Probir Gupta - Contemporary Artists

Free Passage

The Saatchi Gallery
 

Probir Gupta

Free Passage

2007
Acrylic and iron oxides on canvas

Overall size: 226 x 396 cm

Free Passage is another of Gupta’s complex paintings. Likened to Pablo Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica, Gupta’s figures appear in black and white with text painted over them in an act of protest. The forms appear on the brink of dissolving, as colour disappears from the foreground and becomes rooted into the distance.
 
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