Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Ritu Kamath Title: Tinkerbellsize: 4' x 4'Medium: acrylic on canvas
Ritu Kamath has been working on varied themes for the past few years yet the underlying message is 'the social focus' which predominates. She has evolved as a sensitive artist as she treads along her path , expressing joys and pain of one who chooses to dream, to experience and to render. Ritu has traversed a varied field from floral dreams to biting satire.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Vivek VilasiniTitle: Between One Shore and Several Others (after Pieter Bruegel`s "Blind Leading the Blind")Medium: Archival print on Ilford Silk Fibre paperYear: 2009Size: 48 x 73 in
In his work 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.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Gigi Scaria Title: Fine balanceMedium: water color on paperSize: 20 x 32 inches
Gigi Scaria’s art practice focuses on rapid transformation of cityscapes to investigate and the critique political, economic and geographical territories and the realities of present-day Indian mega-cities.
Concerned with global impacts on personal/private and social/public spaces, Scaria analyses urban architecture to investigate the chaotic demolition and ruthless displacement throughout poor urban areas. Scaria comments on global markets subsuming national and social territories with personal, ironic responses to these transformations.
Described as an ‘archaeologist of urban spaces’, Scaria investigates the layers of identity, nationhood and ethnic issues hidden within communities and how these relate to people’s built environments, social prejudice and status.
The abstracted structures that Scaria imagines and manufactures in the photographs shown here reconfigure ideas of unmitigated urban construction and sprawl of New Delhi, Scaria’s local environment.
Gigi Scaria sees his new work Wind chime as a simultaneous visualisation of the past, present and future. Buildings from New Delhi were photographed, then re-imagined and recreated from Taranaki aluminium and suspended, cyclically turning underneath a cog-like structure. Scaria says these architectural structures act as the archetype of memories of home, spaces in our minds and of social hierarchies and inequalities. In the context of urban development, human existence can attain a state of permanent migration. For the artist, this wind chime resonates with a permanent tussle of the permanence and impermanence of personal and social space.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Shruthi Nelson Untitled Medium: Mixed media on acid-free paper & mirror Size: 30 x 22 in
This multi-faceted artist apart from experimented with sculpting and fashion design has handled various media with equal ease, watercolors on paper or acrylic on canvas and acrylic on garments. Indeed, the artist loves to experiment; she continuously explores and innovates, and does not follow a particular pattern or set into a mould. She has dabbled in textile designing as well, marking her impatience with the uniform rectangular flatness of the canvas and the passion to craft something that encases the human body.
She often works on several paintings at once, sometimes in different mediums. She doesn’t stop at painting, and expresses herself by pasting cutouts of animal figures over painted surfaces, burning paper, puncturing the surface in neat circles, and sticking sequins. Shruti Nelson’s paintings are infused with a boundless energy as she pours her heart out into her paintings. She uses layers and layers of colors, whether they are acrylic on canvas or the sensitive medium of watercolors on paper. Her hold over watercolors is especially remarkable.
She explores and innovates, and portrays her dreams with renewed zest. Her signature style is versatile: it contains her essence, and yet, is not repetitive. For this particular exhibition, she chose animals as a theme. This is perhaps not surprising considering the fact that she was a student of Zoology in Baroda. She has studied the psychology of animals and has closely observed wildlife.
Repetition - a favorite trope that the artist often employs - sees to it that they are customized into spaces that are far removed from their native Serengeti Plain. The humans that cohabit or share these spaces with the animals are from the world of glamour. The artist merges the real-life scenario with her imagination so that a viewer intrudes a world of familiar creatures placed in an unfamiliar setting. The latter is mesmerized by the fantasyland amidst the riot of imagery and the colors. The surface is worked in multiple layers and the teeming vibrancy of the creatures; drawn, painted, scribbled and embedded in it. Curiously, she treats the mount and the frames as surface, applying colors and sequins on them.
She works straight on the canvas with no preparatory drawings, filling up spaces with her drawings. She scribbles, superimposes, cuts and then drowns her images in broad swathes of color washes and just when the painting is on the verge of collapse under the ensuing chaos she sets about to rescue them. In fact, the artist 'identifies' with these characters subliminally. A desire to walk into the looking glass and emerge transformed in her personalized wonderland is unmistakable. She gives a vent to desire and intimate fantasies through her creations.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Rekha RodwittiyaTitle: Time Zones: Home and AwayYear: 1999Medium: Acrylic and oil on canvasSize: 69.5 x 46 in
Rekha Rodwittiya's work describes complex issues of life and living, of alienation and belonging, of discrimination and acceptance, of accord and discord. It is of paramount importance to this sensitive artist to react pragmatically to socio-political attitudes that surround her. Her work reflects her sensitivity towards socio-political attitudes along with the reflections from her past.
She does not treat art, and life in isolation and deems it necessary to experience life to paint. Her fervent activity of painting is a struggle for her own rightful existence. The artist explains to say, "I go through all the terror and agony of stepping into an 'unknown'." Her images are a byproduct of her thoughts and emotions, her readings, observations, beliefs, values and vast compilation of past experiences.
The artist draws on a heritage of elemental imagery, tempered by psychological insights, portraying women through the prism of personal experience and day-to-day realities. As she has noted: "Caught within the intricacies of adult angst where the undercurrent of pain was recognized though not fully understood by me, the drawn or constructed image became very early a means of deciphering all that I accumulated from observing....My sense of empathy with the drawn image was that it offered a physicality, and established a concretizing of the otherwise intangible. It became a method, as I perceive it in retrospect, of creating a dialogue that gave meaning to a psychological realm."
Born in Bangalore in 1958, Rekha Rodwittiya completed her graduation from The Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda in 1981. She then received the Inlaks scholarship for her M.A. in Painting from Royal College of Art, London in 1984. In 1988-89 she was invited as guest artist to the Konsthogskolan, Stockholm and was also invited to deliver series of lectures on Indian Art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts Grenoble and Castello de Rivoli, Torino in 1991. She did a short stint at the Fullam Institute on Film and Video, and was conferred the Staff Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation Asian Cultural Council to work in the U.S. in 1990.
Rodwittiya has always been concerned with the representation of the female figure in her quest to find the vocabulary to represent women without objectifying them, without allowing the viewer to play the role of voyeur. Rodwittiya represents large clothed Gauginesque women as the archetypal figure in their daily work rituals, dwarfing their tools and objects that surround them, in a celebration of the female protagonist.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Seema kohliMedium: Mix Media Size: 24x24 inYear: 2012
Seema Kohli's works reveal a claiming of feminine subjectivities, an altered concept of feminine sexuality. Her works bring into focus a woman's physical attributes, her intellect, thought, dreams and realities. There is a celebration of beauty, sensuality and intimacy in her art.
Seema's most recent thematic engagement has been that of the 'Hiranyagarbha', that evolved from a mantra of the Yajur Veda, reflecting the quiet and subtle beauty of constant procreation. All the works are a prayer to the eternal self - a way of meditation. These works are spiritual but not religious, exploring with them, a poetically elegant and richly sensuous female form.
The 'Golden Womb' is a celebration through which the supremacy of a female is established and how she procreates and keeps the journey of life, forever on. Her work is symbolic of the progress and recycling of thought processes in the human mind, which is portrayed as calmer, more mature and serene both in terms of the palette and the form. All her works are a gesture of the divine, a prayer to the eternal self, a way of meditation.
Her work validates in different mediums in the past eighteen years, some constant, being the search for the self, while other being an extension of her conceptual and creative growth as an artist and she works in both small and large formats with layers of drawings and colors. Seema has recently been facilitated by Lalit Kala Akademi for being an achiever as a woman in Contemporary Indian Art. She lives and works from her studio in Delhi.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Shibu Natesan
Title: Capturedalive
Medium:Oil On Canvas
In large-scale paintings, Shibu Natesan combines media images with
natural vistas that typically include wild animals. Using unexpected
combinations and sources, Natesan
confronts the viewer with symbols that are vaguely familiar on their
own, yet in juxtaposition to each other evade direct connections to the
real world. Familiar images are combined with bold, colorful palettes to
enhance Natesan’s unique, collage-like compilations – the result is a
mixture of hyper-realism and fantasy.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Jayanth Manda
Title: The Doll House
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Size: 48x50 in
Jayanth Manda a professional painter - his paintings depict the specific specimens of major trends and traditions in Indian contemporary cultural confluence. They are visual embodiments of his emotional experience. They communicate through the medium of color and form, the predominant prevailing climate and cultural cross currents in the present art scenario. The skillful handling of the medium to explicitly express his emotional experience (the human craving conveyed in his paintings leave an indelible imprint on the minds of the viewer.
His paintings appeal the connoisseurs of creative art. Their appreciation and patronage in promoting the cultural heritage of Indian contemporary art will provide the necessary spirit, practice and achieve qualitative universal appeal.
As a practicing artist, he believes that the principal means of visual art is communicating perhaps mainly ideas that are not inherently pictorial under the colorful costumes of contemporary society there exists the same humanity that now needs creative expression in order to preserve our cultural heritage for the future generation.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Jitish KallatTitle: Untitled (Eclipse) 3Year: 2007Medium: Acrylic on canvas, triptychSize: 274 x 518 cm
Kallat’s huge triptych Untitled (Eclipse) 3, rays of sunshine emanate from the background; the grand radiance that forms the backdrop for the portraits is in sharp contrast to the caricaturesque rendition of the urban detritus brimming out of the unkempt locks of the children. Thus above their forehead are rendered a thousand colliding stories; perhaps the complex narrative of 18 million people living on an island of 600 square kilometers that is Mumbai.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Jatin Das
Title: Man-Woman
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 103" x 63"
Year: 1982
Jatin Das, one of the most prolific figurative painters, is also a graphic artist, sculptor, muralist and a poet.A tirelessly innovative explorer of dynamic human figures in terms of linear structuration and breezy brushwork, Jatin Das focuses mainly on man-woman relationships in varying moments of crises, contacts, revelation, and emotional tension. There is a monumentality in his treatment of human forms, which is retained even when the forms are energized by way of rhythmic discontinuities of color-planes and rushing lines. A sensitive colorist who refuses to treat his imagery in 3-D volumes, Jatin charges his palette with emotional nuances.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Kurchi Dasgupta Medium: Oil PaintingSize:Size: 32.3 x 42.1 inAbout Kurchi Dasgupta
I grew up in the intensely intellectual environment of Calcutta. My parents' active participation in the arts and the city's postcolonial cultural ferment gave a hands-on crash course that I took by default. The formal degree was taken in Comparative Literature, though. I have been writing extensively on art and that's reflected in my artworks, which are conceptual in nature even when restricted to the guise of paintings. Each is an exploration into whatever issue was bothering me most at that moment. The visual touch-points are usually sourced from random/incisive searches on the internet - because how the internet shapes and reflects us as a species interests me a lot. I have headed publishing ventures, been CEO of the Satyajit Ray Society, translated modern Bengali classics in the past. I live in Kathmandu now. And try and raise relevant questions through my work.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Devajyoti Ray
Medium: Acrylic Painting
Size: 48 x 60 in
Born: 1974, IndiaRay is credited with the begining of a new style of Art in India. It is called Pseudorealism. It involves use of offbeat colours that do not correspond to the real world. Yet the scenes created in the paintings look real and comprehendible. Ray's works have been appreciated by the Indian Press and Art media very extensively and has been described variously as the most promising among the new generation of artists in India. The central feature of Ray's art is their apparent simlicity and easy comprehendibility. A travelling artist, Ray has learnt his craft from various associations, craftsmen, fine artists and practitioners. His style, a modernised version of these myriad Indian art forms thus emphasise the philosophy that art has to be comprehendible and close to the life of a common man. Yet one can also identify subtle commentary, satire and humor in his otherwise simplistic renditionsRay's subjects are all taken from the lives of regular men and women in India. Ray is widely popular among the art community and has himself written on Indian art, and other artists. The Pseudorealist Art form of Devajyoti Ray as been described in popular media as "Everything that is India, Everything that is 21st Century and Everything that is Art"
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Baiju ParthanTitle: Engineered FruitYear: 2002Medium: Oil on canvasSize: 48 x 48 in
With an eclectic academic background in engineering, botany, hardware technology, comparative mythology, painting, art history and philosophy, Baiju Parthan's artistic vocabulary is anything but straightforward. Further complicating his idiom is the fact that the artist has always been fascinated by the subtleties of art making, and the various ways in which a work of art can engage and hold the viewer's attention. Consequently, Parthan's works resemble composite puzzles, riddled with references from various religious traditions, mythologies, art histories and political philosophies, and crammed with layers of meaning for the viewer to unpack and digest.
Here, the artist uses the issue of genetically modified or 'engineered' food to approach and interrogate the complex intersections between technology and evolution, reality and myth. In this canvas, which contrasts the image of a bar-coded pear with those of an early primate and the artist's own face in the background, "The affirmation of wonder at technocratic miracles is woven with an ironic critique of consumerist society and its knowledge monopolists, who would even patent nature and subject the quest for the Divine to the laws of the market. The conventional binary of reality and magic collapses: the laws of Newtonian mechanics, the emancipatory rule-bending of sorcery, the patterns of myth, and the deceptive, mercurial realities of contemporary technology intersect here, to produce a world governed by paradox and instability" (Ranjit Hoskote, "Amalgam of text and image", The Hindu, December 15, 2002).
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Fang Lijun
Title: Mary
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 400x525cm
One of the leading proponents of the early 1990s Cynical Realist movement, Fang Lijun’s work encapsulates the disillusionment of China’s youth; a generation defined by the events at Tiananmen Square and China’s internal domestic policies. Constructed around loose narratives Fang’s images personalise sentiments of disenchantment, angst, and rebellion; his fictional suggestions conveyed through his illustrative style and re-occurring bald-headed protagonist.
Fang’s practice exhibits a rarefied technical skill rigorously studied through his Social Realist training; his combination of this aesthetic with references to contemporary comics, folk art, and dynastic painting characterise a national identity in flux, distilling a position of integrity from tradition and the modern world.
Fang’s monumental sized prints revive the ancient Asian practice of woodblock printing -- a complicated and exacting process of carving a ‘negative’ image into a panel, coating the surface in ink, and impressing the image onto paper; each different colour and tone requires a separate plate and order of printing. Due to their immense scale, Fang’s images are composed on several adjoined scrolls; the elongated strips create both an emotive fragmenting of the image, and create a reference to memory and historical testimony. Thematically, each of these prints describe the plight of the individual against the ‘mass’, creating a spiritual contemplation of solitude the quest for personal probity in the face of adversity.
Fang’s painting 30th Mary evokes these same sentiments with a humorous effect. Reminiscent of European church ceiling paintings, Fang portrays an order of ascendancy of same-same kewpie figures, each based on his own image. Executed with painstaking hyper-realism, the clouds formulate as a tempestuous funnel rather than a portal of billowing promise. Contrasted with the kitsch palette and pop rendering of the grotesque cherubs, Fang’s painting approaches the sanctity of ideological assurance with an empathetic cynicism.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Jane Alexander Title: Butcher BoysMedium: Reinforced plastere, oil, paint, animal bone, horns, wooodSize: 501/2x84x35 in
The Butcher Boys is a plaster sculpture by South African artist Jane Alexander. The work consists of three lifesize humanoid beasts with powdery skin, black eyes, broken horns, and no mouths sitting on a bench. The beasts are devoid of their outside senses - their ears are nothing more than deep gorges in their heads and their mouths are missing, appearing to be covered with thick roughened skin. The artwork represents the brutal dehumanizing forces of Apartheid in South Africa. The animal parts show how people stripped themselves of their humanity and put themselves above others, thinking they were better. The sculpture means it is and should only be animals that would be so cruel to each other and not humans.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Anish Kapoor Title: 'Tall Tree and the Eye' Medium: Stainless Steel Size: 13x5x5 metersYear: 2009
When asked if engagement with people and places is the key to successful public art, Kapoor said,
“ I’m thinking about the mythical wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel. It’s as if the collective will comes up with something that has resonance on an individual level and so becomes mythic. I can claim to take that as a model for a way of thinking. Art can do it, and I’m going to have a damn good go. I want to occupy the territory, but the territory is an idea and a way of thinking as much as a context that generates objects.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Jasper johnsTitle: zero - nine Medium: Mix media Johns is best known for his painting Flag (1954–55), which he painted after having a dream of the American flag. His work is often described as a Neo-Dadaist, as opposed to pop art, even though his subject matter often includes images and objects from popular culture. Still, many compilations on pop art include Jasper Johns as a pop artist because of his artistic use of classical iconography.
Early works were composed using simple schema such as flags, maps, targets, letters and numbers. Johns' treatment of the surface is often lush and painterly; he is famous for incorporating such media as encaustic and plaster relief in his paintings. Johns played with and presented opposites, contradictions, paradoxes, and ironies, much like Marcel Duchamp (who was associated with the Dada movement). Johns also produces intaglio prints, sculptures and lithographs with similar motifs.
Johns' breakthrough move, which was to inform much later work by others, was to appropriate popular iconography for painting, thus allowing a set of familiar associations to answer the need for subject. Though the Abstract Expressionists disdained subject matter, it could be argued that in the end, they had simply changed subjects. Johns neutralized the subject, so that something like a pure painted surface could declare itself. For twenty years after Johns painted Flag, the surface could suffice – for example, in Andy Warhol's silkscreens, or in Robert Irwin's illuminated ambient works.
Abstract Expressionist figures like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning subscribed to the concept of a macho "artist hero," and their paintings are indexical in that they stand effectively as a signature on canvas. In contrast, Neo-Dadaists like Johns and Rauschenberg seemed preoccupied with a lessening of the reliance of their art on indexical qualities, seeking instead to create meaning solely through the use of conventional symbols. Some have interpreted this as a rejection of the hallowed individualism of the Abstract Expressionists. Their works also imply symbols existing outside of any referential context. Johns' Flag, for instance, is primarily a visual object, divorced from its symbolic connotations and reduced to something in-itself.
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