SANDS OF TIME by Rashmi Khurana Presents SANDS OF TIME by Rashmi Khurana

Curator: Rahul Bhattacharya

18 December, 2019 - 12 JANUARY, 2020

Art Konsult 3-A, Ground Floor, Hauz Khas Village, -110016

www.artkonsult.com

Powered by "Rashmi's journey as an artist has been like strengthened embedded, painted, textured, protected that of a river...flowing through time through and brought back as art. A lot of the 'actions' that give an intuitive sense of destination. Gushing form to Rashmi's 'paintings' come from actions you could through, slowing down, accumulating, letting associate with cooking or stitching,and they embed the go, reflecting cultures and always breathing narrative of her femininity" life"

'Sands of Time' is a softly done, bold contemporary 'Sands of Time' is a body of work that stands on the edge feminist intervention in the world of painterly abstraction. of contemporary abstract painting, blurring boundaries The haptic, organic forms shaping and being shaped between 'painting', 'making' , 'cleansing' and 'healing'. It by paper pulp are deeply post-structural as formal embodies the time spent in her studio, the physicality of composition elements. The sculpture-like quality of her the hours the internal struggles for a new language, the expressive relief like surfaces embeds space and time residues of an older body of work, dried paint, torn paper, containing within them the amorphous narratives of the canvases. This body began taking shape as Rashmi artist's life and practice. The choice of colour is deeply spent house cleaning and de-cluttering her studio after personal , often moody, yet held together by the ability of her last solo show. The urge to remove and to create co her abstraction to bring joy and pain onto the same plane existing withing her as she went though hours of tearing co existing not in a quite harmonious way, but in deep , scrubbing , washing trying to create space in her studio conversations with each other. Like the river , this body and in her head. Over the years Rashmi has grown to of work is fluid, not fixed withing a single kind of process be sensitive to the 'everyday aesthetics', and possibilities or conceptual approach. of beauty in our environment. This ability to (fore) see beauty in torn pieces of paper, in scrapped up piles of dried paint, in a bundle of rope found somewhere in the The works are united in their source studio is the essence of this show. inspirations, bound together by time and the tracings of the same energy with the freedom to reflect the mood of the seasons. We The sense of beauty that is proposed through these witness an artist entering a mature phase of works is not just limited to the surface, the object, the her practice, being able to feel and express 'painting'. It is rooted deeply in the process of making, life, work, desires and wounds into one for the artist it is almost like a restorative act in the whole. spirit of Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer - Rahul Bhattacharya dusted or mixed with gold. Torn paper, pulped, mashed, December, 2019 A Timeless Enigma of Truth -I 78 x 60 inches, Paper Pulp, Acrylic and Painted Paper on Canvas, 2019 The Parables of Time-I 60 x 48 inches, Paper Pulp and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 The Parables of Time-II, III 60 x 48 inches (each), Paper Pulp and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 " I get to my studio not every day. I don’t paint every day. I wander around, I read or sit silently, thinking… I spend my life arranging mundane things."

- Rashmi Khurana Care Amorphous

Heal Desire Flow

Indulge Truths

Mundane The Parables of Time-IV Touch 60 x 48 inches, Paper Pulp and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 " This time again I indulged in it and sat, tearing and tearing and tearing paper repeatedly for hours together, just tearing paper into smaller and smaller pieces. First there was music and then I didn’t even want that. After that, I completely lost track of how long I had been sitting there, which day, what time it was."

Mesuring Time-I -Rashmi Khurana 60 x 48 inches, Paper Pulp and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 A Timeless Enigma of Truth -IV 60 x 78 inches, Paper Pulp, Painted Papers and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 A Timeless Enigma of Truth -II A Timeless Enigma of Truth -V 60 x 48 inches, Paper Pulp and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 60 x 48 inches, Paper Pulp and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 "And painting became a performance, me looking at myself, getting closer to the canvas, then stepping back, reflecting, spreading of hand movements and playing with gestures. Mind becomes full and empty at the same time observing the how of colours and thoughts.."

-Rashmi Khurana Mesuring Time-II Mesuring Time-III 60 x 48 inches, Paper Pulp, Thread and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 60 x 36 inches, Paper Pulp and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 Arrows of Time-I 36 x 60 inches, Paper Pulp and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 Arrows of Time-II 36 x 60 inches, Paper Pulp and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 Mesuring Time-IV Mesuring Time-V 48 x 30 inches, Paper Pulp, Painted Papers and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 48 x 30 inches, Paper Pulp, Painted Papers and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 Remnants of Time Series-II 12 x 12 inches (each), Paper Pulp, Dead Plants and Acrylic on Hanji Paper, 2019 Remnants of Time Series-I 8 x 6 inches (each), Dried Acrylic Paint on Coffee Stained Paper, 2018 Rashmi Khurana (B. 1961) Solo Shows : ‘Jambudweepa’ by Khabarovsk Union of Friendship Societies , Khabarovsk, Russia, June 2018; ‘Nocturnal Blooms’ Shridharani Art Gallery by Niv Art Gallery, Sept, 2016; ‘My Experiences with Truth’ Niv Art Gallery, New Delhi, Dec, 2014; A Forest in the Fire of Spring ‘ Art Festival, , Dec 2013; ‘Osheanic Musings’ India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Jan, 2013 and at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur , March 2013 Group Shows: Gandhi Father Of The Nation, Art Konsult , October, 2019; Chang won university Museum Gallery, Korea, June 2019; Stabdhika Women in Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, March 2019; Extending the Contemporary, Art Konsult, New Delhi, August 2018; Gwanghwamun International Art Festival 2018, Seoul, Korea; Arbitrary Imagination at Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi by Gallery Sree Arts, April, 2018; Artists of India, USA and South Korea by AOVM, Dhoomimal Art Centre, and Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi , March/ April, 2018; ‘Indian Contemporaries’ in Nizhny Novogorod, Russia, Sept, 2017; Korea-India Art Exchange Exhibition, Art Konsult, New Delhi, April 2017; ‘Through the Mystic Eye’, Bon Art Gallery, New Delhi, Mar 2017; Installation ‘Sufi Can Dance Anywhere’ , exhibition ‘White on White’ Apri 2016 curated by artist Shobha Broota at Niv Art Gallery. New Delhi; ‘India Art Festival’ Mumbai ,Nov.2015 with Gallery Pioneer, New Delhi; India Korea Art Exchange Exhibition’ Feb.-March 2015 at Korean Cultural Centre and Art Konsult, New Delhi; ‘Swab’, October 2014, at International Contemporary Art Fair, Barcelona; With Sree Art Gallery, May 2014, IGNCA, New Delhi; ‘Sangam’ ,April 2014 at ArpanaCaur Art Gallery, New Delhi; With Sree Art Gallery, December 2013 at Alliance Francaise , New Delhi; October 2013 at Hungarian Cultural Centre, New Delhi; July 2013 at Art Spice Gallery, New Delhi; June 2013 at Visual Art Gallery, IHC,New Delhi; June 2013 at Korean Cultural Centre , New Delhi; April 2013 at Dr. Satya Paul Art Gallery, Jalandhar; April 2013 at IAFA, Amritsar; Quientessence’ in October, 2012 at Open Palm Court Gallery, IHC, New Delhi. Participation In National And International Projects/Residencies: Korea-India Art Exchange Art Camp and Workshop, Seoul, Korea, June 2019; Open Artist-in- residence at Triveni Kala Sangam, by Gallery Sree Arts, New Delhi, April 2018; Residency and participation in14thGongju International Art Festival, Korea,,, Sept 2017; In Conversation With Nature’-3 days camp and Exhibition at Hungarian Cultural Centre with Gallery Sree Arts, New Delhi; A week long exchange Programme (21st Sept to 29th Sept, 2016 )Seoul, Korea with Academy Of Visual Media, Kalavart Art Camp, Dec 2014, Ujjain; ‘Sangam - An amalgamation of visual art and music’: A five day camp and a week long exhibition (April 2013), New Delhi Honors: By Sahitya Kala Parishad, Govt, NCT of Delhi on 14 March, 2018 Art For Cause: ‘Red Alert’ : Exhibition with Gallery Sree Arts to raise awareness among people to donate blood and helping victims of natural calamities in October 2014; ‘Art for a Cause’: Delivered painting classes to underprivileged children in a camp organized by ‘Fact Art’ in April 2014; Banner Painting for ‘Delhi come out and Vote’ with ‘Flavour of Art’ in December 2013; ‘Festive of Hope’: Walked the ramp for designer MeenalKhokher in November 2013 for Cancer Awareness; ‘Delhi Wall Book’: Painted Delhi University walls with ‘Flavour of Art’ in March 2013 to spread a message of ‘Keep your City Beautiful’; Banner Painting Campaign with ‘Flavour of Art’ in January 2013 for spreading Women Safety awareness. Blog: rashmikhuranaartist.wordpress.com Rahul Bhattacharya is an educationist, art historian and a curator; currently Associate Professor at the Department of Visual Communication. He has been pursuing independent writing, curating exhibitions, art education spaces and large scale public art projects. Over the last 15 years. He was the Managing Editor of Art&Deal Magazine and the founding Conveyor MATI. He is also the co-founder International Performance Art Festival as well as the NINE Schools of Art.

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