contemporary sculpture clearly art is no longer about drawing from a model its about concepts why youre doing something is extremely important and so its important to be able to talk about your art amalda told young entrants to his alma mater this is where he finds kolkata artists to be most lacking they dont see films they dont read books why they dont even see whats happening in the rest of the world this results in repetitive works that show no inclination to experiment amal ghosh knows our art tradition is very strong we must definitely know it but surely we must also test it against the rest of the world he put to his listeners