Kolkata Design Collective

21/08/2020

Hong Kong works.

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Disrupting the city’s life is possible, interrupting the life of the city is more of a challenge. As the spirit of people and cultures push back against global pauses in living, the “new normal” challenges the definitions of what drives a city – its form or its people?

Kolkata Design Collective questions the unyielding meaning of the collective identity of people in a city. Through the works of global artists and visualizers, we start a movement of capturing each city’s “life”.



Explore the meaning of your city through paintings, sketches and illustrations, and watch out this space for upcoming competitions, features and exciting prizes!

@ Hong Kong

29/07/2020

The FACES & IMPRESSIONS Project is a set of calendar inserts, designed as a framed artwork, by Abin Design Studio for RPSG Group . The desktop accessory goes beyond its limitation of being a time-bound calendar and can adorn one’s personal space with the original artwork of choice, after the year has passed.

“Random moments in time leave a lingering residue in the memory of the past, the present and the imagined. Captured as portraits amidst fleeting time – blank canvasses revel in the colors of life and emotions. Each face becomes an expression of life and beauty, bestowed with emotions that are as diverse as the changing seasons: faces that are inherently whole; yet varied in the interpretations of the observer; that are bold expressions of art, yet vulnerable to the emotions of the onlooker.”

This selection celebrates 12 such portraits that symbolize personal interpretations. Each piece of art has been re-imagined as an intimate relationship between the art and its observer. The original artwork has been presented on the reverse. The project presents reinterpreted works of
and from the private collection of RPSG Group.

Kolkata Design Collective brings into focus the reinterpretation of art and everyday life, the evolution of context and meaning with time, especially during the ongoing global crisis. Special thanks to Mr. Sunil Bhandari for his guidance in the project, and to , , Pijush and for creative intervention.

22/07/2020

22/07/2020

"Old Railway Bridge leftover from rubber plantations in West Java"

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We leave our mark behind - in our ecosystem as footprints, in our emotions as memories. The old railway bridge remains, long after its use, as the city grows around it...it is forgotten as a memory, but exists very much as a living footprint.

How do our boundaries evolve, physically and socially? What validates their identity and existence?

Share your thoughts with us!
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Kolkata Design Collective brings forward works in different media by architects, historians, artists, photographers, citizens, reinterpreting artistic output as a response to the present global distress.

21/07/2020

"Fishing boats in Kochi"

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Our fragile ecosystems see us as benefactors and perpetrators. In the struggle for day-to-day survival, how do we even think of sustainability? To be able to exist in the future, how do we overlook the needs of the present?

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Kolkata Design Collective brings forward works in different media by architects, historians, artists, photographers, citizens, reinterpreting artistic output as a response to the present global distress.

16/07/2020

Painting her way as her way of conversing, prizewinning Japanese painter and sculptor shares some of her works as an Ode to Noise, the essence of life. As the pandemic sweeps the world and the quality of noise changes from joyous and energetic to lonely and chaotic, Rina Ota’s work is reinterpreted by Kolkata Design Collective as a community in a search for resumption of its day-to-day music of life.

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’s Statement.

Inside of each noise, the life exists.

Since I came to Barcelona to start over my life from scratch, I've lived surrounded by many kind of noises. I prefer to say "noise", although it doesn't mean something unpleasant, for me, it represents the essence of life. While I listen to it, I go absorbing each nuance, thus I grow little by little.

Possibly you can find bits of those noises in my works. I like imperfection, it's interesting for me.

For me, drawing pictures is like conversation.

While I draw, I "talk" with myself and with the canvas.

The first strokes are very spontaneous, so every time something different appears, depending on the state of my mind. And then, I continue trusting my intuition and feelings.

I feel that these conversations are related with the music. But for me, the music doesn't mean only melodies but also rhythm and colors.

I'd like to talk with people through my music.

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the Artist

Rina Ota was born in Perú and grow up in Tokyo. She started her career as an artist in Barcelona, Spain in 1998. Her work has been exhibited extensively in both solo and group exhibitions in cultural centers like Barcelona, Madrid, and Tokyo. Her work is inspired by nature and human.

13/07/2020

https://kolkatacollective.com/2020/07/12/susanne-lewest/

Read to know more of Susanne Lewest's works as a reinterpretation of natural systems. Let us know what you think!!

Susanne Lewest July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 In Focus/Live Culture Bringing abstraction of nature in a state of morphosis, artist Susanne Lewest reinterprets her work addressing artificial encroachment on natural systems. Embroidery or Painting ? Susanne Lewest reflects, “The decorative elements that...

12/07/2020

Rethinking lifestyles through reinterpreting art in a world of environmental distress, is featuring the works of .lewest for of Re. Interpret.Re.Live.

Bringing an abstraction of nature in a state of morphosis, artist Susanne Lewest uses drops and dots as a multichannel perspective into artificial life encroaching upon the natural. Of the million points of thought, the existence of nature is all-encompassing and one entity. The artist takes one through seasons, colors of being and the benevolence of habitat over its inhabitants.

11/07/2020

Bring Art into your Life..
Associate with Kolkata Design Collective for creative interventions. Visit our curatorial team at Ground Floor, 62/2 Hindustan Park, or write to us at [email protected] to bring art into your personal space.

11/07/2020

Rethinking lifestyles through reinterpreting art in a world of environmental distress, is featuring the works of Susanne Lewest for of Re. Interpret.Re.Live.
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A juxtaposition of embroidery and painting as passion, German artist Susanne Lewest on her process, "The decorative elements that I have loved in creating hats as a milliner have certainly had an influence on my style in painting.
The dots enable me more than anything else to combine texture with color. At the same time, I can lose myself in the meditative quality of applying dots onto a color landscape.

Painting gave me the freedom to folllow the stitches of my own life‘s pattern. It allows me to breathe new life into moments from the past. In painting, I can renew their color and, dot by dot, I follow their movement in space."
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07/07/2020

Click link to read about Leewardists upcoming on post-covid Role of Architects

Leewardists July 6, 2020July 7, 2020 In Focus/Live Culture Leewardists founder Anuj Kale shares his insight into Architecture and Urban conversations, existing with and after COVID-19 How do you see your work define your philosophy towards life? I have always thrived on this idea that if somebody ca...

06/07/2020

Reimagining definition of identities and roles in a Pandemic World of present (and possible future), Kolkata Design Collective features the upcoming works of Leewardists for of Re.Interpret.Re.Live.

Leewardists founder Anuj Kale on his featured works,

"My love for illustrations/ comics has become a tool of journalism to reach out to not the people in India but around the world with also people who do not understand English.

We are currently working on a comic called as ‘post pandemic city’ in which we are trying to show how life will work after this becomes our new normal. We can not ignore the fact that the effects of this coronavirus is going to stay with us for long and how our cities and lifestyles will have to adapt to the new changes. This comic is not completely about architecture but majorly focussed on the city system and urban design ideas. Like we already mentioned this phase is where we see ourselves evolving through the type of topics and the type of narrative which we are exploring. This comic is just a small example of that."