The Tree & Family An Exhibition of recent Paintings and Drawings, a Solo Show of renound Artist Gajendra Prasad Sahu from 14th to 16th Feb, 2009 at Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road,New Delhi, India
Dr Subash Pani, Secretary, Planning Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi has kindly consented to Innaugurate the Exhibition. Sri Injeti. Srinivas, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of India, New Delhi will be the Chief Guest.
You all are cordially invited Exibition will open on 14th Feb 6 PM and it will be on view till 16th Feb 10 AM to 8PM Daily.
The Ashok Art Gallery is internationally known for one of its most important holdings: more than 2000 major works by the world's most significant Artists.Over the past years, as Ashok Art Gallery has become a major centre for contemporary visual art, the Gallery has built a strong collection of contemporary work of different artists. Last year we became a sponsor of the STANDUP-SPEAKOUT Artshow, Organized by Art Of Living Foundation and United Nations.Organized an International Contenmporary Art Exhibition including artists from USA, The Nederlands, Pakistan and India.We have also participated at Art Expo India 2008 Mumbai and India Art Summit 2008 New Delhi.
Kanta Kishore was born and continued his childhood in a traditional carver(maharana) family near Bhubaneswar, Orissa. His father, elder brothers all are related with artistic work for their livelihood. From his childhood Kanta kishore has played with carving tools , wood and other materials. Practicing sculptures is only job from childhood; he has played with many more different mediums to create different sculptures. He has got a bachelors degree in Fine Art from B.K.College of Art and Crafts and studied master degree at Govt. College of Art and Crafts Kolkata. At his time at Kolkata, he has experimented with different local mediums with his own concepts and got appreciated among all his contemporary sculptors. Now a days he is mostly fascinated towards social issues, human daily life related problems, like urbanization and globalization.
Artist is realizing this problem of society because he/she is a element of base not that glorifying supper structures. Mother feeding, women violence, labor rally , child labor, starvation, unemployment and recent terrorist activities in Indian social life etc. are the sculptural presentation of Kanta Kishore. If you see his conceptual works on news paper series, everybody just falling in love at first sight, He is mastered in carving and when he picks marbles, it produces some wonderful pieces. Now a days he is working on books , carving white marbles and adding some metal to it, those are just lovable.
In this lovely medium Marble, Kanta kishore has started with News Paper series and then got some installations on Labor Rally, by installing carved marble chapels at Tina Ambani’s Harmony Show 2007 he expressed his concern on this social issue. Besides his skill in Marble, he has worked in many different materials like wood, granite, fiber and bronze. His work gives situational thoughts, one of his news paper series shows child labor and other with other issue, it’s just like reminding you everyday about these social issues and it will eradicate only if society will come up.
When his works were exhibited at New Delhi this year at India Habitat Centre, art lovers and critics were just got surprised, everybody puzzled, asked many questions about how many days it has taken and how much patience you have etc. Then his work ‘Golden Chili’ was the centre of attraction at AshokArtGallery’s stall in Art Expo India 2008 Mumbai. Kanta Kishore is a very talented young Indian sculptor; you can see his recent original works on display at India Art Summit 2008.
The Ashok Art Gallery is internationally known for one of its most important holdings: more than 2000 major works by the world's most significant Artists.Over the past years, as Ashok Art Gallery has become a major centre for contemporary visual art, the Gallery has built a strong collection of contemporary work of different artists.Last year we became a sponsor of the STANDUP-SPEAKOUT Artshow, Organized by Art Of Living Foundation and United Nations.Organized an International Contenmporary Art Exhibition including artists from USA, The Nederlands, Pakistan and India.We have also participated at Art Expo India 2008 Mumbai and India Art Summit 2008 New Delhi.
Paresh Choudhury was born in a village called Bhutmundi near Paradeep, Orissa, India. To establish himself as an artist, he came Delhi way back on 1993 through Baroda with two degrees like one was BFA in painting from B. K. College of Art and Crafts, Bhubaneswar,Orissa and MFA in Applied art from M.S. University of Baroda with a handful of paintings.initially he worked for advertising agencies and explore there the huge arena of visual communication world. But his passion towards painting never disinterests him to upgrade his intuition to think extreme visually. In the last few years he has completely dedicated to create paintings and in this period also he did a residency workshop in new media at the Norwich School of Art and Design near London. His skill and outlook have been honed by influences that came from advertising and commissioned illustrations. Now He is well seasoned and starving to deliver his best for his life as an artist.
His works are showing at Gallery-7 at Rabindra Bhawan, Lalit Kala Acadeny, New Delhi, India now, looks like spiritual to me. Once he said, ”When I accommodate with a blank canvas it leads to a world where it demands me for certain visual deliverance”. In the process he endeavor to create a visual lingo of graffiti that is rebellion against the humdrum nature of our urban life juxtaposing some of his fantasies onto mundane objects. He involuntarily realized the presence of great Indian ‘kama-sutra’ – The art of love making in his recent bodies of work in a dissimilar style inspired by road and industrial graphics, icons and signage which we customarily find every day to day life. Speaking in essence, the sexuality with its urban context is a major problem today. However, many people have founded poor sexual relationships on harmful myths and customs, clearly knowing the truth about our diverse (and very adaptable) the evolution is important. As we all know the Kama-sutra is ultimately about wisdom and our creative cultivation. It covers the three aims of life- virtue (dharma), prosperity (artha), and love (kama). The experimentation is just instigated with these aspects of eroticism in quest to know how it contains the political ideology with the urban content. “My solo art show” Artist: PARESH CHOUDHURY At : Gallery-7,Rabindra Bhawan Lalit kala Academy, New Delhi Opening on 16th Jan 2008. and it’ll continue till 22nd jan 2008
