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NOVEMBER 2013 NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 2013 NOVEMBER MÉ MÉ LANGE LANGE LANGE LANGE GALLERY FIVE GALLERY FIVE ART CONSULTANTS ART CONSULTANTS MÉMÉLANGELANGE 4747 MODERNMODERN & & CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY ART ART ARTISTSARTISTS MÉLANGE 47 MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART ARTISTS Continental Sales Emporium Pvt. Ltd NOVEMBER 2013 GALLERY FIVE ART CONSULTANTS Foreword Mélange Modern and Contemporary Art by Vikas N. Kumar 4-5 gAllery Note Sanjay Kumar Sethia 7 INdIAN INStItute oF CerebrAl PAlSy & GALLERY FIVE CoNteNtS HANdICAPPed CHIldreN 8-9 ART CONSULTANTS exHIbItIoN PlAteS 10-13 Gallery Five Art Consultants Pvt. Ltd. ArtworKS 14-85 For enquiries please contact: Mr. Sanjay Kumar Sethia ArtISt ProFIleS 86-95 M: +91 9810895435 Email: [email protected] SPoNSorS Website: www.g5ac.com Continental Sales emporium Pvt. ltd Essay: Vikas N. Kumar Concept & Design: Sanjay Kumar Sethia Printed at Archana www.archanapress.com No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the copyright owner of this catalogue. G5AC will not be held responsible for any typing / printing errors or spelling errors in the catalogue. MÉlange Modern and ConteMporary art élange – Modern and Contemporary Art is a Each of Arpita Singh’s work has a story to tell that contemporary discourse to its viewers. rendering of forms with colours, light with shade, placing jubilant assortment of the works of forty seven celebrates the ritual of family life while questioning the human figures with various angularities. His figures are Ramesh Gorjala works mostly with the subjects comprising prominent artists who have contributed a lot to myth of domesticity and urban life. Her colour pallet is shrouded in mystery with a semi-abstract background. M the gods, goddesses and mythical forms that includes the Indian art and culture. The works by these artists offer bright and vibrant while the themes could be dismal and Hanuman, Vishnu and Buddha, and are all painted with Devidas Dharmadhikari plays with figures and textures on visual delight to the spectator. The words are unable to daunting where she uses motifs like flowers, teapot, trees, great sensitivity and meticulous detail. His colour pallet is one hand and emotions and expressions on the other that describe the creativity of these geniuses however I take and animals. dominated by gold, red and green that renders a rich and combines figures with gestural abstraction with a fusion the liberty of putting a small brief of the masterstrokes Soothing colours, graceful contours and rich textures natural feel to each of his paintings, creating an antiquated of European and oriental sensibility. His paintings, with carefully chosen by Mr. Sanjay Sethia who has put are important facet of Shakti Burman’s paintings. There yet contemporary dynamic to his work. a mysterious gaze, strong imagery and colour splashes, together a bounty of works which is really a treat in this is an aura of dream in his works with sensuous nudes, have the aura of a dream. festive season. The figurative and surrealistic works of Sanjay Bhattacharya mysterious creatures and fragments of mundane life. are unmatched. He skilfully uses the light and shade Prokash Karmakar adroitly distorts his figures offering a V S Gaitonde, the master abstractionist (non-objectivist) Paramjit Singh is a painter of imagery landscapes which methods on his canvas. In watercolours also he portrays profound insight into the hidden matrix of experience. was known for his creation which carries a deep silence, are not reflection of any specific land instead they are the objects more prominently. His brush potently captures the anguished search of his divine spiritualism, and subtle use of colour. His meditating his imaginative idioms that he renders minutely with his age for meaning and direction through bold lines and rich canvas gives a serene feeling to the viewer. The silk S Harshavardhana’s colour palette is heavily textured typical impressionistic style. colour. screen work with red background and several forms is but plainly coloured. Influenced by tribal art and an exclusive style of Gaitonde who creates inter-personal K Laxma Goud is an accomplished draughtsmen and a symbols, he creates abstract geometrical forms using Nityam Singha Roy portrays mostly Radha, Krishna and relation with his work and paints with his senses not the remarkable artist. Goud presents versatility over a range inverted triangular structures constructed carefully with Mira in the themes of love and joy. He experiments very observance. of mediums, from printmaking, drawing, watercolour, demarcated areas of colour, which viciously slash into little with the subjects and mostly works with the human gouache and pastels to glass painting and sculpture in one another. Veer Munshi’s work normally does not figures, where largely emphasis has been given to the face F N Souza’s paintings are both tender and brutal. The bronze and terracotta. Most recurrent theme with the give visual pleasure but has strong sense of message he to convey its inner feelings and sentiments. landscapes with roman architectural buildings painted in artist is that of the erotic vitality, treated as a dynamic wants to convey. His works are very realistic and convey blue and black, with rich patterned effect of cloud reflects R B Bhaskaran’s work carry animal figure in a dynamic and powerful aspect of male and female sexuality and the message of agony created by the political situation, the excellence of vision and creation. and witty mood. The colour pattern of deep browns and existence. social disparity and the feeling of being away from own grey-blacks, there is an emblem of tribal character and M F Husain is India’s most renowned and prolific artist. homeland. A P Santhanaraj’s spontaneous free line inspired his interestingly the heart signs. The painting by Yogendra One can imagine the magical quality of artist by looking colour palette and also archetypes to emerge, especially Subrata Sen’s versatile talent exploits a wide range of Tripathi emphasises with emptiness and silence as the at the canvas portraying two women in such a great the buxom female heroine. He uses this element without traditional media. His style is distinguished by a dynamic artist asserts. The blue and grey abstract work gives the proportionate composition in blue and grey colour. He any reticence exploring it endlessly and creating his own use of robustly coordinated colours. inference of various experiences he has gathered in his has the mastery of instantly endearing itself to the viewer unique composition with it. daily life. whether it is a small drawing or a hoarding size painting. In Rahim Mirza’s work the leaf occupies a central motif, The work by Jai Zharotia embraces a series of icons that representing, perhaps, a multiplicity of emotions. He gives Ajay Kaushik paints his devotion through the depiction of Manjit Bawa’s paintings usually take shape around a single are drawn from this mundane world which actually in prominence to the leaf and does not put it with the tree piety divine figure. The dark palette of his canvas evokes figure or a group, inspired by well-known icons and myths artist’s imagination is far beyond the reality and is only etc. which is generally seen. the intensity of the subject. which is prevalent in the pencil work representing the an ideal state he dreams of. Amitava Das’s work appears serene Krishna. His works depicts the artist’s preference Suhas Roy’s works are primarily preoccupied with the The landscape painted in blazing sun by Vikash Kalra is illustrative. He creates a fusion of natural and artificial on for form over narrative. In his paintings, stylized female face and form, which he romanticise, inhabiting concrete and intense, with recognizable architectural his canvas, to show the interdependence of the man-made demigods, acrobats, and animals are suspended against them with a dreamlike world between sensuality and forms. The landscapes are imagery and timeless, notifying and natural works. flat, luminous colour. Jehangir Sabavala’s creation of vast, innocence. The patent beauty veers towards melancholic Kalra’s fondness for a more conceptual vision of nature. grace and elegance. The figurative work by Ashok tranquil scenes, the cubical representation drawings give Gogi Saroj Pal’s paintings hover around the issues of Anita Chauhan’s creations carry the various emotions and Bhowmick has an essence of political satire and he renders his canvas an illusory sense of depth and his search to woman, its sustenance, relationship and desires. The style dreams of women in contemporary manner. The calmness the images with animal and human forms. The colour fathom the infinite cosmos and its revelations. His mere and feel is simpler with a deep inherent meaning. in the facial expression notifies the woman’s esteemed act of painting transcends into metaphysical. pattern is darkish and quite subtle. Seema Kohli celebrates beauty, sensuality and intimacy state however mask in the hand depicts the change in S H Raza’s works are inspired by Hindu cosmology, Indian through her art. They are spiritual but not religious, Farhad Hussain’s painting with vibrant colours is based on gesture if there is need of time. the subject of human relationships and their bonding. The poetry, the landscape of his childhood. He is better known exploring with them, a poetically elegant and richly The array of works is magnificent and I hope the viewers characters in his works are interrelated and complement for the works revolving around Bindu which became a sensuous female form focusing into a woman’s physical would be exultant to see the genius creation of modern each other. trademark in most of his paintings.