A new group show of emerging printmakers and installation/Sculptor from Baroda based M.S. U takes place at Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai.
The common thread that bind the participants of a new exhibit, entitled ‘A/P2 & Tangible 3’ in Mumbai, is that they are all working at the AQ@Priyasri Artist Studio Baroda, for the show.
Anjali Goel, Deepak Mahakul, Gajanan, Kanika Shah, Naini Arora, Rachana Badrakia, Rakesh Rana, Sumedh Kumar and Tarun Gajjar are among the participating artists.
Naini Arora, a student of Graphics explains that her art practice combines traditional printmaking and technological advancements. In choosing to combine graphic prints with digital work, she looks to ‘join the masses trying to meet their needs in a constantly changing world’.
She explains: “We live in a culture of print and understand that art has always advanced by not discarding tradition, but building upon it. I use the two mediums in conjunction to express the complexities lying beneath our existence in today’s times. The digital prints are images that I manipulate and tease into becoming canvases for my future expression.
She emphasizes on traditional print methods based on expressive and observational drawing. She uses print as a map to take her work forward, through the co-existence of tradition and experimentation.
Tarun Gajjar did his post-diploma from Department of Painting, (Faculty of Fine Arts) in M.S. University. He states: “While studying at the college, I used to frequently go to railway station for sketching. I do feel that railway station has a life of its own. I came across the various interesting things that I kept on portraying on my canvas.
"I have been working on this subject since a long time and I wish to explore many such subjects and forms and my imaginations. Now I am working on ‘speed’, how we live our life in metro cities. I am using train in a metaphorical way. People travel in a train every day. But their life has become so fast that they don’t have time for each other.
His ‘Remembrance’ is based on memories. Time never stops and incidents become memory. The work is about the good memories of his life, whereas ‘Momentum’ is about force, the kind of energy we see in speed. The work depicts force at a very abstract level.
(Information courtesy: Priyasri Gallery)
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Looks like a missed out on a pretty awesome exhibition.
ReplyDeleteKnew Naini when she was starting out with her experiments in Print Making, her work was impressive and thought provoking even back then.
Congratulations.