Fractional WHOLE | 16th Oct - 16th Dec 2022 at Juneja Art Gallery, Jaipur

 Diverse visual narrations bound by creative expressions

Indian Art scene is witnessing and embracing universal changes in this age of socio-political flux. Art is no more a regional phenomenon, as has been the case of different schools of thoughts that once persisted to reflect the essence of any land. The age of awareness and information has captured the human mind to be more politically aware and socially active than before. But still there are artists who have preserved the sanctity of their original skill irrespective of any influences. Contemporary readers, art lovers & viewers are more willing than their counterparts thirty years ago to appreciate works that resist tightly defined analytical categories.  

For the last 28 years, Artchill has curated and conceptualized art shows that highlighted diverse art forms like paintings, sculptures, reliefs, installations, caricatures & art photography in its galleries based in Jaipur and art fairs across the world. This is the 143^rd art show sponsored by the Gallery since the time it was established in 1994. The gallery focusses on the creative expressions by brilliant artists & emphasizes on the powerful and innovative presentation of their artistic abilities thus providing a unique & thought-provoking art Experience for all the viewers and visitors.

‘Fractional Whole’ takes you through diverse forms of endlessness and continuity within a wide range of practices. It can be a state of mind, a gesture, an incident, an act, a behavior or a response to any stimuli - all have a movement that could be either linear and directional, cyclical or temporal. There is a play of presence, absence and the infinite in-between states, not necessarily in its physicality but also in varied intangible forms. Everything appears static as an image and yet beholds movement, referring to a realm of formalistic, aesthetic, philosophical, psychological, socio-political & cultural contexts.  

Artists persistently breathe & pour out their unresolved tensions, moral issues, curiosities or their angst. This current show at Juneja Art Gallery, surveys a body of work that leaves itself incisively open, somewhere between being created and wholly complete. The works are bold and powerful and carry a story to narrate & echo the trials and tribulations of observations they all ponder over in the everyday idiom of lifestyles and experiences. Nature offers them pictorial and aesthetic beauty and inspires them with images and ideas. These artists never lose focus as they glide over their energy, deftly using elements of abstraction, distortion and simplification to create an alternative world on canvass. 

Diverse & mind-boggling works take the viewer into the journey of a Fractional Whole, speaking of the inner and outer worlds. It could be satirical, esoteric, psychological, innocent, spiritual, dreamy or surrealistic...many such deeper emotions that we could relate to or connect with. Each of these artists create intimate glimpses of uncanny worlds and mindscapes suffused with an atmosphere of the unknown. Processes and the possibility of instability, openness, and perpetual transformation underlie the creation and understanding of all the exhibited works.  

There is striking evidence of great strength and skill in organizing forms and colors and creating the effect of enchantment and fantasy : to create vitality & dynamism in an animate mass is a difficult proposition. It takes courage and tenacity as artists explore an addictive idiom, reflecting in some ways the conditions of artistic practices within the broader domain of expressive culture. It surely directs its critical and affirmative energies towards an ongoing engagement with the dominant certitudes of its era. The works then operate in a lattice of interfaces between belonging and being, open to influences both local and global, the skill of training and the color of contemporaneity. 

When we see these fractional windows that artists open for us, or fragmentation in its unity we are able to see the larger Whole, in its Totality. 

Compiled by Sangeeta Juneja

Show is on view till 16^th Dec 2022 at Juneja Art Gallery, Jaipur.

ABBAS BATLIWALA AKASH CHOYAL AKBAR PADAMSEE AMIT KALLA ANJANI REDDY ARPANA  CAUR   ASIT  KUMAR PATNAIK BAALAA  R.  BARRY WILSON  CHIRAYU KUMAR SINHA DEEPAK  KHANDELWAL DHARMENDRA RATHORE DHIRAJ SINGH DILEEP SHARMA DIPIKA HAZRA GANESH KUSHWAH GANGA SINGH GOBARDHAN  ASH GOURISHANKAR  SONI FARHAD HUSAIN INGRID PITZER JAGDISH CHANDER  JAI  ZHAROTHIA JIMMY  CHISHI

KANCHAN CHANDER KASHMIRI KHOSA KHETANCHI KIRAN MURDIA KISHAN MEENA L. N. NAGA LAXMA GAUD MADAN  MEENA  MANASH RANJAN  JENA MEENU  SHRIVASTAVA MOUMITA MUKESH SHARMA NAYANAA  KANODIA NIKHIL BISWAS NIREN SEN GUPTA P. N. CHOYAL PARAMJEET  SINGH PARESH MAITY  PRAYAG  SHUKLA   PROKASH  KARMAKAR SANT  KUMAR SATISH  GUJRAL SEEMA  KOHLI SHABANA QUADRI SHABNAM  HUSSAIN

SHAHID  PARWEZ SHRIDAR  IYER SHUVAPRASANNA SRINIWAS  CHARI SRINJOY  GANGOPADHYAY SRIRUPA  SEN SUBRATA  GANGOPADHYAY SULTANA KHAN SUNEET  GHILDIYAL SUNIL  PADWAL SUNIL DAS SUPARNA  MONDAL SURENDRA  PAL  JOSHI SURJIT  AKRE SURYA  PRAKASH SUSHIL  NIMBARK TATIYANA  CHAGAROVA VIDYASAGAR  UPADHYAY VINAY  SHARMA YUSUF

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Laxma Goud

Laxma Goud’s detailed figurative works depict exaggerated mythic figures among the rural realities of the Indian countryside. In operatic etchings, pastels, charcoal drawings, paintings, and sculptures.

Goud draws on his childhood in rural India and incorporates traditional tribal ornaments and elements of Indian dress such as lungis and saris.

Yusuf

My work shows the interrelationship of man and machine today. We are surrounded by machines, in which we are told that we are living in a world where we have wings and we are all flying from beyond the limit.   

All the work is being done by the machine, slowly the sensations are ending, and we are increasing the need, the world is running through the mind, the body and the emotions are becoming secondary..

Farhad hussain

Farhad’s vibrant paintings have a youthful, playful energy. Simple and easy on the eye, his works show an understanding of the complexities of Human nature and relationships. They sit comfortably with the viewer, with Just a touch of humour and sarcasm. His human figures are well defined and emanate individualistic character traits, making them relevant to the Scene being played out in the art. Saturated colours and vibrant backdrops are becoming the hallmarks of his works.

Farhad lets many influences flow into his work—flashes of miniature Paintings, Kalighat Chitras and Japanese prints evolve into a wholesome Image, making it easy to recognize his work.

Ingrid Pitzer

As a trained sculptor at college of Art, Berlin, I wanted to explore new 'sculpture' - material and was awarded a residency in Japan.

There I discovered, what a strong Material paper can be, if strong  fibers are used to cast 3dimensinal Art works. In Addition to this, these strong fiber materials are pure nature without any chemical Additions and therefore last up to hundreds of years.

This quality, among others, is the big difference to commonly known paper machee, which is only recycled industrial material of the lowest level and therefore does not survive many years. 

I became obsessed with the wondrous and enchanting abilities of handmade paper as a sculptural material.  Whenever I go to work at a new place, I always respond to that very surroundings which becomes the source of Inspiration. Like this two exhibited works were created in the backwaters of Kerala - and they could not have been created in the normal  Studio environment.

Jagdish Chander

Gazing at huge works of Jagdish Chander ,we find that it is not normal portraiture,but a method of working out human faces wherein each detail is knit in a pattern, and that pattern overrules the separate details of a face. Apparently, the artist aimed to electrify the whole of his compositions, so that viewers strongly winced; for his work is not designed to be a polite, or pretty one, but the very foundational base of our being :in his work the heart is laid bare, tellingly. A sensory contact with an outer as well as inner mental environment occurs - which the deeper physical, emotional and the rational centers receive and interpret.

Baalaa R

His entire works are being installed in sculptural manner using various types of innumerable materials to enhance the subject-matter of prints. The basic nature of these art works is to express an altogether modified concept in the prevailing contemporary art field .The key substance in the works containing different means of skillful application of technological expertise, the quality of materials were so handled as to enhance the projection of concept when the underlying concept would become predominant. Such a process is experimental and innovative so as to make an attempt to revamp the way of expressing the abstract concept. It is also an attempt to establish the reality that art forms a bridge between the processes of spirituality through scientific applications; which means a material manifestation of an interface between the realization of ‘truth’ and the guidance to objective practices. To define this entire process “the maximum most simplicity contains in it the maximum most complexity” 

Dhiraj Singh

Why I do what I do…

My X-ray art is for me a way of using the dramatic and the otherworldly to shed light on the regular and the immediate. I think my fixation with X-rays has its roots in my childhood. My X-ray works are an attempt to essentialize my experiences. Pare them down to their bare bones. X-rays have for me become a way of seeing things without the stuff that holds them together. It’s a way that reduces human form to its essentials. In grey and black and some white. Not surprisingly my first X-ray work was called ‘Urban Shaman 1’ and it tried to show urban life as an arrangement of body parts and objects such as a gun, cell phones, keys, car tyres and god statues. Some people find my works scary and morbid. Agreed those skulls and bones can be intimidating at first. But there are bigger truths that the initial shock and awe help us see.

Dileep Sharma

Unafraid to chart new territories, Dileep Sharma plays with images and colour to give us a vocabulary embedded in the miniaturist and folk art traditions of his home state Rajasthan. Objects, people, cultures, traditions, emotions—all combine easily and represent a global take on social and political issues in a mildly satirical way . His work is colourful, with motifs embedded within forms—cut and mixed to often make a sharp comment on the impermanence of the world dominated by media. He brings in humour, fantasy and social commentary with a very light touch. The artist currently lives and works between Jaipur and Mumbai. He has received several national and international awards and residencies, and has held several solo and group shows.

Nayanaa Kanodia

When the world that disturbs me and the world of which I have an intimate understanding of are absorbed and amalgamated, a new artistic dialect is created. The conversation I hope to create in my work is a certain truth of life and on a deeper level, a well thought philosophy.

Individuals may interpret my paintings in vastly disparate ways and each view will be equally logical and plausible, thought provoking and intriguing. A picture of the moment is built and whole histories and relationships become visible.

Being India's chief practitioner of Naive Art, my work delights the viewer with its whimsy, the flat bright polished surfaces, vibrant and dynamic colours and extraordinary plethora of intricately worked details, patterns and shapes. My paintings are reflections on the charming idiosyncrasies of my subjects with a fine degree of wit and gentle satire and yet contain the most important social messages of our lives.

Brief Profile

An economist turned painter and a brilliant colourist with a strong individualism in her work ,Nayanaa Kanodia can be considered to be the pioneer of the genre of L’Art Naif in India. She has held innumerable shows in India and abroad. Her paintings are in the collection of major art collectors and corporate houses all over the world. Musee International D’Naif Art in Paris permanently displays her paintings. She has exhibited and demonstrated her painting techniques in Victoria and Albert Museum in London.She was the first Indian whose paintings were selected in Paintings In Hospitals.UK. She has been featured in an international publication Women in Art by Reinhard Fuchs, a rare honour for any Indian artist. She was chosen from all the artists of The Commonwealth Countries to have a solo show in their newly renovated complex in London . Impressed with the social messages being conveyed in her paintings, a consortium of schools in Los Altos, U.S.A. is using her work as a medium of instruction to their students. She has recently been appointed as a juror for PrismaArt Prize for their Rome Dividere in Europe. She is the first Indian on their panel which is an honour not only for her but also for her country. She is associated with many charitable societies, gives talks and conducts workshops and presentations on art in various organizations and universities. She is also a judge in art competitions. She has attended Art Camps in India, London, Sweden, Italy, Moscow, Greece, Bangkok and Cambodia. Her work is characterized by the air of whimsy, flat bright polished surfaces and the extraordinary plethora of intricately worked details and patterns.

Arpana Caur

Arpana Caur affiliates to this prominent school of time explorers. ‘I am obsessed with the phenomenon of time ‘ she said once, and her paintings are witness to this obsession in many ways. The motifs in her paintings from classic art- Scissors are a repeated symbol and remind us of the Fates, antique goddesses of destiny, who cut the thread of life when the time is due. Traffic lights are phase of order and timing. Everywhere you’ll find the river of time, form which powerful plants emerge or twisted dead trunks and branches submerge. A mediating yogi, oblivious of time and space, stands on one foot and ponders ascetically over spiritual eons. Delhi-based Arpana Caur has held solo shows in India, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Munich, New York and Stockholm. She was commissioned by the Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art to execute a large work for its permanent collection on the 50th anniversary of the Holocaust in 1995. Her works are in Museums of Modern Art in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chandigarh, V&A London, Bradford, LA, Hiroshima, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Kunst Museum Dusseldorf and Swaraj Archive Noida. She got a Gold Medal in Triennele International 1986 and Lifetime Achievement Awards in Punjab and Bihar. She founded the Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, along with her writer mother Ajeet Caur, through which she supports fine arts and vocational training for the underprivileged. A strong advocate for protecting the environment, she is also committed to the restoration of heritage.

Kashmiri Khosa

Working and living in solitude and silence of the Tapovan area of Dharamshala under the Dhauladhar peak of the Himalayas since more than twenty five years. Till now I have been trying to understand and grasp the ancient Indian texts and trying to transform the very thought and wisdom of these texts into modern visual language of art on Canvas.The present series of works are called '' THE MUSIC OF UNIVERSE ''. These are the limited edition signed digital art prints on quality archival paper. These digital works are inspired from the nature and surroundings next to my studio in mountains. Without nature human beings can't live normal lives. Nature can exist without man, but humans can't exist without nature.

Chirayu Kumar Sinha

On a lighter note is the work by Chirayu Kumar Sinha titled Bronze Chamiya, one very humorous heads created in stoneware of women dressed up to go out for the evening. Using all the elements of ceramics, he has created a lasting image that is jocular and displays a fair amount of skill.

Fractional WHOLE | Opening 5 pm , Sunday, 16th Oct 2022

 Diverse visual narrations bound by creative expressions

Opening 5 pm , Sunday, 16th Oct 2022

 

Indian Art scene is witnessing and embracing universal changes in this age of socio-political flux. Art is no more a regional phenomenon, as has been the case of different schools of thoughts that once persisted to reflect the essence of any land. The age of awareness and information has captured the human mind to be more politically aware and socially active than before. But still there are artists who have preserved the sanctity of their original skill irrespective of any influences. Contemporary readers, art lovers & viewers are more willing than their counterparts thirty years ago to appreciate works that resist tightly defined analytical categories.  

For the last 28 years, Artchill has curated and conceptualized art shows that highlighted diverse art forms like paintings, sculptures, reliefs, installations, caricatures & art photography in its galleries based in Jaipur and art fairs across the world. This is the 143^rd art show sponsored by the Gallery since the time it was established in 1994. The gallery focusses on the creative expressions by brilliant artists & emphasizes on the powerful and innovative presentation of their artistic abilities thus providing a unique & thought-provoking art Experience for all the viewers and visitors.

 

‘Fractional Whole’ takes you through diverse forms of endlessness and continuity within a wide range of practices. It can be a state of mind, a gesture, an incident, an act, a behavior or a response to any stimuli - all have a movement that could be either linear and directional, cyclical or temporal. There is a play of presence, absence and the infinite in-between states, not necessarily in its physicality but also in varied intangible forms. Everything appears static as an image and yet beholds movement, referring to a realm of formalistic, aesthetic, philosophical, psychological, socio-political & cultural contexts.  

Artists persistently breathe & pour out their unresolved tensions, moral issues, curiosities or their angst. This current show at Juneja Art Gallery, surveys a body of work that leaves itself incisively open, somewhere between being created and wholly complete. The works are bold and powerful and carry a story to narrate & echo the trials and tribulations of observations they all ponder over in the everyday idiom of lifestyles and experiences. Nature offers them pictorial and aesthetic beauty and inspires them with images and ideas. These artists never lose focus as they glide over their energy, deftly using elements of abstraction, distortion and simplification to create an alternative world on canvass. 

Diverse & mind-boggling works take the viewer into the journey of a Fractional Whole, speaking of the inner and outer worlds. It could be satirical, esoteric, psychological, innocent, spiritual, dreamy or surrealistic...many such deeper emotions that we could relate to or connect with. Each of these artists create intimate glimpses of uncanny worlds and mindscapes suffused with an atmosphere of the unknown. Processes and the possibility of instability, openness, and perpetual transformation underlie the creation and understanding of all the exhibited works.  

There is striking evidence of great strength and skill in organizing forms and colors and creating the effect of enchantment and fantasy : to create vitality & dynamism in an animate mass is a difficult proposition. It takes courage and tenacity as artists explore an addictive idiom, reflecting in some ways the conditions of artistic practices within the broader domain of expressive culture. It surely directs its critical and affirmative energies towards an ongoing engagement with the dominant certitudes of its era. The works then operate in a lattice of interfaces between belonging and being, open to influences both local and global, the skill of training and the color of contemporaneity. 

When we see these fractional windows that artists open for us, or fragmentation in its unity we are able to see the larger Whole, in its Totality. 

Compiled & Curated by Sangeeta Juneja

Opening 5 pm , Sunday, 16th Oct 2022.

On view till 16th Dec 2022.

Juneja Art Gallery, C - 34, 36, Road 1, Bais Godown, Jaipur.

Abbas Batliwala Akash Choyal Akbar Padamsee Amit Kalla Anjani Reddy Arpana  Caur   Asit  Kumar Patnaik Baalaa  R.   Barry Wilson  Chirayu Kumar Sinha Deepak  Khandelwal Dharmendra Rathore Dhiraj Singh Dileep Sharma Dipika Hazra Ganesh Kushwah Ganga Singh Gobardhan  Ash Gourishankar  Soni Ingrid Pitzer Jagdish Chander  Jai  Zharothia Jimmy  Chishi Kanchan Chander Kashmiri Khosa Khetanchi Kiran Murdia Kishan Meena L. N. Naga Laxma Gaud Madan  Meena  Manash Ranjan  Jena Meenu  Shrivastava Moumita

Mukesh Sharma Nayanaa  Kanodia Nikhil Biswas Niren Sen Gupta P. N. Choyal Paramjeet  Singh Paresh Maity  Prayag  Shukla   Prokash  Karmakr Sant  Kumar Satish  Gujral Seema  Kohli Shabnam  Hussain Shahid  Parwez Shridar  Iyer Shuvaprasanna Sriniwas  Chari Srinjoy  Gangopadhyay Srirupa  Sen Subrata  Gangopadhyay Sultana Khan Suneet  Ghildiyal Sunil  Padwal Sunil Das Suparna  Mondal Surendra  Pal  Joshi Surjit  Akre Surya  Prakash Sushil  Nimbark Tatiyana  Chagarova Vidyasagar  Upadhyay Vinay  Sharma Yusuf

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'rE cOnfigured' collaborative event with AF WEEKENDER | 23rd Sept. - 9th Oct. 2022

At Juneja Art Gallery, 23^rd Sep to 9^th Oct 2022, Daily bet 11 am to 7 pm Sundays Open.

Juneja Art Gallery have been showcasing Contemporary Art since 1994. Of late we have been observing the benefits of  Social media & associating with Cultural Partners. We were following emails  from ART FERVOUR , which were imparting news & reviews of incredible art events. So  here we are as a part of this AF WEEKENDER that starts today , which seems to me like an Art festival only , since there are 80 art events happening pan India; it is on such a large scale.

AF WEEKENDER is different from other Art events like INDIA ART FAIR & KOCHI BIENNALE, which are happening only in 1 venue & 1 city. Here with Art Fervour , art lovers can see  multi media events in their own cities, engaging the interest of even layman & new audience via social media. We can be a part of an Art event & this collaboration is free of any charges !

Juneja Art Gallery established in 1994 has showcased young & brilliant emerging artists as well as Eminent artists from across India. This is the 142^nd show sponsored by Juneja Art Gallery, showing 15 emerging as well as established artists like Shahid Parwez, Jagmohan Mathodia, Anand Panchal & Meena Baya. 

The younger generation of artists are getting more chances to travel and intermix with other artists & are experimenting more in different mediums, their approach to create multi layered art is also enriched with so much exposure on the internet. Hence their mental visual aptitude with the ability to synthesize creative compositions brings them at par with other international artists, the Indian content or context further enriches their artworks. Artchill gives them a platform to showcase their art language, moral concerns , angst or social issues to local audience as well as global audience that travel to the Pink City ! You will be mystified by the tribal essence in the works of Jimmy Chishi from Nagaland, earthy works by Amit Harit, Golden childhood memories of Lakhan Singh Jat who abhors urban way of life compared to restive lifestyle of rural world, quirky works by Shiv kumar Soni , beautifully articulated expressive faces woven by Shabnam Hussain & above all most lovable canvasses by Shahid Parwez that just steal your heart as all his works are ALL about Love that binds us all. 

Showing: AMIT HARIT , ANAND PANCHAL, GANGA SINGH , JAGMOHAN MATHODIA, JIMMY CHISHI, MEENA BAYA, MOUMITA ,LAKHAN SINGH JAT, PRAKASH DESHMUKH, PRATIK SHARMA, SANT KUMAR, SHABNAM HUSSAIN, SHAHID PARWEZ, SHIV KUMAR SONI, SHETALL.  

ALCHEMY- Realm Of Tonality & Textures | 4th Sept. - 20th Sept. 2022

 

141st Show Sponsored by Artchill 

Abstract art is not an imitation of reality or a parallel depiction of it, but it does have a relation with the reality which is often complex and dialectical in its nature. In abstract art, realism gets transformed into what can be called a ‘higher or heightened realism’. Contemporary artists are now open to experimentation on new ways of visualization , to liberate oneself to the spirit of experimentation. 

In this current show titled ‘ALCHEMY- Realm of Tonality & Textures’ each artist opens a window of their creative realms with controlled drawing of lines , use of varied colour tones and of interesting mixed media. These bubbles are waiting to burst with their spirit of energies to celebrate the ease, the play of colours, tones, lines and forms; colors represent fascinating variations, layers and hazes of light and create a pervasive veil of atmosphere. Integrally linked the works then operate in a lattice of interfaces between belonging and being, open to influences both local and global, the skill of training and the color of contemporaneity. This Leitmotif of the textural idioms arouses an unbridled pleasure; it leads, invariably, to an addictive idiom of continuous stimulation-by-image, a loss of correspondence between real-world imperatives and inner world fantasies. 

This current show at Juneja Art Gallery, surveys a body of work that leaves itself incisively open, somewhere between being created and wholly complete. Their paintings, may not be muted in color or form, but they are bold and powerful and carry a story to narrate. The textures that they add to each canvas echo the trials and tribulations of observations they all ponder over in the everyday idiom of lifestyles and living. Nature offers them pictorial and aesthetic beauty and inspires them with images and ideas. These artists never loose focus as they glide over their energy forces, deftly using elements of abstraction, distortion and simplification to create an alternative world on canvass. 

Each of these artists create intimate glimpses of uncanny worlds and mindscapes suffused with an atmosphere of the unknown . Processes and the possibility of instability, openness, and perpetual transformation underlie the creation and understanding of all the exhibited works. 

Amit Kalla : ‘Painting is a thoughtful and humble commencement for me to understand the crux of visual artistic journey along with the considerate subject which moves in between the language of form and formlessness. In my works there is an effort to create impact in a whole and enriching way, through transitional engagement in the painting, which leads the whole process to a higher level of consciousness where time, space and environment have an impetus role which is undoubtedly realized. Much of the imagery comes from my unconscious; There is a profound impact of formalist ideas and thought too on my process, ample activity can be observed on the canvas, at the same time there is presence of settled emotions too. There is some kind of quest, rethinking a remapping’. 

Anil Mohanpuriya : His canvasses are modernist in nature with impressionistic undertones. His skill is evident in the way he creates imaginative and stunning cityscapes as molten images in various hues . 

Dharmendra Rathore a well known artist, depicts remarkable states of serenity in his paper works , a striking evidence of great strength and skill in organizing forms and colours and creating the effect of enchantment and fantasy. To create vitality & dynamism in an animate mass is a difficult proposition. It takes courage and tenacity as artists explore an addictive idiom , reflecting in some ways the conditions of artistic practices within the broader domain of expressive culture. 

Khetanchi : For him Painting is a practice of searching the relevant meaning of nature’s sign, it’s a kind of pure meditative search, in which he deeply found himself submerged and wrapped up, in the variety of different moods, tones and textures in a method which derives through seeing and conjures up colors so thoroughly, each breath becomes stroke of Painting. There is intense and immeasurable imaginative appearance in his abstractions which are outstanding and acquitted, all the way through art works he proved himself as a true explorer of void, as like someone who constantly exploring the real denotations and metaphors of distinctive visual language and trying to manifest the higher realm of aesthetic experience. Gazing his works one can clearly assume his dedication towards subtle symbolic understanding of both form and formlessness. 

Nupur Kundu a well known Indian artist, experiments in a wide palette of colour and enjoys impasto oils on her canvases .The palette knife work, the thick impasto paint – it all makes some of the works of these series almost sculptural ! She says “I endeavor to embody in my work the ineffable in colours. The colors are given freedom to flow, move, and dialogue with each other, share inaudibly and even invisibly the mystery of their being. They carry no thematic burden nor are pushed into the straight jacket of meanings. They are a narrative into themselves primarily  ‘Colourscapes’ . Nupur renders nature as well as emotive moods through organic motifs, geometrical forms, repetitive brushstrokes and careful layering of impasto paint.  

Prayag Shukla who is a very senior Art Historian & Art Critic amazes us with his zestful energetic works , with his multiple coloured registrations creating surfaces of incredible richness and extravagance. There is a reflection and frequent presence of 'self ' in all the artworks his concept of  work revolves around myriad facets of life, mostly positive and uplifting. The mixed essence of peace and tranquility that defines the basic nature of the artist as evident in his perfect harmony of bright and soft, prominent and diffusing colours ! 

Richard Jacobs says “My abstract art explores organic invention, with faith in alchemy and an adventurous concept of time. Elements of the past, present and future separate, blend and interchange until they make sense in a way that the work dictates. Discovering the soul of the painting is the content, with the intent that each piece surprises in new ways every time it is seen, making its individual and evolving nature the reward. Richard Jacobs received a BA from Cooper Union, a MFA from Yale, and was a Henry Luce Scholar in Bali, Indonesia. He lives and paints in Putney Vermont, and maintains a studio in Bali. Works are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Rose Art Museum, the DeCordova Museum, Fidelity Investments, Bank of America and the Hall Art Foundation. 

Somenath Maity’s cityscapes are beautiful, illuminated, and enchanting visuals of the city that are quite layered and imposing, but they belong more to a ‘felt’ space rather than a ‘seen‘ one. They are solitary and dream-like too. They provide a visual treat, but what is more striking is that they seem to unfold some mystery and you wish to remain in front of them for as long as you can. This has been possible mainly due to Somenath’s masterly use of light in his colors. 

Surendra Pal Joshi :  The art of Surendra  Joshi is the understanding of bringing into the studio the field of aesthetic innovation, so that his analogy enriches; it cultivates retreat which nourishes the possibility of real communication and community by replenishing the inner contemplative silence, contains the energy of art, and weaves within the lingua franca of introspection and repose of reflection, and also nurtures it. Born under the rubric of rustic interactivity, works of art can turn into allegorical constructs. 

Joshi has used texture and textile in the past to create his works, there is an attempt to re-dedicate itself continuously to a revolutionary  impulse that translates texture into the tonality of the canvas, even if this should involve it in a perennial cycle of breaking and re-shaping and recreating. ‘The elements that I used for so many years are now distancing themselves and I am moving towards a minimalist mode, a sense of peace and detachment where only the texture and the color reign.’ 

Sushil Nimark : The abysmal depth of their artistic vision is abundantly visible in this show as they created with a great deal of passion, intensity and vigor, with layers upon layers mounted with immense dedication and dexterity as we see his works. It has tranquility, optimism and lull, which holds you spellbound & mesmerized. His artworks expose a rhythm of Lived Life ! 

Vinay Sharma : His work in dynamic structure revolved around ideas and indications of life and earth. His procedure of making a canvas is continuous , he likes to utilize different media and paint on carefully assembled old paper and materials. To make multi-layered pictures, he uses collection, print, and conventional scaled-down canvas in oil and watercolors. These consolidate well with written hand calligraphy and markings on the paper. While making this arrangement, he has a feeling of being an observer to his very own family line and keeps on getting various pictures which blend in his artworks to implant them with another life…. 

Yusuf ( Bhopal)  :   In his contemporary  abstract paintings, Yusuf generally sticks to sparse and geometric forms. The abstractionist generally expresses using a limited color palette over multiple mediums such as oil, ink and acrylic on canvas. Yusuf understands the meaning and magic of the line - Precision and restraint are his two attributes, consistently evident in his works. Unsentimental, at times to the point of austerity, the paintings have a palpable rhythm. Yusuf employs the abstract medium for uncovering what is not directly accessible. His paintings hint at a distribution of cosmic bodies, their simultaneous aloofness, gravitation and musical movement.