Gallerie Ganesha presents "Roots-Routes" a group show of Paintings & Sculptures by 10 Eminent Artists at Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, Lodhi Road > 3rd-11th December 2011
Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Entry : Free
Event Details : Gallerie Ganesha invites you to 'Roots-Routes' a group show of Paintings and Sculptures by 10 Eminent Artists.
The artists in the show include Sohan Qadri, Haku Shah, A Ramachandran, Satish Gujral, Dipak Banerjee, Laxma Goud, Shobha Broota, Madhvi Parekh, Arpana Caur and Jayasri Burman.
This exhibition curated by Shobha Bhatia of Gallerie Ganesha and titled Roots/Routes, focuses on ten artists
who straddle different generations and genres of painting and sculpture. Following in the path paved by Jamini Roy and others, these painters and sculptors have explored and experimented with Indian traditional art--classical, miniature, folk, indigenous abstraction or tribal. Doing so has allowed them to find a new visual vocabulary to express themselves. They continue to give these traditions contemporary validity while simultaneously engaging with international modernism.
Modernity, whether it pertains to clothing, lifestyle, writing, art-indeed to any of the other creative arts--has been a tricky issue.
Indian artists largely took Western Modernism as the yardstick to measure the artistic worth of their work, both in their eyes and in those of others.
The advent of the Progressive Artist’s Group (PAG) in Mumbai in 1947, intellectually spear-headed by F.N. Souza with M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, K.H. Ara, S.K. Gade and H.A. Bakre in the core group, helped privilege western modernism in a newly independent India. It was the only way “to go forward” according to Souza.
Meanwhile, there were earlier, older voices in India that urged artists to evolve an indigenous modernity by turning away from European models and seek inspiration in home-grown art and classical traditions. Jamini Roy, whose landscapes and portraits in the 1920s were clearly influenced by Impressionism and Post-
Impressionism, did a volte-face when he came across Kalighat paintings. His stylized, heavily-outlined figures with their huge eyes were a deliberate nod to Kalighat pats in Kolkata.
The winds of change had also been blowing from Santiniketan: its towering stalwarts like Ramkinkar Baij, who incorporated elements of Santhal tribal art into his sculptures, influenced generations of artists at Kala Bhavan, including A.Ramachandran. K.G. Subramanyan’s days as a student in Santiniketan indelibly marked him: his exposure to folk and tribal art played a pivotal role in his evolution as an artist and teacher. Meera Mukherjee was also deeply influenced by and worked closely with the traditional sculptors of the Bastar tribe in the late 1950s. .
Jagdish Swaminathan’s contact with tribal artists of Madhya Pradesh in the 60s brought about a fundamental shift in his painting. He was seduced by indigenous abstraction and geometrical forms--as were V.Viswanadhan and Biren De around the same time…
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Place : Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre ( IHC ), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Event Details : Gallerie Ganesha invites you to 'Roots-Routes' a group show of Paintings and Sculptures by 10 Eminent Artists.
The artists in the show include Sohan Qadri, Haku Shah, A Ramachandran, Satish Gujral, Dipak Banerjee, Laxma Goud, Shobha Broota, Madhvi Parekh, Arpana Caur and Jayasri Burman.
This exhibition curated by Shobha Bhatia of Gallerie Ganesha and titled Roots/Routes, focuses on ten artists
who straddle different generations and genres of painting and sculpture. Following in the path paved by Jamini Roy and others, these painters and sculptors have explored and experimented with Indian traditional art--classical, miniature, folk, indigenous abstraction or tribal. Doing so has allowed them to find a new visual vocabulary to express themselves. They continue to give these traditions contemporary validity while simultaneously engaging with international modernism.
Modernity, whether it pertains to clothing, lifestyle, writing, art-indeed to any of the other creative arts--has been a tricky issue.
Indian artists largely took Western Modernism as the yardstick to measure the artistic worth of their work, both in their eyes and in those of others.
The advent of the Progressive Artist’s Group (PAG) in Mumbai in 1947, intellectually spear-headed by F.N. Souza with M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, K.H. Ara, S.K. Gade and H.A. Bakre in the core group, helped privilege western modernism in a newly independent India. It was the only way “to go forward” according to Souza.
Meanwhile, there were earlier, older voices in India that urged artists to evolve an indigenous modernity by turning away from European models and seek inspiration in home-grown art and classical traditions. Jamini Roy, whose landscapes and portraits in the 1920s were clearly influenced by Impressionism and Post-
Impressionism, did a volte-face when he came across Kalighat paintings. His stylized, heavily-outlined figures with their huge eyes were a deliberate nod to Kalighat pats in Kolkata.
The winds of change had also been blowing from Santiniketan: its towering stalwarts like Ramkinkar Baij, who incorporated elements of Santhal tribal art into his sculptures, influenced generations of artists at Kala Bhavan, including A.Ramachandran. K.G. Subramanyan’s days as a student in Santiniketan indelibly marked him: his exposure to folk and tribal art played a pivotal role in his evolution as an artist and teacher. Meera Mukherjee was also deeply influenced by and worked closely with the traditional sculptors of the Bastar tribe in the late 1950s. .
Jagdish Swaminathan’s contact with tribal artists of Madhya Pradesh in the 60s brought about a fundamental shift in his painting. He was seduced by indigenous abstraction and geometrical forms--as were V.Viswanadhan and Biren De around the same time…
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Gallerie Ganesha presents "Roots-Routes" a group show of Paintings & Sculptures by 10 Eminent Artists at Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, Lodhi Road > 3rd-11th December 2011
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