The renowned artist is back with his new paintings and sculptures.

Nature Morte, Berlin presents a solo show by Probir Gupta, entitled ‘Desert Scrap’. Spelling out the theme of his works, a press release states:

“The artist has had a lifelong dedication to human rights activism and community development. His work touches upon issues of war, religion, development, globalization and genocide. He equates the visual language of scorched and deformed industrial debris with the profound and omnipresent truth of human suffering in the 21st Century.”

Elaborating on his artistic processes, it mentions: “His paintings are some of the most ambitious, in both size and subject, in contemporary India whereas his sculptures are increasingly experimental and challenging, to both the viewer and himself. In all his recent works, Probir Gupta seeks to address issues relevant to India today while orchestrating a continuum of mediums that weaves together painting, sculpture, video, photography and installation.

“He sources his shrapnel from abandoned military waste and using this debris as his clay he models mutant and macabre bodies and landscapes from these parts. The resulting paintings, fascinatingly complex with unexpected shots of color, take on the characteristics of a bomb blast: chaotic, dismembered and often apocalyptic.

“Technically, he employs a thick, almost violent, use of impasto and brush strokes and his imagery weaves rough-hewn bits of machinery into human flesh. His brutalist style has elements of agit-prop as well as abstract impressionism and art brut.”

Probir Gupta’s show continues until April 17, 2010.