Revelations I
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Revelations Revelations Revelations I CONTEMPORARY ART 47 ARTISTS I Janua R y 2013 THE PUNE ART GALLERY ART PUNE THE TPAG TPAG THE PUNE ART GALLERY 2 3 Revelations I CONTEMPORARY ART 47 ARTISTS JanUARY 2013 TPAG THE PUNE ART GALLERY 4 TPAG THE PUNE ART GALLERY Foreword The Pune Art Gallery A cycle oF Art at Oakwood Premier Hotel by K.S. SHeKHAwAt 4-5 81, Mundhwa, Koregaon Park Annex Pune 411036, Maharasthra, India E: [email protected] gAllery Note W: www.thepuneartgallery.com SANjAy KumAr SetHiA 7 For enquiries please contact: AnaidA pArvANeH Ms. Shashi Rajan, Gallery Manager M: +91 9730767995 Help cAre iNdiA 8-9 Essay: K.S. Shekhawat coNteNtS exHibitioN plAteS 10-13 Concept & Design: Sanjay Kumar Sethia & Anaida Parvaneh ArtworKS 14-82 Printed at Archana ArtiSt proFileS 83-94 www.archanapress.com No part of this publication may be reproduced, SpoNSorS stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means PancHSHil reAlty 96 (electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or Oakwood premier puNe 98 otherwise), without the prior written permission of the copyright owner of this catalogue. The iNdigo AirliNeS 101 Pune Art Gallery will not be held responsible for any typing / printing errors or spelling errors in the catalogue. 2 3 a CyCle of aRt The trajectories of Indian modern art have been shaped by so many hands and minds that Nor would the section be complete without Seema Kohli’s canvases in which she brings her its legacy continues to bind artists of even the current generation. The baton of culture belief in the universe of man and nature, of man and woman, together, like the deeply rooted is the overwhelming yoke they have inherited with its deeply entrenched layers that shape trees she is so fond of. Thota Vaikuntam is represented by his typical Telengana woman, Laxman their artistic tryst and vision. The umbilical cord that ties them together is a spiritual mirror, Aelay explores rural countryside and escapades in a series of works, there are explorations of sometimes directly, at other times tangentially. figures in both Subrata Sen and Suman Gupta’s works, Deepak Roy makes an appearance with a surprisingly real portrait of a Kathakali dancer, while Sanjay Sable and Sanjab Tikkal contribute Belief, faith, lives eked out daily – they are all manifestations of that bequest, arising out of the their efforts in the direction of a more decorative oeuvre. chaos and disarray of India. Just as within that, the devout as well as the rooted find harmony, so too artists take the skeins and convert it into something that is complete – and what a grand Where faith is concerned, the burden of its representation falls on the shoulders of Anaida banquet it is that we are served up. Parvanesh & Sidharth, Atin Basak, Dharmendra Rathore and H B Bhujel marking the fortunes of those for whom god’s call is a herald. As for godliness itself, it is reflected in the works of No one conjures up that simplicity of vision as coherently as K H Ara, a founding member of the Ramesh Gorjala’s distinctively painted Shiva, or in Akay Kaushik Awtans’s Krishna, or works of Progressive Artists’ Group, whose landscape here is a device of lyrical escape. Ara began his divine play by Nityam Singha Roy. career as a self-taught artist dabbling in landscape art, but shifted soon after to painting still- lifes of mostly vases of flowers, and of nudes. This early rare work therefore is evocative of the Completing the oeuvre are works by Ashok Bhowmick and Jai Zharotia, the former featuring point at which he began his journey. a cow with a crown and a bird, the latter represented by a mask and a bird – clearly a message in there. Vijay Sharma’s painting is an interesting still-life of a celebration complete with From Ara to Umakant Kande’s mixed media works that bring to mind an austerity has indeed champagne, people and presents. been a long expedition, one in which Paramjit Singh with his surreal forests and Sachindra Nath Jha with his impressionistic view of the Banaras umbrellas on the ghats provide a meaningful Among the modernists, it was S H Raza, who lived till very recently in Paris, who took on an interlude. To stretch a point, Sangeeta Gupta’s striated canvas resembles nothing so much as a aspect of abstraction that would result in his familiar bindu and mandala works. Here, he is macro landscape seen with the intimacy of a eye looking closely at nature. represented by an abstract work – inspired, he has always said, by Mark Rothko – with text rendered by him in the form of a verse. Words, in fact, appear like an important medium for Of course, the cityscape by the enfant terrible of art, F N Souza, with its gabled roofs and church abstract painters, as evident in the calligraphic nature of V S Gaitonde, or in the script-like – so reminiscent of all his landscapes – belongs to the genre that he made his own as much as evocations of Sanjay Jain and Akhilesh Verma. he did nudes. Anita Chauhan, among current artists, is among those who have dedicated their career to continually painting and exploring the female body – a worthy successor in a genre Indeed, some of the most exciting works belong to the abstract genre – witness Sohan Qadri’s that is still spoken about in hushed tones. meditative musings on paper, Pinky Bindra’s fantastical offering, powerful works by Mukesh Sharma and Vishal Joshi, an explosion of colours of Bose Krishnamachari and Suchit Sahni, The largest body of work in this exhibition centres around the figurative, best defined in the and of course, the flame-like energy generated by the geometrical abstraction of G R Santosh, works by M F Husain, a contemporary of Ara and Souza who is best known for his celebration harking back to the spiritual that artists have devoted their pursuits in seeking. of the region’s syncretic culture. Those references are obvious in the two works included in this show – a canvas and a drawing – and point to the country’s admiration of the aesthetic In the end, therefore, the beginning; in the beginning, the end – and so the cycle of life, and art, tradition, which is an important facet in the understanding of the region’s artistic heritage. moves on. That figurative quality ranges across different genres. It includes Jehangir Sabavala’s mysterious K S Shekhawat figures – whether of nuns, or veiled strangers, grouped in threes to suggest a shared vulnerability – or of Paresh Maity’s characteristically strong portraits in his trademark bold strokes and use of primary colours. Portraits emphasise the message an artist wishes to communicate, such as in Ganesh Pyne’s mask-like face made poignant through his wash-like use of colours, the portrait of a gentleman by that great archivist of folk art and Indian culture K K Hebbar, the evocatively haunting Sufi-like paintings of Manjit Bawa, Suhas Roy’s similarly meloncholic image of a Christ- like figure, A P Santhanaraj’s moving images of couples, Rajesh Shrivastava’s zen-like figures with at least one work that seems almost an ode to the master Hemen Majumdar. 4 5 TPAG THE PUNE ART GALLERY AKHILESH VERMA Syed HAIDER RAZA The Oakwood Premier Hotel and The Pune Art Gallery invite Fine Art lovers to join us on a voyage ANITA CHAUHAN JEHANGIR SABAWALA SACHINDRA NATH JHA of visual discovery, to explore the newest trends in the world of Art today. AJAY KAUSHIK Awtans JAI ZHAROTIA SANGEETA GUPTA Through monthly exhibitions in the aptly luxurious surroundings of the Oakwood Premier Hotel ASHOK BHOWMICK KRISHNAJI HOWLA Ara SANJAY JAIN Pune, TPAG aims to stoke the imagination and kindle the sensibilities of our audience. With select ATIN BASAK Kattinger K HEBBER SANJAY SABLE artworks, as are rarely found outside the major metros, we shall provide aesthetic pleasure and inspire a deeper appreciation of Contemporary Indian Art. Artworks will be chosen to reflect the A P SANTHANARAJ LAXMAN AELAY SANJAY TIKKAL spread and diversity of Indian creativity across regions and generations. ANAIDA PARVaneh MANJIT BAWA SEEMA KOHLI SIDHARTH MARAL YAZARLOO SOHAN QADRI In, Revelations I, the first of an annual exhibition, TPAG will showcase 47 artists. This collection BOSE KRISHNAMACHARI Maqbool FIDA HUSAIN SUBRATA SEN assembles different styles and mediums from the Art scene today. Artists include icons from the Master Artist Group such as M F Husain, S H Raza, F N Souza, Manjit Bawa, V S Gaitonde and others BadriNath ARYA MUKESH SHARMA SUCHIT SAHNI whose tremendous energy has inspired those who succeeded them, juxtaposed alongside young DIPAK ROY NITYAM SINGHA ROY SUMAN ROY and flamboyant artists whose works encapsulate the constantly shifting paradigms and fresh DHARMENDRA RATHORE PARAMJIT SINGH Thota Vaikuntam vision that Fine Art engenders. Francis NEWTON SOUZA paresh MAITY UMAKANT KANANDE TPAG wishes to thank our sponsors, Panchshil Realty, Indigo Airlines and Chivas for their generous GHULAM Rasool SANTOSH PICKY BINDRA VASUDEO S. GAITONDE support. GANESH PYNE RAJESH SRIVASTavA VIJAY SHARMA H.B BHUJEL RAMESH GORJALA VISHAL JOSHI Our sincere gratitude to Mr. Hoshang Garivala, General Manager; Mr. Trishal Rao, Director Sales and the entire team at The Oakwood Premier Hotel Pune for their endless support and cooperation. Sanjay Kumar Sethia Anaida Parvaneh TPAG 6 7 HELP CARE INDIA Dear Friends, Today we would like to share with you a small story about us : Help Care India – When these three words reach your ears you get an idea that it’s something about helping and caring for someone, it’s something about connecting yourself to someone unknown.