Patterns of Intensity | Curated by Ranjit Hoskote

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Patterns of Intensity | Curated by Ranjit Hoskote

Patterns of Intensity | Curated by Ranjit Hoskote

3rd April 2021 - 30th April 2021

Art Alive Gallery, S-221 Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110017View Works

Patterns of Intensity brings together eleven young artists from various locations across India, each one engaging courageously with the urgencies of our historical present, each one demonstrating a passionate emphasis on artisanal process and a vibrant desire to extend the boundaries of studio practice as it opens itself to the contested street, the volatile public sphere, the web of social relationships that are being re-negotiated, and the violated landscape.

We marvel at how these artists – Anil Thambai, Barkha Gupta, Chandrashekar Koteshwar, Ghana Shyam Latua, Kaushik Saha, Meghna Patpatia, Purvai Rai, Savia Mahajan, Suman Chandra, Teja Gavankar, and Vipul Badva – commit themselves to exploring the porous between art and life, imagination and material reality. Some of them produce layered or mixed-media surfaces, others arrive at their provisional conclusions through assemblage or through bricolage. Some engage with built form or organic and natural forms. Deep geological time provides a seminal context for some of them, while for others, their chosen matrix is the urban or peri-urban situation, with its ephemeral, makeshift mechanisms. Their media span terracotta or ceramic sculpture, found metal, and drawing. They cite the mappings of geometry, the protocols of architecture, the textures of conservation, and the intricacies of textile surfaces.

This constellation of artists is strongly engaged with the challenges of habitation and its relationship to the perennial questions of belonging, settlement, design, and the environment. In a world assailed by pandemic, dislocation and uncertainty, they offer us hope in crafting a way out of the seemingly impossible predicaments into which we are pushed in the Capitalocene epoch. They inspire us with the freshness of their approach to problems and materials, their recalibration of traditional questions of form, content, and intention. Even as they bear memorable witness to the processes of society and the natural world with great intensity, they remain preoccupied with the great existential questions that all artists have addressed: How to map spaces of repose and consolation, healing and mending, for the fragile and embattled self?

Curator

Ranjit Hoskote

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Repetition is Not Repetition- 01
Anil Thambai

Painting | Cms : 60.96 x 137.16 | Inches : 24 x 54 | Graphite on Sunhemp Paper over Plywood Panel
Repetition is Not Repetition- 02
Anil Thambai

Painting | Cms : 121.92 x 91.44 | Inches : 48 x 36 | Graphite on Sunhemp Paper over Plywood Panel
Mason Doesn't Make Mistakes
Anil Thambai

Painting | Cms : 121.92 x 91.44 | Inches : 48 x 36 | Graphite on Sunhemp Paper over Plywood Panel
From Pillar to Post- 02
Anil Thambai

Painting | Cms : 60.96 x 45.72 | Inches : 24 x 18 | Graphite on Sunhemp Paper over Plywood Panel

Requiem 1
Barkha Gupta

Painting | Cms : 21.082 x 29.718 | Inches : 8.3 x 11.7 | Water Colour, Pen and Ink on Paper
Requiem 2
Barkha Gupta

Painting | Cms : 29.718 x 41.91 | Inches : 11.7 x 16.5 | Water Colour, Pen and Ink on Paper
Idika
Barkha Gupta

Painting | Cms : 29.718 x 41.91 | Inches : 11.7 x 16.5 | Pen and Ink on Paper
Displaced
Barkha Gupta

Painting | Cms : 45.72 x 60.96 | Inches : 18 x 24 | Watercolour, Pen and Ink on Paper
Requiem 3
Barkha Gupta

Painting | Cms : 21.082 x 29.718 | Inches : 8.3 x 11.7 | Pen and Ink on Paper
Repose
Barkha Gupta

Painting | Cms : 45.72 x 60.96 | Inches : 18 x 24 | Watercolour, Pen and Ink on Paper

Excoriated Land
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Water Colour and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Excoriated Land
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Water Colour and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Excoriated Land
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Water Colour and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Excoriated Land
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Water Colour and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Excoriated Land
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Water Colour and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Excoriated Land
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Water Colour and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Khoai Landscape
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Pen, Ink and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Khoai Landscape
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Pen, Ink and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Khoai Landscape
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Pen, Ink and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Khoai Landscape
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Pen, Ink and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Khoai Landscape
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Pen, Ink and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Khoai Landscape
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Pen, Ink and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Khoai Landscape
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Pen, Ink and Pricking with Needle on Paper
Khoai Landscape
Ghana Shyam Latua

Painting | Cms : 25.4 x 41.91 | Inches : 10 x 16.5 | Pen, Ink and Pricking with Needle on Paper

Black Horizon 4
Kaushik Saha

Painting | Cms : 121.92 x 182.88 | Inches : 48 x 72 | Iron Nails, Copper and Brass Sheets, Discarded Tin Sheets of Hoarding, Inlay using Enamel Paints and Oil Paints on Cycle Tubes Pasted on Ply Board
A Piece of Land within the Frame 26
Kaushik Saha

Painting | Cms : 121.92 x 182.88 | Inches : 48 x 72 | Acrylic and Enamel Paint on Canvas

Where To Now My Beloved-II (Polyptych of 9)
Meghna Singh Patpatia

Painting | Cms : 86.36 x 243.84 | Inches : 34 x 96 | Ink on Paper & Textile Framed in Wood
Where To Now My Beloved-II (Polyptych of 9)
Meghna Singh Patpatia

Painting | Cms : 40.64 x 45.72 | Inches : 16 x 18 | Ink on Paper & Textile Framed in Wood
Where To Now My Beloved-II (Polyptych of 9)
Meghna Singh Patpatia

Painting | Cms : 40.64 x 66.04 | Inches : 16 x 26 | Ink on Paper & Textile Framed in Wood
Where To Now My Beloved-II (Polyptych of 9)
Meghna Singh Patpatia

Painting | Cms : 40.64 x 40.64 | Inches : 16 x 16 | Ink on Paper & Textile Framed in Wood
Where To Now My Beloved-II (Polyptych of 9)
Meghna Singh Patpatia

Painting | Cms : 38.1 x 38.1 | Inches : 15 x 15 | Ink on Paper & Textile Framed in Wood
Where To Now My Beloved-II (Polyptych of 9)
Meghna Singh Patpatia

Painting | Cms : 38.1 x 38.1 | Inches : 15 x 15 | Ink on Paper & Textile Framed in Wood
Where To Now My Beloved-II (Polyptych of 9)
Meghna Singh Patpatia

Painting | Cms : 30.48 x 30.48 | Inches : 12 x 12 | Ink on Paper & Textile Framed in Wood
Where To Now My Beloved-II (Polyptych of 9)
Meghna Singh Patpatia

Painting | Cms : 38.1 x 38.1 | Inches : 15 x 15 | Ink on Paper & Textile Framed in Wood

Draping Peaks
Purvai Rai

Painting | Cms : 114.3 x 83.82 | Inches : 45 x 33 | Acrylic on Jute
Magnetic Fabric 2
Purvai Rai

Painting | Cms : 114.3 x 83.82 | Inches : 45 x 33 | Acrylic on Jute
Magnetic Fabric 3
Purvai Rai

Painting | Cms : 114.3 x 83.82 | Inches : 45 x 33 | Acrylic and Thread on Jute

Madre
Savia Mahajan

Sculpture | Cms : 43.18 x 33.02 x 12.7 | Inches : 17 x 13 x 5 | Iron Oxide based Paper Clay, Cotton Rags and Cotton Threads; Calcium based Glaze (Reduction Fired)
Lithified Lives (Resurgō Series) 11
Savia Mahajan

Sculpture | Cms : 17.78 x 12.7 x 6.35 | Inches : 7 x 5 x 2.5 | Paper Clay, Slips, Ash, Glass, China Clay, Ceramic Waste, Found Copper [Cu], Iron Oxide [Fe2O3] and Stains; Fired at 1240°C and Re-Fired at 1000°C, Post Firing Addition: Epoxy
Lithified Lives (Resurgō Series) 10
Savia Mahajan

Sculpture | Cms : 17.78 x 12.7 x 6.35 | Inches : 7 x 5 x 2.5 | Paper Clay, Slips, Stains, Sand, Found Glass and Iron Oxide [Fe2O3]; Fired at 1240°C and Re-Fired at 1000°C
Lithified Lives 12
Savia Mahajan

Sculpture | Cms : 25.4 x 25.4 x 10.16 | Inches : 10 x 10 x 4 | Paper Clay, Wood Ash, Found Glass, Potassium Dichromate based Slips (K2Cr2O7), Iron Oxide [Fe2O3] and Stains; Fired at 1240°C and re-fired at 1000°C, Post Firing Addition: Epoxy
Lithified Lives (Resurgō series) 15
Savia Mahajan

Sculpture | Cms : 27.94 x 25.4 x 7.62 | Inches : 11 x 10 x 3 | Paper clay, Slips, Stains, Sand, and Iron Oxide [Fe2O3]; Fired Twice at 1240°C Post Firing Addition: Epoxy

Mapping of Development/The Golden Moon
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 152.4 x 289.56 | Inches : 60 x 114 | Coal Dust, Brick Dust, Mud, Acrylic Colour and Wooden Sculptures on Canvas
Rat-Hole Miner
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 182.88 x 182.88 | Inches : 72 x 72 | Charcoal on Canvas
White on Black
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Coal Dust on Paper
Till There is a Hope
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 | Inches : 8 x 8 | Charcoal and Water Colour on Paper
Transformation
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 | Inches : 8 x 8 | Graphite and Water Colour on Paper
The Red Couch
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 | Inches : 8 x 8 | Acrylic Colour on Paper
The Golden People
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 | Inches : 8 x 8 | Acrylic Colour on Paper
The Gift
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 | Inches : 8 x 8 | Charcoal and Water Colour on Paper
Shadow
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 | Inches : 8 x 8 | Mixed Media on Paper
Portrait of Miner
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 | Inches : 8 x 8 | Graphite and Water Colour on Paper
The Light Room
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 40.64 | Inches : 8 x 16 | Watercolour on Paper
Bobble of Hope
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 | Inches : 8 x 8 | Water Colour & Charcoal on Paper
HOME = HOPE
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 | Inches : 8 x 8 | Graphite and Water Colour on Paper
The Filter
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 | Inches : 8 x 8 | Acrylic and Water Colour on Paper
The Blind Moon
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 40.64 | Inches : 8 x 16 | Charcoal and dry pastel on paper
"Achhe Din"
Suman Chandra

Painting | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 | Inches : 8 x 8 | Charcoal and Brick Dust on Paper

Untitled 1
Teja Gavankar

Sculpture | Cms : 81.28 x 34.29 x 40.132 | Inches : 32 x 13.5 x 15.8 | Corten Steel
Untitled 2
Teja Gavankar

Sculpture | Cms : 73.152 x 44.958 x 2.794 | Inches : 28.8 x 17.7 x 1.1 | Stainless Steel
Khora
Teja Gavankar

Sculpture | Cms : 73.152 x 44.958 x 2.794 | Inches : 28.8 x 17.7 x 1.1 | Corten Steel
Khora
Teja Gavankar

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 21.59 | Inches : 11 x 8.5 | Pen and Pencil on Paper
Untitled 12
Teja Gavankar

Sculpture | Cms : 63.5 x 76.2 x 30.48 | Inches : 25 x 30 x 12 | Corten Steel
Untitled 11
Teja Gavankar

Sculpture | Cms : 20.32 x 20.32 x 12.7 | Inches : 8 x 8 x 5 | Brass
Threshold of Window
Teja Gavankar

Sculpture | Cms : 20.32 x 7.62 | Inches : 8 x 3 | Stainless Steel

Blue Street in Mayapuri- I (Triptych)
Vipul Badva

Painting | Cms : 19.05 x 76.2 | Inches : 7.5 x 30 | Acrylic on Paper
Blue Street in Mayapuri- II
Vipul Badva

Painting | Cms : 21.59 x 104.14 | Inches : 8.5 x 41 | Acrylic on Canvas
The Street of Mayapuri - I
Vipul Badva

Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Acrylic on Paper