“ Five
fingers “ a word define five
important elements of Visual art like Expression, Emotions, Compositions,
Concept and Surface.
Harshil Patel, Prexa Kapadia, Rakesh Patel,
Roma Patel and Vipul Prajapati, each artist have their own individual identity
with different impressions and their expression. We develop our own language in
Indian art scene, how ever we are growing
together and doing practice in same time and place with an individual
process with signature style of our own work.
Rakesh patel:
Emotions, the
most important feeling that connects us and brings us close to one and all. My
recent series of work involves around these emotions that I have mainly tried
to capture specially in children. The innocence and purity in their emotions is
what appeals me the most. Every character of the child in my work has a story
that somewhere reveals their life especially their surroundings. As I travelled
extensively to explore what actually is the reason for them being so happy in
spite of not having any luxuries of life which we generally connect happiness
to, and the reason I found is that it is the real “CHILDLIKENESS” that somewhere
bounces and reflects in their character, though necessary they don’t need any
material things to be happy. While working I have not only taken the portraits
but also created interesting backgrounds focusing mainly on their environment
the kind of job or work they do and their interaction in daily life and
transformed and amalgamated all these
element with the characters in my
work. The entire process is not only
interesting but also very interactive.
Roma patel :
Painting is to look at, to dream, to feel and
to enjoy. It creates an illusion that goes beyond sight since it strikes
reason, generates feelings and emotions, activates fantasy and brings the
spectator near the aesthetic enjoyment. To look at is not a simple act if what
one wants, just to see. In fact, to see is to exhaust the range of what the
eyes can reach, to overcome the limits of an image and go long way of
perception, understanding, grasp of knowledge and the discovery of spiritual
emotions. Painting is an experience to look at it calmly, quietly and
reverentially; it arouses a desire to understand, willingness to see, ambition
to comprehend in order to reach and feel the immense enjoyment of aesthetic
experience. Roma’s work is intense. She paints with rigor and order. She prefers ocher,
blue, white, and intensely cold colors and combines very light areas with dark
bodies that generate tension, reveals balance and give the composition a serene
dynamism. She introduces long and vigorous brushstrokes. She sometimes uses
cracking and, often introduces daring and expressive textures. She wants the
finish of the work to reinforce the expressive sense with exquisite visual and
tactile sensory. Roma’s painting full of lyricism and
subtleties reflects youth, vigor, experience and maturity seasoned with the
characteristic simplicity of the people who make art and culture the essential
part of their lives. Her work is thought to surprise and move spectator, to
arouse feeling and transmit emotions. Her paintings drive to contemplation,
meditation and introspection. Roma’s painting is solid, rigorous, sincere, warm
and suggesting. It arrests the spectators’ attention and captivates their look
and speech.
Harshil Patel :
The latest series of artworks is result of amalgamation of three
different theories, ideology and philosophy of Hinduism and materialism with
visual popular culture of world . The concept I have introduced in my artwork
is that you can touch, feel, listen, smell, express, and interact with the
piece; it is highly simplified through visual communicative language and
intimate through its intellectual esthetics. I have tried to play the symphony between the contemporary
painting and sculpture in my artwork, by applying natural sacred elements,
additionally added sound and fragrance which shall enhance the appeal of
atmospheric art. I like to merge different ideologies in my artworks . The deep
philosophy of Hinduism and pop-cult, The extravagant way of materialistic
window display at high streets like London, Florence, and Paris is highly
contemporary in accordance with the glamorous western style of displaying
objects on window display as comparable way at Hindu temple. I have used
repetition of nonliving object form as a rhythmic way for creating world
of live objects which posses give liveliness such as chanting mantra in
Hinduisam. Use of sacred natural medium such as like, charcoal(black),
turmeric powder(yellow),
gulaal(pink)),sandalwood(
Through this series, I have tried to reduce the gap between
common people and intellectual art community. According to me, an
intellectual may say a simple thing in a complex manner while an artist
communicates a complex vision in a simple way.
Prexa Kapadia :
A painting is meant to be a revelation of the
artist's authentic identity. The
gesture, the artist's "signature", is evidence of the actual process
of the work's creation.
Gestural
line or mark-making, unique textures, and dense layering create the illusion of
energy, movement, and compressed space-time. Grids, biomorphic and abstract
forms imply structure or order within the composition. Painting are made on
paper and canvas and explore a variety of shape, size and techniques. Abstract painting is a physical manifestation
of a journey depicted in form, texture, color, signs or symbols that has
specific meaning and are part of her life. Having always been fascinated with
the symbols, color of galaxy, and astronomy, they appear intuitively in her
works.
Scraping away, repainting, pouring colors,
whipping, dripping.... creative work is an inexplicable process and she try all
possibilities of what can be done with color on canvas to embrace
spirituality. Prexa,
in her new serious of art works is trying to create an art expressing mood. She
not go beyond the state of mind and a series of expressive colors and shapes,
independent of things. The Mood in the second case is very different from the
first mood. A mood which is partly identified with the conditioning object, a
mood dominated by clear images of detailed objects and situations, and capable
of being revived and communicated to others through these paintings, is
different in feeling tone, in relation to self-consciousness, attentiveness and
potential activity, from a mood that is independent of an awareness of fixed,
external objects, but sustained by random flow of private and incommunicable
associations.
Vipul Prajapati :
Vipul Prajapati is a very promising young artist doing
noteworthy, experimental, creative work in mixed media.After
completing his Diploma in Painting & Drawing from C.N.College of Fine Arts
in Ahmedabad, two year ago, Vipul has been experimenting very seriously and
with deep understanding with varied mediums like course cloth, wood, paper and
canvas. He employs Black Japan on wood to create drawing and compositions. He
has sparingly used colures when necessary. With dry brush he has created
drawings in his paintings as well as graphic effects. In a few paintings he has
fixed real nails, which go very well with the demand of the subject. The
surface of the wood creates its own environment, beauty, and texture. He has
artistically and creatively used his own photography of Veraval, a port near
Somnath and also the main subject of most of his paintings. During
his student life Vipul used to go to Veraval to do sketching of the port and
catch its environment as this busy place fascinated him with its renovation and
making of small and big ships worker and fishermen. He interested with them in
order to know their feelings and also the drudgery of their work and life. He
also found interest in the physical appearance of them, particularly their body
structure and interesting portraits. In one of his paintings he has shown nails
and bolts all over his body, because this person does only work of nails and
bolts and as a result he himself has turned into a figure of nails and
bolts. What
Vipul has so closely observed and felt at Veraval has been very artistically
and aesthetically integrated in the interesting compositions of his paintings.
Really these innovative and experimental images of Vipul have created their own
unique environment and space of the world of the activities and life at Veraval
in various prospective.
Jahangir art gallery during 8th Sep to 14thSep 2014.
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