"Textures" a group show of paintings and installations by four post graduate students (MFA) from Delhi College of Art at Art Perspective, F 213/D, Lado Sarai > 3rd November-30th December 2012
Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Entry : Free
Place : Art Perspective, F 213/D, Lado Sarai, New Delhi
Venue Info : Nearest Metro Station - 'Saket(Yellow Line)'
Event Details : Suruchi Saraf, Director, Art Perspective presents Textures, a group show of paintings and installations by four post graduate students (MFA) from Delhi College of Art.
The participating artists are Meeyong Jaiwook, Swati Dayal, Bharti Verma and Devyani Jain.
Bharti Verma, 25, who completed her MFA (Painting) in 2012, plays on the concept of depth and illusion in her pen on canvas paintings that also include an element of intrigue. While the pen drawings are painstakingly sketched to create spaces like a home or a building, in each canvas, she has used objects like a lock, a mirror, threads and photographs to add an element of mystery.
“I wanted to project that there is no division between a painting and an installation and hence I have used these objects to eliminate the division between the two genres,” says the soft-spoken Verma. Her works are like a space where “no one lives, no one ever comes but that single object that we see as the part of the canvas makes one wonder if “someone did visit the place.”
“I have lived in Delhi for 25 years and never felt that I belonged to any place or I had even a small space to call my own,” shares Verma, “as a loner, this feeling always disturbed me and my work started reflecting the need to portray spaces that belonged to no one and yet were part of everyone’s life.”
Spirituality is the focus for Meeyong Jaiwook, a South Korean who has made India his home for the last ten years. Older than the other three in the show, he took a break between his BFA (Class of 2009) and MFA (Class of 2012) to travel to the Himalayas, especially to Ladakh and Nepal. He is elated that his works have been selected by a private gallery for the first time. His works are divided into three series - Sacred Journey, Water drops, The Tree. In the first two series, he works in oil on canvas creating the mountain-scape of the Himalayas that he is so fond of, while imparting it with an otherworldly feel oscillating between reality and illusion. As a monk walks towards the never ending mountains, or a water drop falls from heaven, one feels lost in the serenity of Jaiwook’s landscapes. In The Tree series, he works with the leaf of the Peepal tree, which Jaiwook innocently calls the Bodhi Tree, using each leaf as the representative symbol of Buddha’s spirituality.
He says, “My works are a reflection of my spiritual guest for understanding the mysteries of faith as I see unfolding before me through the lives of the common masses in India.”
24-year-old Swati Dayal, also an MFA (2012) from Delhi College of Art, is the one who has chosen to work in the medium of abstraction. In all her eight untitled oils on canvas, she creates landscapes inspired by her visit to Shantiniketan. The colours are bright and reminiscent of the diversity in nature, but it is the textural element she imparts to her canvas that gives it a new language. “I was making a lot of still life when I went to Shantiniketan a year ago and continued to do so. But slowly the elements on my canvas started getting reduced till it became so minimal that every stroke was just like a splash of colour,” she says. “I don’t plan how my work will evolve, art for me is a meditative process and my work reflects the peace I get when I play with colours.”
25 year old Devyani Jain works in the methodology of collages using threads, paper, cloth and pins which is inspired by the artist’s understanding of the lost connection between people in urban lifestyles. Her installation titled Touch Me, Touch Me Not, is like a cage fitted with threads and wires and as she explains, “our fast paced life has left us confined to our person spaces where we are at times left with some found materials. Those textures became a part of my life and dealing with them everyday invoked an inquisitiveness to explore them. Through my experiments I have been trying to explore their narration. In my paintings, each material has been given an individual identity, an individual voice.”
“I have been working with found material in my personal space. Since then, the space has shifted completely, from a small room in Delhi to a new city. The shift in space was sudden, the shift in art practice could not be. Still limiting myself to the pastel pinks and found materials of the junk suitcase, I created these works as a continuation to the earlier smaller works, to create the illusion of the place I am not in anymore. The story unfolds as the same materials are used here as individuals and not a collage. I am inquisitive to know what story each painting tells its viewer.”
Related Events : Exhibitions
Entry : Free
Place : Art Perspective, F 213/D, Lado Sarai, New Delhi
Venue Info : Nearest Metro Station - 'Saket(Yellow Line)'
Event Details : Suruchi Saraf, Director, Art Perspective presents Textures, a group show of paintings and installations by four post graduate students (MFA) from Delhi College of Art.
The participating artists are Meeyong Jaiwook, Swati Dayal, Bharti Verma and Devyani Jain.
Bharti Verma, 25, who completed her MFA (Painting) in 2012, plays on the concept of depth and illusion in her pen on canvas paintings that also include an element of intrigue. While the pen drawings are painstakingly sketched to create spaces like a home or a building, in each canvas, she has used objects like a lock, a mirror, threads and photographs to add an element of mystery.
“I wanted to project that there is no division between a painting and an installation and hence I have used these objects to eliminate the division between the two genres,” says the soft-spoken Verma. Her works are like a space where “no one lives, no one ever comes but that single object that we see as the part of the canvas makes one wonder if “someone did visit the place.”
“I have lived in Delhi for 25 years and never felt that I belonged to any place or I had even a small space to call my own,” shares Verma, “as a loner, this feeling always disturbed me and my work started reflecting the need to portray spaces that belonged to no one and yet were part of everyone’s life.”
Spirituality is the focus for Meeyong Jaiwook, a South Korean who has made India his home for the last ten years. Older than the other three in the show, he took a break between his BFA (Class of 2009) and MFA (Class of 2012) to travel to the Himalayas, especially to Ladakh and Nepal. He is elated that his works have been selected by a private gallery for the first time. His works are divided into three series - Sacred Journey, Water drops, The Tree. In the first two series, he works in oil on canvas creating the mountain-scape of the Himalayas that he is so fond of, while imparting it with an otherworldly feel oscillating between reality and illusion. As a monk walks towards the never ending mountains, or a water drop falls from heaven, one feels lost in the serenity of Jaiwook’s landscapes. In The Tree series, he works with the leaf of the Peepal tree, which Jaiwook innocently calls the Bodhi Tree, using each leaf as the representative symbol of Buddha’s spirituality.
He says, “My works are a reflection of my spiritual guest for understanding the mysteries of faith as I see unfolding before me through the lives of the common masses in India.”
24-year-old Swati Dayal, also an MFA (2012) from Delhi College of Art, is the one who has chosen to work in the medium of abstraction. In all her eight untitled oils on canvas, she creates landscapes inspired by her visit to Shantiniketan. The colours are bright and reminiscent of the diversity in nature, but it is the textural element she imparts to her canvas that gives it a new language. “I was making a lot of still life when I went to Shantiniketan a year ago and continued to do so. But slowly the elements on my canvas started getting reduced till it became so minimal that every stroke was just like a splash of colour,” she says. “I don’t plan how my work will evolve, art for me is a meditative process and my work reflects the peace I get when I play with colours.”
25 year old Devyani Jain works in the methodology of collages using threads, paper, cloth and pins which is inspired by the artist’s understanding of the lost connection between people in urban lifestyles. Her installation titled Touch Me, Touch Me Not, is like a cage fitted with threads and wires and as she explains, “our fast paced life has left us confined to our person spaces where we are at times left with some found materials. Those textures became a part of my life and dealing with them everyday invoked an inquisitiveness to explore them. Through my experiments I have been trying to explore their narration. In my paintings, each material has been given an individual identity, an individual voice.”
“I have been working with found material in my personal space. Since then, the space has shifted completely, from a small room in Delhi to a new city. The shift in space was sudden, the shift in art practice could not be. Still limiting myself to the pastel pinks and found materials of the junk suitcase, I created these works as a continuation to the earlier smaller works, to create the illusion of the place I am not in anymore. The story unfolds as the same materials are used here as individuals and not a collage. I am inquisitive to know what story each painting tells its viewer.”
Related Events : Exhibitions
"Textures" a group show of paintings and installations by four post graduate students (MFA) from Delhi College of Art at Art Perspective, F 213/D, Lado Sarai > 3rd November-30th December 2012
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