Tuesday, July 14, 2015

PAINTINGS/DRAWINGS

TOPOGRAPHY OF CONSCIOUSNESS










50 X 50 CMS , Acrylic and Collage on Canvas

Budapest, Hungary (28th Dec to 11th Jan 2010)

“Terms of cultural engagement, whether antagonistic or affiliative, are produced performatively. The representation of difference must not be hastily read as the reflection of pre-given ethnic or cultural traits set in the fixed tablet of tradition. The social articulation of difference, from the minority perspective, is a complex, on-going negotiation that seeks to authorize cultural hybridities that emerge in moments of historical transformation.”
Homi K. Bhabha: the Liminal Negotiation of Cultural Difference.
Photography of the details by Neil Chowdhury
Evolution of Budapest-II, 2010, 24X32cms, Collage









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Evolution of Budapest-I, 2010, 24X32 cms, Collage.








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Some Work in process.......... Gouache on Paper. 24X32 cms.


















































































TOPOGRAPHY OF GENESIS

'Topography of Genesis' explores the idea of evolution of Life to identify the various possibilities of engaging with the dynamics of 'Form' in the process of creation. As an artist I believe that every form has an ability to expand into infinite 'marks' that connects every other form that exists within and beyond our human perceptions. The aspect of imagining the 'infinite' and connecting to it in metaphorical sense using the medium of painting is something that fascinates me. 
Elements of Life that have a sense of connection to the personal in relation to all that exists is juxtaposed  and portrayed using mark making processes in the form of symbols in my work. Sensory perceptions and their associated tactility are explored in terms of medium and print making techniques.

Some of these paintings are done at the Henry Luce III Arts and Religion Centre, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, USA. These works were parallely exhibited in Tamarind Gallery in New York in Dec 2007. While some of these are done here in New Zealand and the rest while I was in North East Africa.



TPG#17 Acrylic on Canvas, 50"X50", 2009


TPG#16 Acrylic on Canvas, 50"X50", 2009



TPG #15, Acrylic on Canvas, 50"X50, 2009

                                              TPG#14 Acrylic on Canvas, 50"X50", 2008


TPG #13 Acrylic on Canvas, 50"X50", 2008



TPG #12 Acrylic on Canvas, 50"X 50", 2008



TPG#11, Acrylic on Canvas, 50"X50", 2008



TPG#10 Acrylic on Canvas, 48"X50", 2007




TPG#9 Acrylic on Canvas 36" X 36" 2007




TPG#8 Acrylic on Canvas 48"X50", 2007



TPG#7 Acrylic on Canvas 48" X 50", 2007



TPG#6 Acrylic on Canvas 48" X 50", 2007



                                                    TPG #5 Acrylic on Canvas 36"X36", 2007


TPG#2 Acrylic on Canvas 48" X 50", 2007



TPG#1 Acrylic on Canvas 36" X 36", 2007



"Perfectious" Acrylic on Canvas 120 X 90 Cms, 2007



"X and Y" Acrylic on Canvas 80 X 80 Cms, 2007


"Gateway to Memories" Acrylic on Canvas 60 X 80 Cms 2003



"Enlightenment" Acrylic on Canvas 60 X 80 Cms, 2003



"Beach" Acrylic on Canvas 60 X 80 Cms, 2004



"Signature" Acrylic on Canvas 90 X 120 Cms, 2004




EGGXHIBITION The thoughts of a 'human society' as a complicated web of problems... the unnerving emotional stress and strain...the feeling of possession, delineation - alienation, Violence...aggression, decline of moral values... and the nuclear age leaves a sense of insecurity in the hearts and minds of the human beings. The idea of Creation ...the Genesis of living-form... the Evolution...the Synthesis of Souls that unite into a form, replaces the 'being' that exists as an image...an idea ...and finally as a manifestation that completely looks 'realistic.' What could be said of an illusion that is real? And what could be said about the imagination that proves the real to be unrealistic/dream? Egg to me is a symbol of 'Life' that is neutral in its being-devoid of any gender specification. My basic concerns about ‘Humanity’ exist in the aspects of neutralising the idea into representing and symbolising the 'aboutness' of forms which relate to us as 'Personal.' The contradicting elements displaced from their existing context reappearing in a space provided, juxtaposing with contradicting images forming into different readability. These in turn refer to the very notion of life and its impending values of existence. My works try to attempt and emphasize several fundamental ideas of humanistic values. 'Reflecting the cultural matrix of human existence and the dialectic overlapping of the context is paraphrased into experimental definitions. This does not, perhaps, invoke the immutable truth but probably signify the truth of regulating a meaning- at times Universal.'
Duppati Sudhir Kumar. 2002, Eritrea.
Enlightened, 60X80 Cms, Acrylic on canvas.



Possess, 70X80 Cms, Pen/Ink on paper.


Border, 60X80 Cms, Acrylic on canvas.


The Birth, 60X240 Cms, Dry Pastels on Paper.






















Self Portrait, 60X80 Cms, Acrylic on canvas.


Grafted, 60X80 Cms, Dry pastel on paper.

Transcient, 60X80 Cms, Acrylic on canvas.


Angel, 60X80 Cms, Dry pastel on paper.

'Boarder', Dry Pastels on paper, 60X80 Cms.

'Twins', Acrylic on paper, 60X80 Cms.

'Discarded', Acrylic on Handmade paper, 80X100 Cms.




 'Untitled', Charcoal on paper, 60X80 Cms

Dry Pastels on paper, Meenaz Art Gallery India and Casa Degli Italia Eritrea, 2002.


'The Last Judgment' 2002. Acrylic on Paper, 120X180 Cms, Meemaz Art gallery, India and Casa Degli Italia, Eritrea.


eginning of an end', Acrylic on paper, 60X80 Cms, 2002, Meenaz art Gallery, India and Casa Degli italia, Eritrea


'What seems to be eternity' Egg Series, 60X80 Cms, Dry Pastels on Paper, Meenaz Gallery , India and Casa Degli Italia, Eritrea, 2002.

'Sucidal', Egg Series, 60X80 Cms, Dry Pastels on paper, 2001. Meenaz Art Gallery, India and Casa Degli italia, Eritrea.


'untitled' Egg Series, 2001, 60X80 Cms, Dry pastels on paper.


'Existence', 1998, 68X 76 Cms, Dry pastel on paper.


Soul Portrait, Charcoal on Paper, 70X82 Cms, 2002. Meenaz Art Gallery, India and Casa Degli Italia, Eritrea.












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