Urban Kaleidoscope Solo Show by Suparna Mondal

Gallery Artchill is showcasing it's 126th Exhibition inside AMBER FORT, JAIPUR.
spread over 5000 sq.ft. located in the west wing of this famous Heritage Monument, this Gallery provides a unique & holistic art experience !

Solo Exhibition  by SUPARNA MONDAL

 “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will” – George Bernard Shaw

The Urban Kaleidoscope is a new passage to the Jaipur Journey by Suparna Mondal.

The fusion of neons, bright colours and the precision of lines speak vociferously of her work as it denotes her style and philosophy of the art produced. Art, in which traditional norms are broken, to liberate oneself to the spirit of experimentation. Contemporary artists are now open to experimentation  on new ways of visualization and Suparna has also explored fresh ideas & use of varied materials and medium. She has moved away from the narrative, towards stylised abstraction to portray the energy, pulse & dynamism in these Urban fantasies.

In a very heart to heart conversation with the artist, Suparna Mondal says ,her journey started from Haldia, a small town in West Bengal where she was born. After schooling, she moved to Shantiniketan to pursue her higher studies in the field of fine arts. Thereafter, Viswa Bharati became her second home for nearly seven years. She recollects for a moment and says, “Shantiniketan was not a very buzzing place like Haldia because it was silent and calm, mainly surrounded with nature. It was unlike Haldia which was bubbling with activity, the beaming lights and sounds of honking. My seven years at Viswa Bharati helped me to understand the harmony and coexistence between sound and silence.”

Urban Kaleidoscope showcases a culmination of bubbles titled  ‘The Touch of Life’, New Galaxy’, ‘Romancing Streets’, ’Forest Window’, ‘You Are Here’. These bubbles are waiting to burst with their spirit of energies to celebrate the ease, the play of colours, tones, lines and forms. The collage of acrylic and mixed media, that have become intrinsic to her style, add essentials to understand each painting. Each of these paintings works as a timeline in the artist's journey. The apparent depiction of Urbanization and its hazards, the way we humans are dealing with it now & will deal with these hazards in the near future, is something each one of us needs to introspect.

The true picture of where we are heading to, is what the artist conveys though her works, and it also happens to be her personal journey. The one she has travelled all along searching to find herself, identify herself, adapt herself to each of these metros or cities. A transition in her life comes each time she looks out of the ‘window’, the window that plays a major role in her life. Suparna says, “windows have always held importance in this journey of mine. I have seen stories of different cities through it and have spoken to the beaming lights and their sounds too. My prime focus remained to be able to narrate stories of yesterday, today and tomorrow.”

Metros have now become home to the artist and the window substituted with the canvas on which she narrates tales of these cities as each city inspired and was creatively captured on these canvases by the artist - covering all the context from the streets to skyscrapers, nature to city heights, pace to peace and from shimmering lights to fragile windows with controlled drawing of lines , use of bright colour tones and  use of interesting mixed media.

The artist specifically focuses on the transitions happening in the city life surpassing through various seasons. Attempting to capture surprises that life brings each day and will continue to do the same in the coming years, she reminisces of how life used to be and shares her experience of the changes. Graphing the cities - where skyscrapers kiss the sky and the aroma of the falling raindrops overpowers the buzzing life in the city.

In this cosmos, fascination with art and use of intense warm colours in these architectural urban scapes , she composes a rhythmical succession of the different features of the city life – living or nonliving to convey the feelings of emotional liberation which needs to be corrected in time.

Kiran K. Mohan

Curator

2017

Uttara Museum of Contemporary Art- SINGLE ARTIST MUSEUM

SPECIAL NEWS ON ART 

Artchill takes great pleasure to make this special announcement to media in India & Abroad:

UTTARA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART opens in Dehradun- showcasing  a permanent collection of 50 artworks by Surendra Pal Joshi,  which is first of its kind to open in India, dedicated to showcase artworks by ONE Individual artist only.  Surendra Pal Joshi hails from Garhwal basically , but he is based at Jaipur for last few decades. He is a multiple award winner including National Academy Award( 2004) ALL INDIA AWARDS & STATE AWARDS,( resume attached)

Inaugurated recently by Honorable Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Sh Trivendra Singh Rawat, this museum is in a specially designed building at Dehradun & is showing paintings, drawings, photo art & large installations by Joshi. It is now open for public each day.

Each work is conceptual , modern & the range of his works is multimedia-multidimensional, it is also at par with International artists' approach to Contemporary Art . Some sculptures are significantly based on the Uttarakhand tragedy of Cloudburst - a cascade of safety pins in shape of water fall , large helicopters made from safety pins are a Salute to the daring of Indian armed forces that conduct evacuation & save thousand of lives during such calamities. His approach to art ranges from  abstracted-minimal to fullsome in some pieces of art.

The Museum space is aesthetically  designed & collection is on view for public.

                                                           

Layers Of Silence by VINOD SHARMA

Gallery Artchill situated inside Amber Fort which is a famous Heritage Monument, is hosting a Solo Show of Rockscapes by Eminent artist VINOD SHARMA.

Layers of Silence
  

Celebrated landscape painter Vinod Sharma brings a genre apart from usually prevalent experimental trends in contemporary painting art as his preoccupation . His Landscapes have been profusely seen in National and International art shows as a recurring theme since his early time .

Though he grew as a printmaker, but eventually turned an eminent landscape artist . Vinod has carved out his constant identity as a master of this genre. Unlike other trends he has chosen an untrodden path .What inspires him are sea beaches, solid silky rocks, shining sand grains and roaring water reecting the skies. He transforms their reality into mysterious and magical forms hitherto undiscovered and unventured. His landscapes exhibit inexhaustible wealth of nature – he creates their colours, contours & curves, with heightened imagination and sharpened sensibility .

Within this chosen genre Vinod Sharma's Rockscapes present an immense range and variety, and in output most prolic, create an enchanting spectacle, at times it bafes one's view and analysis. However artist's effort is to creatively record the subtle and surreal phenomenon that purportedly evokes a sense of innite beauty, spiritual feel and all pervasive tranquility. The history of landscape painting is of peculiar interest since it is not so common these days in the contemporary experimental art scene. Landscapes were treated, generally as background for image or images and not as object of separate aesthetic contemplation . We have several examples of this kind of practice then and now in miniature paintings and in the works of great western masters where the best part of the landscape was painted as necessary backdrop . Landscape painting is essentially romantic and specically a romantic creation of 'atmosphere' for its own sake rather than a revelation of experience ( Herbert Read ) It is a love of comfort and joy also, in some sense a refuge in, and a back step to an idyllic sensuous, soothing world from the chaotic burdensome & boring urban world. Hence Herbert Read rightly gives more denite name to the quality that distinguishes landscape painting , he says, “ I think it would have to be called POESY ”. The leitmotif of artist Vinod Sharma , as it appears to be, expresses Romance

with Nature. The elements of landscape open up to him the possibilities to render them as his pictorial statement. The appeal of his art endeavor is not in conscious perception but in intuitive apprehension, say not in thought but in feeling .These landscapes are artistic manifestations realized through the medium of his personality. His approach and treatment is meticulous, there is no effort to depict the verisimilitude, Vinod admits 'it is not a copy of the real'. Suffused with excessive light and hue as his distinct stylistic preoccupation his seascapes and surroundings are vibrant and sublime. This approach to his art practice , the way he envisages visual panorama may have the inuence of printmaking technique. He mysties the territory by adding  perplexities to its beauty and dislocates a viewer but engages one to participate in his deliberate creation. He thus makes a difference by  creating myriad-colored landscape to embody his own interpretation, they are products of sheer imagination as John Ruskin quotes in 'Modern Painters' that the highest imaginative faculty sieges the material - and all that afrms, judges and describes , it afrms from within.

To enjoy the unique and pleasant wonderland in wilderness by Vinod Sharma one may echo with the artist –

Art for art's sake, Why not?

Art for life' sake, Why not?

Art for pleasure's sake , Why not?

What does it matter as long as it is art?

Dr A. L. Damami