'Evolve': A showcase of established and emerging artists

Dhoomimal.com has just concluded an annual show, entitled 'Evolve', in collaboration with Mercedes-Benz. This was the second edition of a series where the gallery provides a platform to deserving young artists to showcase their works with leading eminent artists of our times. The show that began at the Mercedes-Benz showroom in Gurgaon then moved to Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam in Delhi.

Working in different mediums which included paintings, drawings, serigraphs & photography, the show had works of artists including Akbar Padamsee, Ganesh Pyne, Krishen Khanna, Laxma Goud, T. Vaikuntam, Jogen Chowdhury, KG Subramanyan, Rini Dhumal, Manu Parekh, MF Husain, Jyoti Bhatt, Suhas Roy, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Jai Zharotia, Neeraj Goswami, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Samir Mondal, Chintan Upadhyay, Laxman Aelay and Seema Kohli apart from Chaudhary, Sharmi Chaudhary and Jignasha Ojha.

An accompanying note highlighted the processes and practice of some of the artists on view:

• Neeraj Goswami and Rini Dhumal works are crisply pleasurable. The softness of flat colors is archly contrived, being decorative and yet conducive to a mood of peace.
  
  
• Lalu Prasad Shaw, Thota Vaikuntam and Sanjay Bhattacharya, among the finest draughtsman-artists, express as few other contemporary Indian artists do configurations of figures and souls.
  
  
• Krishen Khanna, at one time completely dehumanized his art and made his debut in the field of abstraction of reds, blues and greys like the American painter Mark Rothko.
  
  
• The works of Laxman Aelay are boiling cauldrons of nuances of effects but with an underlying artistic order in the seeming disorder, seething his primeval mass of an inner social universe in formation.

The director of Dhoomimal.com, Priyank Jain, stated: "We take great pride in this association with Mercedes-Benz which has come to be an annual affair. Mercedes has a long history of art promotion all over the world and have supported artists with the likes of Andy Warhol, the famous artist who led the pop movement in the US in the 70's. Many Mercedes-Benz showrooms around the world resemble art galleries with top artists being promoted through their venues."