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Do we have any right to use the word logic here? Here, in front of Karmakars images?Karmakar labels his paintings with the title “I am loving, therefore I am being”

The word “therefore” challenges. Juxtaposing his paintings with this word, Karmakars dark twilightening images provocate even more. They challenge the power and tradition of western reasoning. The provocate those who base their scientific arguments on the reasoning of Descartes.

Descartes- philosopher and one of the most distinguished mathematician of history -wrote in his Discourse on method: I am thinking, therefore I am being.

Nils Röller New Delhi/Sanskriti Kendra

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You too

Me too

Me one

You two

Me many

You ? (tube)

Abir Karmakars painting create a disturbing uncanny effect. They are producing an uncomfortable dizziness, a state of inbetweenness, a state between curiosity and disgust, between a disire to watch, a lust to gaze on one hand and on the other hand they create a wish to distance oneself from this desire, this curious lust and this tempting pictures who are able to awake this sort of unstability in oneself.

The twilight of Abirs colors is thundering and negatively lightening. Negativ in the sense of the negative of a print or of a photography . The paintings are lightening negativly, displaying those shadows, which enable our reasoning to shine brightly.

Abirs blackbrown, fleshy, licking colours stand for a general statement. They stand for artists challenging the empire of the logocentric light in general. But do we have any right to use the word “logic” here?

Nils Röller New Delhi/Sanskriti Kendra

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I am thinking, therefore I am being.

I am loving, therefore I am being.

I am loving, therefore you are being for me more than something.

I am thinking, therefore you are becoming something, which I can think, draw, calculate, estimate, dominate.

This is why loving and therefore being is something, which affects and attracts me and not you?

Or not?

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Cogito ergo carry?

I am what I carry?

I am what my trunk gets?

I am what I trunk?

Ich trage, also bin ich?

Bin ich, was ich trage?

Bin ich, was mein Rüssel mir zuträgt?

A Connection is expressed by the words I am thinking therefore I am. It connects “I” with “am”, It connects a certain self with a quality of being. I can connect with this sentence when I write: “I am thinking therefore I am being”. I can connect with this sentence by saying “I am thinking therefore I am being”. What about: “I am loving therefore I am being?” What about You? What about: “I am loving therefore I am”, this is a title of series of paintings by Abir Karmakar.