TRIBUTE to MASTER Prafulla Dahanukar and M F Hussain
Opening show at 6pm 15th Nov 2014 Art Gate Gallery
ARTIST 3H, a brain child of Dhiraj Hadole, is a
multipurpose Art Society aimed at nurturing the Art heritage of India and
increase Art awareness among the people. The name itself shows the great
admiration for three prominent features of all the artists who knowingly or
unknowingly create masterpieces- 3H are Heart, Head and Hand! Dhiraj Hadole thinks
that Art is as expression for purpose and every artist does it in his own style
which stimulates the thought process of the viewer; therefore it would not be
right to discriminate between famed and novice. He gives equal platform and
exposure to both and highly respected and budding masters of Art who are instrumental
in making Art an inseparable part of the Society.
The present show by 3H is called
‘Chitradarshan’, one of its kind displaying and showcasing masterpieces by
various Indian artists. It also pays tribute to M.F.Hussain and his serigraphs and prints are displayed in the
exhibition. The show also includes rare art works of Prafulla Dahanukar, K.K.Hebbar and Badri Narayan.
The unique feature of this exhibition is
that it does not have a particular theme running through the art works by
various artists involved in it, instead there is a magnanimous effort made by
Dhiraj, the organizer to bring various themes under one roof. It features over
20 artists and their art. It includes abstract, figurative, realistic and
landscape themes on canvas and mix media. Some of the masterpieces are displayed
for the first time in India.
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| Recent work Pankaj Khalode |
Artists like Pankaj Khalode and Laxman
Ahire have very well shouldered their responsibility to bring out the pros and
cons of the Indian traditional society and create social awareness. Nurturing
tradition and following the culture is a pride of India, admired by the whole
world. But one realizes that it has a cruel side which is evidently ignored by
our society. Among many other issues on of the most grave and ancient issue is
of ‘prostitution’ which is the subject of study of artist Pankaj Khalode. He
calls it ‘Desire and Disgust’. It is the social institution throughout the
recorded history. It is unanimously accepted and developed by the society, to
fulfill the immorality, lust of men. Women are ruthlessly used for men’s sexual
satisfaction and reduced to being ‘mindless and heartless thing’ She is just ‘a
worker’, a sex worker that all. Artist finds the root cause of this
dehumanization in domestic set-up; usually a male dominated institute, where
women are suppressed from speaking against infidelity and womanizing. So it is
a grave question - Is the respected institution of marriage and family a malice
or the outcome of failure or dissatisfied marital relation that gives rise to
prostitution, is a malice? The artist also explores the issue of homosexuality
that is considered as a tragedy in a gender conscious society. Again, it is not
a new trend but hidden and deeply rooted in society. Pankaj discloses the
bitter truth of suppressed human feelings, so as to extend sympathy and develop
awareness of being fair and just towards these dumb, harasses souls.
Laxman Ahire feels the complicated
social structure does not only affect the ill-considered men and women, but it
has always been cruel to women in general. The progress has not total taken
charge of chauvinism in Indian male. We still find animal-instinct in most of
them. He brings into lime light the torture of sexual discrimination in the
form of Sati, female infanticide, child-marriage, dowry deaths, sexual
molestation and rape. Through his art he intends to create an awareness to stop
all these bad practices, respect woman in every form, as a mother, sister,
daughter and wife. She is not a thing to be played with. She is a Human being. Violence
against woman should be stopped only then our society will be truly progressed.
A progressive attitude is but a true sign of progressed society.
Insight into the core of existence is the topic of
two artists, Manoj Parturkar and Anuja Parturkar. Manoj gets his inspiration exclusively
from the Nature. He compares nature to Mother and feels all the evolutions in
nature is motherly phenomenon where from life begins, the potential energy in
the womb, blooms out to being active and ready to explore the Universe. At all
the steps this energy is supported and guided just like the mother in animate
state who is protective about the child. The relations between existing things
develop automatically as the interdependence is the need of natural elements
just as it is the need of the human living in the society. Nature does not
waver from its role of being energy provider and has strong hold on every thing
that evolved from it.
Anuja Parturkar works on abstract, because for her,
it is an emotional and spiritually rich expression. As we can see it in her
paintings there is an unfathomable depth. The more you delve into interpreting
it into totality, the more it expands its horizon of expression. The paintings
touch and stimulate your heart and head (mind) just as the horizon which gives
an illusion of touching the sea waters. So close yet, so far. The mysterious
and indefinable relation that abstracts create is absolutely unconditional and
completely an inner sight.
Abstracts are mysterious, but reality also holds
many subtle outcomes. Narendra Tatkare’s paintings are realistic expressions
and pictorial investigations of the truth of metro life which is full of
inanimate objects like sprawling concrete comfort zones, symbols, signs,
artificial ambience to make feel- good, crowd yet isolation of every
individual. Narendra’s artwork is an effort of creating an iconography for a
city metro growing in the womb of urbanization.
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| Recent work Swami Sitaram |
Swami Sitaram who hails from the city of beautiful
landscapes, Odisha, looks at the beauty from a realistic point of view. For him
landscapes are not just a natural set-up, but acquire importance and meaning only
due to the external influences of politics, economics and social conduct. All these
in turn influence the architecture of the place. So architecture becomes the
focal point in his paintings. According to him architecture is visually
challenging and recites the social and political background. He presents his
own home town Odisha and tells that he closely associates himself with the
architectural materials like stones, bricks, cement et al. The visual
abstractions in the arrangement and overlapping layers of imageries are the interpretations
of human beliefs and myths into the particular space. We find the conceived or
unperceived influences that make an impact on people and his paintings
represent this juxtaposition.
Shil Ramteke expresses his emotions, thoughts and
daily life experiences. Basically human actions are dependent on conscious and
subconscious thoughts. The conflict is never ending. One tries to find a
balancing act for better living. His paintings represent these conflicts in
form of lines, colors and forms. One of his acrylic on paper creations projects
his mind taking an elephantine leap. There are many inhibitions and hurdles
that controls ones emotional and physical outburst and these remain locked in
sub conscious mind. The painting thus opens up one of such thoughts in form of
elephant. The blue color may be the projection of gratified and composed and
unruffled personality; a superficial appearance. But the leaping mind is the
real self and every individual’s dream and aspiration. Thus Shil Ramteke brings
out the perplexity, especially as requiring a choice between desired and
obligatory.
Visuals of human and animal skin patterns are
prominent in work of Prakash Gaikwad. For this exhibition, he presents the
condition of Vitiligo affecting human skin. Vitiligo is a condition that causes
depigmentation of parts of the skin. It occurs when skin pigment cells die or
are unable to function. Vitiligo is neither infectious nor contagious but still
in India, society discriminates people suffering from these disorders. He
points out to negative and biased attitude of Indians to discriminate people by
their looks and appearance without knowing the reality and facts.
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| Recent work at Art Gate Gallery : 15th Nov 6PM Opening |
Swapnil Godase has specialized in Metal Craft. Having
achieved excellence with Canvas, Copper, Brass, Metal Scraps and Fiberglass, he
experiments frequently with new media. His core profile revolves around
developing techniques of reposes and shaping sheet metals like Copper, Brass
and Steel. The artist is currently developing Experimental Art concepts depicting
inspirations from daily life. For this exhibition he has crafted metal hand
bag, a compulsory accessory of every working class common man. Bag is the proof
of modernization and progress.
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Recent work Prashant Anasane
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Prashant Anasane highlights the fact that human progress was and is
possible only due evolution and development of Things. And these material
things were designed according to needs of people and based on same working
theory as that of living being’s body. There is a similarity of structural
theory in animate and inanimate things. Things too, civilized with times; they
were further modified to make human life comfortable. Therefore, advanced
things add to progressive and developed human lifestyle. Prashant highlights
this interdependence in his paintings.
The only artist without a particular theme who attracts attention
of the viewer only with his Medium of Expression is Dhiraj Hadole. He handles
various subjects in his creations. His medium and techniques plays an important
role in highlighting his thought. Like, in this exhibition he has used punch
mark for creative expression. The creation does not specify a particular symbol
but one can relate to it in sublime. The vibrancy of creation attracts the
attention. The artist purely aims to enjoy his creation and looks for new
avenues to explore and express.
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| Recent work Rohan Pawor |
Rohan Pawar makes us nostalgic with his installation of
bicycle molded in brass, with its reflection under the heading ‘Reflecting
Childhood’. It is blissful to go back into memories of innocence and
spontaneity of energy which is completely opposite to matured attitude that
involves crafted actions and circumstantially induced energy.
15th to 21nd Nov : opening 6PM 15th Nov at 12 pm to 7pm Art Gate Gallery, Churchgate Mumbai
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