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Silent Town
Silent Town
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Artist: Fawad Tamkanat
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 46.5 × 70 inches (118.11 × 177.8 cm)
Rooted in the language of abstraction and urban memory, Silent Town by Fawad Tamkanat offers a poetic meditation on the metaphysical stillness of built environments. This acrylic painting captures the artist’s nuanced vision of a city as both a physical structure and an emotional landscape. The composition unfolds across layers of weathered architectural forms, where muted earth tones, terracotta, dusty browns, and slate blues, suggest an aged and lived-in topography. The cityscape is constructed through a collage-like assemblage of buildings, domes, windows, and pathways that seem to exist simultaneously in space and memory. Tamkanat’s brushwork, expressive and tactile, conjures a surface rich with patina, as though time itself is embedded within the walls.
Amid this muted urban terrain, a singular visual element ruptures the quietude, a blossoming crimson-red tree. Its vibrant canopy bursts forth with fervent intensity, serving as a symbol of renewal, resistance, or perhaps remembrance. The saturated red sharply contrasts with the otherwise restrained palette, imbuing the work with a focal point that is both aesthetic and metaphorical. The tree, standing resolute among static structures, offers a poetic counterpoint to the implied silence of the town.
A gently curving body of water flows along the lower register of the painting, rendered in nuanced blues and soft grays. Two delicate boats are visible upon this surface, small but significant, suggesting presence, movement, and the passage of time. These water elements serve as grounding devices, enhancing the narrative depth while reinforcing the sense of quietude that permeates the work.
Tamkanat's treatment of form and space leans toward abstraction but is anchored in the emotional resonance of place. His city is not a mere location, it is an echo of cultural memory, a silent witness to human presence and absence. The influence of impressionistic atmosphere and abstract expressionist gesture is evident in his fluid handling of pigment, the layering of textures, and the moody, evocative palette. Through Silent Town, Fawad Tamkanat offers not just a visual depiction of an urban landscape, but a meditative reflection on solitude, transience, and the quiet poetry that resides in the spaces we inhabit and leave behind.
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Mrs Mayor was walked into the art world by the legendary modernist Bimal Das Gupta, one of whose biggest collections remains with Gallery Silver Scapes. In the 1980s, as head and first curator of the Habiart Gallery founded by Mrs Rekha Modi — a childhood friend — Mrs Mayor worked closely with and curated shows for renowned artists such as A Ramachandran, GR Santosh, Rameshwar Broota, Sakti Burman, MK Bardhan, Dhiraj Chaudhury, M Sivanesan, and Arup Das among others.
Besides modern masters, she also worked with young contemporaries such as Sudip Roy, Paresh Maity, Subroto Kundu, Vinod Sharma, and many more. Artworks commissioned by her are now part of prestigious collections, such as those of the India Habitat Centre, Ranbaxy, Pepsi, Hotel Lalit, Bank of America, and many more private and public collections.