ENKITA ARTS Presents

"Of Dancing Hues and Resonating Metaphors"

An art exhibition featuring the works of 20 artists
 

Curated by Dr Alka Raghuvanshi.

AlexisbouCher, Alka Raghuvanshi, Asit Patnaik, Babita Gupta, Bikash Poddar, Deepak Ambuj, Dharmendra Rathore, Gouri Sahni, Gunjan and Rahul, Indu Tripathy, Manisha Gawade, Niren SenGupta, Sanjay Sharma, Seema Kohli, Shobha Broota, Shridhar Iyer, Siddharth, Subrata Biswas, Yusuf, Zargar Zahoor

The Exhibition will open on
15th May 2008 and will continue till 19th May 2008
From 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
At Epicentre
Apparel House, 44 Institutional Area, Gurgaon
Ph.: 9810444174

About Of Dancing Hues and Resonating Metaphors

Colours are both simple and complex. They mean different things to different people at different times in different cultures. For the perception is always personal, sometimes universal and yet, can conjure endless variations to express emotions and ideas. The works featured in this show are of artists who have used colour with a passionate abandon wherein the hues have found their spectral balance as they are juxtaposed in seemingly clashing disparities that recount a million tales. The artists in this show have taken a tint from nature, a dash here or a blob there to create a whole idiom that is theirs alone and yet it lingers as part of the memory from another time and place…

The exhibits featured in the show are remarkable for their exploration of capturing metaphors and turning them into creative manifestations that resonate in no uncertain way. The form and content chosen by the artists is novel as they discover newer paths to present the expressions of their aspirations and realities.

                Curated by India's first trained art curator, Dr Alka Raghuvanshi, the exhibition will feature nearly 30 paintings 20 artists. The exhibition features an interesting amalgam of some of the most creative contemporary artists of the buoyant Indian art scene. They have made their presence felt at the international level and are recognized as the harbingers of growth and change. The show is replete with an international flavour, by way of inclusion of the highly acclaimed French artist AlexibouCher, who features with his digital prints.

The list of artists include some of the most respected and buoyant names on the contemporary Indian scene today: Rubbing shoulders with Niren Sen Gupta, Siddarth, Shobha Broota, are Dharmendra Rathore, Seema Kohli, Manisha Gawade and Sridhar Iyer. The artists whose works have got them rave reviews on the international scene are designers Rahul-Gunjan, whose work in the creation of textiles has won them many accolades.

The exhibition features an important component by way of seven women artists whose work stands out for both form and content. The journey of women artists the world over has been accepted as an important expression of their reality tinged with their hopes and aspirations. Increasingly the world is waking up to the fact that the feminine sensibilities are diametrically different from their male counterparts. For the feminine gaze does perceive and interpret given situations differently and nowhere is it more starkly reflected than in the most visual imagery that constitutes painting by women. "Their concerns are shared, they are looking at urban and rural reality as it explodes and implodes around them like land mines programmed to go off with a whisper. But within this cacophony of silence, they make their statement in definitive ways," says the curator.