Chinthan Upadyay

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Chinthan Upadyay 
Untitled
Medium: Digital Print On Canvas
Size: 68" X 45"

The subject of Upadhyay’s work is often babies, animated and stylized against a bold solid background, they are stripped of the simplicity of their vulnerable nature. From blank slate to something slightly more affected, the imagery of culture is impressed upon them visually in tattoo like designs.

The artist began as a painter, but now creates sculptures and installations of which he paints the surface. His most popular sculpture project is perhaps the “Pet Shop” project, which is an ongoing production of a “model baby” for every season. It’s a social critique on consumer society; in a similar vein a solo exhibition of Upadhyay’s at Nagpal Gallery, Mumbai was provocatively named Designer Babies. Transforming painting and sculpture into a pop art hybrid, the painted imagery is often sourced from traditional Indian miniature painting, so on the whole the pieces tend to look forward and look back at the same time.
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Birendra Pani

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Birendra Pani
Title: Seeing the Universe in Upside Down
Year: 2006
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 66 x 42 in

Birendra Pani's fresh perspective and contemporary canvases were displayed at the show on kitsch that was held at Gallery Espace in New Delhi. His loud and vivid images use colours like green and shocking pink unashamedly, and his nudes, far removed from traditional ideas, rather than revealing of clandestine activities and provoking corporeal or sensual excitement in the viewer, portray very private and personal instances in the subjects' lives. In other works the artist chooses ordinary everyday words and then attempts to reveal all their private meanings and associations on the canvas with his brush. 
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Chintan Upadhyay

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Chintan Upadhyay
Title: Car Garden, 
Year: 2012
Medium: Oil, Acrylic, on canvas.
size: 60 х 84 in.

"Car Garden" (2012) is one of the most recent, stunning and important of large-scale oil and acrylic paintings by famed multi-media Contemporary Indian artist Chintan Updhyay and is an important example of his work that deals with the new sense of wealth, empowerment and independence of his generation in India and its relationship to traditional India and nature. Here a surreal yet completely sublime image of a lush green tree and denizens of colorful flowers in full bloom grown from the interior of a convertible red sports car. Painted against a black flat background here the conflation of old and new India, as well as nature and culture, are unabashedly integrated in a manner that is sublime, subversive and ironic all at the same time, defining features of Chintan's oeuvre. The intense the visual overload of this narrative underscores the ever expanding role of consumerist media and advertising in India, that assaults the viewer with images of luxury goods, and material desires.
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Ravikumar Kashi

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Ravikumar Kashi
Title: THINKING OF YOU
Year: 2006
Medium: Cast cotton rag pulp, ink & photo copy transfer 
Size: 11 x 18 in

‘Ravikumar Kashi’s deconstruction of familiar images demands the rethinking of representation. It further stresses the ambivalence or hybridity that characterises the site of juxtaposition: a liminal space in which different meanings are articulated and may also take on imagined constructions. In fact meaning is formed in between or in excess of the sum of its parts. In this sense the boundary becomes the place where something new begins. In Ravikumar Kashi’s work it becomes the place that mediates relative meanings and a site where new meanings come into existence…

Ravikumar’s primary concern has always been the production of meaning and the ways in which images become imbued with meanings… At all times there is a deliberately ambiguous combination of original and appropriated imagery. The juxtapositions of these vignettes evoke filmic montage in which visual elements are arranged to produce meanings not otherwise present in individual images. Subverting the recognizable, and allowing the familiar to become strange through odd juxtapositions, details and illogical compositions… but ultimately leave the viewer to develop meaning out of the layered images and disjunctions…
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Prajakta Palav Aher

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Prajakta Palav Aher
Title: Solo II
Year: 2007
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 60 x 84 in 

Prajakta Palav Aher paints every detail from a multitude of photographic references that she has archived over the years. The candid medium of photography allows her to unpretentiously penetrate the many aspects of middle class life in India, and capture its varied truths.

Her works in acrylic on canvas depict images from her own background and reflect the insecurities and complexities of middle class life. With great skill and photographic perfection Aher paints pictures of fake plastic flowers adorning doors and staircases; newspaper stacks lying behind wooden cabinets; suitcases and bags perched on top of the cupboard; torn papers and documents covered in plastic sheets filling old wall units; and the iconic image of Lord Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, traveling the routes of an everyday commuter.

Although the artist’s portrayals are realistic, they do not come across as documentaries but instead, allow the viewer to realize the disposition of the situations, and find humour in them.
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Surendran Nair

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Surendran Nair
Title:NETI, NETI: THE DOCTRINE OF THE FOREST (Cuckoonebulopolis),
Year: 2009
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 71 x 47 inches

The artist, well known internationally, uses a mixture of traditional and contemporary imagery, including cinema posters and political graffiti, in his work. His paintings can be, in turn, mischievous, ironic and quizzical as they inject a gentle surrealism into prevailing notions of reality. As if recycling traditions from a cultural encyclopaedia, he meticulously constructs a web of images - mythic, modern, classical and mundane - growing out of the body of cosmic man.

In his body of his work titled 'Corollary mythologies', Nair weaves together visual strands from both Indian and Western art and mythology to create new and idiosyncratic icons. By intentionally leaving the works open to interpretation from multiple viewpoints, he nurtures a dialogue on crucial issues for the future in India concerning the community and the individual.

According to the artist, this particular series is about belonging and dissent. He notes: "I imagine it to have political undertones, however subtle, which is informed of History, mythology, real and imaginary events. Art history, notions of tradition and identity and its relationship with modernity, of language, sexuality, politics, religious and other faiths etc. Without emphasizing any of these in particular, I address these issues simultaneously. Sometimes rendered sentimentally, literally, cryptically or otherwise metaphorically oblique, they are both detached and reflective and at times often with a mischievous gaze, making innocent jokes, and at other times being ironical and quizzical too."
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Sathyanand Mohan

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Sathyanand Mohan,
Title: Phase Space,
Year: 2013, 
Medium: acrylic on canvas,
Size: 72 x 72 in

Through his works Mohan shares with his viewers several aspects of his life. He uses biting wit to display these events in a manner that intrigues his audience, drawing their attention to the narrative that lies within the imagery. His canvases maybe compared to a shot in a film or a page out of a book – there always seems to be something that happened before, and something waiting to happen after. Recently, the artist has turned to abstract photography, exploring signs and forms rather than narrative.
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J.M.S.Mani

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
JMS.Mani
Tittle: BADAMI PEOPLE
Size: 24 X 48 inches
Medium: OIL ON CANVAS 

"The historical location of Badami, as well as the innocence of the people there, who I find very hardworking and honest in all their ways, inspire me to capture their simplicity through my paintings." The simple, rustic folk of the Deccan Plateau in South India, with strong Dravidian (an ancient race in South India) features, are the subjects of J.M.S. Mani's paintings. His art is an amalgamation of Indian culture with Occidental Western formalism. His figures are modeled in three-dimensional form, with bold brushwork, similar in style to those of the impressionists. Mani chooses to depict his characters, the balloon seller, the women with a rooster, in a simple and uncluttered manner. They narrate an untold tale; much like the famous "Dancing Girl" of the ancient Mohenjodaran civilization of the Indus Valley; a tale that tells of the origins of an entire race. Though seemingly simple, Mani's images too, are representative of an entire civilization. The pulsating colours in his paintings offset the dark skin of his characters, creating a sense of drama in his compositions. And it is his colours and compositions which are expressive, rather than the figures themselves. The figures appear to have been frozen within the canvas, and their beauty and grace is enhanced by the restricted use of gestures and expressions.
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Ranbir Singh kaleka

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Ranbir Singh kaleka
Title: Family 1
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 80 1/2 x 85 1/4 in

Kaleka’s paintings, both on paper and canvas, in OILS as well as mixed media, are almost surrealist in their treatment of scenes from everyday life. The lines are suggested, rather than sharply traced, and the colours almost deliberately restrained. Kaleka’s interest in cinema also lead to the advent of his video art, where he explores the effects of combining the physicality of the painted image with an image made out of light. The result is a ‘sort of hyperimage’, which achieves an intensity and subtlety of colour, and imbues the static with a sense of movement through the superimposition of sound and movement. The artist’s movement into video art has been an essential endeavor for his further exploration of the ‘psychological event’, an event that can only take place outside the physical confines of the frame of the painting, through the usage of light to create the image and the subsequent aura of the image. Kaleka has also created and exhibited photographs and installations.
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Rajendra Kapse

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Rajendra Kapse
Untitled
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size:30 in x 30 in 

"My methods and intentions are most important for my work. Though representational in nature it only retains some specific, but ambiguous qualities in representational forms of art practice as seen throughout history".

Rajendra Kapse hails from a small town called Chandrapur (East of Maharashtra) and came to Mumbai to study art. It is here that he grew and developed and he feels that this is an important aspect that has affected him as an artist. My work deals with social concerns, and stands as a critique to the present chaos around us - As our contemporary culture lives with all kinds of contradictions and extremes.

Basically a Painter, he is also inclined to work in different forms and mediums and open for new methods, techniques and concerns. With a consciousness and awareness of Indian and Western contemporary Art Forms, his work draw few parallels, and moves towards / from personal subjective interpretations and perceptions - To a more interactive plinth. Use of references from established and already famous artists work their usage of language and his ways of using / fragmenting / distorting / constructing a new construct, is the way he can at the moment describe his work. "Borrowing and transforming is my method - I believe I`ve recognized in time, keeping my integrity intact."
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Vibha Galhotra

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Vibha Galhotra
Neo-camouflage
Medium: Digital print on Hahnemuhle photorag archival paper
Year: 2006
Size: 22 x 32.5 in | 55.9 x 82.6 cm
Category: Photography

The artist works with a variety of media, ranging from print-making to painting, animation videos and site-specific installations. As she explains, "The medium isn't important to me. It's about conveying the message".

Galhotra's work frequently addresses issues of urbanization, exploring the various relationships between city and citizen. Often, the human figure seamlessly blends into wider cityscapes, almost as if the city was an engulfing protagonist.
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Riyas Komu

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Riyas Komu 
Title: Woman Footballer 
Medium: Oil on Canvas 
Size: 78 x 60 in

Riyas Komu produces politically charged paintings, sculptures and installations that channel difficult subjects including religion and identity. He grew up in Kerala, where both his father and uncle were politicians and subsequently influenced his world view—planting the drive to tackle and critique government policy and affairs. Perhaps best known for his portraiture, he captures extreme emotions, their intensity understood to be fuelled by the plights of contemporary India. The compositions are always cropped tightly around the face, lest we pay attention to anything but the human subject and the physicality of socio-political inequalities, or of war or of dissolute poverty. Recently, he has focused on several football-related projects, which includes a large scale sculpture installation at the Pompitue Centre in Paris in 2010 and a series of portraits of Indian National Team soccer players.
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Ranjan Krishnan

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Rajan Krishnan
Title: BIRD FROM THE GROVE BY THE RIVER
Year: 2011
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 84 x 60 in.

Rajan Krishnan`s art is very sensitive to his immediate natural environment. The fields and villages of the Kerala of his youth play the role of `principal protagonist` in most of his works, expressing his deepest aesthetic proclivities. His early works are slightly sentimental in their depiction of childhood memories of home, but this phase seems to have given way to a more assertive cynicism that unflinchingly records the sudden and sweeping changes wrought on the landscapes he has known and loved.
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Shadi Ghadirian

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Shadi Ghadirian
Medium : Photography 

Ghadirian’s “Like Everyday Series” was created from the plethora of domestic gifts she received after her wedding to fellow photographer, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh. Each of the photographs depicts a figure draped in patterned fabric in place of the typical Iranian chador. However, instead of a face, each figure has a common household item such as an iron, a tea cup, a broom, a pot or a pan.

Ghadirian uses these ordinary kitchen utensils as a readymade pun. Through a simple recontextualisation she exaggerates female typecasts in a hilarious way. Like a sieve-faced wife representing a woman who’s all mouth: a neighbourhood gossip, endlessly broadcasting like a loud speaker or a grater-faced wife, the dreaded prototype of mother-in-law jokes everywhere, all absurdly reducing identities to stereotypes.

Ghadirian’s work is not only linked to her identity as a Muslim woman living in Iran. It deals with issues relevant to women living all over the world. The daily repetitive routine to which many women find themselves consigned and by which many women are defined.
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Reena Saini Kallat

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Reena Saini Kallat
Untitled (Map/Drawing) detail
Year: 2011
Medium: electric wires and fittings, 10 min audio loop

The flows and movements of labour migrants across the world have resulted in cultural exchanges not to mention the social and economic implications. It has not only allowed us to free cultural identities from a physical place but see us all as entwined in a symbolic web as it were. When I was asked to conceive of a wall work for the Konsthall during the Goteborg International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2011, keeping the curatorial premise in mind, I decided to work with electric wires to form the drawing that will trace patterns of movement of migrants globally, where multitude of actors interact without knowledge of the overall situation. I think of this work as a drawing project, made with wires that essentially transmit energy and information from one place to another. It is said that the electricity is the same in electrical equipment but the expression of electricity differs from one appliance to the next. By changing the instrument of this quasi-cartographic drawing from a pencil line to a wire, I’m interested in the notion of the map as dynamic, ever changing, streaming and transferring data with the global flows of energies and people, as the courses of these travelers intersect.
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Chitra Ganesh

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Chitra Ganesh 
Title: Bunny 
Year: 2010 
Size: 16 x 20 in
Medium: mixed media on canvas

Chitra Ganesh was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, where she currently lives and works.
Buried narratives and marginal figures typically excluded from official canons of history, literature, and art inspire her drawing, installation, text-based work, and collaborations.

Ganesh draws from a broad range of material, including the iconography of Hindu, Greek and Buddhist mythology, 19th century European portraiture and fairytales, song lyrics, as well as contemporary visual culture such as Bollywood posters, anime, and comic books. The process of automatic writing is central to her practice, and emerges from dissecting myths to retrieve critical moments of abjection, desire, and loss.

By layering disparate materials and visual languages, Ganesh considers alternate narratives of sexuality and power in a world where untold stories keep rising to the surface. In this process the body becomes a site of transgression, both social and psychic, doubled, dismembered and continually exceeding its limits.
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Paul Jaganathan

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Paul Jaganathan
Title: Bond of Love II
Size: 48 x 42 in
Medium: Charcoal and Acrylic on Canvas 

He is known for his charcoals on paper or canvas. His works bring out the drama of black and white by introducing solid blocks of paint, which are restricted to reds, yellows and orange. The contrast sets the mood of the work, highlighting the character that he paints. His skillful rendering of the female form shows an innate understanding and mastery of the subject.
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Gurusiddappa.G.E

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Gurusiddappa G.E.
Untitled (boys and dog)
Year: 2006
Size: 60 x 117 in
Medium: acrylic on canvas

Born in 1976 in Chitradurga, Karnataka, Gurusiddappa G.E. completed his Bachelor’s degree in painting from the College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitra Parishath, Bangalore, in 1997. He then received his Master’s degree in the same from the Faculty of Fine Arts at M.S. University, Baroda, in 2000. His solo shows include those held at Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, in 2007; Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, in 2007 and 2005; ‘My Day Begins with…’ at Karnataka Chitra Parishath, Bangalore, in 2003; and ‘Song of the Earth’ at Time and Space Gallery, Bangalore, in 2000. He has participated in numerous group shows including ‘Verbal Passages’ at Easel Art Gallery, Chennai, in 2002; and ‘Group Norm’ at Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore, in 1996. Gurusiddappa received the National Award from the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, in 2004, and was the winner of the Camlin Art Foundation’s Euro Art Tour in 2003.
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G R Iranna

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
G R Iranna
Title: Peace and pieces
Medium: fibreglass, wood, iron & sand
Year:2009

His paintings consist of nude figures: abstract in language they are of a philosophical reflection, revolving around the interest in exploring the interactions of the inner of man world with the existential issues of today.
G R Iranna is an artist whose work transcends the boundaries of time and space. Born in 1970, it’s been barely ten years since he started painting professionally, and already his work is mature and profound. Many of Iranna's paintings depict pain as an abstract force that is translated visually in bruised textures and razor sharp cutting edges. His painting has always been far removed from an overriding, postmodern logic. Instead, Iranna uses the idealistic, representative and modernist language of Indian contemporary art. His most recent works are all visions of resistance. In just a glance, one can tell a sense of massive dynamic energy that pervades the surfaces. An energy that is fueled by torment and the struggle against it. Upon further inspection, one sees that these conflicts being played out on the surface are present also in those between one colour and another, between figure and hue, and between the crudeness and the expertise employed. These works, set on canvas as well as tarpaulin, are symbolic of an important change in Iranna's work. Maybe symbolic even of an attempt to break free from an establishment, or a style that is beginning to become claustrophobic. The large, fundamental figure that used to appear in Iranna's early paintings emerges only twice in this later series, and though the artist continues to employ repeated motifs in his work, they seem now to be less figurative, leaning more towards form.
These pieces seem to have an almost romantic undertone: the result of Iranna's attempt to break away from his own mould and reform his work. They cater to contemporary expectations, and reflect his need to pander many contradictory demands. Those of society as well as those of the artist himself.
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