Asim Paul

Asim’s work is multidimensional in subject and form.  His art reality is expressed as abstract ideas, where isolated imagery is expressed in metaphorical sense. To him the conflict of ongoing life is established as a symbol. His work is in response to the ongoing reality. The memories left behind, the glorious crisis of today's globalised life, the endangered environment all these things hurt him. The daily struggles of human life with all these things that deeply touched him.

 

His artwork is an outpouring of conscious and subconscious memories of life’s long experience.  He was born and raised in a small town Naihati, West Bengal.  After partition, his parents came from Bangladesh and started living permanently in this small town. They used to live in a small rented house with other families. This was a time when he and his family struggled  a lot.  But the vivid experience of that time is quite different which has made him much more tolerant as an artist later on. He saw his grandmother make cooking fuel herself and she used to put cow dung to dry on the wall to make fuel and watching his mother giving Bori .The lasting impression of the cow dung and Bori reflected in his visual language . In these he find the memories he left behind which is subconsciously revealed to his painting and ceramics sculpture. During his young age he used to make shoe boxes with his sister, This box was made by sticking small boards or pieces of cloth with glue. He amazed as an artist whenever this memories appeared in his mind still now. In addition to all this, the influence of music in his work manifested. His childhood memories and connection with the soil have awakened his sense of art.  The conflict of subordinate life and the emptiness of the universe are revealed in his work.