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Ronny Sen
I have decided to choose the artist named Ronny Sen and his series the Fire Continuum (2014) for the CAP assignment. He is an artist born in 1986 in Silchar, Assam, in the north-east of India. His family migrated to Calcutta, West Bengal, in the early 90s, and he still lives and works there. Additionally some of his photographs have won the Getty Images Instagram Grant, and were even exhibited in the Netherlands and in New York. The reason why I have chosen him, is his works on the Coal Mines of Jharia, India. Here is where I thought some of his best works were captured. Photographing the intense fires burning underground in the coal mines of Jharia and some amazing landscape shots. Although there was beauty in his captures, he was exposing the cost of mining. He was documenting the apocalyptic landscape of Jharia which was once a lush forest.
Ronny Sen's END OF TIME Collection from the Fire Continuum Catalog
Untitled II, 2014
Untitled II, 2014
Digital Print on Archival Paper
9 x 6.75 inches
www.tarq.in/artists/41-ronny-sen/works/311-ronny-sen-untitled-ii-2014/
HARIA END OF TIME 8, 2014
HARIA END OF TIME 8, 2014
Archival Pigment Print
9 x 6.75 inches
Ed 1/8 + 1 A/P
www.tarq.in/artists/41-ronny-sen/works/308-ronny-sen-jharia-end-of-time-8-2014/
JHARIA END OF TIME 2, 2014
JHARIA END OF TIME 2, 2014
Archival Pigment Print
9 x 6.75 inches
Ed 3/8 + 1 A/P
www.tarq.in/artists/41-ronny-sen/works/781-ronny-sen-jharia-end-of-time-2-2014/
JHARIA END OF TIME 2(C) , 2014
JHARIA END OF TIME 2(C) , 2014
Archival Pigment Print
9 x 6.75 inches
Ed 1/8 + 1 A/P
www.tarq.in/artists/41-ronny-sen/works/301-ronny-sen-jharia-end-of-time-2-c-2014/
Questions for Better Understanding
Questions for Better Understanding
What is occurring in this photo?
Why do you believe the artist Ronny Sen chose to capture this specific moment and environment?
What do you think this land looked like prior to this?
At first glance, would you think that this land once could have been a lush forest area?
Sources Cited
Sources Cited
Thomas, S. A. (n.d.). Ronny Sen – interview: 'the work is about the Apocalypse in a certain way, where everything will go to the fire and the dust'. Studio International: Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. Retrieved December 4, 2022, from https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/ronny-sen-interview-the-work-is-about-the-apocalypse-fire-and-dust-jharia
Fire continuum: 23 August - 29 September 2018 - overview. TARQ. (n.d.). Retrieved December 4, 2022, from https://www.tarq.in/exhibitions/24-fire-continuum-ronny-sen/overview/
Shalkie. (2018, September 11). Highway to hell. The Asian Age. Retrieved December 4, 2022, from https://www.asianage.com/life/more-features/120918/highway-to-hell.html
Ronny Sen - Works. TARQ. (n.d.). Retrieved December 4, 2022, from https://www.tarq.in/artists/41-ronny-sen/works/
Google. (n.d.). Fire continuum_catalogue.PDF. Google Drive. Retrieved December 4, 2022, from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lkCwiJbnoQQKUL3aGgcW58KvRpU_Zpop/view
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