"Eco-Friendly Hornification" an exhibition of new paintings by the pair of brothers working collaboratively as ManilRohit at Stainless Art Gallery, 1-2, Mira Corporate Suits, Mathura Road, Ishwar Nagar > 1st-8th December 2011
Time :
1st December : 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Opening
2nd to 8th December : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm (Sunday Closed)
- Exhibition on View
Entry : Free
Event Details : Seven Art Limited, in collaboration with Nature Morte present "Eco-Friendly Hornification" an exhibition of new paintings by the pair of brothers working collaboratively as ManilRohit.
Painting in the 21st Century synthesizes an amalgam of influences, often contradictory, usually ironic. So much has been invested in "the death of painting" that to make paintings today is a bold and almost revolutionary act, to snub one's nose at the "progressive" march of art history and the colonization of all aspects of life by the insidious computer and digital technologies. Painting, then, preserves the hand-crafted, the intuitive, the mysterious and the fanciful.
The paintings of ManilRohit are aggressive and ribald. Their iconography is sourced from the street and popular media: graffiti, comics, packaging and animation. Yet art historical references are also there while they successfully conquer the age-old battles between figure and ground, abstraction and figuration. The painterly maneuvers they employ to do so are both skilful and self-conscious: line, colour and shape coalesce into highly charged fields of energy; the soft-focus blur of aerosol paint is juxtaposed with an impasto heaped on like cake frosting; fluorescents mingle with metallics, anchored by pastels and neutrals. By using thought bubbles and speech blurbs, they introduce texts into the bodies of their images, mocking the ego-driven nature of all art-making, the adolescent narcissism that lies at the heart of culture.
Manil (born 1978) and Rohit (born 1985) Gupta were raised in Lucknow and moved to Delhi in 1998. Manil received a BFA degree in Applied Art from Delhi College of Art in 2003 and worked independently as an artist for a number years, having two solo exhibitions of his work at the Palette Art Gallery in New Delhi. Rohit earned a BA in English from Delhi University in 2006 and is a self-taught artist and photographer. The brothers started their collaborative work in 2011.
Complete documentation of the exhibition can be found on our website at www.sevenartlimited.com
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1st December : 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Opening
2nd to 8th December : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm (Sunday Closed)
- Exhibition on ViewEntry : Free
Place : Stainless Art Gallery, 1-2, Mira Corporate Suits, Mathura Road, Ishwar Nagar, Delhi - 110065
Landmark : Okhla Crossing, Near Tata Telecom and Godrej
Venue Info : thestainless.co.in | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Kalkaji Mandir(Violet Line)'
Event Details : Seven Art Limited, in collaboration with Nature Morte present "Eco-Friendly Hornification" an exhibition of new paintings by the pair of brothers working collaboratively as ManilRohit.
Painting in the 21st Century synthesizes an amalgam of influences, often contradictory, usually ironic. So much has been invested in "the death of painting" that to make paintings today is a bold and almost revolutionary act, to snub one's nose at the "progressive" march of art history and the colonization of all aspects of life by the insidious computer and digital technologies. Painting, then, preserves the hand-crafted, the intuitive, the mysterious and the fanciful.
The paintings of ManilRohit are aggressive and ribald. Their iconography is sourced from the street and popular media: graffiti, comics, packaging and animation. Yet art historical references are also there while they successfully conquer the age-old battles between figure and ground, abstraction and figuration. The painterly maneuvers they employ to do so are both skilful and self-conscious: line, colour and shape coalesce into highly charged fields of energy; the soft-focus blur of aerosol paint is juxtaposed with an impasto heaped on like cake frosting; fluorescents mingle with metallics, anchored by pastels and neutrals. By using thought bubbles and speech blurbs, they introduce texts into the bodies of their images, mocking the ego-driven nature of all art-making, the adolescent narcissism that lies at the heart of culture.
Manil (born 1978) and Rohit (born 1985) Gupta were raised in Lucknow and moved to Delhi in 1998. Manil received a BFA degree in Applied Art from Delhi College of Art in 2003 and worked independently as an artist for a number years, having two solo exhibitions of his work at the Palette Art Gallery in New Delhi. Rohit earned a BA in English from Delhi University in 2006 and is a self-taught artist and photographer. The brothers started their collaborative work in 2011.
Complete documentation of the exhibition can be found on our website at www.sevenartlimited.com
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"Eco-Friendly Hornification" an exhibition of new paintings by the pair of brothers working collaboratively as ManilRohit at Stainless Art Gallery, 1-2, Mira Corporate Suits, Mathura Road, Ishwar Nagar > 1st-8th December 2011
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