Woven Together at Juneja Art Gallery

Jaipurites are going to witness a spectacular Grand Show , Which will be a blend of gigantic
magnificent Sculptural installation along with dance performance. An invite is attached along with a video & curatorial note for your kind appraisal.

Woven Together

1^st Sept. 2018  at 6 .30 pm. Juneja Art Gallery – C – 34 & 36, Road No.1, Bais Godown, Jaipur.

Releasing and letting go to create a space.

A space that is both empty and ready to receive, where ideas come and go, watchful egos that float in and out. 

Senses that feel and emotions that rise and fall, like a wave that warmly caresses you, before you once again find your balance:

“Woven Together” is this, and more... 

It is not about me, not about you, nor about them “Woven Together” is about us.

Woven Together “ is a tangible creative outcome of a collaborative journey that was started over a year ago - 

“Mutthi - a fistful of Clay” 

Ruby Jhunjhunwala is trained at Alfred University, NY under the mentorship of Daniel Rhodes. She is one of the pioneering ceramic artists of the country, with over 40 years of experience.

Ruby transforms her studio Adipa once every month into a community space for people of different abilities, diverse backgrounds, and all ages; to connect and understand one another from a perspective other than their own. Together they play with clay and leave their identities in the form of a ‘Fistful of Clay’.

Hrishikesh Pawar, formally trained in Kathak, followed by over 8 years of study & practice of contemporary dance in Palucca Schule Dresden Germany, has moved beyond the classical dance boundaries to explore the various dimensions of the human body.

As Ruby and Hrishikesh have meandered through this creative journey, together they have imbibed the sentiments of the two different mediums, the soft, cool malleable clay, and the graceful movements of the dancing body.

42 Artists from across the globe have worked with a sense of oneness, giving Ruby the freedom to curate and weave together their work into fabric like forms speaking a single language- a language of love, caring and acceptance.

Hence, “Woven Together” is an experiential installation that aspires to take back the viewer to the basics, it almost endears you to move within and explore your own feelings and realizations.

Ruby works to bring an acceptance of differently abled members into the mainstream system, so also Hrishikesh invests his artistic energies with Parkinson's patients to facilitate them to dance and accept their body.  It is obvious that both Ruby & Hrishikesh desire to expand their expression beyond just clay or dance.

The collaboration “Woven together” is just the beginning of this journey...

Using the elements of ceramics, imagery, dance, movement, music and community, the collaborative work triggers a sense of awareness and curiosity that eventually leads to ‘acceptance’.

Show is on view from 1^st to 22^nd Sept. 2018

'INTO THE BOX' by 11 Sculptors at GALLERY ARTCHILL, Amer Fort

I N T O     T H E      B O X

at GALLERY ARTCHILL, West Wing, Amber Fort

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts’’

In our quest of achievement and success we often forget the smaller things in life. We forget that small is beautiful and that is powerful. Well the pen is mightier than the sword. Similarly, we have always been encouraged to think out -of -the –box and in turn to accomplish as a result that is out –of – box. This has been a constant conditioning since childhood.

So, in the spirit of thinking out –of –the-box, we thought it would be a challenge to create works that fit into the box, where in the largest box is a 10” cube and the smallest 7 ‘’cube. The artist is encouraged to deconstruct, think small-yet powerful and create works that fit literally into the box. This can be a task as specially in the world of art, where the bigger is better it is!

A lot of care was taken while choosing the artists, each one having their own speciality where in they have given justice to the concept. Anju Pawar and Rutvij Mistry have both worked on birds, where in for the former the birds are symbolisms of piousness of the soul and pure consciousness. She has used the traditional Japanese method of naked raku firing. Rutvij, on the other hand feels doves best represent love and peace which the humans need all over the world. Yashashari Shildhankar, on the other hand, is inspired by the clean lines of modern shapes and alternation and reconstruction of these shapes. Her black and white and single colour forms are dramatic, simple yet impactful.

Decorative is what Sushma Anand’s work seems at first glance. Her Indian teapots, though are functional and have the ‘jaalis’ and the inlay patterns of the mahals on their form through a process which allows her to transfer drawings as well as to print on clay. Nalini Thyagarajan’s elegant bowls are simply there for their own sake. Functional in nature, simply there to delight. The bowls have Nalini’s brushstrokes and are wood fired. Neha Pullarwar, through her work questions the human’s need to build without thinking and remorse and feels we need to need from the animal kingdom where their dwellings are environment friendly and are biodegradable. Her work of mixed media is rather strong and thought provoking.

Shayonti Salvi, on the other hand is amazed by the seed pods, who nurture and harbour life. These seed pods while breaking open are symbolic of life and hope. She has used too the naked Raku process, along with the traditional smoke firing method and porcelain. Khushboo Madnani work’s is also defined by the landscapes and assymetrical and symmetrical forms of nature. Her powerful works though were created in Mumbai, were wood fired in Australia telling their own little stories. Rashi Jain’s works are meditative figures which explore the process of awareness of the Self. Her porcelain figurines speak volumes with all their detailing and use of gold.

Aditi Saraogi’s work values the abtract treasures of love, joy, peace, respect, freedom and care which according are most important jewels. She has worked with porcelain for its transluscence as well as used the smoke firing process too. Vinod Daroz draws inspiration from the mundane mortar and pestle from the traditional kitchens of India. These help in food preparation thereby symbolizing creation. His works are slip cast porcelain with the use of decals, gold and silver lustres.

Curated by ADITI SARAOGI & SHAYONTI SALVI

Artists -

ADITI SARAOGI, ANJU PAWAR, KHUSHBOO MADNANI, NALINI TYAGRAJAN, NEHA PULLARWAR, RASHI JAIN, RUTVIJ MISTRY ,SHAYONTI SALVI, SUSHMA ANANDVINOD DAROZ & YASHASHARI SHILDHANKAR.

Artchill presents 128th Show ‘ ME & YOU ’ Emotive Graphs by SANT KUMAR

‘ME & YOU’

We take pleasure to announce this Art Show which has the energy, talent , 
Dreams & are poetical renderings of a young  emerging artist SANT KUMAR.

Coming up from a humble background yet Art Literate , 
his wispy mysterious figurative artworks which are more like portraits will tug at your heart ...the

 indefinite boundaries of faces draw you closer & closer to decipher his unique art language 
which is impulsive, varied & quite magnetic.

OPENING   6 PM   TUESDAY  21st AUG. at  GALLERY  ARTCHILL  AMBER FORT, JAIPUR.

Inauguration by Padma Bhushan Shri Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

Guest of Honour-  Shri RAJ BANSAL 

Emotive Graphs by SANT KUMAR

My paintings are mostly fluid Life Expressions. Me and my paintings , together weave a world in which both are active participants. My art tries to capture the intricacies & ambiguities of human heart being depicted through facial expressions. My work is all about the rapidly changing moods & expressions of people who I see around me.

ART for me is a synthesis of what I see, feel & pour on the canvass all the time, while I paint,  the line between the real and creative world disappears. My work is an amalgamation of both- the endless flow of life and my own fluid creative process.

In our journey of Life as we leave some moments behind, we carry forward some within ourselves , so when i paint, these memories reappear and the layers keep peeling off too at the same time, thus giving fluidity and rigorous mobility to my expressive compositions. In some compositions my choice of color tones try to depict the realities & sufferings of life, the palette of which varies from colorful romantic renderings to dark & gloomy moods. I take cue from smoky reflections of ME & YOU mirrored in illusions which sometimes flare up & sometimes extinguish…..these colored images pour down with a gust of wind & splatter of rain….i feel I am a drone in never ending season of colors. The spectacle of time which changes like molten wax & these weavings of colors in which I get enmeshed and dream of YOU , are reflected in these imageries. I take off in my flight in this dreamy world, I see myself in my canvass weavings which is strangely somewhat like YOURSELF.......

Sant Kumar.

‘ART IDIOMS - STRAY & MOULDED' 127th Exhibition at Juneja Art Gallery, Jaipur

Opening 6 pm.  Friday 10th  Aug. 2018

Show is on till 25th Aug. 2018, Daily 10 am to 7 pm. Sundays open

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Juneja Art Gallery ,  C  34  & 36, Road No.1,  Bais Godown , Jaipur

Juneja Art Gallery established in 1994 has been the pioneer Gallery in bringing art awareness to Jaipur, the Gallery has sponsored 126 art shows so far . 

This is 127th show by Artchill in its Bais Godown Gallery. 

 We expect  this MEGA SHOW will provide a great visual treat to Art Lovers of jaipur who are frequenting our galleries for a Unique ART EXPERIENCE.

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‘ART IDIOMS - STRAY & MOULDED ‘

Eclectic, experimental , stylized & thought provoking- the Paintings , Sculptures & Drawings in this big group show by 46 artists present a unique and diverse palette of art created by the best of Indian artists. The list of artists include well known, established, award winning artists and the young promising names of our contemporary world , each with a distinct artistic attitude.

The Creative process depends on a certain attitude of mind as the artists select or invent elements significant to a given purpose & organize or mould them into a new and unique form OF VISUAL ART. Creativity is an expression of freedom & originality enjoyed by these artists  & their art knows no boundaries except those inherent within itself, in this sense creativity is like a living organism- where by free thinking , exploration and progression their Art germinates , evolves , is moulded & grows to its full heights thus bringing a peak or Zenith in their careers. Artchill brings to you all, this show of such special art from each of these artists which reflects such aesthetics of their zenith, where each of them present Art of the Figure in a unique form.

To give shape to perfection, artists use their imagination with all degrees of realism, depending on how well they adapt human wishes to the actual conditions of existence. One of the most enduring motives of all artistic creation is that of throwing up contrasts and paradoxes that govern our lives, taking in its fold - attitudes and values, conjuring up unities and dualities, striving towards the ideal of a genuine, unpretentious human existence . I firmly believe that if you completely surrender yourself in an unbiased manner to the experience that art can offer you, it not only elevates your spirit but it will reach out to your inner self & connect with your sub conscious. Hence art can be used as an instrument & it is increasingly important for artists to synthesize global visuals into a local vocabulary. 

All works included in this show are depicting Figurative Art & walk the viewer into some story, 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 or connect with. Eventually an artist translates these & moulds them into choreographed compositions , replete with their own individual essence.

Participating artists

Abbas Batliwala

Akash Choyal

Anand Panchal

Anjani Reddy

Arpana Caur

Ashish Shringi

Ashok Hazra,

Asit Kumar Patnaik

Deepak Khandelwal

Dharmendra Rathore

Dieter Kunz

Dileep Sharma

Dipika Hazra

G.S. Khetanchi

Jagdish Chander

Jimmy Chishi

Kanchan Chander

L. N. Naga

Madan Meena,

Malchand  Pareek

Manash  Jena

Manoj Mitra

Moumita Ghosh

P.N. Choyal

Pankaj M. Agarwal

Pradeep Verma

Prakash Deshmukh

Rajesh Yadav

Sanjay Bhattacharyya

Sant  Kumar

Seema Kohli

Shabnam Husain

Shahid Parwez

Shail Choyal

Sheetal  Kamble

Shiv Kumar Gandhi

Shuvankar Biswas

Subrata Gangopadhyay

Sumahendra

Sumit Sen

Sunil Padwal

Suparna Mondal

Surjeet Choyal

Swapan Roy

Vijendra Sharma

Vinita  Dasgupta

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

Fragrance of Abstraction by Madan Meena

The Water lilies painted by Madan Meena seem like a floating mat of foliage crowned with resplendent blooms that open every morning, then close for the afternoon …....

Madan’s direct observation and perceptual study of water lilies near his hometown , has led to these amazingly stylized & semi abstracted series of paintings.These water colors executed with clever fluidity of his energetic strokes on paper ,feature these fragrant water lilies on stagnant water , emerging from almost-abstract compositions of broad strokes of bright color and intricately built-up textures. His varied compositions in the show particularly depict the effects of light and shadow on color, recording how the appearance changes as the light shifts .

This Lotus series is part of Madan's early work between the years 1998 and 2000. Bundi's Jaitsagar has always been his source of inspiration and he has used it's pond in his works time and again.

As Manet once said "There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, only one against the other." This work has it all, from the tenderness of his early years which are full of wondrous inspirations to the eagerness of exploring his artistic manoeuvres. The playfulness recreated by Madan in his own artistic translation has given a new definition to the Lotus pond of Jaitsagar , Bundi. 

Presenting the Lotus pond in an impressionistic manner & then moving towards its abstraction, one can marvel at Madan's flexibility, both of his tonal power & that of drawing , playing with a very broad spectrum of colors at the same time. From early morning misty hues to midnight imagery of Lotus pond in mysterious blues to exotic reds at evening , he has presented a broad pallette in this series.

Selective 30 artworks by Madan Meena are on display at Gallery Artchill, Amber Fort, Jaipur . INDIA.

Special 4 artworks by Dr. Madan Meena from his miniature inspired series will also be on view.

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