Foreign artists, Indian shores
29 Nov 2012 9:36 PM GMT
It’s raining foreign artists in the city and Delhiites seem to be lapping it all up. At Visual Arts Gallery, seven British artists are showing in a group show titled Critical Narratives in Colour and form, and each one of them reiterates the importance of ‘creating’ art with one’s own hand. In one of the mixed media paintings that Angus Pryor has created, he fills his canvas with motifs of bindus, swastikas, animal and birds — images that he has absorbed in Delhi. Pryor is also the curator of this show which is part of a two day workshop-cum-seminar organised by art curator Dr Alka Pande.
‘I have been travelling to India for many years now and I found that there is a strong similarity in our practice of storytelling through art,’ says Pryor. The exhibition that boasts of other British artists like Mavernie Cunningham, Jez Giddings, William Henry, Mark Howland, Chris Hunt and Aya Mouri, hence, places a deliberate emphasis on painting and print making which was and continues to be an essential part of Indian art practice.
In another group show titled Whose History, Which Stories — presented by Shrine Empire at The Stainless — curator Oindrilla Maity Surai has put together evocative videos, paintings and installations by five South Korean and five Indian artists. According to Surai, ‘The exhibition tries to find out the many similarities and idiosyncrasies that prevail in these two neighbouring countries. It is a platform where two neighbouring countries come together through art.’
For instance, SangHwa Park’s videos from the Inner Dream series portray the pessimism of the 21st century. Science and technology have not associated themselves with well being alone. Desire continues to pervade society. War is also the subject for YoungTae Kim and ChangWon Lee’s photographs. They question the validity of war, the freedom fighter and their memories.
The artist to watch out for, however, is Gim Gwang Cheol whose videos of his intensely charged performances question the human situation in a sprawling city that grows oblivious of its past, its sacrifices to earn a free nation state and what it actually promised to achieve. Gwang Cheol writes about his project: ‘That Hitler’s face is placed inside Marilyn’s mouth is itself illusion. It is an attempt to express rejection toward unconditional worship of any icon. Uncontrolled desire for power and fame violates life so I reveal these elements through my art.’
At Vadehra Art Gallery, a solo show titled Passageway by German artist Wolfgang Laib is on view. His works are studies of form, colour and material explore natural material such as beeswax, pollen, rice and stone. In Lado Sarai, Exhibit 320 is showing photographs by three Singaporean artists along with three Indians — Sumit Dayal, Ankit Goyal, Akshay Mahajan, Nguan, Carrie Lam and Sean Lee — who explore the theme of self and identity through a visual medium.
‘I have been travelling to India for many years now and I found that there is a strong similarity in our practice of storytelling through art,’ says Pryor. The exhibition that boasts of other British artists like Mavernie Cunningham, Jez Giddings, William Henry, Mark Howland, Chris Hunt and Aya Mouri, hence, places a deliberate emphasis on painting and print making which was and continues to be an essential part of Indian art practice.
In another group show titled Whose History, Which Stories — presented by Shrine Empire at The Stainless — curator Oindrilla Maity Surai has put together evocative videos, paintings and installations by five South Korean and five Indian artists. According to Surai, ‘The exhibition tries to find out the many similarities and idiosyncrasies that prevail in these two neighbouring countries. It is a platform where two neighbouring countries come together through art.’
For instance, SangHwa Park’s videos from the Inner Dream series portray the pessimism of the 21st century. Science and technology have not associated themselves with well being alone. Desire continues to pervade society. War is also the subject for YoungTae Kim and ChangWon Lee’s photographs. They question the validity of war, the freedom fighter and their memories.
The artist to watch out for, however, is Gim Gwang Cheol whose videos of his intensely charged performances question the human situation in a sprawling city that grows oblivious of its past, its sacrifices to earn a free nation state and what it actually promised to achieve. Gwang Cheol writes about his project: ‘That Hitler’s face is placed inside Marilyn’s mouth is itself illusion. It is an attempt to express rejection toward unconditional worship of any icon. Uncontrolled desire for power and fame violates life so I reveal these elements through my art.’
At Vadehra Art Gallery, a solo show titled Passageway by German artist Wolfgang Laib is on view. His works are studies of form, colour and material explore natural material such as beeswax, pollen, rice and stone. In Lado Sarai, Exhibit 320 is showing photographs by three Singaporean artists along with three Indians — Sumit Dayal, Ankit Goyal, Akshay Mahajan, Nguan, Carrie Lam and Sean Lee — who explore the theme of self and identity through a visual medium.
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