'Lifetimes' an art exhibition by Gipin Varghese at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony > 24th July to 6th September 2014

Time : 
24th July : 6:00 pmAdd to Calendar 24-07-2014 18:00:00 24-07-2014 22:00:00 68    'Lifetimes' art show by Gipin Varghese Event Page : http://goo.gl/Vv1Ae1 Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024 DD/MM/YYYY - Opening 
25th July to 6th September : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm (Sundays Closed) Add to Calendar 25-07-2014 11:00:00 06-09-2014 19:00:00 68 'Lifetimes' art show by Gipin Varghese Event Page : http://goo.gl/Vv1Ae1 Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024 DD/MM/YYYY - Exhibition on View

Entry : Free 

Place : Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024
Venue Info : www.vadehraart.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Lajpat Nagar(Violet Line)'

Event Description : Vadehra Art Gallery presents 'Lifetimes' art show by Gipin Varghese.

Gipin Varghese’s first solo exhibition in New Delhi titled Lifetimes features a body of work that he has produced over the last two years while exploring personal methodologies for relooking at popular media's imagery of violence, death and struggle emerging from non-urban contexts within India. Employing a semi-illustrative language Gipin Varghese goes about ‘re-documenting’ popular images from sensationalised news stories. Through this slow act of capturing on paper with paint the flashing news images about social violence, he pays tribute to the human element of loss, suffering and struggle that are the realities forgotten by today’s fast-paced world. The works from this exhibition are about the lives of ordinary men and women whose bodies slowly ebb away under their daily struggle against systems that exclude them and their needs. Their stark frames, gestures, and postures, amplify the hardship and violence that the bodies are put under, yet shy away from creating a sense of spectacle or shock.

Varghese received his BFA Painting from College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, MFA Painting from Hyderabad Central University, and finished his PhD on mural and altar paintings of Kerala churches, from MG University, Kottayam, Kerala, in 2010. Varghese received the FICA Emerging Artist Award 2012 and traveled on a studio-residency to HSLU Luzern, Switzerland, through FICA's collaboration with Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, New Delhi. He has participated in shows at Religare, Vadehra Art Gallery, and Sakshi Gallery, and most recently showed at Erfrischungsraum, HSLU, Luzern, Switzerland in 2013.

This exhibition is part of Vadehra Art Gallery’s collaboration with Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art forHOMEPAGE 2014, a 6-week programme featuring exhibitions and projects facilitated by the Foundation, and includes an exciting line-up of talks and workshops focused on young artists, curators and art educators. As the title suggests the exhibition brings to a single site an array of art events and shows all focusing on key areas of FICA’s work in the arts that includes support, art education and outreach.

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