An Eclectic Embrace - reciprocal visual dialogues of contemporary artists

AN ECLECTIC EMBRACE

17TH OCT - 31ST OCT

reciprocal visual dialogues of contemporary artists

ATUL MAHAJAN ANIRBAN MISHRA GOUTAM PAL J . JOSEPH DHAYALAN MONTY SENARATH COLOMBAGE SANJEEWA LIYANAGE SUBRATA GHOSH TANMAY SANTRA TAPASI NATH VIJAYARAGHAVAN . S |

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ART CRITIC: SUDEEP GHOSH

Lane opp HITEX gate Beside Kangaroo kids school Hyderabad - 500084

Exhibition note The group exhibition entitled ‘The Eclectic Embrace’ at Gallery 78 Hyderabad, from 17 October to 31st October 2021, is a case for collegiality to purge the maladies of our times and endorse the republic of imagination with unremitting zeal.

The exhibition, showcasing the artworks of Atul Mahajan, Anirban Mishra, Goutam Pal, J. Joseph Dhayalan, Monty Senarath Colombage, Sanjeewa Liyanage, Subrata Ghosh, Tanmay Santra, Tapasi Nath, and Vijayaraghavan.S is a multi-nuanced conversation charting tensional referentiality of pandemic-induced uncertainties, injustices and suffering, censorship and ideological intolerance, cultural dislocation, and identity politics.

The works of these ten artists are unabashedly experimental as much as they tease out with devastating precision the life’s intriguing paradoxes buried at some crossroads. The artistic voices are both defiantly confrontational and deeply contemplative in nurturing a discerning space for the plurality of cultures, the triumph of empathetic imagination, and the urgent realities of the uninflected actual. They are unsparing in their enduring commitment to envisioning the lost paradise of shared humanity.

-Sudeep Ghosh | sudeepmailsu@gmail.com

Atul Mahajan Nature is redemptive in reclaiming what is primordial but elusive against an urbanscape where lapsing woefully into any consumerist lingo renders the élan vital of elemental forces susceptible to the obesity of human avarice.

AFTER ENLIGHTENMENT, 25x22 inches, Time Machine ,paper, ink and acrylic sheet, Year - 2019 [c] Atul Mahajan

Atul Mahajan Atul Mahajan is a visual artist and holds an MFA in creative Sculpture from M.S. University Baroda .he is holding Bendre Hussain scholarship Mumbai. H.K kejriwal young artist merit Award, Inlaks Indian Art Award and Bodhi art Award, Mumbai.

He has had major exhibitions and has participated in various shows Nationaly and internationally, . He currently lives and works in Baroda (Gujarat) atleast.atul@gmail.com

Anirban Mishra Walls are closing in! A deterrent to wandering souls. However, the syllables of suffering harness and rekindle the untapped letters of empathy during corona-time!

Hope, Mixed media on canvas, 16x36 inches, 2021, [c] Anirban Mishra

The eternal touch, Mixed media on canvas, 22x32 inches, 2021, [c] Anirban Mishra

Freedom of fly, Mixed media on canvas, 16x30 inches, 2021, [c] Anirban Mishra

Flower with gold, Mixed media on canvas, 22x22 inches, 2021, [c] Anirban Mishra

The Red Bloom, Mixed media on canvas, 24x30 inches, 2021, [c] Anirban Mishra

Anirban Mishra Anirban Mishra is completed his B.F.A in painting from The Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship in 2017 and completed his M.F.A in painting from S.N.School of Arts and Communication, HCU in 2019.

He have participated in several exhibitions in India and Abroad. anirban070495@gmail.com

Goutam Pal

Lashings of longing wither into nothingness. Desires drift into the recesses of truth nestling the fledglings, nurturing the food for ontological living!

Goutam Pal I am Goutam Pal, an artist based in Hyderabad.

I had finished my MFA in Painting from Santiniketan in 2011 and a regular art practitioner since then. I have participated many national and international shows and had my first solo in 2018. I work on diverse mediums and techniques to expand the boundaries of visual language in my practice.

I try to create a paradox of human behaviors from everyday events without a direct representation of human beings. Sometimes it’s autobiographical and leads to a magical representation to construct an invented situation, carrying contents from both art history and memory. pal.goutam81@gmail.com

J. Joseph Dhayalan A minuscule strand spins a yarn unspooling a latitude of somber ruminations. What is unspoken sits on the threshold of a rhythm, pining for the virtuoso to strum the strings!

Frozen River, 3.5’x1.75’ ft, Acrylic on Canvas, [c] Joseph Dayalan.J

Untitled, 2’x1.5’ ft, Acrylic on Canvas [c] Joseph Dayalan.J

A little drop, 2’x2.5’ ft, Acrylic on Canvas [c] Joseph Dayalan.J

Untitled, 2’x1.5’ ft, Acrylic on Canvas [c] Joseph Dayalan.J

Untitled, 1’x1.5’ ft, Acrylic on Canvas [c] Joseph Dayalan.J

J. Joseph Dhayalan J. Joseph Dhayalan is a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate from Chennai College of Fine Arts, Madras University. He was the editor of the little magazine in tamil for Art & Literature "ச ர " (square). Participated in National level Seminar cum Workshop conducted by National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Delhi College of Art. Participated in Lalit Kala Akademi exhibitions. After few years of self exile from the art world for personal reasons, now, vigorously working in art . sculptorjoe@gmail.com

Subrata Ghosh To be awakened to the alchemy of change is to plough the paradox between paucity and plenty, to plunge into the cleavage between civilization and crisis!

Flight-1

From the land of Spoon & Fork

OCCUPATION

EXISTENCE

Flight-3

Civilisation 1

Civilisation 2

Subrata Ghosh Subrata Ghosh is a visual artist and holds an MFA in painting from M.S. University Baroda.

He has achieved many recognitions including UNESCOASCHBERG bursaries pour les Artistes’(Paris), Invited to Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Georgia, U.S.A, Fellowship from Vermont Studio Center, U.S.A, Conducted workshop in Alfrick College in The Hague, Netherlands. He has had major exhibitions and has participated in various shows Nationally and internationally. He currently lives and works in Kolkata. subrata6g@gmail.com

Monty Senarath Colombage

When the sputtering stress spill over into the cathartic poise, what lurks behind the chiaroscuro of experiences is the tortuous past in teary disbelief!

antasy - 1, Pen & Inkwith water colour, 2020 [c] Monty Colombage

Fantasy - 2, Pen & Inkwith water colour, 11x16 inches 2020 [c] Monty Colombage

Fantasy - 3, Pen & Inkwith water colour, 11x16 inches 2020 [c] Monty Colombage

Fantasy - 4, Pen & Inkwith water colour, 11x16 inches 2020 [c] Monty Colombage

Fantasy - 5, Pen & Inkwith water colour, 11x16 inches 2020 [c] Monty Colombage

Fantasy - 6, Pen & Inkwith water colour, 11x16 inches 2020 [c] Monty Colombage

Fantasy - 7, Pen & Inkwith water colour, 11x16 inches 2020 [c] Monty Colombage

Monty Senarath Colombage Monty Senarath Colambage is a senior ceramic artist from Sri Lanka. He is a holder of BFA - University of Visual and Performing Art. He had been a Creative Director for internationally recognized brands in Sri Lanka and Abroad. In his academic career he has worked as the Asst. Director Ceramics in VAFA Sri Lanka. Today, in his fourth decade as a ceramic artist, having his own studio and workshop of Ceramic Art, he trains young artists and facilitate who practice ceramic art. montyds2009@gmail.com

Sanjeewa Liyanage

In the marriage of aspiration and actuality, life comes to a standstill till it hits the coastline of the grand narrative imploring unfolding with an eye on the characters stranded offshore!

Marriage-1, Mixed Media, 12x17 inches, 2020, [c] Sanjeewa Liyanage

Marriage-2, Mixed Media, 12x17 inches, 2020, [c] Sanjeewa Liyanage

Marriage-3, Mixed Media, 12x17 inches, 2020, [c] Sanjeewa Liyanage

Marriage Proposal - 4, Mixed Media, 11x14 inches, 2020, [c] Sanjeewa Liyanage

Marriage Proposal - 5, Mixed Media, 11x14 inches, 2020, [c] Sanjeewa Liyanage

Marriage Proposal - 6, Mixed Media, 11x14 inches, 2020, [c] Sanjeewa Liyanage

Marriage Proposal - 7, Mixed Media, 11x14 inches, 2020, [c] Sanjeewa Liyanage

Sanjeewa Liyanage Sanjeewa Liyanage is a Sri Lankan visual artist holding a BFA from University of Delhi and a MVA specialized in Sculpture from MSU Baroda. Among his 25 years long career he has been excelled as an artist, curator and a teacher in Sri Lanka and Abroad. While his artwork are acquired in many state and private collections, he collects and maintains his own collection too. jeewaliyanage@gmail.com

Tanmay Santra

It is the semiotics of silence where a seeker’s sauntering ends up in a maze of metaphors! Heard the shifting gears on the epistemological highway!

ome, Land -V, , Water colour on paper, 14 x 10.5 inches, 2020 [c] Tanmay Santra

ome, Land -VI, Water colour on paper, 14 x 10.5 inches, 2020 [c] Tanmay Santra

Home, Land -1, Set of 4, 8.5 x8.5 inches each, Water colour on paper, 2020 [c] Tanmay Santra

Home, Land -VII, Set of 4, 8.5 x8.5 inches each, Water colour on paper, 2020 [c] Tanmay Santra

Home, Land -VIII, Set of 4, 8.5 x8.5 inches each, Water colour on paper, 2020 [c] Tanmay Santra

Tanmay Santra Tanmay Santra is an artist, teacher and occasional writer. He studied Painting from Indian College of Arts & Draftsmanship, Kolkata and MFA in Painting from Kala Bhavan, VisvaBharati, Santiniketan. During an artistic practice of nearly two decades, he has had two Solo shows and participated in many national and international exhibitions. He has been teaching at Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication, University of Hyderabad since 2007. tanmaysantra@gmail.com

Tapasi Nath

In the enterprise of knowledge, what is mediated by perceptual reality gets eventually dissolved into subliminal reality as the anorexic knower strives for the receptacle of esoteric elegance, its jasmine-scented touch!

Garden-III, Fiber glass (Relief Sculpture), 34x33x4 inches,, 2020 [c] Tapasi Nath

Garden- I, 15x14x2.5 inches, Fiber Glass, Relief Sculpture [c]Tapasi Nath

Garden- II, 10.5x10.5x2 inches, Fiber Glass, Relief Sculpture [c]Tapasi Nath

King Bird, Bronze, 11x12x10 inches, [c] Tapasi Nath

An unknown stranger - III, 12x11.10 inches, Bronze, [c]Tapasi Nath

Garden-VI, 24x24x4inches, Fiber glass (Relief) [c]Tapasi Nath

Garden-XII, 24x24x4inches, Fiber glass (Relief) [c]Tapasi Nath

Tapasi Nath Tapasi Nath is a practicing artist and educator. She did her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Sculpture from Kala Bhavan, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.

She received Junior Fellowship in the field of visual art from Govt. of India in 2007. During an artistic practice of over a decade, she has participated in many major exhibitions. tapasinath@gmail.com

Vijayaraghavan.S

A rendering of a socio-political topography where, enflamed with synesthesia, the problematics of the body-mind duality gets pruned away harvesting yields of post-modern self-reflexivity!

Traversing reminiscence -1, 5.8 x8.2 inches Mixed media on paper (diptych) 2019

[c] vijayaraghavan.S

Traversing reminiscence -2, 29,7 x 42 cm (each) Mixed media on paper (diptych) 2019 [c] vijayaraghavan.S

Signage to abstraction, Photo-montage, acrylic with QR bars on Epson inkjet print on fine art paper, 20”x22” [c] vijayaraghavan.S

Melting abstraction, watercolour, acrylic, ricepaper and mixed media with epson injekt print on epson fine art paper, 18x24 inches 2018

Vijayaraghavan.S Vijayaraghavan.S is an Indian based visual artist focused on digital art, video art, stopmotion animation, drawing and painting.

His core body of works expresses the search of human life and existence of exposing the dual forces or binaries operating in the dayto-day life, and the conceptual ideas of reciprocal visual dialogues of dehumanizing in the urban context. He has nominated for audience and jury award in the 60seconds short film festival organized by the Danish Art Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Honorary Diploma in 2nd International Exhibition of Small Format Art, Lebanon vijay.svhavan@gmail.com

Sudeep Ghosh Art Critic |

SudeeSudeep Ghosh teaches at The Aga Khan Academy Hyderabad (India). His pedagogical articles, poems, research papers, translations and art criticisms have appeared in international journals like Aesthetica Magazine (UK), Le Dame Art Gallery (UK), Canadian Literature (University of British Columbia, Canada), Wasafiri (Open University, London) and national journals like Teacher Plus, Indian Literature, The Knowledge Review, Gandhian Perspectives, The Punch Magazine, to name a few. His poem is published in Witness (The Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent, 2021). He recently presented talks at The American Comparative Literature Association's 2021 Annual Meeting on the forum ‘Gender and Religion, Ethics, and Literature’ & Sahir Ludhianvi Centenary Conference at the University of the Frazer (Canada) on the topic ‘Sahir Ludhianvi’s poetry is Audenesque in catalysing a cultural reclamation against the crises of pluralistic consciousness’. sudeepmailsu@gmail.com

AN ECLECTIC EMBRACE

17TH OCT - 31ST OCT

reciprocal visual dialogues of contemporary artists

Atul Mahajan | Anirban Mishra | Goutam Pal | J . Joseph Dhayalan Monty Senarath Colombage | Sanjeewa Liyanage | Subrata Ghosh Tanmay Santra | Tapasi Nath | Vijayaraghavan . S