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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