Dipankar Goswamy
What does music look like?
RaagRang explores this question in the context of North Indian classical music. In a great concert, as the raga unfolds, the binaries disappear – the musician becomes the raga and the raga the artist. Ultimately, only the music remains.
Visual artist, Dipankar Goswamy attempts to explore this musical process through his traditional paintings that focus on the musician and the music emanating from them. RaagRang visualises one raga from each artist’s diverse oeuvre, with Goswamy having chosen a few raga renditions that have touched him deeply. The pieces present an intimate view of the music and the musicians, enhanced by colours and calligraphic notations that reflect the mood of the music, allowing the audience to absorb the essence of the raga and its relationship with the artist.
Visual Artist
Dipankar Goswamy is a computer visual effects artist with Sony Pictures Imageworks, Los Angeles, USA. Some of the feature films he has been associated with are:
The Sea Beast, Vivo, Spiderman -Into the Spiderverse – Academy Award-winning Animated feature, Kingsman 2, Smurfs The Lost Village, Hotel Transylvania 2, The Amazing Spiderman 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, Hotel Transylvania, Smurfs, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Hancock, Surfs Up – Academy Award-nominated feature.
At Imageworks, he contributes with complex computer graphic simulations, volumetric rendering of fluids and gases, destruction effects, particle dynamics etc., to create imagery for feature films for Hollywood studios. His work has won many accolades and awards.
Goswamy has a Master of Design degree in Visual Communication from IIT, Mumbai and a Mechanical Engineering degree from BITS, Pilani.
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