An artiste can realize the mystery of creation through forming the construction of human figure. It is not possible to make an art alive without the feeling of the effect of the gravitation law in every material.
Tejosh makes us feel motion and gesture through his works.
The artiste experiences figure’s balance and the movement following realistic technique. After he grasped the skill of natural form of human body he could not satisfy himself with them. He thought how to present his own concept with the combination of various figures. The realisation of his thought is ‘Talpatar Pathshala’, a descriptive sculpture. In the sculpture we see a number children sitting in different gestures in a pathshala (school) and a teacher sitting on a chair. Children are restless, in every moment they produce new expressions.
Tejosh does not want to depart himself from this realistic style and the story telling attitude. He wants to feel the nature of the material. One has to feel the essence of material to feel its nature. The sculpture does not come out without getting the essence.
The artiste does not make us feel the subject using a plain surface. He works with different elements like bronze, copper, cement and fiber glass. These elements have their individual qualities. Sometimes he keeps the weight of the elements all the same and sometimes makes them flexible and thus maintains the balance of motion and stillness. The artiste finds the significance of art through the interaction of the features of the elements and the creatures.
Tejosh is the sculptor of rhythm and gesture of life. He cannot avoid texturing the surface of the material. He makes some bright areas through polishing the elements and the burnt spots remain at the edge. These two associations give life to the metal sheets. Huge power is hidden in the rhythm of life. We see exaggeration in his figures. Ignoring its natural proportion he emphasizes on particular parts of the figure. The enormous proportion of limbs resembles sprit of life. He follows the ‘Expressionist’ style in transforming subjects like human beings and animals into metals. One can feel sounds in his metal works.
In the sculpture of two quarrelling dogs one gets reconstruction, rhythm and motion altogether. Collision of the metals and dogs’ sounds becomes reciprocal. Language of both the metals and the artiste has made a unique tension. When the expression changes radically, different types of tension work there.
This is what Tejosh wants to show in his works. We can feel the contradictory theory of reconstruction and relation there. Eventually he presents us rhythm of power.
: Moinuddin Khaled
Award winner:
Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Gold Award 2005
Given by Institute of Fine Art,
University of Dhaka.
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Sculptor Tejosh Halder josh try to grapple with the idea of creation by exploring and re-constructing the human form. A keen appreciation of the human form. A keen appreciation of the discipline that governs existence, leads pace to art. The first impression of Tejosh’s work is grounded on its urgent dynamics and former appeal...
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