Jagannath Paul
Jagannath Paul’s art articulates the belief that certain creative principles exist eternally. These principles are preserved in the collective consciousness embodied in myths which somehow capture the essence of these underlying thoughts and ideas. Idiosyncrasies of time and place prove to be ephemeral: they arise, flourish for a while and then disappear. The dramas reenacted in Paul’s works do not. Instead they recreate the eternal paradigms in constantly changing variations and degrees. Art, for Paul, involves a rediscovery and a revelation of the eternal paradigms, which exist in that dimension of infinitely expanded space and time.
His artworks were exhibited in the show "Mythical Paradigms" at Mon Art Gallerie.
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Arup Lodh
Arup Lodh’s works are atmospheric and combine a unique accuracy of observation with incredible technical precision. He has a deep and intuitive understanding of the special advantages of this fluid and sensitive medium for capturing the feel of a particular place or moment and appreciates the inner vibrancy of the city of Calcutta
His artworks were exhibited in the show "Lyrical Journeys" at Mon Art Gallerie.
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Sandip Roy
A sense of divinity is implicit Sandip Roy’s watercolours or Varanasi and Allahabad
His artworks were exhibited in the show "Lyrical Journeys" at Mon Art Gallerie.
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Sudip Roy
Sudip Roy is acutely aware of the fact that watercolours come with a set of rules. It is not at a conceptual level that those rules are played out. It is in the act, in the materiality, the seductiveness of the surface, the submission and the hours that are put in to create a sense of sublime translucence. To this end, his watercolours are very meditative and meaningful gestures, much like rituals and more about subverting modernity that subverting tradition in the sense that they are spontaneous and gestural.
His artworks were exhibited in the show "Lyrical Journeys" at Mon Art Gallerie.
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Ramesh Gorjala
Ramesh Gorjala’s characters derived from the epics and Indian mythology are imbued with multitudes of miniscule hybrid creatures that fill up the body of the main character as is seen in the long tradition of the Naba-narir Kunjaban or other such illustrations and sculptures. They form a rich permeated drape over the pictorial plane representing both the grotesque and the sublime. For him the continuous narratives have their sources in the myths which finally culminate into his Vishnu, Garuda, Hanuman and others.
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Chippa Sudhakar
Unusually rich and schematically brilliant, Chippa Sudhakar’s works share strong archaic features that recalls Egyptian, Minoan or Cretan art. The figures and the picture plane are coalesced with layers of geometry and a stylization of his own - which often shares Modiglianesque elongation, but are evidently more Indianized. Shudhakar’s archaism comes from his rural background and blends into a unique craft of laying colours on wood and carving them. Quite often there would be metal sheets such as copper and wires balancing the wooden textures and the colour palette. The relationship between man and woman seen with subtlety and village life is an obvious subject matter to him, but equally important are dreams and visions almost to a prophetic scale that perhaps indicate the uncharted future and the destiny of human life. The mood evoked by his works can hardly resist thoughts of Chirico’s poignance and sombreness.
His artworks were exhibited in the show "Sublime Countours" at Mon Art Gallerie.
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Sreekanth Kurva
Sreekanth Kurva’s animal world has the innate appeal with which one had admired the bold figures in the Russian children’s books. The audience can hardly resist touching, comforting and cajoling them. Although the animals are evidently charged with an archaic strength, their endearing and appealing presence instantly bring them into creating an intimacy and warm nexus with the spectator. The sheer energy of an enraged cockerel grasps the viewer’s attention presently and the humped bulls inevitably recalls the cave paintings in Altamira, but Kurva is far more different from them stylistically. His intricately ornamental style with torn pieces of decorative papers and application of paint on them creates a signature style of the artist. The animals are rendered on plain white surfaces, without locating them on given landscapes or even a background, but their innate appeal makes it redundant for the viewer to look for such excesses of details.
His artworks were exhibited in the show "Sublime Countours" at Mon Art Gallerie.
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Saraswathi L
A rich ornamental and classical Indian style appropriates itself on the canvases of Saraswathi L's style. The Indianness is furthered by rhythmic stylization and details in the backdrop of vthe canvas, where the foliage usually echo the metamorphic animals, or portraits of the gopininis. Saraswathi's paintings mostly depict human life, women in particular or often the eternal relationship between the male and female - are akin to Lord Krishna, as the artist endows most of them with a flute. These characters are derived from stories (particularly from the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, and from the Panchatantra) and myths and resurrected by the artist in her work.
Her artworks were exhibited in the show "Sublime Countours" at Mon Art Gallerie.
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Anjaneyulu G
The apparently trite images of Anjaneyulu G make their presence felt in their solitariness. Being only in their existence, the reticent objects clearly voice out their potential. Deeply inspired by Thiebaud’s own, the artist resorts to hyperrealism – evidently exemplifying an experience of living in an age of the media and the artist’s struggle to reach out to a global language in desperation. Anjaneyulu’s profoundly skilful handling of the paint and has an eye for recording the minutest details are a visual treat which also impart the objects their nuances. His recent series of paintings shows objects from day to day lives, mostly being tools. His interest in tools comes out from his deep involvement with the nearest and mundane. In the words of the artist, he would like to transcend their object value into aesthetic value.
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Thota Vaikuntam
Thota Vaikuntham’s works bear a profound richness produced by the contrasting primary colours, the ornaments and the caste marks. His characters, often womenfolk from the rural Andhra Pradesh are marked with an earthy voluptuousness, following a tradition of folk art. Fluid lines, flat colours, broad figures and the occasional details such as gold jewellery or a parrot are a signature mark of the artist. Vaikuntham’s characters express themselves by their gesticulations and not by their faces. The rather expressionless faces are complemented by the verbosity of the gesture clusters.
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Sachin Jaltare
Sachin Jaltare’s works carry the influences of Abstract Expressionism since his days in the JJ School of Art. Sensuous and pliable, the mellowed images evoke both an ethereal and mundane feeling. The communion of the man and woman, apparently Siva and Parvati surfacing repetitively in his works appear as only partially visible beings – a treatment so justifiably employed to render an ethereal affair.
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DVS Krishna
DVS Krishna’s work explore gender politics specific to women in relation with their position in the society. His appropriated forms of the feminine portraiture with an emphasis on the wide eyes and the bold graphic quality underline their pregnant silence and their journey into an uncharted time; their neutrality and yet inevitable presence.
He was born in 1973 in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. He did his painting diploma from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in 1996. He has participated in several group shows including the 50 years of Andhra Pradesh Art, organized the Hyderabad Art Society, Andhra Pradesh, at Minaz Art Gallery, Hyderabad (1997) and ICCR Art Gallery (World Telugu Federation Group Show.
Pandu Masanam
From Art Info.
Pandu Masanam (b 1966) had his beginning in art from his native place in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. His teachers in drawing, colouring and composition filled in him the confidence to handle any medium and a quest to handle wash of his own style in water colours. His spirit of hard work despite hardships further enriched his line and form. He studied in JNTU fine arts college of Hyderabad where he was respected by one and all of his teachers and fellow artists because of his good work.
He participated in a number of art camps in the state and established a studio of his own where he produced his best in oils and acrylics. He was well read not only in the history of art but also in Telugu classical literature especially Bhagavatham and drew inspiration to create series of paintings on Krishna and his great legend. He was only 42 yrs when died peacefully in his sleep in October 2010 at his studio in Hyderabad.
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We regrets the sad demise of renowned artist Sohan Qadri.
He passed away on 1st March 2011 in Canada.
Sohan Qadri (1932-2011)
Artist & Poet Qadri who has died at the age of 78 in Toronto after a prolonged illness, began his quest for his true self through Tantric yoga and spent long periods of time silently meditating in remote temples in the Himalayas and Tibet. His isolation propelled his urge to paint and he has left behind him, a heritage of cultural affluence and legacy.
May his soul rest in peace.
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live”
~Norman Cousins
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