writing, language and social culture. In 2019, Experimenter Outpost an iterative exhibitions program outside the physical gallery where an extension of the program temporarily inhabits disused, characterful spaces was launched. In 2020, Experimenter Labs, an inclusive, experimental, online platform in addition to the onsite gallery programming was launched. Its third space Experimenter – Colaba, established in 2022, underscores the commitment of its discursive programming to Mumbai, a city that in turn represents the diverse pluralities of the region.
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45 Ballygunge Place
Ballygunge
Kolkata
India
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10.30 am - 6.30 pm | Tuesday–Saturday
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Kolkata 45 Ballygunge Place, Ballygunge
Experimenter contemporary art gallery in Ballygunge Place Kolkata India
Experimenter
45 Ballygunge Place, Ballygunge, Kolkata, India
+91 33 4001 2289
http://www.experimenter.in

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10.30 am - 6.30 pm | Tuesday–Saturday
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