Untitled (1977) Waterproof colored ink and colored pencil on handmade paper by Amitava on show at KNMA gallery Delhi
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The artworks of artists from two totally different generations, Amitava and Mohan Samant, on show on the Kiran Nadar Museum of Artwork (KNMA) in Saket, spin the same narrative that stirs the human conscience.
If We Knew The Level by Amitava, and Magic in The Sq. by Mohan Samant have interaction the viewers with their respective pictorial constructivism that hints on the mysterious and the unknown.
As one steps contained in the gorge of the KNMA gallery, an obsidian room pays tribute to the color black, as Amitava interprets it.. In opposition to that sombre background, his self-illuminating canvases carry a mesmerising mild that exudes tranquillity and serenity. Gazing at them, the thoughts feels relaxed.
Amitava is considerably influenced by movies and literature. He takes inspiration from Tagore, Kurosawa and Tarkovsky. On his canvases, a tube of paint takes totally different dimensions and acquires totally different shapes and meanings. The curatorial planning of Amitava’s artworks explains to the viewer how the artist addresses the human determine.
Amitava Untitled, 2021 Collage and tempera on palm leaf paper mounted on mount board displayed at KNMA gallery Delhi
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His figuration within the artworks begins from dense overlapping strains and steadily will get fragmented as he pierces the figures and ruptures the kinds. In consequence, a hand extends to develop into a tree department or a leg morphs right into a mechanized physique half. By his compositions, he delineates the dehumanization of humanity.
He additionally embeds his canvases with ephemera supplies like stamps, bus tickets, dry cleansing labels and on a regular basis objects which he would hoard as memorabilia, utilizing an assemblage method. One can spot damaged buttons, and remnants of threads, gauge, and evoke new meanings and associations.
Tanya Sharma, a Sociology pupil who got here to see the exhibition, says, “The compelling aesthetic of Amitava’s works could be very fascinating; it may be interpreted in additional methods than one as a result of the viewer is left to invest.”
“I’m not giving any specific instructions for the work to be seen in a particular means. It ought to invoke one thing in all people’s thoughts,” says the artist.
Experimental method
Mohan Sawant’s 1996 portray Black Magician. Acrylic, oil, sand, straw and wire drawings on canvas displayed at KNMA Gallery in Delhi
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Mohan Samant’s centennial exhibition, Magic within the Sq., showcases his whimsical and quirky means of artmaking. Samant wouldn’t confine himself to only one medium and experiment with varied media to evolve a brand new visible language.
He additionally had an affinity for Indian music and loved the flute, dilruba and sarangi. Being a sarangi participant, he added his inventive insights and fortified his inventive imaginative and prescient. Initially, Samant was sure to traditional media: watercolours, graphite, pen and ink, after which slowly began to layer his surfaces with sand, mud and gravel. His work entails totemic figures, sedimented fossil-like constructions, and engraved skeletal kinds. His works contain slicing the canvases, creating cavities and filling them with figurative kinds, creating illusions throughout the inventive grounds.
Samant’s artistry on show is about ancestors, human civilization and going again to the primordial Egyptian instances. He incorporates depth and layers into his canvas by integrating 3-D cutouts and meandering wires.
The eye he deserved eluded him and his artworks had been obscured for many years. Now, KNMA has introduced 20 works of Samant from its assortment to the fore.
Curator Roobina Karode is glad in regards to the footfalls. “The exhibition has been attracting the children to a crisp exploration of artwork practices that carry the dynamism of the spirit of the instances the artists belonged to.”
Seona Saha
AT KNMA Saket until September 30 (closed on Monday and nationwide vacation) from 10.30am to six.30pm. Entry free.
Revealed – September 19, 2024 02:26 am IST
