Sight & Insights-II catalogue

SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS - II

AN EXPLORATION OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART

The idea of a group exhibition is not only to assemble a group of
artists but to bring together stories, shared experiences, myths,
beliefs and more than anything an attempt at shared collectivity, a
sense of belonging. Each of the thirty eight artists presented in this
show brings her or his own narrative and artistic practice, yet their
shared afnity is what makes this show a group show both unique
and signicant. These artists grapple with questions like personal
roots, histories, tradition, identity, plurality, gender, migration and
other complexities that they have chosen to address through their works.

This exhibition intends to showcase almost genres such as: portraits,
scenes from daily life, icons from mythology, narrative guration,
pop art, abstract art, as well as art that is not bound by any convention
or categorisation. A veritable juxtaposition of artworks, we invite
our viewers to look for their own theme and genre, as the intention
here is to present each and every artwork as a marker of its maker,els.
without any preconceived ideas or labels.

Presenting an array of artworks by contemporary artists from India
and abroad, in this exhibition the artists in their signature styles
have chosen to dene their own aesthetics. The artists featuring in
this exhibition include: Amanpreet Kaur, Anand Panchal, Anantaiah,
Anjaneyulu, Asit Patnaik, Atreyee Bhattacharjee, Bhamini Shree,
D Jayaprakash, G Subramanian, Ganesh Doddamani, Jagadish Chinthala,
Jagannath Paul, Jaya Baheti, Kamal Kamaraju, KR Santhana Krishnan,
Manjunath Kalledevar, Meghna Agarwal, Priti Samyukta, Ramakrishna G,
Rohini Reddy, Sachin Jaltare, Sachin Sagare, Sanjay Ashtaputre,
Sanjay Das, Shampa Sircar Das, Shankar Parmarthy, Shifali Mehra,
Siddharth Shingade, Sreekanth Kuruva, Srinivas Reddy, Subrata Das,
Sukanta Das, Sumanto Chowdhury, Swapna Malwade, Trupti Joshi,
U Vijay Kumar, Varsha Lendale and Vishal Joshi.

Amanpreet Kaur

Amanpreet works across media, using art as medium for
storytelling. Her art is grounded in social and political issues.
Through her art, she addresses questions about gender in a
bold, empowering palette.

Title: Self Portrait-I
Size: 16” dia with frame
Medium: Mixed media on wood

Title: self portrait-II
Size: 16” dia with frame
Medium: Mixed media on wood

Title: self Portrait-III
Size: 16” dia with frame
Medium: Mixed media on wood

Anand Panchal

Born in Latur, Maharashtra, Anand Panchal is a critically
acclaimed artist who studied at the sri J. J. School of Art in
Mumbai. Known for his incandescent art, he documents the
enduring soul of India, as seen in its indigenous culture,
beliefs and traditional.
Many of Panchal’s paintings are done in a long, narrow
format, which he describes as mimicking the gures of the
children that he is painting.

Title: Un tled
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 14"x58"

Title: Un tled
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 14"x58"

Ananthaiah

Born in 1953, Ananthaiah is a Science and Education Graduate
from Osmania University and holds a Diploma in Drawing and
Painting from Ideal Fine Art Institute, Gulbarga. He has participated
in many group shows at the Max Meuller Bhavan, Alliance Francise
and State Art Gallery in Hyderabad and group shows all over the
country.
Ananthaiah's works portray his passion for nature. In his artistic
journey spanning over three decades, Ananthaiah has portrayed
nature in many forms, in many ways. It has almost become a part
of his signature art. His art is reminiscent of older memories,
portraying humans in perfect harmony with nature, like in the
olden days. Ananthaiah’s engagement with these subjects has
resulted in an enduring simplicity and beauty of form, that is
hard to nd elsewhere.

Title:With my friends
Medium: Mixed media.
Size: 6 × 8 inches

Title: Morning talk
Medium: Mixed medium
Size: 11× 11 inches

Title: Sweet talk Title: My bes
Medium: Mixed media Medium: Mi
Size: 25 × 23 inches Size: 25 × 25

st Friends Title: The Bird with deep thought
ixed media Medium: Acrylic on canvas.
5 inches Size: 25 × 26 inches

Anjaneyulu . G

Anjaneyulu G, an artist known for his hyper-realistic nish with
a surreal touch. The artist has given an entirely new meaning to
the genre of still life. His compositions which strike as photographs
in rst glance are meticulously hand drawn paintings, some taking
even two years for completion. Turning even the most mundane
and everyday use objects into works of art is what makes
Anjaneyulu's works compelling, almost lifelike.

Title: Un tled
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12” x 12”

Asit Patnaik

A highly acclaimed artist, Asit Kumar Patnaik was born in Orissa in 1968.
He received his bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the Govt. College of Art
and Crafts, Khallikote, Orissa and MFA in Painting from BHU, Varanasi,
where he was a gold medallist. A semi-realistic gurative painter, Asit’s
narratives revolve around the human psyche and the interpersonal
relationships of people within society. There is a certain sensitivity in his
works, accentuated by his technique and choice of colours and textures. He
captures complex emotions through his semi-clad male and female gures,
depicted in varied, open-ended postures. The deceptive simplicity of his
lines adds to the sensuality of the robust gures. There is a sense of mystery
as well as visual harmony in his paintings. Asit Kumar Patnaik is a recipient
of several awards, including a National Cultural Scholarship and Junior
Fellowship from MHRD, The Department of Culture, Govt. of India, in the
eld of Fine Arts. He has also been felicitated by his alma mater in Orissa.
Asit has exhibited in over 40 solo and group shows in India and abroad,
including solo shows at Jehangir Art Gallery and World Art Dubai, and
participation in Art Hamptons New York and The Florence Biennale. He is
also a regular participant at Art Camps. Asit’s works are held in various
public and private collections in India, Australia, USA, UK, South Korea,
UAE, Bangladesh, South Africa and Switzerland. The artist lives and works
in New Delhi.

Title : Affec on -I
Size: 42''x 42''
Medium: Acrylic and oil on canvas

Title: Affec on -II
Size: 36 ''x 36''
Medium: Acrylic and oil on canvas

Atreyee Bhattacharjee

In the works STORY OF PILLARS & MOUNTAIN OF RIBS
Atreyee represents how land is deceptively marketed. It focuses
on the crisis of Land, and those poor farmers and workers of our
soil, the effect of extreme urbanisation and deforestation,
devaluation of their labours. The work attempts to delve into
the idea of land and how humans have utilised landscape in
order to retain their existence on earth. The concepts depicts
three major social crisis, random urbanisation, capitalism and
exploitation of land, farmers & Workers. It basically wants to
present a major crisis of our civilisation which can affect the
growth of nation in coming future,a rising society can die if we
are not able to commit for feeding the souls of soil today.

Title: Mountain of Ribs
Size: 3 x 1.5 x 1
Medium: Iron, Steel and Terraco a

Title: History of Pillars - II
Size: 4.8 x 1 x1
Medium: Iron, Steel

Title: History of Pillars - I
Size: 3.5 x 2 x 1
Medium: Iron, Steel, Terraco a, and Cement

Bhamini Shree

Bhamini is a self-taught visual artist, based out of Hyderabad,
India, originally from Bihar. She works primarily on three
completely different artforms - Madhubani Painting, the folk-art
of Bihar, Mandala Art and Abstract Expressionism. She also uses
multiple mediums in her artistic journey.

The paintings exhibited by Bhamini Shree in this exhibition are
about the different shades of womanhood. The feeble side, the
fearless side, the sensual side, the erce side and the hopethat
one day, it will all be seen as the shades of a core gure rather
than compartmentalizing itinto different characters. The choice
of colours in her paintings in this series do the majortalking.
They range from bold red to green to black to golden.

Title : The Fearless & Powerful
Size : 57cm X 42cm
(addi onal 2 cm margin on all four sides)
Medium : Acrylic on Canvas

Title: Hope
Size : 19.5cm X 27cm
(addi onal 1.8cm margin on all 4 sides)
Medium : Acrylic on Canvas

D Jayaprakash

Jaya Prakash selectively picks up an interesting ctional imagery
of wild animals akin to the ancient Chimera. He believes that
making art is a reection of nature as well as society thus the
metaphoric Chimera occupies his canvases to produce multiple
meanings.

Just like a glorious king who wanders every nook and corner
and hunts for mundane things and exhibits his ghting skills
claiming his (id)entity in the society, he too craves for his glorious
moments. His cynical but true instincts are dubbed here to create
an embodiment of free will. The image of the wild beast, usually
the king of animal world is captured and tamed to cater to his
visual dialect. The sturdy unbroken uid lines and the folk
sensibilities come together manifesting an unusual design sense,
where atness and interlocking patterns play a sublime role.

Title : Un tled
Medium : Acrylic on paper
Size : 22" x 30"
Year : 2018

Title : Un tled
Medium : Acrylic on paper
Size : 22" x 30"
Year : 2018

G Subramanian

Born in 1952 in Tamil Nadu, G Subramanian's work is inspired by
innocence and divine beauty in a child's face and the power of
Indian mythology. He graduated in Fine Arts from the Government
College of Arts and Crafts in Chennai. His works are a part of the
Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi, South Side Gallery, Edinburg,
UK and The World Bank in Chennai. His multi-layered collages
reinterpret the printed images and texts from popular magazines
with abstract background highlighting the complex imagery.
He makes use of his experience as a graphic designer in the play
with images.

It is believed that with loss that a new life begins. As a young
artist in the city, G. Subramanian was carving a niche for himself
as a decorative painter, when his only daughter was diagnosed
with cancer. Her passing away shattered all possibilities and his
life came to a standstill. He went on a spiritual journey in search
of answers, yet his life seemed distant and blurry. His reverie was
broken when he won a gold medal in an art competition, which
led him to take weekend art classes for children. He visited the
Sistine Chapel in Italy, and while facing Michelangelo’s master
piece, he found his path and a whole new meaning to his life.

Title: The Singer
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 20" × 24"

Title: Medita ng girl
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 16" × 20"

Title: Krishna
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 24" × 36"

Ganesh Doddamani

From the very beginning Ganesh Doddamani has had a great
passion towards gurative art and Heritage of India, employing
metaphors and abstractions. This helped him realize his spiritual
qualities. Over the past few years or so, his work has naturally
and gradually drifted onwards abstraction & distinctive method
of compressing the rich color and form of my environment into
complex landscape paintings that imbue material reality with a
deep sense of place. He combines colors -making techniques
with the vernacular, in a bid to arrive at an idiom that is entirely
contemporary.
Doddamani lives and works in Bangalore.

Title: Petrichor-04
Medium: Acrylic on C-Board
Size: 20" x 15"
Year: 2020

Title: Petrichor-05
Medium: Acrylic on C-Board
Size: 20" x 15"
Year: 2020

Title: Petrichor-07
Medium: Acrylic on C-Board
Size: 15" x 20"
Year: 2020

Title: Petrichor-08
Medium: Acrylic on C-Board
Size: 15" x 20"
Year: 2020

Jagadish Chinthala

Born in 1956, in Hyderabad, C. Jagdish had a passion for drawing since a
young age, but did not discover the medium of paper until he created
puppets for a children’s theater group during his rst years struggling to
live as an independent artist. These papier mache creations developed
into busts, masks, and life-sized gures depicting the artists astute
perception of the outside world and the fallibility of human nature.
Inspired by toys, acquaintances, and incidents from his childhood in India,
each piece becomes specic and unique, it's character subtly revealed
through clothing, facial expression, posture, and use of hands. It is
Jagdish's depiction of intimate human emotion that gives his works such
universal appeal, affectionately commenting on society and dramatically
narrating his stories.

After winning his rst paper sculpture prize at the All India Miniature
Exhibition, Jagdish was awarded a grant scholarship to work at the
prestigious Garhi Studio in Delhi. There he developed his sculpting
technique and style, leading to the British Council and Charles Wallace
India traveling grant for study in Britain. In 1991, Jagdish was the rst
Indian offered the status of "artist in residence" at Lakeside Studio outside
of Chicago. His highest honor was becoming recipient of the prestigious
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award in 1993, the largest grant offered to
independent artists in the United States. Jagdish continues to work on 3
continents, with studios in India, Great Britain, and the U.S.

Title: Brave
Size: 160 x 125 x 18 cms
Medium: Acrylic on aluminium cast
Year: 2018

Title: Saabji
Size: 171 x 30 x 30 inches (Edi on 9+3)
Medium: Acrylic on aluminium
Year: 2017

Jagannath Paul

A leading abstract gurative artist, Jagannath Paul is known for
his subtle take on varied nuances of male and female relationship
that are manifested in his paintings through the medium of
charcoals and colours on paper and canvas. He uses colours to
depict relationships in different moods and emotions, and brings
out the drama of black and white by introducing solid blocks of
paint. The contrasting colours set the mood of the work,
highlighting the characters that he paints.

Jagannath Paul has graduated from the Government College of
Arts & Crafts, Kolkata. He has won many prestigious awards.

Title: Togetherness
Size: 36 x 36 inches
Medium: Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
Year: 2020

Title: Bond of Love (series) - I
Size: 24 x 24 inches
Medium: Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
Year: 2020

Title: Bond of Love (series) - II
Size: 18 x 60 inches
Medium: Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
Year: 2020

Jaya Baheti

Jaya Baheti was born in Pune and has a Bachelors of Fine Arts
degree from Pune University (1992). Known for her earthy and
rustic village landscapes, rooted in folk traditions, Jaya has had
solo shows in Mumbai, Delhi (Lalit Kala Akademi, AIFACS),
Chennai, Pune and Singapore etc, the last show being for the Art
Jamboree by Absolut Vodka in Hyderabad.

Jaya, who features in UCB’s (United Colors Of Benetton) coffee
table book, Flowering Cultures: Contemporary Artists from
India, has been endorsed by top corporates such as Novartis
Pharma, Singareni Collieries etc.

Title: Un tled
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 1 X 6

Title: Un tled
Size: 4 x 4
Medium: Mixed media on ca

Title: Un tled
Size: 4 x 4
Medium: Mixed media on c

anvas

Title: Un tled
Size: 20 X 16 inches
Medium: Acrylic and mixed medium on canvas

canvas

Title: Un tled
Size: 18 X 18 inches
Medium: Acrylic and mixed medium on canvas

Kamal Kamaraju

Kamal Kamaraju is a practicing Architect and well established
Telugu movie actor. He has a degree in architecture from
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. Apart from Art
acting and architecture, kamal has also worked as a writer and
an art director. His works in architecture and art are deeply
rooted In tradition while nding new dimensions for todays times.
Rani series, his on going art series imbues the essence of the
female and the associative roles ascribed to it.

Title: Un tled - I (Rani series)
Size: 14x18 inches
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2020

Title: Un tled - II (Rani series)
Size: 14x18 inches
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2020

Title: Un tled - III (Rani series)
Size: 14x18 inches
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2020

Title: Un tled - IV (Rani series)
Size: 2 x 2
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2020

Title: Un tled - V (Rani series)
Size: 12x12 inches
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2020

KR Santhana Krishnan

Hailing from Kumbakonam, Santhana Krishnan believes in
treasuring the heritage and culture that his 0ancestors built.
What speaks more about our culture and heritage than the adobe
that we live in, he asks. The home speaks about the past, present
and future of a family and the most vital aspect to any home is the
front door. His work revolves around this entrance. He paints
wooden, soot-covered, kumkum and turmeric marking covered
doors because they fascinate him more in comparison to the
modern state of the art technology-driven doors. He believes that
each door has a story to narrate, and there will always be people
interested in that story.

Title: Door - I
Size: 12 x 18 inches
Medium: Mixed media on wood
Year: 2020

Title: Door - II
Size: 12 x 18 inches
Medium: Mixed media on wood
Year : 2020

Manjunath
MKaanlljeudneavtharKalledevar

Manjunath Kalledevar is a photographer, painter and UI/UX designer and has
20 years of experience in corporate and private sectors. He has been honoured
with ‘56th National Award from Central Lalith Kala Akademi’, New Delhi
(Government of India), 2015 and All India Fine Art Exhibition by AIFACS,
New Delhi (1999). His works ‘JAPA’ series (Photo) has got many recognition
and much appreciated in the art eld. He has completed BFA in painting from
University College of Fine Art Davangere (1999) and MFA in Painting from
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru (2002). Kalledevar has been
exhibited nationally both in Solo and Group shows and also participated in
many shows including CIMA Awards Kolkata 2019, An Exhibition of
photographs by artists in support of endeavours for inclusion organised by
CARENIDHI NGO New Delhi 2019, Artspring exhibition by DAKAHAVISA
2018 and 2019, Mystical Renditions’ at Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad 2016,
All India Fine Art Exhibition By AIFACS. New Delhi 1999, Southern Region
Art Exhibition by Camlin Art Foundation, Rashtriya and Karnataka KalaMela
Bengaluru, BHU at Varanasi 2017 and LKA at Lucknow 2017 and many more.
He has participated in many National and State level Art Camps including
Karnataka Lalith Kala Academy Bengaluru, All India Painters camp organised
by LKA Lucknow and Samskara Bharathi, Prayagraj (Kumbh 2019) , The
National Art Festival 2016 - Varanasi conducted by Central Lalith Kala Akademi,
New Delhi, A Painting camp by Kingsher, UB Group Bengaluru. His works are
in many private and public collections in India and abroad including KLA
Bengaluru and Central Lalith Kala Academy New Delhi, AIFACS, New Delhi,
Canada, CA USA. He was featured in Aaj Savere' interview, ' a programme telecast
on National Doordarshan, and an interview on Zee Kannada.
Kalledevar lives and works in Bengaluru.

Title: A Naga - Ujjain, simhastha kumbh
Size: 36" x 36"
Medium: Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper
Year: 2016

Title: A View From Ustad Bismillah Khan’s House - Varnasi
Size: 36" x 40"
Medium: Giclee Print On Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper
Year: 2016