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 143rd 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.
Show is on view till 16th Dec
2022 at Juneja Art Gallery, Jaipur.
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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’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.
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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’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.
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.
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