Tuesday, 17 January 2023

My visual compositions ‘Second Self’ speak about our shadows that are a constant reminders of who we are. No matter what we do, where we go, our shadow always remains true to us.

  

Artist: Trupti Joshi


“Second Self” Paintings Exhibition by Contemporary artist Trupti Joshi in Jehangir,Life’s experiences and impressions left by all that happens around us continues to inspire my artistic journey.

My visual compositions ‘Second Self’ speak about our shadows that are a constant reminders of who we are. No matter what we do, where we go, our shadow always remains true to us. 

On an otherwise blank canvas, they add a dimension unknown to the subject. At times, what we are is reflected by the shadow that often creates an intriguing dimension, representing us in the unpredictable form (s) /strengths in response to a certain situation or stimuli.

This particular series appreciates a  deep connection with self whilst depicting forms highlighted with textures and strokes. In this series, pots symbolise humans  and shadows are their inner self and strengths.

In my paintings, shadows are in fact a “positive space” and not “negative space” so to say.As an artist I intend to simplify things, and try to see the innocent version of people and objects around me.

Series of artworks:



"THE GRACEFUL GODDESS"


Spirit of ecstasy, is truly an ever evolving symbol of success. An eclectic series of the timeless classic, vintage Rolls Royce cars. This series emerged as a consequence of my desire to paint an object of exquisite craftsmanship that glorified & revolutionised Engineering excellence in motorised vehicles. 

As an artist I admire the simple yet bold lines and design of these masterpieces.

"Chappal " 

(Basic footwear) Slippers represent simplicity of life.This series reflects various aspects, connected to our lives; they (slippers) transparently convey the story of existence, struggles and achievements of an individual.

"Tribal" 

Based on Tribal figures and motifs related to tribal lifestyles. I have always found myself attracted towards everything that inspires a feeling of unquestionable regard for nature and how the tribals are not only closest to nature or how their life revolves around nurturing and protecting the nature’s creations (all forms of life). 

Their lullabies and poems, songs and stories, their joy and pain, everything acknowledges the superior Nature, a higher deity that they respect and humbly bow to this omnipresent loving source of life.

Trupti Joshi, born & brought up in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, graduated in Fine Arts (Painting) year 2004 from the prestigious GIFA.Currently, she is based in Vadodara, Gujarat.



VENUE: Jehangir Art Gallery, 161-B, M.G. Road,

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001, Timing: 11am to 7pm, Contact: +91 9769488503


DCP Expeditions to exhibit its Grand Annual Photography Exhibition at Bombay Art Society, Bandra


DCP Expeditions to exhibit its Grand Annual Photography Exhibition at Bombay Art Society, Bandra

DCP Expeditions, India's one of the fastest growing Photography Training Academy will be exhibiting its 8thGrand Annual Photography Exhibition 2023, on 20th, 21st and 22nd January 2023 from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm at Bombay Art Society situated at K. C. Marg, Bandra Reclamation, Bandra West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400050.

The exhibition carries with it a legacy of 8 years exhibiting astonishing creative photography by hundreds of photographers from across the country and also, from beyond the country borders. The platform aims at providing the talented photographers an exposure to a wider audience. The imagery involves several genres of photography starting from wildlife, birds, macro, landscapes, astro to travel and food photography.


A total of 200 breath taking images by 80 plus professional as well as amateur wildlife, nature, traveland food photographers from across India and abroad, will be displayed in two galleries.Photographs printed on Epson enhanced Matt papers and beautifully mounted in frames will glorify the galleries of Bombay Art Society for three days. The previous exhibitions conducted in the bygone years had immense success with nearing 5000 footfalls over 3 days. This year, the exhibition is optimistically looking forward towards over 7500 footfalls.

This year the exhibition is supported by industry leaderslike Olympus India, Canon India, Nikon India, Creative Newtech Ltd, PhotoStop by Honeycomb Creative Support Ltd. and Lotus Enterprises.


For more information, kindly check the website https://dcpexpeditions.com/

For detailed information, kindly contact:



Dr Caesar Sengupta / caesar@dcpexpeditions.com +91 9819839820

From: 20th , 21st  & 22nd January 2023, DCP Expeditions presents DCP Annual Photography Exhibition 2023


VENUE: The Bombay Art Society K.C. Marg, Bandra Reclamation Opp. Rang Sharda Hotel / Bandra(West), Mumbai 400 050 /Timing: 11am to 7pm / Contact: +91 9819839820 / Email: caesar@dcpexpeditions.com

The National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Ministry of Culture, Government of India

 

The National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Ministry of Culture, Government of India cordially invites you to the inauguration of  "The Mind's Cupboard: A Retrospective of Lalitha Lajmi", on Thursday, 12th January, 2023, 5:00 pm at NGMA Mumbai, Auditorium. 

Friday, 6 January 2023

PIN POSTER: SINGAPORE

SAKSHI GALLERY

 

TARQ: Phallocratic Heterotopia.Memory, botany and ecology play key roles in Makanji’s artistic idiom.

Apnavi Makanji

About the Artist

Apnavi Makanji's body of work spans the mediums of drawing, installation and video. Their preoccupations center around displacement, ecology with an emphasis on botany, explorations of memory and the idea of home. The interaction of this synthesis with the construct of urban spaces and the socio-economic structure of our times, lies at the core of their work.


Their last solo show was Soil as Witness | Memory as Wound, TARQ, Mumbai, 2019.Their other solo shows include Travails of the Wandering Memory Seed, Galerie Félix Frachon, Brussels, 2016, Domus Vulgus, Art Asia Miami (with support from The Guild NY) Miami 2010; Domus Vulgus, The Guild NY, New York 2010.

Makanji recently participated in the Dhaka Art Summit (February 2020). They have taken part in several group shows including CLAUSTROPHOBIA ALPINA II – Subliminal Illuminations & the Shadows of Flight, curated by Varun Kumar, Forde Geneva, 2022; NATURE YOU ARE, Theatre Benno Besson, Yverdon Les Bain, 2022; HEAT, Espace Labo, Geneva, 2022; (ME)(MORY) curated by Dipti Anand, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2021; I LOVE #ArtistesDici a public intervention facilitated by the Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, 2020; Narrow Road to the Interior, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2019; Remembering the Present, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2018; Carnets, Halle Nord, Geneva, 2017; Raving Disco Dolly on a Rock ‘n’ Roll Trolley, Envoy Enterprises, New York, 2014; Considering Collage, Jhaveri Contemporary, Bombay, 2013.

Makanji lives and works in Geneva.

Artist Photo Credit: Stephanie Hügli



About the Exhibition

Apnavi Makanji’s second solo exhibition at TARQ, PSYCHOPOMP, comes at a pivotal time in the artist’s life and practice. Featuring their drawings, collages, mixed media sculptures and a video, the works in the show are about post-colonial extractivist histories, queering the future, human connection and navigating the current 

Phallocratic Heterotopia.Memory, botany and ecology play key roles in Makanji’s artistic idiom. In this show, Makanji’s artworks merge visuals of biological species with images of extractivism, 

highlighting how removed our idea of nature is from the truth of our actions towards it. An example of this is Styx, an installation of found objects and blueprints of crude oil extraction sites in West Africa belonging to the French Elf petroleum company, which portray the artist’s concerns on subjects of neo-colonialism, slave labour, and extractivism. 

Juxtaposed with this bleak reality of the world, a portion of this body of work explores what is termed by the artist as, “the possibilities of a post anthropocentric world through a queer lens”. Here, Makanji views being queer as the ability to adapt, as well as the ability to be kind, compassionate and soft. As described by the artist, “PSYCHOPOMP guides us toward but also embodies this proposition of a Queertopia that stems from a collective, intersectional awareness that is not exclusive to our species but extends itself to every other species including the botanical and mineral worlds.” 

F35/36, Dhanraj Mahal, C.S.M. Marg, Apollo Bunder, Colaba, Mumbai 400 001

+91 22 6615 0424 | info@tarq.in | www.tarq.in


Thursday, 5 January 2023

OPEN CALL APPLY Absolute Abstraction Group Show -0.1

 

OPEN CALL
APPLY

Absolute
Abstraction
Group Show -0.1

Curated by
Heena Sk @heena_sk_artist

Deadline: 15 Jan 2023
Contact: Heena: +91 98810 10953

ONLY for 6 Artists, Limited display

Send six image of works and CV last 5year with Subject open with details: info@nippongallery.com

RSVP: +91 9820510599 / Nippon Gallery: on info@nippongallery.com

RSVP: Nippon Gallery:

on info@nippongallery.com

NIPPON
30/32, 2nd Floor, Deval Chambers,
Nanabhai Lane, Flora Fountain, Fort,
Mumbai – 400 001, India.

@nippongallery @tathipremchandstudio
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#santiniketan #jjschoolofart #delhiartcolleage #indianwomenartist @tathipremchandlife @nippongallery


Wednesday, 4 January 2023

SAVE DATE: 27th 2023 at Nippon Gallery

 


OPEN STUDIO 


Sincerely from 2005 + Drawing Book

            -Tathi Premchand

Preview Night: 27th Jan 2023, Time: 6 t0 10pm 

7 th to 27 th Jan 2023   Visitors by appointment only

NIPPON

30/32, 2nd Floor, Deval Chambers,

Nanabhai Lane, Flora Fountain, Fort,

Mumbai – 400 001, India.

@nippongallery @tathipremchandstudio

#KOLKATAGALLERY #KOLKATAART #OPENCALL #APPLY #sndtartcollege #Abstraction #Abstractpainting

#santiniketan #jjschoolofart #delhiartcolleage #indianwomenartist @tathipremchandlife @nippongallery

Monday, 26 December 2022

BLACK SPACE WITHIN BLACK - I am immensely happy to meet Rajesh Rajbhar, who is a painter totally dedicated to visual art. - Prabhakar Kolte

 

Artist: Rajesh Rajbhar at Jehangir art gallery, 2022

Concept note

“Expression is an aliveness which can be only felt through experience.”   

I start with a blank canvas and a blank mind and then stories, and images emerge from a dialogue between the canvas and the mind. I indulge in painting with no subject matter but only expressions of endless queue, skyscrapers, movement of people, windows of the buildings, and queue at common water tap and then begin with full energy and feelings which comes out in form of expressions of life. Some expressions are unexplained, but expression is an expression in itself, which cannot be explained. We can see and feel it and thus it’s a visual expression. 

Using a stick as a medium to move the colour from one end of the canvas to the other my “Dripping – Style” technique highlights free and spontaneous subconscious feelings and emotions, which are suppressed for a longer time and with the flow of the colour, they too flow very naturally. I play with gestures of expressions in parts which then forms one whole expression.

With a smooth canvas as a surface, I prepare the base with a flat pigment and play with diverse set of materials. My repertoire includes materials such as acrylic, watercolour, ink, oil colors household paints and equally varied set of tools such as brushes, cloth, metal wires, rollers, tubes, socks, and bare hands too. Thus, these act as a cathartic release for my emotions and thoughts.


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BLACK

SPACE WITHIN BLACK


I am immensely happy to meet Rajesh Rajbhar, who is a painter totally dedicated to visual art. He is young and passionately involved in visual art and he is thoroughly associated with various aspects of this art since he has stepped into the world of visual communication.  He is totally devoted to the art and aesthetic in the field of visual communication. 

I have never taught him but when we started exchanging our views on art and life, we came closer to each other. It was our visual and reciprocal talk on art and life, agony and deep desire for knowledge in art that has kept us deeply connected. As a teacher, I never taught him any academics related to formal art but observed minutely that he wanted to discover a new way of expression. He follows his own way of experiences and communication through his unique way of expression with Black colour to which he is dedicated thoroughly with confidence and faith in himself. He has founded his curious thought process and his desire for contemporary world of art. He has developed an enthusiastic way of expression in the ‘Black colour’ which he started working on huge canvas as if he was trying to discover the hidden soul of black. He struggled a lot but never gave up discovering the breathing soul of black. 


Rajesh is deeply involved in his unique theory of expression in black colour. As a matter of fact, for him black is not a just a colour but his conceptual journey to find out the conscience and soul of black which does not remain a pigment but a medium of communication. It is an eternal journey of unknown discovery of the black which throbs constantly in his existence.    

I personally feel that he is trying to develop a new visual language in black which only he can understand today, but I am sure that his language will be noticed and read by sensitive connoisseurs in future. He is haunted by black and black is responding to this young artist as if the black is not just a colour but two sides of the living darkness, discovered by young artist called Rajesh Rajbhar. I wish him a great future; may God bless him and fulfil his desire of living with black. 


By 

Eminent Artist Dr. Prabhakar Kolte 

Prabhakar Kolte at Jehangir Art Gallery- Mumbai - 400 001





National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai


National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
National Gallery of Modern Art
Sir Cowasji Jehangir Public Hall
M. G Road, Fort Mumbai - 400032



 

Wednesday, 21 December 2022

Press Release - The upcoming exhibition at Aakriti Art Gallery on the concept of ‘Freedom’.



On the occasion of 75 years of Indian Independence Aakriti Art Gallery presents an exhibition titled ‘FREEDOM: FROM DESPAIR TO DREAM’. The show is curated by the Art Writer and Curator Mrinal Ghosh featuring the works of 12 painters and 7 sculptors. The participant painters are Partha Pratim Deb, P.R.Narvekar, Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Chhatrapati Dutta, Samir Aich, Jaya Ganguli, Chandra Bhattacharya, K.Muralidharan, Samindranath Majumdar, Pankaj Panwar, Debraj Goswami and Bholanath Rudra, and the sculptors Krishen Khanna, Bimal Kundu, Deabnjan Roy, Akhil Chandra Das, Subrata Biswas, Tapas Biswas and Mrinal Kanti Gayen. The show will start on 28 December 2022 and will continue till 28 January 2023 from 11 am to 7 Pm Monday to Saturday.



The show is likely to reveal how to our artists freedom appears both as despair and dream. The despair is the reality, whether dream will turn to be utopia is an enigma.


For more details about the show, please get in touch with Komal Jaiswal at artshop@aakritiartgallery.com / +91 9830411116. The show can also be viewed at www.aakritiartgallery.com


Aakriti Art Gallery

Orbit Enclave, 1st Floor12/3A, Hungerford Street, Kolkata – 700 017

Phone: +91 33 22893027/5041

( Sunday Closed )

Fax No : +91 33 22895042


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