Goutam Ghosh at STANDARD (OSLO)

Artist: Goutam Ghosh

Exhibition title: Purple Park

Venue: STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway

Date: August 8 – October 02, 2021

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO)

“After a mild earthquake a leakage was found at the base of the mountain. Spectacular purple smokes and gases are coming out through a tiny crack in the foot of the sinking hill. Suddenly a hot barren land shadowed over the purple smoke – people from all over came to visit the smoke and thus a purple park has formed at the base of the leakage mountain.

A study of ‘gas’ has been conducted immediately – a dancing giant known as Dhabo, has been found in the presence of mithenium and phosphorus. Expansion of Dhabo is probabilistic and rhythmic, which fades into multitudes, on its freewheels and numerous dancing evils. A gas erupted through the cracks in the mountain, spreading evenly across all the plains, another uninterrupted 200 kilometres has become sites for many walking.

Under the purple fume one might begin to hallucinate and illuminate the plain. Don’t worry, it’s the efects of methodical (cultural) calculation, tricky measurements of diferent narrations and geometrical puzzles that help to manipulate the space over patterns. Automatised movements on the surface (of the earth) left the fatland into squeezes, abruptness and stretches are often recognised locally as forbidding, forgetting, vandalised and calm.”

– Goutam Ghosh, August 2021

Background research courtesy:

Desert-lab live in Kutch – Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Charmy Sadhana Jayesh, and Goutam Ghosh
Institution for research within contemporary (FORART OSLO)
Indian Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore

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This is Goutam Ghosh’s third solo exhibition at STANDARD (OSLO). Other recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg; Tanya Leighton, Berlin; and Project 88, Mumbai. His works have been included in group exhibitions at Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany; David Zwirner Gallery, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo; The Drawing Room, London; Renaissance Society, Chicago. Ghosh’s works can currently be viewed in “House of Commons”, Momentum in Moss and will be included in the upcoming “Soft Water Hard Stone”, the ffth New Museum Triennial at the New Museum in New York. Goutam Ghosh lives and works in Nabadwip, Santiniketan, and Bhuj, India.

Goutam Ghosh, Purple Park, 2021, Installation view, STANDARD (OSLO), Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Volt, 2021, Crayon, kite paper and paint on plywood 152 x 244 cm / 59 3/4 x 96 in, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Drive in a still pool, 2021, Carbon paper glue on plywood, treated with coloured paper 123 x 185 cm / 48 1/2 x 72 3/4 in, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Long waiting-silver rust, 2021, Kite paper, graphite, zinc varnish on aluminium sheet 81 x 122 cm / 32 x 48 in, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Green marine, 2021, Crayon and kite paper on cotton cloth, glued on brown paper 150 x 185 cm / 59 x 72 3/4 in, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Both of them, 2021, Crayon, kite paper and paint on plywood 152 x 244 cm / 59 3/4 x 96 in, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Waltz in A minor, 2021, Crayon and colour print on wax coated plywood 152 x 244 cm / 59 3/4 x 96 in, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Floor, 2021, Crayon, kite paper and paint on plywood 30 x 38 cm / 11 3/4 x 15 in, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Seven plates, 2020, 6 part sculpture made out of unburned paper clay Pir of ghosh: 10 x 23 cm, Palaeochannel: 16 x 20 cm, Chandra: 17 x 36 cm, 65 sqkm in between two Rang: 18 x 22 cm Community radio: 16 x 20 cm, Oral history/tradition/heritage: 21 x 16 cm, Courtesy: ‘Thekalpana’, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Grand day, 2020, 5 part sculpture made out of unburned clay Chandra: 25 x 38 cm, Nashr Maqām/spiritual station: 20 x 30 cm Time lapse of the future: 24 x 17 cm, Nashr Maqām/spiritual station: 17 x 31 cm Dictionary of dreams: 34 x 48 cm, Courtesy: ‘Thekalpana’, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Silver ring, 2020, Unburned clay, aluminium and plywood, 80 x 60 x 60 cm / 31 1/2 x 23 2/3 x 23 2/3 in, Courtesy: ‘Thekalpana’, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Explain, 2020, Thumb impressions on unburned grey clay Measures for each and one of the sculptures, Courtesy: ‘Thekalpana’, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven

Goutam Ghosh, Air bags, 2020, Unburned clay, 15 x 27 cm / 6 x 10 2/3 in, Courtesy: ‘Thekalpana’, Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Photographer: Vegard Kleven