Sudip Roy

Who is Sudip Roy?

Sudip Roy was born in Kolkata in West Bengal. He pursued arts in Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and finished as the Gold Medallist. His early works included watercolors, pencil sketches, charcoals and a heady series of landscapes done in limpid line drawings. Over the years he mastered the art of the watercolour but he soon moved from landscapes to studies of people and architectural facades in historic monuments and temples. It was in the mid 90’s that he moved to the capial city of New Delhi. His first solo show at Art Today sold out. Sudip Roy who has created realist figurative and monumental works turns to the matrix of moody momentousness. He started doing large abstracted works that reflected the times of day. You espie the grooves and limpid passages of the intentions of the mind in a celebratory set of works that read like fragments from time. Capacious sweeps of colour,drawing simultaneously on inert perceptions with a light hand and the dulcet design of colour's vapid vacuous tonality these works are as if Sudip adds a footnote to the history of abandoning,realism and merging into the magic of Abstract Expressionism. He is famed for his watercolours of the Benares series. Older works have more resale value,his understanding of landscape and atmospherics is unmatched by anyone else in the nation.He lives and works in Delhi. He is the first Indian artist who created and painted the baby BMW for the German company. It was a quaint marriage of art and business in a recession. Sudip Roy walked in the footsteps of great artists in the West as he painted a baby BMW to reflect a gay abandon of modernist moods. Blended as a moody spring of contour and colour the little baby BMW became an enduring symbol of a BMW art car. This work of art straddles expressionist as well as maximal instincts, in this Sudip he abandons an insistent flatness in favor of three-dimensionality, turning from the canvas to a series of densely coloured fragments delineated by strong contours. The contours are a strain of softly curvilinear austere geometry evolving into elaborate and seemingly spontaneous constructions. This foray into three-dimensional work eventually develops the baby BMW into a splendid art car with a hint of amorphous instincts.