ShowsTatvaThe Elements
11th June 2006 - 17th June 2006
V & A Museum, London
ARTIST(s)
Anjolie Ela Menon
Anjolie Ela Menon
BiographyBorn in 1940, Burnpur (West Bengal), Anjolie completed her schooling at Lovedale after which she pursued a degree in English Literature from the Delhi University. Later following a brief spell at Sir J.J. School of Art, she received formal training in painting at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris on a French Government scholarship from 1959-61. She pursued further studies in France, U.K. and USA on the invitation of respective Governments during 1980-81. She has served on the advisory committee and the art purchase committee of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, where she co-curated a major exhibition of French Contemporary Art in 1996. She is a recipient of Padma Shri by the Government of India and she is on the board of trustees of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA). She has had over 35 solo shows in India and abroad and participated in many group shows including I, II, III International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi in 1968, 1972 & 1975; Paris Biennale, France, 1980; at New York & Washington D.C. in 1980; Solo show Yatra at Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2006. Her work was shown in a major retrospective held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai in 2002, which also toured other towns including Chennai, Delhi and Bangalore. Her life and work has been featured in important publications and films made for Doordarshan and CNN. She lives and works in New Delhi.
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Arpana Caur
Arpana Caur
BiographyBorn 1954 in Delhi, Arpana has nearly 30 solo shows to date covering Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, London, Ottawa, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, New York, Amsterdam Munich, Bangalore and many others cities, her work is seen and appreciated globally. She has also participated in about 40 group shows held in various Indian cities as well as abroad including Greece, USSR, USA, Japan, Germany, Iraq and Cuba. She has also executed ten large murals and paintings including a commission for a large work for the permanent collection at Hiroshima Museum. She has also participated in interactive workshops with other artists and crafts people. Amongst the awards to her credit, VI Triennele India Gold Medal for Painting stands tall. She has been a member of various juries and advisory boards including the National Gallery of Modern Art, Lalit Kala Academy and Sahitya Kala Parishad and her work has been the subject of several dissertations by arts students and scholars. Her work is in several Indian Museums and significant public collections including National Gallery of Modern Art Delhi, Chandigarh Museum, Ethnographic Museum Stockholm, Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Bradford Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, U.K., Glenbarra Museum Japan, Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art Japan, Singapore Museum of Modern Art Japan, Singapore Museum of Modern Art, Deutche Bank, Rockefeller Collection, New York. She lives and works in New Delhi. Visit Artist's Page to view more works
Jogen Chowdhury
Jogen Chowdhury
BiographyBorn in 1939, Faridpur (presently Bangladesh), Jogen Chowdhury graduated in Fine Art from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata in 1960. He later studied in France during 1965-1967 on Government Scholarship at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Back in India, he was appointed a Curator for the Rastrapati Bhawan before taking up teaching at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan where he later served as the Principal. Over the years, his works have been exhibited in various international exhibitions including the Triennales at New Delhi held in 1972, 1975 & 1978; at the Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil in 1979; Museum of Modern Art and Royal Academy of Art, London in 1982, Hirschorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. in 1982; II Havana Biennale, Cuba in 1986 and Takaoka Municipal Museum of Art & Meguro Museum of Art, Japan in 1988; ‘Realms of Fantasy’, Hong Kong, 2004; ‘Inverting/Inventing Traditions’, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, 2007. He has been awarded at II Havana Biennale, 1986 and at International Prints Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal in 1995. He was honoured with Kalidas Samman by Madhya Pradesh Government in 2001. Besides these honours, he has received numerous National Awards. He lives and works in Santiniketan.
StatementDuring all these years, man and life, their complex co-existence, are the central concerns of my work. I am also sometime fascinated by Nature’s organic qualities, its design and rhythmic construction. People continue to be the dominating influence in my work. For the last few years, I have been deeply disturbed with the man’s brutality upon man, in Iraq, in U.S.A., in Russia, in U.K. or in India. Religious and racial riots in Gujarat, bombing and destruction by one country on another country, terrorist attacks on helpless children in Russia, or on the innocent public in other parts of the world, torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Gharib Jail and political killings in the village of Bengal, or other parts of India, torture and rape of women and young girls, have all affected me deeply. This suppressed humanity makes me alert, sad and disturbed. The present turmoil has affected me as a human being and is directly reflected in my art.
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Prabhakar Kolte
Prabhakar Kolte
BiographyBorn in 1946, Nerur Par (Maharashtra), Kolte received his diploma from Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1968. He later joined Sir J. J. School of Art in 1972 and taught for 22 years till he retired in 1994. He has held many solo shows across the country and abroad and participated in group shows including Contemporary Art in Maharashtra, 1975; VI International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi; I National Bharat Bhavan Biennale, Bhopal in 1986; Six Indian Painters, Yugoslavia, Ankara & Istanbul in 1985; Contemporary Artists from SAARC countries, NGMA, 1992; Three Artists, Hong Kong, 1995; Galerie Foundation for Indian Artists, Amsterdam, 1996; ‘Modern Indian Art’, New York, 2001; ‘Tatva–The Elements’, London, 2006. In 2001 his solo show was organised by Galerie Mueller & Plate in Germany. He lives and works in Mumbai.
StatementMy painting is my visual monologue.
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Yusuf Arakkal
Yusuf Arakkal
BiographyBorn in 1945 in Kerala, Arakkal completed his Diploma in painting from Chitrakala Parishath College of Art, Bangalore in 1973. For his specialisation in graphic print-making he went to National Art Academy Community Studios, Garhi, New Delhi in 1980. He has been honoured with several awards including the National Award in 1983; a Special Award at the Third Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka in 1986; the Karnataka Rajyotsva Award in 1999; Lorenso-De-Medici Silver medal at the 4th Florence International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Italy in 2003; Lorenso-De-Medici Gold medal at 5th Florence International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Italy. He visited Arad International Biennale of Art at Romania as an International Artistic Committee Member in 2005. He has participated in many shows since his first in 1975, including the Sixth Biennale de Beaux Art, Beaumont, France; Third Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh; Sixth International Triennale, New Delhi and Ninth International Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil. He lives and works in Bangalore.
StatementThe human element and humane content are the major factors that govern the philosophy of my aesthetics and creativity. I endeavor to arrive at a synthesis between aesthetic integrity and social responsibility.
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CATALOGUE
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Tatva - The Essence
Six Distinctive Brush Strokes
By Sushma Bahl
Creative arts have been inextricably intertwined with life in India from the ancient to the contemporary, as the living arts of the classical, folk, tribal and contemporary traditions continue to develop and evolve, assimilating newer influences within conventional wisdom and old practices described in highly sophisticated treatises such as Silpashastra and Visnudharmottara. Drawing on abstraction of the universe and its natural habitation, Indian artistic expression has traversed widely diverging domains from mandalas (circle or polygon grid square) to mathematics, tantrik (mystical approach to spiritual ascendancy) to ritual, astronomy to cosmology, philosophical to factual and symbolic to figurative; as variedly represented in the temple statuary of the early period, subsequent illustrated manuscripts of the medieval era and increasingly now narrative and conceptual art in a wide range of media and matrix that attracts international acclaim for its intrinsic merit as well as monetary value.
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