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Opera Italiana

In his Désordre Harmony Leonardo Labyrinth, Sen has decomposed the “Opera Italiana” theme in the art of Italian masters with his personal expression.

Having spent a great deal of time in Italy particularly in Milan, Rome, Sardinia, Florence, Naples and Tuscany, Sen says that Italian social culture and art cannot be separated. He believes Italians, who always gesticulate their expressions, live life as if in an opera stage.

Biblioteca Ambrosiana housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery, is a historic library in Milan where Sen spends quality time meditating the operatic character of Italy. He believes the masters of Italian art also express this operatic drama in their paintings, among whom Leonardo da Vinci has inspired him tremendously. That is why in homage to Leonardo, Sen has interpreted The Last Supper in a way that the audience can participate in it by moving the pieces of canvas in Leonardo Labyrinth.

INDIA’S BLOODY INDEPENDENCEIN 1947

When India was partitioned 1947 to create Pakistan, a new country for Muslims, about 20 million people of Bengal and Punjab were displaced and brutally victimized. Sen’s wealthy, literate family had huge landed property in erstwhile East Bengal, the present Bangladesh, which was carved out to be East Pakistan for Muslims. So for being Hindus Sen’s family was overnight evicted from their home. Without taking any possessions, they fled for their lives amidst people warring over religion, and so became squatted refugees in West Bengal.