Crossway Art presents "Human Forms: Most, Post & Beyond" group art show at Academy of Fine Arts & Literature (AFAL), 4/6, Sirifort Institutional Area > 2nd-9th November 2012

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Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm

Entry : Free

Place : Arpana Art Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts & Literature (AFAL), 4/6, Sirifort Institutional Area, New Delhi

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Event Details : Crossway Art in the debut exhibition titled, ‘Human Forms: Most, Post & Beyond’ Curated by Barnali Nandy, presents the varied expressions of a group of artist, revolving around the human and his being through the journey of time and space. The pictorial language of human body,
its thoughts, sensations and beliefs are the reflection of its environment which can be prominently seen through the changing perspective of old masters to the young.
List of Artists : Abani Sen(1905-1972), Anupam Sud, Avishek Sen, Farhad Hussain, Jagadish Dey, Jai Zharotia, M.K.Bardhan(1930-2010), Mimi Radhakrishnan, Murali Cheeroth, Pratul Dash, Sonia Rodrigues Sabharwal and T.M.Azis
Neeta Rai Director of Crossway Art says, “It is a marvelous opportunity to present work of art on human forms through the perspective of various artists.
Our endeavour is to give viewers a platform to see how artists from past to present have articulated the forms of human body and their thoughts through a pictorial language in context to time and beyond. With this event Crossway Art has initiated to showcase 48 works of 12 artists from old masters to the young. In the course of time we would like to carry forward our aspiration of promoting Indian Art and Artists on national and international level.”
Roobina Karode Director of KNMA says in her forwarded note, “This exhibition intends to create a dialogue between various generations of Indian artists based on what has remained a most enduring and popular theme in Art: the human figure. It reiterates the proposition that the human figure has never really receded or faded away in the recent history of Indian art, with artists engaging
and energizing the genre of figuration with a contemporary vision. I congratulate Neeta Rai, the founder of Crossway Art and Barnali Nandy, the curator of this exhibition, for undertaking their first art venture. Remembering their zeal way back in the early 1990s when they were my students at the Department of Fine Arts at the Jamia Millia University, I wish them all success and hope that they can sustain what they have initiated with an infectious passion”.
The concept of the exhibition briefly explained by the curator - The human form has been the ‘most’ enduring theme throughout the history of art. It has continued to be the recurrent focus of an artist's expression. The metamorphosis of pictorial depiction of human figure has somewhat evolved as an influence of cultural diversification. We have witnessed in Indian art history the way human figures represented ideology, philosophy and its own greatness. Whereas, the ‘post’ of an era has always opened a new way of seeing human body with not only just a manifestation of its physical beauty but also an amalgamation of the new and the existent in the work of art. Since ancient times, the representation of human form has drastically transformed into more innovative and contemporary adaption. In spite of encounter and counter of a time, an artist again and again
painted the human figure with its inner and outer sensations.
The making of human forms by a human being has given an inimitable reflection of the array of time, place and perception. Needless to say, artists have always communicated their deep experience of existence not only to state to the world but also to express his or her very intimate sensitivity. In the process, the contextual evidence in the work of an artist is embedded through his own orientation and indication of a period. This multifarious representation of human body by the artist reveals the precedent and reinterpretation of the time & its journey ‘beyond’.

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