Anurag Basak.
b. 1986.   India.

After graduating from Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan in 2011, Anurag is working as a visual artist and in universities as an educator. The experiences and observations that he gained through interactions in his daily life, social media, and teaching the younger generations are transformed into his paintings where the images emerge organically.

 

More than a visual ‘artist’, he likes to project himself as a visual translator, that is, one who translates the emotions, reactions, and dialogues with the self and society through visual expressions. Anurag’s drawings and paintings reflect the socio-political situation in our contemporary time. He attempts to express the disparity, the helplessness, and the disgust that we, the common people, feel due to our country's constant divisive and dominative political activities in recent times. The struggle for existence and the fight for people’s basic rights haunt him as a creative and sensitive individual. Anurag’s tools of protest are his brushes, paints, and colours, through which he creates the visuals, or rather re-creates the current societal picture in aesthetical ways.

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Anurag has exhibited in various national and international exhibitions and participated in multiple workshops across. He is now working and living in China and Birmingham, frequently travelling, exploring, and understanding cross-cultural societies across the globe.