A peacock with a disorganized gaze, a blue poison dart frog from Amazon, is struggling to breed, and obstructed by transferring migratory birds and flowers to climate patterns – Acrylic and Gauche Pictures of Satadru Sovan Banduri, performing in Hydbad, a deep emotional chilli.
In its ongoing exhibition, the artist converts his gaze into a biodiversity in danger, in the disappearance of the Kalkriti Art Gallery. Their announced tasks detect environmental concerns such as ocean levels, tectonic shifts, tsunamis, and silent extinction of flora and fauna, underline the fragility of all ecological systems.
Peacock loses home
Artist Satadru Sovan Banduri | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
“Imagine losing a place that once belonged to you,” Satadru Sovan Banduri says, referring to a painting of the national bird of India – Blue Peacock. In the echoes from the displaced, a peacock stands silent and confused over a cold stone. Its familiar habitat and fellow birds are missing, which have changed from the development of fragmented flora and unfamiliar fungi.
The work is an artistic reaction of the son to the ecological -sensitive glass -Gachibovali land conflict in Hyderabad. Once a rich natural place with deer and peacocks, a 400 -acre stretch was in the news due to the attempts to harvest the controversial forests recently without proper environmental assessment. A public interest litigation filed by the concerned citizens and the Supreme Court intervention stopped the auction of the land.
In another painting, a deer is surrounded by bulldozers, trying to navigate the spirit of displacement, while a peacock discovered the nest targetlessly. “Animals carry bulldozer marks – but we just don’t care,” artists note.
Looking for new territory
Echoes with disorganized silence, a work in the gallery. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
In a striking image, aquatic animals such as jellyfish and crabs – rapidly displaced by changing marine ecosystems – are seen moving towards the sky, perhaps looking for a new place to survive, towards Mars or Moon. Tea
Meanwhile, another work called Makshift Planet will host us to focus home for the South Pole, especially Antarctica, some of the most iconic and weak species of the planet. “Penguins, especially Emperor Penguins, are unique to the region,” says Satadru Sovan Banduri. Sharing the frame is vedale and leopard seals, various whale species such as orkas and humpbacks, and albatros and seabard, are all expecting a temporary replacement for their fading homes.
Fish traveling to unknown sky, a work in gallery. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
With more than two decades of experience in art, Satadru Sovan Banduri began his journey as an animation designer. Trained in Gauche and Tempa Techniques in Bengal School of Art, and later as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California where he studied new media, Sovan originally mixes the touch with technology.
“I work on an unnatural canvas on the floor,” he says, describing his layered, immersive approach. Their process begins with poetry, followed by ecological research. The composition is first placed digitally, then transferred to the canvas and brought to life with color.
To frame its pictures, a carpenter forms sculpture, uneven borders, giving the work three dimensional quality. These also mean the meaning of irregular edges: “Maps are changing every day due to global warming,” they say. “So my works have no definite shape.”
Song of C, a work in the gallery. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The actual challenge, the artist says that what is happening through animals was occupying the emotional weight. “I had to represent their voice,” they explain, “so that the audience could listen to their Havels.”
The disappearance of ‘isolated’ in Kalcreet Art Gallery is till 5 August. Gauche shows his acrylic displacement and environmental concerns with pictures
Published – July 17, 2025 01:49 pm IST
