"that short togetherness" an exhibition of paintings by Ahlawat Gunjan at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 10am-8pm on 13th to 16th April 2015
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13th April : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 13-04-2015 18:30:00 13-04-2015 20:00:00 68 Opening of "that short togetherness" an exhibition of paintings by Ahlawat Gunjan Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/04/that-short-togetherness-exhibition-of.html Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY - Opening
14th to 16th April : 10:00 am - 8:00 pm Add to Calendar 14-04-2015 10:00:00 16-04-2015 20:00:00 68 "that short togetherness" an exhibition of paintings by Ahlawat Gunjan Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/04/that-short-togetherness-exhibition-of.html Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY - Exhibition on View
Entry : Free
Venue : Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations :
'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1' - Walk Direction
'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description : "that short togetherness" an exhibition of paintings by Ahlawat Gunjan.
“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Artist's Comments : I must admit there is a feeling of ephemera while I’m painting. When the paint is really wet, the hurriedness to control it, considering watercolour’s hasty and unforgiving character, the anxiety to shape it before it dries, and eventually to assign a voice to it. The whole process is strangely akin to real life. Makes me realize the fragility of human relationships and our difficulties in hastening to cement them. And above all, that sense of short togetherness.
Solitude is the greenhouse of personhood, as the constant gardener might have said. The simple recognition of the fact that solitude exists came to me during my days in America, Scotland and England. A lack of connection to other people, after all, is not something we seek, acknowledge or welcome. No one paid attention to my lonely ennui, but I couldn’t keep my mind off it for even for a second. The restlessness became stronger and stronger . . . how it shook my shoulders, how it tore at my heart and head.
I started writing a journal sometimes visually, every single day, to document all those memories, experiences, fragments, broken or truncated relationships, hazy endings and much more of solitary life. Suddenly, even the those words became visuals in my head, and I wanted to paint this history. The outcome is this pictorial journey through a combination of paintings, drawings, collages, illustrations, and quotes.
Familiarity can dull one’s senses, but if you paint with fresh eyes, you see the power in the most mundane of things. One looks harder and more intently at everything, whether it is a tree, a person, a feeling or a train journey. The show is an attempt to record, relive and discover a new way of looking at the past for myself and for anyone who cares for them.
Losing control and falling apart can be a true blessing when you realize nothing or no one is meant to stay intact forever. Sometimes, falling apart helps you put the pieces back together in a different order and you find peace and companionship like you have never before.
I’m broken, not out of order.
About the Artist : Book designer and visual artist, Ahlawat Gunjan is graphic design graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad with a Masters in design from The Glasgow School of Art, UK and Purdue University, USA. Professionally trained in book design at Lars Mullers, Switzerland and Faber & Faber, London. Ahlawat has a varied and interesting work experience, from Penguin Random House, Faber & Faber, Hachette, Little Brown, Hodder, HarperCollins, Harper Perennial, to Quercus.
His overlapping interests in art and literature inspired him to pursue a career in publishing and heightened his keen interest in visual authorial interventions and curatorship. Ahlawat also relishes the many ways and levels at which a designer can play the role of an artist to take narrative construction forward through text and image.
Currently, he is Managing Art Editor at Dorling Kindersley
Related Links : Exhibitions
13th April : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 13-04-2015 18:30:00 13-04-2015 20:00:00 68 Opening of "that short togetherness" an exhibition of paintings by Ahlawat Gunjan Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/04/that-short-togetherness-exhibition-of.html Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY - Opening
14th to 16th April : 10:00 am - 8:00 pm Add to Calendar 14-04-2015 10:00:00 16-04-2015 20:00:00 68 "that short togetherness" an exhibition of paintings by Ahlawat Gunjan Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/04/that-short-togetherness-exhibition-of.html Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY - Exhibition on View
Entry : Free
Venue : Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations :
'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1' - Walk Direction
'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description : "that short togetherness" an exhibition of paintings by Ahlawat Gunjan.
“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Artist's Comments : I must admit there is a feeling of ephemera while I’m painting. When the paint is really wet, the hurriedness to control it, considering watercolour’s hasty and unforgiving character, the anxiety to shape it before it dries, and eventually to assign a voice to it. The whole process is strangely akin to real life. Makes me realize the fragility of human relationships and our difficulties in hastening to cement them. And above all, that sense of short togetherness.
Solitude is the greenhouse of personhood, as the constant gardener might have said. The simple recognition of the fact that solitude exists came to me during my days in America, Scotland and England. A lack of connection to other people, after all, is not something we seek, acknowledge or welcome. No one paid attention to my lonely ennui, but I couldn’t keep my mind off it for even for a second. The restlessness became stronger and stronger . . . how it shook my shoulders, how it tore at my heart and head.
I started writing a journal sometimes visually, every single day, to document all those memories, experiences, fragments, broken or truncated relationships, hazy endings and much more of solitary life. Suddenly, even the those words became visuals in my head, and I wanted to paint this history. The outcome is this pictorial journey through a combination of paintings, drawings, collages, illustrations, and quotes.
Familiarity can dull one’s senses, but if you paint with fresh eyes, you see the power in the most mundane of things. One looks harder and more intently at everything, whether it is a tree, a person, a feeling or a train journey. The show is an attempt to record, relive and discover a new way of looking at the past for myself and for anyone who cares for them.
Losing control and falling apart can be a true blessing when you realize nothing or no one is meant to stay intact forever. Sometimes, falling apart helps you put the pieces back together in a different order and you find peace and companionship like you have never before.
I’m broken, not out of order.
About the Artist : Book designer and visual artist, Ahlawat Gunjan is graphic design graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad with a Masters in design from The Glasgow School of Art, UK and Purdue University, USA. Professionally trained in book design at Lars Mullers, Switzerland and Faber & Faber, London. Ahlawat has a varied and interesting work experience, from Penguin Random House, Faber & Faber, Hachette, Little Brown, Hodder, HarperCollins, Harper Perennial, to Quercus.
His overlapping interests in art and literature inspired him to pursue a career in publishing and heightened his keen interest in visual authorial interventions and curatorship. Ahlawat also relishes the many ways and levels at which a designer can play the role of an artist to take narrative construction forward through text and image.
Currently, he is Managing Art Editor at Dorling Kindersley
Related Links : Exhibitions
"that short togetherness" an exhibition of paintings by Ahlawat Gunjan at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 10am-8pm on 13th to 16th April 2015
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