Tallur. L.N

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Tallur.L.N
Title: Eraser Pro 1-2
Year: 2012
Medium: Bronze
Size: 200x95x60cm

Artist Statement: Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others -
Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it
is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data
from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your
privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.
Your first thought may be that when you 'delete' the file, the data is
gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not
really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the
file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another
file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to
recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.
Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk
maintenance or an undelete utility.
There are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use
of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding.
These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed,
and because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can
safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.
courtesy:tallur.com

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Babu Eshwar Prasad

Babu Eshwar Prasad
Title: Open to Sky - I
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size: 13 x 19 inches
Year: 2000 

Prasad's paintings explore landscapes recalled and recreated through the mind's eye during dreams. Some critics have called these mystical and surreal pictures psychoscapes, or landscapes that have been touched and moulded by the inner self and the alternative reality of dreams. The artist's mind creates and modifies visions of nature, transforming them into patterns and harmonious blends that no one else could imagine, let alone see. There is also a certain nostalgic quality to these psychoscapes, as if the artist is trying to recall the stories and fantasies of his youth, which much to his disappointment have lost their magic when viewed through an adult lens.
Prasad's vocabulary has been describes as an "imagery exploring a psychic map, which he navigates with the amazement of a child, into a world of chimeras, sacred mountains, speaking trees and unknown waters." Often turning to the picture within a picture format, Prasad creates situations that are twisted away from the familiar, but yet not as far away as to be totally unrecognizable. Each form, figure or architectural and natural element is very clear to the viewer, and only transformed in the sense of the role it plays or the position it occupies. Everything that is expected is turned on its head and the artist has no qualms in painting a blood red sky or mountains that are bright yellow.
courtesy:saffronart

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Ernesto Neto

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Ernesto Neto 
Title: While nothing happens, 
Year: 2008
View of the installation at MACRO, Roma 

About Artist
To describe at best his works, we should read once again Italo Calvino's words in American Lessons and use expressions like lightness, speed, accuracy, visibility, stability and instability.
Sensual and poetic, the result of extremely careful studies about static and resistance: his installations give the feeling of something primal and atavistic to those who get impressed by their strength.
Sometimes his sculptures were compared to huge breasts, bundles of blood vessels and nerve endings, but also futuristic spaceships. These are imaginative associations but they explain the lightness and weight that characterize the interactive and multisensory Neto's landscapes, where the tulle's transparency contrasts with the serious gravity of living materials: pepper, ginger, cumin, turmeric, cloves...
Heady spices that involve the visitors with their intense fragrance. The artist explained many times that he often gets inspired by dance for the creation of his biomorphic shapes, he looks how bodies move in space, being able to change shape with every movement they do. Especially for this exhibition the artist created a fluid environment where the sculptures blend with the architecture of interiors and exteriors.
courtesy: vogue

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Gayathri Gamuz

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Gaythri Gamuz 
Title: Chinese Doll In South India, 
Year: 2008
In her paintings I see the desire to return to childlike innocence. There’s a sense of purity and tranquility in her paintings. In someworks there is delightfully ironic humour. Her uncluttered compositions that have select few forms reflect clarity in her evolved visual thought process. She portrays animals, human beings and objects in a realistic fashion with sensitive rendition of shadows and nuances of such kind. But there’s a twist in the compositions. She paints imaginary circumstances that reflect the present human condition in a language that is phantasmagoric. That adds zing to her paintings.

Her observation and the inclusion of the local cultural aspects are reflected in her visual language and commentary. It would be expected of a ‘foreigner’ living in India to make paintings of kitsch, imagery inspired by religious icons or Indian street life. Gayatri’s scope is not limited to an Indian or Spanish canvas. She observes the 21st century human condition and incorporates symbols, metaphors and instances from her immediate surrounding and blends them well with her roots and her beliefs.
Her paintings are endearing because they strike a chord with the innocent, carefree and humourous aspects within us. She speaks of a crucial concern with tenderness thus making her works intimate.
courtesy:artslant

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Maya Burman

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Maya Burman
Untitled
Title: Watercolour on paper
Size: 31 x 47 inches
Year: 2008 

Maya Burman is a contemporary artist of Indian parentage living in France.She works mainly in pen and ink, and watercolor; her paintings are delicate and usually have a strong fantasy element. The striking thing about her paintings is the amount of detail in them. In formal terms Maya Burman's paintings have a tapestry like effect where everything is subordinate to patterning, reminiscent of the French art nouveau tradition. The figures have an archetypal aura about them and their rendering in a clean decisive manner has its sources in Picasso's later classical period, his return after the war into an idyllic land inhabited by healthy and young boys of Athenian ideal. Maya Burman, is the daughter of the well-known painter Sakti Burman. She has had several exhibitions of her work in India, France, and the UK, and won several prizes.Ms. Burman lives in Paris but in her paintings she retires to a land of lyricism and allegory.
courtesy:gallerysoulflower.

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Fred Tomaselli

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
FRED TOMASELLI 
Study for Fish,
Medium: Photo collage, insects, acrylic, and resin on panel
Size: 30 x 24 in

Drawing upon art historical sources and Eastern and Western decorative traditions, Fred Tomaselli's works explode in mesmerizing patterns that appear to grow organically across his compositions. In the introduction to a 2003 essay on Tomaselli’s work in Parkett magazine, curator James Rondeau writes: “Over the course of the last ten years, Fred Tomaselli has established an international reputation for his meticulously crafted, richly detailed, deliriously beautiful works of both abstract and figurative art. His signature pieces are compelling, hybrid objects: ersatz, or maybe surrogate paintings, or tapestries, or quilts or mosaics. Their various components—both over-the-counter and controlled pharmaceuticals, street drugs, natural psychotropic substances and other organic matter, collaged elements from printed sources, and hand-painted ornament—are all suspended in gleaming layers of clear, polished, hard resin. Forms implode, explode, oscillate, buzz, loop, swirl, and spiral. Actual objects, photographic representations, and painted surfaces co-exist without hierarchy on and in a single picture plane. The combined effect, neither determinably real nor fully illusionistic, is at once electrifying and destabilizing.”
courtesy:jamescohan

#art #painting #photocollage #studyforfish #contemporaryartist#fredtomaselli #artvillecontemporary #artgallery

Anjolie Ela Menon

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Anjolie Ela Menon
Title: Shabnam
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Size: 24" x 32"
Year: 1996

Throughout her career as a painter, Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist. Menon's early canvases exhibited the varied influences of van Gogh, the Expressionists, Modigliani, Amrita Sher-Gil, and M. F. Husain. Mainly portraits, these paintings, according to the artist, “were dominated by flat areas of thick bright colour, with sharp outlines that were painted 'with the vigour and brashness of extreme youth'.” Menon admits that her work has undergone tremendous changes with every phase of her life and that as she has grown older, the narcissism of the early years has been transformed into nostalgia for the past.
courtesy:saffronart.

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Atul Dodiya

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Atul Dodiya
Title: Woman from Kabul
Year: 2001
Medium: Acrylic and marble dust on fabric
Size: 183 x 122 cm

Woman from Kabul is a work about living in Afghanistan at the turn of the new millennium. The artist recalls a country rich in history and resources that has collapsed under the weight of war. A figure of an elderly woman, stripped of most of her black burka, squats over a very decorative backdrop of wall paper. Her body is revealed as skin and bones, representative of the oppression and squalor that has become endemic of the city. Dodiya’s work is a potent reminder of the plight of the refugee.
courtesy:saatchigallery

#art #painting #figurative style #acrylic and marble dust#contemporary artist #atul dodiya #artvillecontemporary #art gallery

Subodh Gupta

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Subodh Gupta 
Title: Two Cows
Year:2003-2008

In his new works Gupta moves away from composite sculptures towards objects that possess an auratic quality. Readymade commodities experience transformations in scale and material, transmogrifying from factory-produced items into extraordinary artefacts. Employing such culturally loaded mediums as bronze, steel and marble, he presents subject matters whose symbolism varies from the universal to the enigmatic, and whose emotional impact ranges from menace to nostalgia. Appropriated icons from the canon of Western art share company with replicas of perishable, interchangeable goods associated with India, and items whose import is specific to the artist. Gupta's work treats unlike things with equal respect, embodying the clash between impersonal and individual experience in contemporary society. He tests the ways in which meaning and value are constructed, exploring art's capacity to withstand and channel the effects of expansion, displacement and translation.
courtesy: likeyouartnetwork

#art #sculpture #steel #utensils #south #contemporary artist # Artville contemporary #gallery

Bharti kher

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Bharti Kher 
Title: Right in the middle of it all (detail),
Year: 2008
Medium: Bindis on painted board
Size: 96 1/8 x 72 in

Bharti Kher is an Indian contemporary artist. Her work encompasses painting, sculpture and installation, often incorporating bindis, the popular forehead decoration worn by women in India, in her work.
In 1995 Kher was struck by a woman in a market wearing a ‘sperm’ bindi on her forehead. She asked the woman where it came from and went straight to the store. ‘I walked in and said, “give me all the serpent bindis you have,” which turned out to be a few packages that she stuck in her sketchbook. It turned out to be a supernova moment.’
Since then, Bindis have become Kher’s signature, operating not so much as a central motif as a language that the artist has invented to articulate and animate her themes. Bindis swarm over sculptures endowing them with a cryptic second skin. They are deployed in vivid chromatic constellations to form ‘paintings’ whose abstract patterns relate to the history of western art whilst seeming biological and essential — resembling cellular life viewed under a microscope or the intercourse of oceans and continents viewed from a satellite. Each dot or sperm-like squiggle can be understood as a person, their arrangement en mass mapping demographic movement, the migrations and miscegenation of teeming populaces. Kher created Symphony, an digital artwork about Bindi at 2012.
courtesy: wiki

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Vivek Vilasini

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Vivek Vilasini
Title: Between One Shore and Several Others (after Caravaggio`s "Supper at Emmaus") 
Medium: Archival print on Ilford Silk Fibre paper
Year: 2009
Size: 48 x 64 in 

Vilasini examines our existing social structures, adapting various expressions of cultural identity prevalent in society today to raise questions about the continually changing global scenario that every individual struggles to keep pace with. Vilasini’s large-format photographs evoke delicate ironies that impact existing ideologies, and influence the cultural and social consciousness of the viewer.
courtesy: saffronart

#art #photography #figurative style #contemporary artist #vivekvilasini #artville gallery

Sudarshan Shetty

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Sudarshan Shetty
No Title
(from "From here to there and back again")
Medium: brass, rubber pipe
Size: 45cm x 20cm x 8cm
Year: 2010

Sudarshan Shetty’s oeuvre has been defined mostly by large sculptural installations and multi-media works. Experimenting with innumerable materials and medium his installations or assemblages use quotidian objects juxtaposed in an attempt to open up new possibilities of meaning. Eschewing straightforward devices of narrative and explicit symbolism and displaying a fascination for the mechanics of toys and mechanized objects, Shetty infuses domestic, essentially inert objects with new life. The world of everyday contraptions, objects (especially those from middle class showcases, or shop-front show windows), continues to be reconfigured from moment to moment in his work)

He often uses simple, repetitive, mechanical movements and sound in kinetic works that explore aspects of temporality. Shetty says, “The ploy is to attract the viewer and then to disenchant them with the mechanical movement.” These mechanical pieces together with scenes of domestic interiority are conceived to create places of amusement or what Shetty refers to as a ‘fairground spectacle’. Things form a gaggle of actors, their movements become acts in a play.

“The idea is definitely to bring in the activity of a market place to the fore. This is also a ploy to bring in a passerby into this arena - to seduce with the familiar.”
courtesy: wiki

#art #sculpture #brass #pipe #contemporary artist#sudarshan shetty #artville gallery.

S.G.Vasudev

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
S. G. Vasudev
Title: He and Prison
Year: 1991
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 44 x 45 in 

Artist Note:
"I was deeply influenced by D. R. Bendre's poem, "Kalpa Vriksha Vrindavana," he says. "From then on I started reading some of the eminent Kannada writers and it's something that I have kept in touch with , one way or another, doing the book jackets for some of these writers. A.K. Ramanujan, Girish Karnad, Ananthamurthy, all these people used to come to Cholamandal. From Yayayti, I developed an interest inIndian myths and legends, which started appearing in my work. But it was the idea of the Vriksha, the Tree of Life, that slowly started becoming very important to me. It was a powerful concept that has been visualized in almost every other culture that you can think of, in some way or another. Even an artist like Mondarin was inspired by looking at the branches of a tree."
courtesy:saffronart

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Rajan.M.Krishnan

Artville Contemporary Artist of The Day 
Rajan M. Krishnan
Constellation
mosaic of six small works

Rajan Krishnan’s ‘Constellation’ is a mosaic of six small works, each a direct and straightforward narrative on Kerala. Together the six are like six chapters of a novel telling a story of his State.
Rajan of late has reverted to his early days when he used to paint miniatures, the smallest being a stamp-size work (2003). He then moved on to large canvases and has currently reverted to work on small dimensions. “I like to explore spaces,” is his refrain. In Constellation, he says that the idea was to create a large space using small works. Each work engages with a local motif, something that Rajan has consistently done.
courtesy: thehindu

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Ved Prakash Gupta

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Ved Prakash Gupta 
Title: Plight of Democracy 
Medium: Painted Fibre glass 

Gupta’s sculptural works in fiberglass use a tangible language to convey what the artist thinks of the socio-economic hierarchies prevalent in society today. His miniature businessmen, and the amphibians and mammals he portrays in rich, bold colors, illustrate both the artist’s wit as well as his sarcasm.
courtesy: saffronart

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G R Iranna

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
G R Iranna
Title: The birth of blindness
Medium: Fibreglass and cloth
Size: 27x26x42 inches, 10 figures

G. R. Iranna : I need to take references for the exactitude of the visual form. Like the folds on the cloth, posture, colour etc which I may change in the process of painting. When you have chosen it, it becomes yours.

On the internet I had seen a picture like this with everyone sitting steady and smiling for an arranged photograph, which is quite unreal in itself. That is what attracted me.

It is important that the whole event unfolds like a narrative before me. So I realized that in the background I needed the palanquin to give it a festive ambiance and a tiger jumping from behind suggesting action. I wanted celebration and thrill along with a tinge of cultural value- like a theatre unfolding.

I know the smile, the uniform, the tiger and the palanquin all appear like disunited elements. So, one stages them together to create one’s own story. The emotion and the involvement that evolve from this are more important.
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Upendranath.T.R

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Upendranath .T.R
Untitled
painting 
Medium : paper collage on paper 
Size: 71 x 55in
Year: 2009

The collages of Upendranath T.R exemplify a methodical madness. Perhaps, all those works that have been done in the genre of collage have a methodical madness in them. Whether they belong to the Cubist scheme of collages or the surrealist versions, the artists have taken a great care in expressing their madness in a methodical way. The reason for the adherence to methods originates from the characteristics of the very medium. A collage is not possible if there is no methodical selective process. Translating creativity into the terms of madness could be an old way or an idealistic way of looking at it. However, the selection process of the constituent elements in making a collage demands a certain kind of scheme from the artist.

Upendranath’s method comes from his non-academic background. Having no training in art from any art college, the artist recognizes his engagement with collage as an engagement with the ‘fragments’. This could be, for him, the fragmented knowledge of the human beings in general or his own fragmented understanding of the world in particular. Whatever be the case, collages involve the notions of fragmentation and integration. In order to integrate an idea or an image within the field of production, the artist needs to go through a deliberate process of fragmenting; in the mundane terms, selecting, cutting and making further selections from the cut forms. In integration, the frantic nature of this selection, a splurging in/with the available, transforms into a much more resolved arena of articulation and mediation.

There are two worlds in Upendranath’s collages; one, a world that is closed therefore claustrophobic, the other one is with flexible boundaries. Both these worlds are inhabited by the silhouettes of certain characters created by the artist. They move from one world to the other, as if they were enacting a Grecian Classic. The enactment of certain gestures attributes these characters with identities. With the perspective projections of culture on to them, one could discern the figures as Adam, Eve- the enduring samples of origin and chaos- and the contemporary human being. They are denuded in their primal innocence and are provided only with sharp contours of existence.

The brownish and sepia toned paper pieces cut and pasted as the background, with the clear intention to emulate a painterly feel in more than one ways represent a closed world in Upendranath’s works. The human beings are caught in this dark deluge of happenings. Meanwhile, in the open world, the blue dominates. Blue that simulates the feeling of depths and heights become windows to an open world. There is a sense of sublime in them. The dark sublime of his claustrophobic world is equally ominous.

Considering the early works of Upendranath, one could not avoid reading a bit of politics into his works. This artist with a considerable amount of socio-cultural awareness produces a field of criticality, where he himself critiques what he deems to be politically incorrect and simultaneously participates in the same happenings as a person afflicted by dementia. However, it should not be taken as the gradual collapsing of the cognitive faculties of the artist as a critic, instead, it should be seen as a conscious effort to participate in order to elucidate the entrapment of the contemporary human being into the situations that he himself participates to produce.

When seen against this backdrop of criticality, Upendranath’s works are miniature supermarkets, where generation of desire and selection of the desired could happen simultaneously. A simple focal adjustment turns a supermarket display into an abstract form of colours and in the same way, the empowerment of human beings through the freedom of choice, by a simple focal adjustment could be viewed as systematic erosion of ‘self-will’ that leaves the ‘selectors’ totally disempowered. Upendranath deals with this ambiguous relationship between empowerment and disempowerment of human beings through socio-cultural modifications and the very technique of collage making both metaphorically and formally emulates this ambiguity.
courtesy:saffronart

#art #painting #collage #justaposition #contemporary artist#upendranath t r #artville gallery

Hema Upadhyay

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Hema Upadhyay
Title: New Stories Must Be Imagined 
Medium: Gouache, Dry Pastels, colour cut outs on Arches paper
Size: 22 x 30 in
Year: 2012 

Artist note:
"I like to tell any stories, whether real or imaginative. These are even reflections of one's phobias, shortcomings. The recurring theme in my work is autobiographical. In addition, it is the cathartic factor that becomes the reason to take these objects and convert their ability. Yes…my work is cathartic in process."
courtesy: saffronart

#art #painting #gouche #dry pastels #contemporary artist#hema upadhyay #artville gallery

Rameshwar Broota

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Rameshwar Broota
Title: Same old Story
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 60" x 70"
Year: 1970

Since the beginning of his career Broota has been deeply involved in the contemporary human situation that degrades individuals and pollutes relationship between them on the social plane. His early oil paintings, showing, 'humanized' gorillas, were corrosively satirical and showed the artist's concern for the socio-moral being of man. Over the decades, though not a prolific painter, Broota evolved a technique of painting mostly in monochrome: On the canvas surface, usually painted in matte black, he works with a sharp, thin blade to bring in light and forms, exposing the white surface below, creating deep spatial dimensions. In this phase he focuses on monumental humans, wounded, hardened and somehow dehumanized. In some paintings he shows man against a forbidding wall on which appear illegible hieroglyphics, suggesting the inscrutable destiny of man. His highly personalized technique less painterly in application of paint, has the quality of a graphic print.
courtesy: contemporaryindianart.

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