Bringing in the New
June 18 - July 6, 2010
Arun Peje | Himanshu S | Manoj Sinha | Ritesh Meshram
The last night brought colours
In the darkness of dreams
They crept in between the murky and the true
The whole and the incomplete
They transformed into the archived images in my mind
Words became objects and the days of past into charcoal dust
Sounds of my childhood etched in my palms.
Arun Peje
Reminiscing the city and its dysfunctions within the psyche of the self and the system of class as replaced metaphors of the actions and functions of daily life, Arun Peje's drawings have a burdened calling. A calling that allows him no respite and maneuvers sharp turns. Some of the drawings are autobiographical and tend to recede from the groaning cityscapes. Mythological references have appeared for the first time ever in Arun's body of work and prove to be an important reference point in the completing of the circle of his thought process at this point in time.
He lives and works in Mumbai.
Himanshu S.
The stage is set for each of Himanshu S's visuals. Lights on, the players / actors in their best arise to the occasion. The ones unaware are the ones who know where the focus of the 'light' lies.
The runaway's from 'artworks from the past' and the minds of children appear in disguise.
Himanshu stores himself in drawers and pages of books / diaries and fleeting glances.
One can see him through a glass darkly in these drawings and water-colors that unevenly map each other.
His meanderings through the city are accompanied by frozen moments. Assembling them in (non)sequence adds to the erratic pauses that hum throughout his photographs.
Himanshu lives and works in Mumbai.
Manoj Sinha
Manoj Sinha's portraits and the setups that they inhabit, stem from the abstraction of the personal and the critical. They arm wrestle against a landscape that laments the bamboo forest but also longs or it. The choking city finds only a sliver of their home to slither into.
Silences build relationships and cities, memories and moments.
Manoj lives and works in Baroda.
Ritesh Meshram
The city's bazaars and its industrial phases have fed Ritesh Meshram's insatiable appetite to construct. Construction in all its senses is seen in each division of his artworks. Sound, projection, video and assembled objects pry open a mind that is electrified with incessant imagery and visual building. His earlier work enters through the back door. It looms and broods. Changing character it witnesses the past through a video work and documented photographs.
The urgency to establish a material is a restlessness of order that comprises of an intensified search for the characterization of form and element. The humor in the artworks is like an animal laying low, awaiting a prey, leaving the viewers mind no chance of escape.
Ritesh lives and works in Mumbai.
Technical support toward Ritesh Meshram's assemblages, video and installation:
Kamlajeet Singh, Joseph, Sharif Ahmed and Jayant.
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