EXHIBITION : Tasveer Presents "Gardens of The Mind" by Swapan Nayak & Gilles Bensimon at Gallery Art.Motif, A1 - 178 Safdarjung Enclave, Fourth Floor > 31st March to 15th April 2016

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31st March : 6 30 pm Add to Calendar 31/03/2016 18:30 31/03/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata Opening of Tasveer Presents "Gardens of The Mind" by Swapan Nayak & Gilles Bensimon Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/03/exhibition-tasveer-presents-gardens-of.html Gallery Art.Motif, A1 - 178 Safdarjung Enclave, Fourth Floor, New Delhi 110029 DD/MM/YYYY - Opening
1st to 15th April : 10:00 am to 6:00 pm (closed on mondays) Add to Calendar 01/04/2016 10:00 15/04/2016 18:00 Asia/Kolkata EXHIBITION : Tasveer Presents "Gardens of The Mind" by Swapan Nayak & Gilles Bensimon Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/03/exhibition-tasveer-presents-gardens-of.html Gallery Art.Motif, A1 - 178 Safdarjung Enclave, Fourth Floor, New Delhi 110029 DD/MM/YYYY - Exhibition on view

Entry : Free

Venue : Gallery Art.Motif,  A1 - 178 Safdarjung Enclave, Fourth Floor, New Delhi 110029

Venue Info :  Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Green Park(Yellow Line)' Exit Gate No. 4

Event Description : Tasveer Presents "Gardens of The Mind" by Swapan Nayak & Gilles Bensimon.

As part its 10th anniversary, Tasveer brings together for the first time the works of Indian artist, Swapan Nayak, and French fashion and lifestyle photographer, Gilles Bensimon, in an exhibition that juxtaposes two very different approaches to photographing elements of the natural world. 

Gilles Bensimon, former art director of Elle, makes a significant departure from his earlier figurative oeuvre in his series Watercolour, featured here. Fascinated by the beauty of flowers, and by their associations with myriad varieties of cultural expression around the world, he both literally and metaphorically submerged himself – and volumes of freshly cut blooms – into pools of water to create amazing blossoms of colour. The resulting images present a range of wonderful palettes and blurring the lines of abstraction and representation, yield a new perspective on the traditional notions associated with the depiction of the flower in art. 

Bensimon’s photographs bursting with colour and a refractive-glossiness, are a stark contrast to Swapan Nayak’s black and white minimalist imagery. Nayak, a former photojournalist, also examines the natural world, and its intimate association to transformation. Made over a span of three years, in Eastern and North Eastern India, his series Radha: A Love in Eternity also breaks away from simple representation, producing the known and familiar and new, graphic ways. Intended to be an exploration of purity, the nature of the self, of consciousness, the profound and the divine, this series was inspired by his reading of Vaishanava Padabali, a nearly 700 year old Bengali text, that narrates the very popular Hindu myth, of Radha and Krishna and their eternal love. In many ways, this series also froms a lateral progression from Nayak’s earlier Being and Nothingness, that was inspired by Satre’s text of the same name and involved a quest for the truth.

Providing a unique opportunity in the study of photographic method and practice, this exhibition through its juxtaposition of two distinct aesthetic styles highlights the diversity offered by the photographic medium in interpreting and re-presenting reality.

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