Renowned Franco Indian artist Shombit Sengupta who signs as Sen is known to be the packaging genius behind the new Britannia and Lakme logos, He has participated in shows in Louvre in Paris, Venice, Milan, and Tokyo. He did a solo show recently in Mumbai with more than just his paintings and installations, with an art car – Renault Kwid.

Gesturism is Sen’s spontaneity of imagination which took birth and expression from living in Paris in 1994. Inspired by his French environs, Sens artistic sensitivity swirled him into osmosis of the mind’s eye, his fingers domineering over colours and brushes, the friction of which comes together to generate a painting on canvas. He challenged the idea that thinking exists; to him the stimulus for action is gesticulation. Sen explains that a human beings birth is the most valuable instant happening in the universe, but the exact time and date of conception is mysterious. It’s not thought that starts life, nor can anybody predict life’s end. So life’s start and termination is within a boundary that is beyond control and thought. Instant actions in everyday living may result in some corporal substance that people call thinking, so the more actions we perform, we create stimuli for others.

Our gestures, and not hazy intangible vapour, form the basis of Sens Gesturism art movement. His painting philosophy in Gesturism is don’t think, push the act and let imagination take over.

Gesturism is Sen’s artist revolt against digital virtual art done through computer software. Overcoming our indispensable slavery to digital technology’s virtual unreality especially in art, Gesturism is irregular deliberate strokes signifying unprompted, vibrant breathing, dynamic, unique ideology, endless purity, psychedelic waves, and shock of difference, fearless.