ENKITA ARTS And THE METROPOLITAN HOTEL

Present

"DANCING HUES"
An art exhibition featuring the works of 30 artists

AlexisbouCher, Alka Raghuvanshi, Arvind Kumar Jha, Asit Patnaik, Babita Gupta, Baljit Chaddha, Bikash Poddar, Deepak Ambuj, Devangi Siddharth, Dharmendra Rathore, Gouri Sahni, Gopal Naamjoshi, Gunjan Arora and Rahul Jain, Indu Tripathy, Manisha Gawade, Naresh Kapuria, Niren SenGupta, Nupur Kundu, Pankaj Mohan Aggarwal, Sangeeta Singh, Sanjay Sharma, Seema Kohli, Shobha Broota, Shridhar Iyer, Siddharth, Subrata Biswas, Subrata Kundu, Sudha Pillai, Victor Vijay Kumar, Yusuf, Zargar Zahoor

The Exhibition will open on
8th May 2008 and will continue till 10th May 2008
From 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
At The Metropolitan Hotel
Bangla Sahib Road, New Delhi - 110001
Ph.: 9810444174

About Dancing Hues

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.

In the Indian context, the human intervention of colours is almost always related intrinsically to nature. What the nature didn't provide, the artist or artisan or weaver stepped in to fill in the gaps! The sophistication of the grays and browns of the Kashmir outfits snugly in synchronization with the pristine snow or the pearly whites in Kerala humbly blending with the lush verdure of the landscape or the riotous explosion of colour in arid Rajasthan, being a case in point.

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 attempt to explore dimensions of performing and visual arts in conjunction with each other is to trace the magnificent heritage of the arts especially in the sub-continent where the tradition of interdependence and free flowing influences within the arts is constant. The dance form Odissi, as it exists today, has been completely culled out from the sculptures in the temples of Puri and Konarak.

The show is replete with an international flavour where the range of artists may vary in terms of age group, but not in terms of quality. Curated by India's first trained art curator, Dr Alka Raghuvanshi, the exhibition will feature nearly 40 paintings 30 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 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 Zargar Zahoor, Deepak Ambuj, and French artist AlexibouCher and designers Rahul-Gunjan.     

The exhibition features an important component by way of 10 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.