Silent Poetics: Bimal Dasgupta

Silent Poetics: Works by Bimal Dasgupta

It is with immense pleasure that we present Silent Poetics: Works by Bimal Dasgupta from the Artoholics Gallery collection. This catalogue brings together a selection of works that reflect the quiet profundity and visual lyricism that defined Dasgupta’s practice over the decades.

Bimal Dasgupta’s contribution to Indian modernism is both significant and often understated, much like the works themselves. In an era that saw the rise of bold expressions and urgent experimentation, Dasgupta chose instead a language of subtlety. His abstractions are not devoid of the world, but rather re-imaginings of it:

dissolving landscapes, remembered fragments, and meditations on time. Each work opens up a space of stillness, a soft resistance to noise.

The collection featured here holds a range of works that span different moments in the artist’s journey, and as such, offers a window into his evolving relationship with form, colour, and surface. Whether in his ink drawings or layered canvases, one senses a commitment to process, to feeling, and to the poetic resonance of abstraction.

As curators, collectors, and viewers, our responsibility lies not only in preserving these works, but in creating conversations around them, conversations that continue to deepen our understanding of Indian modern art and the many voices that shaped it. We hope this presentation encourages a renewed engagement with Dasgupta’s oeuvre and honours the quiet legacy he has left behind.