Jayanta and his new Installation

Jayanta sent me this pic of his art Installation.

He is standing beside his creation.

Jayanta and his exhibition "sleepless night"

The road

Hangs on nails

While walking toward moon

Ultitled

Alpins on red quilt

Jayanta says in his own word:
Compared to the endless spectrum of ever changing human civilization,my
Quantum of experience is miniscule.

I feel myself bound and tied down by the troubled and rest less mental state imposed by todays World,
I have just discovered that I am going through a very
Different visualization ,….inside the city bus, market,
When buying vegetable,inside the staffroom, shopping
Mall ,temple,mosque,or church, when roasting chiken,even during making love with my women…

Everywhere all the moments,strait penetrate my nerves,, Soporifically Iam painting a Golden sim card,which may looks like a tribes demon(ancient)
Or,,a chest shield of a unknown warrior,….. fossil of flies…

I walk across the busy footpath,over bridge ,playgrounds and parade grounds.,..I watch the setting Sun through the small window…of citybus.

Jayanta

Born in Tuichindrai, a small tribal village of tripura, Jayanta Bhattacharya grew up in a lower middle class joint family. He grew up at a time (eighties) when Tripura was passing through turbulent times due to the community clashes between tribals and Bengalis of Tripura.The continous riots, curfew and violence had a profound affect on jayanta who was then only a child.

Later on he passed out from the Govt College of Art and craft, Agartala. However his restless mind made him travel all the country like a vagabond. He visited Shantiniketan, then Orissa, New Delhi, Assam and many other places.He attended several workshops and group exhibitions.

Presently he is based at Guwahati. He has plans of starting some site-specific work and a documentation of Riang tribes of Tripura

His web site: About a Refugee

Paintings of Uday Shinde

Earthy color, dense ambient and so fresh in appearance, Uday’s paintings depict existence of pure soul through his works and huge amount of concentration he able to established. His landscapes are dense by presence and voluminous in composition with raw and very bright color. No excuses for any light shade or lose brush strokes as tone of the paintings very much focused on direct dealing with bright or raw color. So when a single color used, it comes with its own dominance. Colors used on paintings are with their own supremacy.

Two figurative paintings along side other landscapes are very imaginative yet mysterious in presence. Close up and mid close up are hardly mysterious but here in these two paintings we faced mysticism covered with romantic outline which emerged with so much maturity. No gleeful childlike innocence but innocence prevailed so simplistic way that it transmitted to audience. With raw red background, figures of these two paintings carry with them thin outline of eroticism. But sadness of eyes, submission, togetherness, and social dilemma those are emotions which generated power, integrity and sublime of these two paintings.

We may find some influence of Paul Gauguin as in use of color, density and volume but Uday very firm, honest on his approach and cultivation and it is delight for audience to watching his paintings for its captivate power.

For more information about these paintings message to: Uday.Shinde@aptaracorp.com or visit http://www.suchitraarts.com

Paintings of Vijay Adagale

On personal account I have been seen him developing his method and style time to time. These paintings are one of his high point of development. Climbed to top of the hill of realism and just stood there for self searching as it was required. On the top of hill further nothing but open sky. So with some realization and wondering, he tries to find his own path. And as result we got these paintings.

When social surroundings are all about violence and cruelty, intolerance, these series has its own mark and messages. As Buddha himself is great ambassador of peace, all paintings of this series brings ambient of peace as prime factor. We see in one of his paintings Buddha holding two men together. It is not about preaching but more about make them calm and understandable. Peoples in this painting not depict as disciples or commoner but they reflect ongoing intolerance and violence around the world. So Buddha stands here more as a metaphor or as a symbol or we can say an effective symbol of tolerance for current days. Audience can easily transcend to that ambient of peace.

Balance color with subtle in using of brush as it is his trade mark. A light blue to white gradient used in figure of Buddha which contrasts to background. The pure white shade in face of Buddha itself a central focus point of all paintings of this series. And it works as meditative focus point to audience mind and gives all paintings another level of height.

A not only feel good series but also evoked presence of inner strength of the Artist.

For more information about these paintings message to: Vijay.Adagale@aptaracorp.com or visit http://www.suchitraarts.com