Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay is a poet, calligraphy and tea-artist. He is based in Santiniketan and works from his home, Kokoro - an embodiment of his long cultural engagements with Japan. He writes short verse and essays in Bengali, and has introduced a unique cursive Bengali calligraphy inspired by the Japanese style of writing, using materials that affect transcendence, towards abstract and spiritual realms. He has also introduced an Indian tea ceremony, ‘Bodhi-Cha’, combining elements of Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean tea-traditions. His works celebrate the mysteries of nature and the universe, the beautiful impermanence, incompleteness and imperfections of life.
In Nilanjan Banerjee’s ‘Six Seasons: Poetry and Calligraphy’, the artist traces the elusive rhythms of nature and life through ink and verse, offering not representation but a meditation. His cursive Bengali calligraphy, a form that owes as much to Japanese aesthetics as to his Santiniketan roots, exists in a realm between writing and gesture. It does not explain the poems it accompanies. Instead, it summons their atmosphere as though the ink remembers the turning of seasons, the arc of time. To encounter Banerjee’s calligraphy is to witness the silence between words and the resonance of what remains unsaid.(..)
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