Wednesday, November 25, 2009

4th Contemporary Art Fair

Kindly visit Travancore Palace to view my work in Habiart Foundation section at the 4th Contemporary Art Fair, New Delhi (26th-29th Nov 2009).

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Twleve Months

Twleve Months, Enamel paint on fiberglass, 30 to 45 cms high, 2009



Twelve Months is about the sudden rush of disorientation I felt after moving from one city to another. I tried to represent hectic life in claustrophobic city that never sleeps with the outburst of my different emotions in coping up with life. Each emotion reflects events that have happened over the period of time, that has left strong impressions on me.  


Friday, November 13, 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009

France

Discovered France with Stephanie and enjoyed each bit of it! 

Bookaroo Children's Literature Festival 2008






Here are the images of "Picturoo" Group Exhibition of Book Illustrations at Bookaroo Festival (22nd-23rd November 2008) at Sanskriti Anandgram, Mehrauli Gurgaon Road in New Delhi. In the festival many Indian publishers showcased three of their best artists in a group show. My work was put by Tulika Publishers.

Field trip to McLeodGanj


Field trip to study Buddhist settlement in McLeodGanj
The 14th Dalai Lama found Himachal Pradesh as an ideal place to establish his “capital in exile” at McLeodGanj after he escaped from Tibet in 1959 and took refuge in India. I did series of drawings and spoke to many people. These sketches were done as part of a self exploratory field study, by visiting Mcleodganj a couple of times in a period of three years. Here are few sketches out of several drawings done during my stay there.  






Ladakh


Visual Diary

"Visual Diary" solo show at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Center, New Delhi

Raised in Delhi and relocating to claustrophobic Mumbai city opened doors to new culture that led me to document day to day life in sketchbooks. This in-turn churned up to spontaneous artistic expression seamlessly shedding it out by combining different embedded events that have affected my life- consciously or subconsciously. This documentation was shown as a solo show titled “Visual Diary” at the Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi. 
 
The exhibition comprising of paintings, drawings, video art and sculptures done in past few years, was about loosening chaos in mind by translating day to day life in the form of a diary. The body of work has certain specific reflections of events which have happened over the period of time that has left strong impressions on the artist. These embedded events have affected life consciously or subconsciously and has urged me to collectively document it with different visual media. 








Rome



Pushkar

Mumbai






Bhadra Fort

Environmental Perception field study in and around Bhadra Fort in Ahmedabad.




Boond (The Drop)

Boond, Short Animated Film

Awards:
Silver Conch (International), Mumbai International Film Festival, India

First Prize, Indian Documentary Producers' Association, Mumbai, India 

Synopsis: 
An entire life is encapsulated in a drop that forms to perish on to the earth and rejoin the water from which it originated. The film depicts the nostalgic memory of a person and shows death as a loss. Its a tribute to a school friend who succumbed to lung cancer.

Link:
BOOND, Animated Short Film