"Explorations" a group exhibition of paintings & sculptures by eminent artists at Art Pilgrim, Cross Road Complex, Phase II, Naharpur, Gurgaon > 11am-5pm on 23rd September to 24th October 2015

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Time : 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Add to Calendar 23/09/2015 11:00 24/10/2015 17:00 Asia/Kolkata "Explorations" a group exhibition of paintings & sculptures by eminent artists Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/09/explorations-group-exhibition-of.html Art Pilgrim, Cross Road Complex, Phase II, Naharpur, Gurgaon DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free

Venue : Art Pilgrim, Cross Road Complex, Phase II, Naharpur, Gurgaon
Venue Info : artpilgrim.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Huda City Centre (Yellow Line)'

Event Description : "Explorations" an exhibition of paintings & sculptures by eminent artists

Artists : 
Paintings by Omprakash, Vrindavan Solanki, Shobha Broota, Zahoor Zargar, Sudhanshu Sutar, Bikash Poddar, Shiv Lal and Murali Nagapuzh
Sculptures by K.S Radhakrishnan, Biman Das, Laxma Goud, Daroz, Dhananjay 
Singh, Sisir Sahana, Dimpy Menon and Varsha Athor

“Explorations”, highlights the wide range of stylistic development in our mature artists today. At the same time we find that they come from different parts of the country with different cultures and environment. Each artist relates to these in his or her own particular way.
Haryana born Om Prakash, a noted painter on the Delhi art scene, exhibits masterly works of contemporary mystical art, taking the mandala from out of its ritual context and presenting it as part of a contemporary non figurative artistic expression that retains all the material qualities of colour and form in painting but transcends them in spirit at the same time.

Vrindavan Solanki from Gujerat makes masterly use of positive and negative space in his series on the lives of the Rabaris in works that are black and white, sepia or multicoloured; but behind this surface we see the flow and vibrancy of the life of these tribal people from Kutch in sharp contrasts of tone and stroke.

Delhi born Shobha Broota breaks away from the visual limits of our traditional symbolic art to give us a powerful interplay of form in the high modernist tradition and luminous colour that raises her art to the level of the contemplative and mystical imagery of the meditational vision while retaining the modernist essentials intact in her artistic expression.

Zahoor Zargar from the Kashmir valley uses powerful expressionist strokes with a delicacy that allows him to evoke the misty and soft light of his region in a language that we can understand visually all over the world. These landscapes reflect both the beauty of Kashmir and the nostalgia of the artist for it, crossing the borders of the inner and outer worlds of being.

Sarla Chandra from the Agra region of U.P trained as a scientist so it is not surprising that she uses imagery from nature and creates visual images of life that highlight philosophical and spiritual concerns in a modernist framework with Indian symbolic art as its content. She too, uses style as an instrument to carry a very rooted language of our art to a level of universality that makes her expression global and Indian at the same time.

Murali Nagapuzha from Kerala creates magical spaces with lush greens and brilliant colours in a faintly primitive style that has been developed with masterly brushwork and three-dimensionality of a trained contemporary artist. He carries the naive painting tradition beyond its limits through a modernist execution that gives it a universality beyond the limits of Kerala`s regional art.

Sudhanshu Sutar from Odisha with its rich and varied art tradition, uses his mastery over the academic disciplines of drawing and painting to recreate familiar imagery in unfamiliar surroundings, reminding us how images from our culture and history drift beyond their original environment to create their own space in a new and different world each time an artist creates a work.

In the works of Bikash Poddar of Bengal done in the tradition of modern landscape painting of his region, we find powerful expressionist strokes evoking a spiritual mood as at dawn and dusk, both times of transition and change in the day. His use of bright colours and dreamy greys creates an atmosphere of both passing time and timelessness in the same visual object.

Shiv Lal, a Delhi based artist from Himachal Pradesh, carries forward the powerful expressionism and assertive drawing skills that remind one of Francis Newton Souza, but with his own repertoire of form, content and brush work that makes a powerful impact on the eye within the expressionist tradition, using powerful lines, bright colours and metallic highlights.

This exhibition has chosen artists who have developed individual styles and expression without sacrificing their masterly skill as painters or their maturity and sensitivity. This exhibition is therefore powerful evidence of the quality of our art today, its universality and its rootedness in the varied traditions of our art of different regions. It is an authentic expression of what Indian painting is in our times and why it has found global acceptance in the last few decades.
Suneet Chopra, Art Critic, Writer

Curated by : Suneet Chopra and Geeta Singh 

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