Painted in bold strokes and rich hues, artist Rabin Mondal’s figures often stared at the viewers. The degenerate, dispossessed, debauched, as well as the beautiful — life in its many variations,” stated the artist in the publication Kingdom of Exile: A Rabin Mondal Retrospective. He adds, “He was not interested in the market at all.”A member of the Communist Party for a brief period, for Mondal, art was also a means of protest. If you are fortunate, you experience seasons of light and darkness — for me, however, it has largely been darkness and more darkness. Light was for others to claim, I just looked on.”

Source: Indian Express July 04, 2019 18:56 UTC