“Mezzaterra ”
12th Solo Exhibition of Indrapramit Roy

Anindya Kanti Biswas

The exhibition titled, ‘Mezzaterra’, artworks of the famous Indrapramit Roy, transformed Kolkata into a mystical land. ‘Mezzaterra’, as the name suggest means either middle or common ground. According to him “I prefer common ground. It is an imagined territory, an idea, but a very real and pervasive one, where echoes and reflections add depth and perspective, where identities are malleable and overlapping and not clear cut and well defined, where binaries are not the only defining theme. The rewards of inhabiting the mezzaterra are enormous because it is teeming with possibilities. It endows each thing with ‘a patina of the old and shine of the new’.” This hospitable mezzaterra, wheredifferences enrich rather than clash, is our civilizational legacy. It is under attack from all sides and needs to be defended.