ENVIRONMENT - NURTURED AESTHETIC SENSIBILITY
P R A B H I N D E R L A L L
An Artist of Serenity From the time, the man came to existence, he has been involved in doing experiments in life to cope up with various situations. In modern times, experimentation and speed has made its existence felt in a big way. It has influenced every field of life including the field of art. Today the artist are doing a lot of experimentation and innovations in their fields. Prabhinder Lall is one such artist. whose immense interest in experimentation has enabled him to give a new dimension to his vision and modes of expression. This Chandigarh based artist started his career in art in the midseventies. He tried his hand at making Drawing Collage, Print Making, Painting and Photography. He has travelled a long way to accomplish his creativity and talent. His recent works show varied hues of his long experience in the field of art. Lall’s work depict his varying moods. His work are marked with brand of vast landscape scenes embedded with architectural arrangements. Serenity prevails all around. Mountains with isolated houses, without habitats, are often seen in his works. Wider skies are filled with graded tones. And that catches and spells the magic on the viewer. Some times the mood of the work is so intense that one feels the artist is in solitude and wants to wander in search of space and only space. Many a time, the mountains are transformed into feminine figures resting in the open. Dark blue, green, grey and purple colours give the works a mystique look. His is a world of romance. He lets his imagination fly as fast as he can, to reach an open place, where there is no one to live in the isolated houses. At few times, a pair of lovers is shown enjoying the ecstasy of the bliss of love. In such works, if the lovers are shown separated, their inner urge to get united is conveyed, conveniently. They are tied to one another, in one way or the other. His world is so strange that sometimes figure may not need to hide themselves under clothes. In some of these works, the shadows of the lovers are made very long. This makes the work more dream-like Perhaps the artist, here, realizes about the real and unreal existence of the universe. In some of his, works he has made use of air brush to create textural effect that create illusion as if the same object is present at more than one plane, at a time. This further, adds to the mystique effect of his works. Prabhinder Lall is engaged in evolving his innovative multi-media techniques. He, Generally, he uses non-conventional techniques in his works. He may go for water proof inks – pen on canvas, paste clippings on canvas, assemble pieces of different objects and paste on a surface use stencils, spray (air brush) to create texture, use squeeze or card board piece or a metal strip to spread colours on the canvas or otherwise, may scratch the surface to create the required textural quality and so on. His work has been acknowledge and displayed throughout the country. His works have been collected by many museums, art galleries and private collectors. ‘The end of journey is no where the points, where was expect the end would be, life again begins from there’. Jang S. Verman
ENVIRONMENT-NURTURED AESTHETIC SENSIBILITY
The work dated 1989, “Untitled”, done in acrylic and ink on paper, speaks volumes for a jubilant derivation of the subject-matter from the salubrious environs of Chandigarh. The two cylindrical columns, bold and massive as they are, bear kinship with the monumental portals of the High Court building designed by Le Corbusier. The off-white wall against which they appear underscores the importance of Space in the architectonics of Creativity––as much of the Built-Environment as of the painted canvas. The central feature, an irregularly-outlined painting, reminds one of how Le Corbusier made Art an integral part of Modern Architecture. The foreground is a nebulous agglomeration indicating the exciting Act of Creation rather than the created artefact. The left-side column is sheared along with a poster stuck on it––to underscore the urge to sever human aesthetic sensibility from the placental membranes of the environment which have given birth to it. The whole work pulsates with a superior order such as is the raison d' etre of all sensible existence. “Untitled” - Acrylic & Ink on Paper - 56 x 76 Cms. 1989
In “Mother and Daughter” (1993) Lall experiments with the use of airbrush. The air-brush was the tool which he was using during his Training in Applied Art. The figures are realistic, but delicately stylised. Here the Sun (symbolised by the vast sky) is predominant. The hills and the waterbody, and the brick inclined wall are all familiar images of the Chandigarh ambience. It is an uncluttered orderly work. Human figures depict the urge for kinship with Humanity.
“Mother & Daughter” - Acrylic & Ink on Paper - 56 x 76 CMs. 1993
“Feminine Beauty” (1998), done with ink on canvas, shows skilfully the inherent human urge for an uninhibited appreciation of all aesthetic enchantment that the human female casts on the male psyche. The leaves, along with the exposed breasts, fill the hard-edged reality of manmade environment. The shadow of the figure on an incompletely-built wall is reminiscent of Le Corbusier's “Tower of Shadows” which forms part of the Chandigarh's Capitol Complex. The planes suggest Space; the blank background, the Sun; and the leaves, the Verdure––in artisticallytransmuted visual imagery.
“Feminine Beauty” - Pen & Ink on Canvas - 18 x 30 CMs. 1998
"Inspiration" - 2004 Work, done in acrylic and ink on paper, divides the rectangle into six squares. Each has the ambience of a sky charged with the energy of newborn stars. Each is differently rendered, with focus on the middle part bathed in luminescence. The squares are held together by the boldly-bordered container rectangle, but related to each other by their identical geometric shape. This manmade-natural relationship between the elements of Creativity is heightened by the presence of carefully-sited straight lines, horizontal in each of the two left side squares, on the right side. This breaking of the pictorial space is not unlike the splitting of the nucleus––in order to unleash elemental energy that creates a myriad forms, endlessly.
Inspiration - Acrylic & Ink on Paper - 56 x 76 CMs. Year 2004
“Vanishing Green” (2006), done in acrylic colours, extends Lall's repertoire to refreshing new vistas of artistic perception. Combining the geometrical shapes with bravura of brushwork, he conjures up images of Modern Urbanism with its characteristic fast-paced life-style steeped in colourful confusion. I see in this work the important fact of transition from the regimented stylisation of his earlier works to the gay abandon of a highly-relaxed method of painting. The former warrants utmost executive control, the latter exploits an utter lack of it. One ends up in mechanical precision; the other expresses savage spontaneity.
Vanishing Green- Acrylic on Paper - 61 x 65 CMs 2006
“Sun Bath” is a very large board, which has been painted in oil colours. The exaggerated size is chosen to provide a vast arena for some kind of activist painting. The relatively small size of the Sun-Bather heightens the scale of the surrounding landscape. The brilliant hues, which accentuate the open (and somewhat sombre) environs, express joie de vivre that springs forth automatically, once conscious control is suspended in favour of the unique playfulness of the Act of Creation. Patches of sea and sky turn the landscape into an island which suggests that Life is a signature of an individual's uniqueness, and achieves its zesty fullness only when it is cut off from all mundane existence. This work marks a turning point in Prabhinder Lall's career, and arouses one's hope of seeing him explore exiting new horizons of significant Creativity in the years to come.
Sun Bath- Oil on Board - 120 x 240 CMs. 2007
DR SS BHATTI, Principal (retd.), Chandigarh College of Architecture; AIFACS-Honoured Veteran Artist Ex-Dean, Faculty of Design & Fine Arts, Panjab University; & Former Official Art Critic of The Tribune, Chandigarh. E-MAIL: ssbhatti24@yahoo.com PHONE: +91-172-2773258 [R]
Environment - Acrylic & Ink on Board 64 x 64 CMs. Year 2009
Vanishing Green Acrylic on Canvas 93x126 CMs 2009
Solitude 08 Acrylic on Canvas 63x63 CMs 2009
Urban Facade Acrylic on Canvas 45x63 CMs 2009
Solitude 01 Acrylic on Canvas 63x63 CMs 2009
Architectural Space Acrylic on Canvas 93x93 CMs 2009
Structure-Acrylic on Board - 63x63 CMs. 2008
Midnight Serenity-Acrylic on Canvas - 93x93 CMs 2008
Midnight Serenity-Scape Acrylic on Canvas-98x98 CMs 2008
Sea scape- Acrylic on Board- 63x63 CMs 2008
Sound of Love - Acrylic on Canvas - 93X124 cms -2008
Lipsick, Acrylic on Canvas - 63x63 cms -2008
Urban Serenity - Acraylic on Canvas - 126x126 CMs. 2008
Vanishing Green - Oil on Board - 94x126 CMs 2009
Serenity 08, Acrylic on canvas 93x126 cms 2008
Serenity 09, Acrylic on canvas 93x126 cms 2008
Architectural space Acrylic on canvas 45x65 cms 2009
PRABHINDER LALL BORN
July, 6 1955, Ratainda, Distt. Nawanshahar, Punjab, India
QUALIFICATION Diploma (Five Years) in Applied Art, from the Govt. college of Art, Chandigarh, 1979 Recognised by the All-India Council for technical education, New Delhi equivalent to the Master's degree in Applied Art, Panjab University, Chandigarh. AWARDS 1980-1983 1981 1986 1990-96 1991 1992-1996 1993 2002-03 2004
All India Exhibition of Original Drawings Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy Award, 1981 58th All India AIFACS Award, All India Exhibition of Art Award by IAFA, Amritsar, 63rd All India AIFACS Award All India Exhibition, Himachal State Museum, Shimla Annual Exhibition Award, Punjab LKA Chandigarh, 1993 Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademy & AIFACS Award, 20024th Northern Region camlin Art Exhibition Award (Professional Category, Mixed Media)
EXHIBITION INTERNATIONAL LEVEL Tellus Art Org. Fusion Group Show by Swedish And Punjabi Artists in Collaboration with The Chandigarh Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh-01-05 March 2009 EXHIBITION NATIONAL LEVEL 1978, 1980,1986, 1991,1997,2000 1978, 1983,1987,1988, 1991,1994,1996,1999, 2007,2008 1979-1980,1981, 1983, 1992 1980,1981,1983,1985 1987-1989, 1992,1996 1995 2003 2004 2008-2009
All India Exhibition of Art AIFACS, New Delhi. All India Exhibitions by Indian Academy of Fine Art, Amritsar.
National Exhibitions of Art, New Delhi All India Exhibitions of Drawings by Govt. Museum & Art Gallery and Govt. College of Art, Chandigarh. Annual Exhibitions of State Museum, Shimla All India Drawing Exhibitions, PLKA & NZCC Octave India Exhibition, Fine Art Museum, Punjab Univ. Chandigarh. Octave India Exhibition, LKA, New Delhi. Cross Country, National Exhibition of Art curated by Priya Darshini Sharma, November 20-30, 2008 at Durbar Hall Art Centre, Kochi, Kerala. January 16-26, 2009 at Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi by Kerala Lalithkala Akademi, Thrissur, Kerala
EXHIBITION STATE LEVEL 1980-1982, 1985 Annual Exhibition by PLKA Chandigarh , 1989,1990,1991 1993 (Invited Section),1995 1982 Annual Exhibition, Punjab University, Chandigarh 1987 Chandigarh invited Artists' Exhibition by NZCC 1988 Kurukshetra Dev. Board at Hotel Mount View, Chandigarh. 1990 Graphic Print Exhibition by INDIVIDUALS, Jammu 1990 Himachal Academy of YMCA Hall Shimla. 1991 Chandigarh Artists' Exhibition, Govt Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh. 1991 Mobile Exhibition by PLKA at Hoshiarpur, Faridkkot and Malerkotla, New Delhi. 1992 All India Exhibition of Drawings organised by 'Solids' Chandigarh 1993 Sirgana - Painting Exhibition of PLKA New Delhi by PLKA - 93 1997,1978, 1980 Graphic Print Exhibition by group 8 New Delhi and Govt. Museum & Art Gallery Chandigarh at LKA New Delhi and Govt. Atr Gallery of Chandigarh. 1997 Nirantar Kala workshop cum Exhibition of Art at Punjab Kala Bhawan, Chandigarh CAMPS NATIONAL LEVEL 1979 1993 1997 2001 2001 2003 2008
Carol Summer Print Making workshop : Govt. College of Art Chandigarh and U.S. International Communication Agency New Delhi at Chandigarh. Painters Camp at Naggar Kullu Manali by NZCC, Patiala All India Painters camp at Kud Patni Top organised by J&K Academy of Art Culture and Languages Jammu (J&K) 7-16 June, 1997 AIFACS All India Senior Artists Camp, New Delhi. Three days 'Artists' Camp at Andreta, Kangra (H.P.) Birth centenary of Sir Sobha Singh organised by North Zone Cultural Centre, Patiala November 2-7, 2007 National Painters Camp at Peterhoff, Shimla, organised by NZCC and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 6-10 August 2003 National Painters Camp at Hotel Casino, Willington Island Kochi, Kerala (cgh earth experience) reg. from September 05th to 14th 2008
CAMPS STATE LEVEL 1991 1993 1995-1996 1996 2002 2009
Painting Workshop by Chandigarh LKA in Chandigarh. Art for Hospital' Camp of PGI Chandigarh. Artist Camp at Mukatsar, Distt. Faridkot, Punjab Nirantar Kala Workshop� Punjab Kala Bhawan, Chandigarh. Drawings Workshop by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy on the premises of Govt. College of Art, Chandigarh. Paintings Workshop led by Eminent Painter Paramjit Singh organised by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademy and Chandigarh Art Heritage Festival from 29th March to 1st April, 2009
COLLECTIONS 1983198919891989 1991 199219951995-97 1999200420062007-
Govt. Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh - Architectural Space. Museum and Art Gallery Punjab University, Patiala. - Drawing Untitled. North Zone Culture Centre, Patiala - Drawing Untitled Semi Conductor Ltd. Chandigarh. - Collage _Untitled 1 & 2 North Zone Culture Centre, Patiala - Drawing Untitled Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi. - Untitled - 33 HP State Deptt. of Art, Culture & Languages, Shimla. (H.P.), Mother & Daughters Himchal State Museum. Shimla - Drawing - Serenity Freemans, Ludhiana. - Landscape Elevation Advertising Private Limited Chandigarh -Waterfall VLC Tutorials Private Limited Chandigarh - SunBath Museum and Art Gallery Panjab University, Chandigarh. - Painting - Untitled.
JOB EXPERIENCE 19731978-1979 1977-1979, 1979-1980 1980-1981 1981-1982 1982 1982-1986 2000-2004
Planners' Consortium Chandigarh - apprentice architectural draftsman & perspective maker Planners de Moderne' Chandigarh & Kenya as Perspective Maker and Interior Designing & Display Marketing Advertising Circle, Chandigarh as Graphic Artist. Haryana Financial Corporation, Chandigarh as a publicity Assistant Mass Communications Associates, Chandigarh as Visualizer. Alfred Allan Advertising, New Delhi as Graphic Artist. Lintas India, New Delhi, as Graphic Artist, on Contract Basis. Marketing Mix Group India Limited, Chandigarh as Senior Visualizer. Elevation Advertising Private Limited as Art Director.
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PRABHINDER LALL 2006, Sector 15-C, Chandigarh 160015 Phone : 0172-2772040 Mobile : 098553-73654 lallpaintings@gmail.com www.prabhinderlall.com