ART CAMP 2019

DOOMSDAY PARADISE

Painting done during an art camp held at AIFACS, New Delhi.

KISS THE BARREL

Kiss The Barrel, Graphite on paper

KISS THE BARREL

By Soumen Bhowmick

It's a tragedy unfolding with time. The pain inflicted by our own self is immense. Now forced to kiss the barrel of a smoking gun in the valley of people with beating hearts and flesh to claim. They are scared to look at the gun of dictatorship. They are scared of the tyrant. They are our own. 

Please don't throw them into the dungeons of distrust and self-doubt.

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* From my new series of drawings in a book format, on our socio-political realities

COURAGE LASTS FOREVER

Courage Lasts Forever, Graphite on paper,

COURAGE LASTS FOREVER
By Soumen Bhowmick

When the evil tyrant sends his hired warmongers to vanquish the commons, it's the collective and individual courage of the masses which make them face those brutal fascist forces till the end of the battle. Stand together to take on the monster of hatred and jingoism. 
Always stand together to claim your victory against the obnoxious soothsayer of hatred and negativity. It's our time to resist these forces of annihilation and subjugation collectively.

#Mosha #MoshaSeries #MoshaBook #ArtistBook #AntiFa #Drawings #Lines #Contemporary #ArtForChange #ArtistUnited #ArtActivism #ArtNow #Black #Humanity #Democracy #Protest #India #HullaBol

* From my new series of drawings in a book format, on our socio-political realities

MUTE RAGE

Mute Rage, diptych,
croquill pen and ink on board

I failed to raise my voice, so let it die on the lap of utter ignorance. I failed to recognise the truth, staring on my mute face bluntly. It was poking me to react to this bastardisation of the few leftovers of sanity. We are not dead yet.

Constantly facing the loaded barrels of hatred is taking a severe toll on my conscience. It wants to compromise. An escape to oblivion is sought after. I want to lie to my soul, that it isn't happening.

But the barrels of hatred can't be silenced with love and dissent. It asks for more than that. Time is asking for sacrifice. Who will lead the truth to its glory.

© Soumen Bhoemick 2019

THE KINGDOM OF BLIND'S

Kingdom of Blinds', croquill pen and ink

There are many of us lying dismembered and discarded by an unforeseen evil entity. We are born in the kingdom of the blinds. Can't see any light ever. We are blind for eternity. This land has breathe evil since a long time.

The year was 2014. When it evolved as an epidemic to steal all our senses of deliverance. It erased our prowess, to sight for the truth. It blinded us with greed and hatred. Hatred drilled out the last retina of sight from our eyes. We are now all blind and at peace with our ignorance. So let it be. The blood in our weakened body is all drenched out, to feed the lord evil.
Acceptance of our sightless destiny is a norm now. We are all  blessed by evil in the kingdom of the blinds'.

© Soumen Bhowmick 2019

I'M ALSO A CLOWN

I'm Also Clown, graphite on paper

Mein Bhi Joker / I'm also a Clown

#Clowns #FascistClowns #Hatred #CircusofHatred #SoumenArt #Joker

It's not a show of seasonal morons, it's a nonstop barrage of ignorant and hateful rantings, clowning around all of us. It's very colourful. But shows saffron hues only. The clown, is even has a saffron heart and a saffron smile to intoxicate you. It could be easily identified from miles afar with its obnoxious clowning skills to kill any thing not resembling its crooked appearance. The circus 🎪 of hatred and killing innocent souls is played nonstop by the clown. He is very much real. No fantasy of a lunatic.

© Soumen Bhowmick 2019

MANUS - The Inside Pages

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LOLLIPOP LE LO LOLLIPOP, KHATTA MEETHA KHOONI FASCIST DRIPPING LOLLIPOP...

LOLLIPOP LE LO LOLLIPOP, 

KHATTA MEETHA KHOONI 

FASCIST DRIPPING LOLLIPOP

The devil himself disguised as a man, smooth talking and cunning to the core, suddenly stopped the tired looking me on the path of democracy. I was seeking answers to my smudged out dreams of success and goodwill. Suddenly I realise this devil was selling something, I took a short glance at his merchandise, he was promoting very dark and pretty mischievous but extremely tempting lollipops.

Lollipops are our weakness as humans. Sweet and sour, that's what he was loudly mouthing out. At the same time thumping his fifty six inch chest, a gaudy showoff.

I asked for the price of the tempting goodies, he said it's for free. But asked for my soul in exchange for those mischievous lollipops. I sold out my soul for a lollipop and I regret later on. Still crying in the corner of my failed and much injured body, lying on the ground. The lollipop was poisoned with fascist dubious ideas. It was laced with the venom of hatred and bigotry. So powerful was the poison that I lost my credibility as a human being at the very first bite.

I regret my choice and hate those lollipops to eternity.

MONOCHROME DAYS

Video Documentation of all the Works

#MonochromeDays, #SoumenArt, #Monochrome, #WaterColour, #Paintings

Started working on this series of monochromes in July 2018. These are really recent works on paper. The temptation to challenge myself with a monochromatic approach to the contemporary dualities of our surrounding was overwhelming. Had to address to my inner calling to capture today’s reality in monochromes. The world seemed to me in that tone only. I see today’s reining-societal hatred and crushing of human rights in a more precise magnification while using the aperture of monochrome. Humanity and its accessories are depicted in an absurd and twisted scenario in this series. Sometimes it’s all ogres or it’s totally insane to perceive. Brainwashed and injected with hatred with act like automated morons. The images are all reflection of what my senses absorbed from the world at present. The brutality is somehow subdued with the monochrome splashes. 

“MONOCHROME DAYS” is my answer to several queries on how an artist can portray political and societal madness and nonsensical tyranny in a more aesthetic way. But doing so, not loosing the soul of the narrative. The limitation of of the colour spectrum is required to reinvent myself and my sense of line and colour. As an Artist I find it hard to believe that one can’t invade the web of hatred and bigotry using mere lines and limited colours. I hope I met the challenge honestly. 

Enjoy the monochrome days… 

By: Soumen Bhowmick

MANUS the Book of Humanity

MANUS Book Video of the Pages

MANUS AN ENCOUNTER a Short Film

The moral hazard of sainthood

Tracts for the Times
An art and poetry collective
Election Series

Original artwork by Soumen Bhowmick

The Moral Hazard of Sainthood
by Shujaat Mirza

Now that we have
Home-grown xenophobes
Demagogues as born-again democrats,
What stands between the polls and
The pitch
But a lethal mix of hate-speech,
Hopelessly tied in knots of brazen
Brinkmanship.
And as the desperation arises
Uncannily the bigot rises,
Rushing headlong into the game
Consigning civilities to the flames.
Yes we already know,
They are upto the same old tricks
But we won't let this muck stick!
This forced intercession will be
Contained
The nation has always stood
And will stand
Unified once again.

When the nation is imperiled

Tracts for the Times
An art and poetry collective
Election Series

Original artwork by Soumen Bhowmick

When the Nation is Imperiled
by Shujaat Mirza

When the Nation is imperiled
Poetry becomes Dissent
When the discourse is xenophobic
We need not wait
For a letter of consent
To get things straight
We need to plug the mains
to the circuits
And restore all the grids.
Reckoning it might make each of us Count
And Inveigle our fence-sitting souls
To surmount
Our divisive electric fences.

Inner bigot

Tracts for the Times

A art and poetry collective

Election series

Original artwork by Soumen Bhowmick

Inner Bigot

by Shujaat Mirza

To awaken the inner bigot

You don't need it all stencilled

As a permanently marked skill.

You just need some rusted hate

Inside your head 

That scrambles up your 

Inner state.

And then you are on the

go

To match a prey to a kill.

Trash the hate vibes

Tracts for the Times

An art and poetry collective

Election series

Original artwork by Soumen Bhowmick

Trash the hate vibes

by Shujaat Mirza

As hate begets hate

And starts to circulate

We are walking dead

If we do not emasculate

The clumsy but efficient

Ghost-armies of the potentate.

That devour and feast upon

Each accusation and insinuation

That points you out as anti-national.

This voice that  we still have left

Is what they wish  to obfuscate.

You can choose to fling your hesitations

Or stay stowed  in  venal habitations.

MANUS IS AVAILABLE FOR READERS and ART LOVERS. BUY IT NOW

BUY THIS INCREDIBLE BOOK OF DRAWINGS BY AN INDIAN ARTIST, 

SOUMEN BHOWMICK. 

*SELF PUBLISHED BY THE ARTIST. A UNIQUE ART PROJECT, COMPILED IN A BOOK FORMAT. *726 ORIGINAL BLACK & WHITE DRAWINGS WILL ENTHRALL YOUR SENSES. MOSTLY DONE OUTDOORS AT TRIVENI KALA SANGAM AND MANDI HOUSE. A RESULT OF LOVE AND PAIN IS MANUS. A VISUAL SOJOURN OF HUMANITY. OUR STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL, THE POLITICAL SCENARIO, SOCIETAL DILEMMAS AND THE STORY OF HUMANITY IN GENERAL IS MANUS.

WORKED FOR A DURATION OF SIX YEARS. 

A MUST FOR ALL ART AND BOOK LOVERS.

A LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES ONLY.

*INQUIRY FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION AND SALE IS APPRECIATED

TO *BUY YOUR COPY OF #Manus 

PLEASE CONTACT 

+91 9810661959

soumen99@gmail.com

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* A compilation of 726 drawings, spread across 786 pages, will enthrall your senses.

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