Baiju Parthan: His fascination for technology, blended with his passion for mythology is palpable in his practice. The artist views them as symbiotic, as he thinks both mythology and technology feed off each other. He is in constant search of metaphors that can seamlessly be translated into artistic symbols. He has studied the Indian mystical arts, tantra, ritual arts, and Indian mythology that he includes in his contemporary art practices.
Jagannath Panda: His style of painting is suited to his concerns, in sync with immediate surroundings of his home state Orissa and New Delhi where he now lives. In fact, he tends to draw energy from wherever he locates himself. In Jagannath Panda’s work a routine event or any commonplace object gets imparted with symbolic stature that is oriented to represent collective aspirations or sometimes rigid dogmas.
Justin Ponmany’s practice is marked by a Darwinian approach. It reorganizes and also reinvents reality. Re-branding by digitizing, the artist skillfully duplicates figures in an eerie electric landscapes stylized beyond comprehension – almost - were it not for those reoccurring markers as well as motifs of skyscrapers and figures, which appear in his work. Using silver holograms, plastic paints and rich pigments of color along with distorted photographic negatives, he is as keen on the production of his art works as he is in the object, which then exists and haunts us.
T.V. Santhosh: His works deal with complex contemporary issues like global unrest, conflict and violence. Particularly, the network of terror powered by scientific intelligence and technological advances -a kind of unholy nexus between knowledge and terror - comes under his scanner. The themes of violence, injustice, and inequality dominate his artistic agenda. Drawing on images and news reports from the media, he combines pointed text and repetitive sculptural forms to make a statement on both the persistent nature of violence and the way it gradually becomes the norm, through recurrence.
Jagannath Panda: His style of painting is suited to his concerns, in sync with immediate surroundings of his home state Orissa and New Delhi where he now lives. In fact, he tends to draw energy from wherever he locates himself. In Jagannath Panda’s work a routine event or any commonplace object gets imparted with symbolic stature that is oriented to represent collective aspirations or sometimes rigid dogmas.
Justin Ponmany’s practice is marked by a Darwinian approach. It reorganizes and also reinvents reality. Re-branding by digitizing, the artist skillfully duplicates figures in an eerie electric landscapes stylized beyond comprehension – almost - were it not for those reoccurring markers as well as motifs of skyscrapers and figures, which appear in his work. Using silver holograms, plastic paints and rich pigments of color along with distorted photographic negatives, he is as keen on the production of his art works as he is in the object, which then exists and haunts us.
T.V. Santhosh: His works deal with complex contemporary issues like global unrest, conflict and violence. Particularly, the network of terror powered by scientific intelligence and technological advances -a kind of unholy nexus between knowledge and terror - comes under his scanner. The themes of violence, injustice, and inequality dominate his artistic agenda. Drawing on images and news reports from the media, he combines pointed text and repetitive sculptural forms to make a statement on both the persistent nature of violence and the way it gradually becomes the norm, through recurrence.
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