T.M.Azis

Artville Artist Of The Day
T M Azis
Untitled
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 30 x 22"

"I have never been particular about maintaining a style. I realize that experiences change with time. I accept the new environment, people and also like to adapt new techniques and colors".

Originally from Kerala, T.M. Azis is known to create human figures interacting with the other elements in a painting. Figures or objects performing as symbols spinning around allegories as conceived by the artist. He creates paintings, which record what might be ordinary, everyday occurrences, contemplated by him. A certain insight into behavioral thought, we realise that there is a world different from what see – the world that exists in our minds.

It is interesting to note that there are no decisive tactics, no fixed strategies in his work. Azis allows himself to be influenced by places around him and situations that he encounters. Simple objects and people in their vicinities rejoice in their existence by being involved in what is around.

The paintings do not project a grand décor, and even with its simplicity there is a certain magic and lightness about it. The different conversations performed by figures with the ‘designs’ lines or concentric circles in the paintings pleasantly create subtle movements on the surface reciting a visual rhythm to the viewer.

The paintings are constructed using bright colors sometimes and sometimes not so contrasting colors, which plainly have strong individual personas expressing a subtle theater of visual form.

In today’s contemporary art scenario, artists are fast adapting to new trends. T.M. Azis, primarily a painter, has also a prolific collection of photographs taken during the collaborative projects with other artists.

A graduate in painting from the Trivandrum Art College, he went further on to study at the Jamia Mila Islamia University in Delhi. He had his first show in the late 80’s and since then has held a number of solo exhibitions. He has also participated in several group shows in Bangalore, Bombay and Delhi and been a part of numerous camps held across the country.

Azis presently lives and works in Bangalore.
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T.V.Santosh

Artville Artist Of The Day 
T. V. Santhosh,
Untitled,
Year: 2012,
Medium: oil on canvas,
Size: 48 x 96 inches 

Adopting and manipulating media-generated images, T.V. Santhosh uses his body of work to raise ethical and philosophical questions about the current culture of violence we are immersed in, and the skewed ways in which it is represented to us. Santhosh’s paintings expose the multiple readings inherent in the situations they depict, forcing us to pause and question the veracity of the images and information we receive on a daily basis through the current news media.

By inverting their colours and turning them into their negatives, the artist moves away from chronologic and geographic specificity, conferring these works with global resonance. Illuminating and problematizing the pervasive nature of violence in contemporary society, the artist notes that his recent work is “…not just about terrorism that comes out of religious fundamentalism. It is about the violence terrorism unleashes and the counter measures the state employs which actually is more violence. At the end of the day, it is innocent people and the ordinary citizens who are sacrificed. So my work is more of a critique and I am not trying to provide any answers to the question of violence” (as quoted in “Interview – 2007: T.V. Santhosh with Baiju Parthan”, Unresolved Stories, the Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2008, pg.17).

The present lot depicts an armed force personnel in a candid moment. However, the title of the work Torn Flag makes the picture anything but that. The painting speak does not of ideologies. Rather, Santhosh picks up on the humanitarian aspect that is often submerged in lofty agendas. He achieves this by isolating that one moment from the barrage of images and freezes it in time.
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Prajakta Palav Aher

Artville Artist Of The Day 
Prajakta Palav Aher
Title: Kachra I
Medium: Watercolour and acrylic on paper
Size: 21.5 x 27.5 in 

Prajakta Palav is an artist of the intimate and the ordinary; forsaking complex narratives and layers of metaphor, Palav's quirky work exposes the beauty inherent in the irregular and commonplace. To Palav, "beauty is not a utopian ideal that can only flourish when we suppress all news of the septic tank of humanity. Her art grows from the gift of apperception, conscious and reflective looking, which blurs the distinctions between real and synthetic, nature and artifice" (Nancy Adajania, "Bonsais or Bullets: Prajakta Palav's Oblique Portraits of the Middle Class", Corners, Gallery Beyond exhibition catalogue, Mumbai, 2005, unpaginated).

In her series of works titled Kachra or garbage, Palav has carried her almost irreverent aesthetic forward from the perfect domestic interiors where she disclosed concealed indiscretions and probed the notion of desire, to public rubbish dumps outside, where everyone's undesired refuse lies in plain sight. In the present lot, a close-up of a vivid recycling dump, the artist challenges her viewers' conceptions of beauty, desire and the frameworks they inhabit. As Adajania explains, "…this is art that takes garbage as its subject, and yet achieves beauty. Since the refuse is represented in extreme close-ups, it ceases to have caste inflections and loses connotations of ecological threat. Instead, one could say that Palav transforms these images into pattern-based abstractions…Thus intimately framed, the synthetic materials appear natural, or then like elements of a fantasia" (Ibid.).
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Nalini Malani

Artville Artist of The Day
Nalini Malani
Title: The sense of touch,
Year: 2009,
Medium: Numerical pigmentary print,
Size: 54,6 x 76 cm

Malani’s work is influenced by her experiences as a refugee of the Partition of India. She places inherited iconographies and cherished cultural stereotypes under pressure. Her point of view is unwaveringly urban and internationalist, and unsparing in its condemnation of a cynical nationalism that exploits the beliefs of the masses. Hers is an art of excess, going beyond the boundaries of legitimized narrative, exceeding the conventional and initiating dialogue.

Characteristics of her work have been the gradual movement towards new media, international collaboration and expanding dimensions of the pictorial surface into the surrounding space as ephemeral wall drawing, installation, shadow play, multi projection works and theatre.
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