KINDLING EXPRESSIONS

Gallery Ensign

presents

KINDLING EXPRESSIONS

An exhibition of artworks by 6 promising artists

Opening preview 21st October, 6.30pm onwards

Exhibition duration: 22nd October to 26th November 2011.

New Delhi: Gallery Ensign presents a group exhibition of artworks by 6 promising artists Bhanu Prakash, Jagadish Dhyan Sreyas, Monika Bijlani, Ravi K, Soghra Khurasani and Soumen Bhowmick. The exhibition entitled ‘Kindling Expressions’ is curated by Seema Subbanna and will be at Gallery Ensign, B-17, Geetanjali Enclave, New Delhi – 110017, from 21st October to 12th November 2011.

Says Seema Subbanna, Exhibition Curator & Director Gallery Ensign: “Kindling is the stage of beginning, it is to inspire, to encourage and to stimulate. Expression is a medium of communication, of thoughts, ideas and feelings. Together, however I perceive them to be a stage where the artists find a route to walk on and a path that can lead them to anything they wish to achieve.”

The exhibition is a culmination of an open call project created by the gallery for emerging artists last summer. After receiving applications from artists across various genres; the chosen artists were selected as they each represent the expression to communicate thoughts, ideas and feelings that the gallery perceives as promising and forth achieving.

While Ravi K and Bhanu Prakash have made their dreams, memories, hues, thoughts and above all, innocence flow in their particularly original, affectation- less labour of love.

Ravi entices his viewers with his synthesis of folk and pictorial elements in objects – animated and inanimate ones. While Bhanu Prakash, who hails from Chattisgarh transports you to the days of innocence, the traditional charm of the village, its earthy fragrance, its golden fields, its peace, tranquility, warmth and just simple life.

Soumen Bhowmick’s works “Clown Head” and “Butterfly Dreams” series look as complicated as they are actually simple. His use of liberal doses of colour goad the viewers to read between the lines. Soumen pushes the envelope by paving a rather different track – by employing symbols that encounter you with their funny-ness, and at the same time introduces to the pain his clowns (also deployed in the butterfly dreams) hide beneath their hideous, toothy grins.

Monika Bijlani’s digital abstracts form out of her concern for environment, hence a fish recurs silently, in a dilemma to find clear water. “Silent Whispers”, “Freedom in captivity”, “Dressed in black” are mainly her environmental concerns though one can draw several meanings out of her multi-layered, neat, symphony with judicious mix of hues. What makes her digital paintings worth watching is their unpretentiousness, sobriety and minimal services taken by colours.

Jagadish Dhyan Sreyas attempts to bring a smile to the viewers by altering the use of five elements and yet make some statements. For instance he utilises fire, earth, water, air and sky in ‘speaking posture’ in his jars which for him is a symbolic of human body, and creating diverse effects. An ambitious astronaut once, who was fast at mathematics and physics, pulls with him the logic of algebra and the fondness for ‘space’ and “solves” his problems as he puts it.

Soghra Khurasani who enriched her bachelors’ degree with masters in printmaking from MSU, Baroda, uses a spectacular blend of traditional means like woodcut prints and etchings and newer mediums likes serigraphy and digital print that lend her mammoth works awe. She manages the large sizes with landscapes, topography and compositions. And she chooses societal oppression to speak her heart.

The exhibition aims to create a platform for artists to express themselves, their medium and their works. And it brings together a perfect blend where canvases, paper works, digital media and print making come together to speak art to the viewer.

Address: Gallery Ensign, B-17, Geetanjali Enclave,

New Delhi – 110017.

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