EMERGING
CANVAS III
The Emerging Canvas III
- an Indo-Korean Young Artists’ Exhibition.
5 - 15 November 2015 at Lalit Kala
Akademi Regional Centre,
Chennai, India.
This painting exhibition showcases the dynamic and multi-dimensional work
of 22 young artists, from India and Korea. The Korean section is curated by
Mrs Kim, Yang-shik, President, Indian Art Museum in Seoul, Korea and the Indian
section is curated by Ms Vaishnavi Ramanathan, curator and writer from Chennai,
India
It is my great pleasure to hold the 3rd exchange exhibition with the very eminent young artists between India and
Korea for Emerging Canvas III in Chennai.
We are expecting that those young artists should try to develop as successful artists who have their own unique
individualities. I believe that a joy of establishing their own artistic world is a real privilege of artists.
We hope the 3rd exchange exhibition serves as a chance to develop the art world in both countries. In 2016, the 4th
exhibition will be held in Seoul, Korea. We are expecting that we will be able to meet new talented young artists again
in 2016.
Most of all, we appreciate Dr.Rathi Jafer, the Director of InKo Centre and Sri.Rm.Palaniappan, the Regional Secretary of
Lalit Kala Akademi, for making this wonderful exhibition possible.
Mrs. Kim Yang-shik
President, Tagore Society of Korea & Indian Art Museum
Lalit Kala Akademi, the National Academy of Art, was established during 1954 and has taken
great pride in fostering closer ties among artists and art fraternity both within the country as
well as globally. These links are inclusive attempts across all genres of creative art and bring
about bonding with artists and organization from different regions and institutions
The Akademi, has been collaborating with the Indo Korean Cultural and Information
Centre, Chennai since 2010, starting with ‘The Lamp of the East’, an exhibition to pay
tribute to the great Indian artist and poet, Rabindranath Tagore, held in conjunction with
the 150th Birth Anniversary celebrations. Starting with this exhibition to recall Tagore’s
incredibly accurate prediction several decades ago that Korea would Phoenix-like rise
from the ashes of war to become ‘the lamp of the East’, the Akademi has continued
its association with InKo Centre to present 11 collaborative exhibitions with an aim
to promote meaningful and proactive interactionsbetween Indian and Korean artists.
These programmes have provided several opportunities Indian and Korean artists to present their
work, to interact with one another and to create a valuable network for the sustainable interchange of
thoughts, ideas and best practices. We believe that such collaborations are invaluable tools to promote
friendship, understanding and the advancement of artistic exchange between the two countries.
Our collaborations with the InKo Centre have been across the genres of painting, ceramics and craft with relevant
partners in Korea, involving artistic residencies; large scale and small-scale exhibitions; seminars and symposiums with
emerging as well as senior artists. The Emerging Canvas, a project that is into its third edition currently, is presented
in association with the InKo Centre and The Indian Art Museum in Seoul. It aims to provide a platform for talented,
emerging artists from India and Korea. The first edition was presented at Lalit Kala Akademi Regional Centre in
2012 with 16 artists- 8 each from India and from Korea. The second edition was presented in Seoul in 2013 with 10
artists - 5 each from India and Korea. The ‘Emerging Canvas III’ presents the work of 22 artists- 11 Chennai artists and
11 artists from Seoul. The Akademi has assigned of task of curation for Indian section of this exhibition to Ms. Vaishnavi
Ramanathan, a well-known curator and writer. Ms Ramanathan has carried out her duties very sincerely and has selected
11 talented, young artists , living and working in Chennai. We hope that this exhibition will connect the two cities of
Seoul and Chennai and open up a dynamic corridor for the exchange of ideas while fostering a greater understanding of
our cultures and the environment of the two countries.
India and Korea have a history of friendship dating back several centuries. The more recent initiation and
presentation of artistic exchange programmes will create a historic milestone allows us to re-visit, re-examine and
re-invigorate those ties. The Akademi would like to thank the continuous efforts of InKo Centre, Chennai to build a meaningful
relationship between artists and cultural organisations in India and Korea. We also appreciate Mrs Kim Yang-shik, poet,
Tagore scholar and the president of the Indian Art Museum, Seoul, for partnering us for The Emerging Canvas series and
for selecting and supporting the presentation of Korean art works in Chennai.
The young artists in the show represent the artistic energy of the city of Seoul and Chennai and the Akademi appreciates
the sincerity and passion of these artists’ quest, where from local contexts, they attempt to grapple with and express,
through their art, the world at large.
Dr. Sudhakar Sharma
Secretary, Lalit Kala Akademi
InKo Centre, was set up with an aim to promote an intercultural dialogue between India
and Korea by facilitating a consistent programme that drawing on the richtraditions of both
countries, examines the global dimensions as well as the localand national characteristics
that underpin such exchange.
InKo Centre is aregistered, non-profit society supported primarily by TVS Motor
Company Limited and Hyundai Motor India Limited; the Korean Association in Chennai
and a host of Indian and Korean companies based in Chennai. The Centre works in close
co-operation with the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, New Delhi. The Visual Arts is a
very important strand of our work and we aim, through our programmes, to raise
awareness of the richness and range of Korean visual art forms in India and vice versa.
The Emerging Canvas series commenced in 2012, in association with The Indian Art
Museum in Korea and Lalit Kala Akademi in India. As the title suggests, the artists are
young, their talent emerging as does a butterfly from a chrysalis, their potential obvious, their journey just beginning.
The Korean section of this series is curated with great care by the Indian Art Museum under the able
stewardship of Mrs Kim Yang-shik who over the past four decades has dedicated herself to the promotion of
Indian art and culture in general and of Rabindranath Tagore’s work and philosophy, in particular, in Korea. The Indian
section is curated with equal care by the Lalit Kala Akademi. Together, the two agencies have curated a delightful canvas of
emerging talent. Following the first edition in Chennai in 2012, the second in Seoul in 2013, the third edition of
The Emerging Canvas series will be presented at the Lalit Kala Akademi Regional Centre in Chennai in November 2015.
This exhibition will, after its presentation Chennai, India, be presented in Seoul, Korea in 2016.
We thank our partners in India and in Korea with whom we have have developed a very meaningful relationship - the
Lalit Kala Akademi, India’s apex body for art and The Indian Art Museum in Korea which sensitively presents Indian art
and culture in Korea. A very special word of thanks to Mr. Sudhakar Sharma and Mr Palaniappan from Lalit Kala Akademi
for their unstinted support. It has been both a pleasure and an honour for us to be associated with Mrs Kim Yang-shik
and we thank her for her dedication and passion in promoting Indian art, literature and culture so consistently and so
empathetically in Korea. Most of all, our heartfelt thanks to the 22 artists - from Korea and from India- who have
presented such wonderful examples of creative, distinctive work that carries both the imprint and the impact of their
cultural moorings.
As the Indo-Korean Cultural Centre in India, engaged in meaningfully promoting and strengthening
artistic ties between India and Korea, we are confident that this creative collaboration will enhance the
network between young painters in both countries and will strengthen the Indo-Korean dialogue immeasurably.
Dr. Rathi Jafer
Director, InKo Centre
EMERGING
CANVAS III
Artists from Korea Artists from India
Cho Jae-na Lee Da-yeon K.Yuvaraj Selva Senthil Kumar
Hwang Min-Sun Lee Hyun-hee Vijaya Kumar. A M.Koilpitchai Prabakar
Jang Ji-hye Moon Sung-don Kumaresan Selvaraj A.Vasudevan
Kang Ji-hyoung Ryu Hee-Jeong S. Potrarasan M.Mani
Kim Seon-yong Ryu Sun-ho Thryambaka Karthik Vijay Pichumani
Kim Soo-young G.Gurunathan
A n I n d o - K o r e a n Y o u n g A r t i s t s ’ E x h i b i t i o n 2 0 1 5
Cho Jae-na
[ Bachelor’s Degree in Painting, Incheon Catholic University,
College of Fine Art & Design.
Master’s Degree in Painting, Incheon Catholic University.
Memory is not erased but is saved for a long time. Those memories
are always around me. My work is about memory.
Title : Everybody hate
Medium : Oil on canvas
Size : 53 x 45.5 cm
Title : I don’t want to see anymore
Medium : Oil on canvas
Size : 53 x 45.5 cm
Hwang Min-Sun
[ 2014, Gyeonggi Art High School Lecturer.
2012. M.A. EwhaWomans University, Department of Painting.
2012. Graduated from EwhaWomans University, Department
of Painting.
2008, Graduated from Seoul Art High School.
The moment overlaps with the movement of the eyes and with the speed of a
bus. Unrecognizable objects come alive within the painting.
Title : Bus-1
Medium : Oil on canvas
Size : 50 x 120 cm
Title : Bus-2
Medium : Oil on canvas
Size : 90 x 65 cm
Jang Ji-Hye
[ 2014 B. F. A in Printmaking, Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul.
2015 M. F. A in Printmaking, Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul.
The anxiety of the unknown, daily images of war, the raison d ‘ être. I want to
deny the presence of anxiety. But life goes on. Anxiety always remains with life.
The child does not sense the danger of war. They just play war with toys. This
is our story. We cover both eyes from the real danger. “This is not real!” We
consume the invisible risk of war every single day. However, the truth exists
very close to us.
Title : Set about W-3
Medium : Pencil on paper
Size :3, 39.4 x 54.5 cm
Title : Set about W-4
Medium : Pencil on paper
Size : W - 4, 39.4 x 54.5 cm
Kang Ji-Hyoung
[ B.F.A Hongik University, Seoul 2015.
Music stimulates me easily and strongly. When I hear some repetitive rhythm
change its pattern, when another rhythm is added or when I hear a strong bass
sound, that indescribable moment becomes an important part of my work.
Title : Music & moment 1
Medium : Resin on canvas
Size : 22x27.3 cm, 2015
Title : Music & moment 4
Medium : Resin on canvas
Size : 40.9x53 cm, 2015
Kim Seon-Yong
[
2015 Graduated from Dept. of Oriental Painting, College of Fine Arts, Gachon
University.
2015 Admission to the Master’s course at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Gachon
University.
My work is a process to find the real ego from the desire of others.
Title : Piece-06
Medium : Pigment, oil on canvas.
Size : 45 x 53 cm
Title : Chill out
Medium : Pigment, oil on canvas.
Size : 91 x 73 cm
Kim Soo-Young
[
2015 At Graduate School, Ewha Womans University (Fine Art).
2012 Bachelors in Fine Art, Ewha Womans University.
The darkness is a multidimensional space where various objects and a little light
are intertwined.
Title : In the Dark Room
Medium : C-print
Size : 50 x 50 cm
Title : In the Dark Room
Medium : C-print
Size : 50 x 50 cm
Lee Da-Yeon
[
M.A., Fine Art, Sookmyung Women’s University
B.A., Fine Art, Sookmyung Women’s University
My art work is related to feminist psychoanalysis of my generation and that of my
mother’s generation. I use pink and yellow to depict human warmth. It includes
both a sexual meaning and a mother’s loving care. My subject title for my Major
is “ A child, My two mothers under the bed.” I want to focus on women’s desire
and on the meaning of womanhood.
Title : Hard candy
Medium : Acrylic on canvas
Size : 65.1×53.0 cm
Title : The last hug
Medium : Acrylic on canvas
Size : 72.7×60.6 cm
Lee Hyun-Hee
[
2009 Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, ChuGye University for Art.
Majored in Western Painting
The characters in ‘disguised space’, the story of daily life decorated splendidly,
represent modern people who are lost in illusions which are generated
constantly.
Title : Syndrome
Medium : Oil on canvas
Size : 72.7x60.6 cm
Title : Sign of memory
Medium : Oil on canvas
Size : 72.7x60.6 cm
Moon Sung-Don
[
2007 Hongik University (Department of Painting, Art College) Seoul, Korea
The most important thing is action- I see, feel, and draw something on
to my canvas. I observe and then immediately paint on canvas without
drawing or sketching. Gradually a picture emerges. When I see some scenes
(images), the feeling that arises is absolute at that time. After that time, even if
the conditions are same, the feeling is different. We never feel the moment after
that moment passes. So I work as quickly as possible before that first image is
deleted from my mind.
Title : Garden
Medium : Mixed media
Size : 76 x 57 cm
Title : Today’s story
Medium : Mixed media
Size : 60 x 73 cm
Ryu Hee-Jeong
[
Currently studying for Master’s at Sookmyung Women’s University.
2013 B.F.A Sookmyung Women’s University.
2009 Busan High School of Art.
When I look at a stroke, I notice that it contains several lines. Some of the
lines have the same characteristic as the stroke. Through this observation I
understand the saying,’One is all, All is one’.
Title : Untitled
Medium : Silicone on canvas
Size : 60x60 cm, 2014
Title : Untitled
Medium : Silicone, acrylic on canvas
Size : 60.6 x72.7 cm, 2015
Ryu Sun-Ho
[
Currently studying for Master’s at Sookmyung Women’s University
2013 B.F.A Sookmyung Women’s University
2009 Busan High School of Art
Due to tremendous exposure of media and images, we live with the
inducement of specific cogitations and imaginations. Those images and
subsequent perceptions in our minds make us forget about the historical
and social meaning of our spaces and also result in the debilitation or even
disappearance of our power of resistance.
I am conscious of the reflection of us, creating images with no deep thought
and stuck in our own perceptions. Ironically I want to describe this time to be
a transition period of hope by painting beautiful scenery.
My paintings are a combination of different pieces of mosaic and I start with
the focus on one place, like a camera.There are however delicate, different
points, which are not immediately visible. What I want to talk about here is that
the power we need should be the power that helps us to realize immateriality
and hallucination. In this process, some new and powerful consciousness will
emerge, a new vision from the past to guide us through our present life.
Title : Untitled
Medium : Acrylic and oil on canvas
Size : 53.0 x 43.5 cm
Title : Untitled
Medium : Acrylic and oil on canvas
Size : 72.7 x 50.0 cm
K.Yuvaraj
Chennai. [
2007 : Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramic), Government College of Fine
Arts,Chennai.
2010: Master of Fine Arts (Ceramic), Government College of Fine Arts,
Yuvaraj’s works have the quality of a fantasy, though the subjects he depicts are
animals that one finds too often in the immediate environment. Through these
creatures, the artist expresses his quest for answers regarding the nature of
existence. Observing life and its varied manifestations, the artist translates these
observations into the canine world where a variety of moods are expressed.
The artist’s decision to depict a world that appears human in emotion yet is not
human is important. On the one hand, it helps the viewer to empathise with the
other living beings of the world. On the other hand, it distances the viewer from
the scene giving enough space to reflect on one’s own behavioural patterns. To
heighten this effect, Yuvaraj uses pigments in luminous layers that give his work
an unreal quality and takes the viewer on a journey within.
Title : Dogs affection
Medium : Acrylic on canvas
Size : 152 x152 cm
Vijaya Kumar. A
Chennai. [
2007 : Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramic), Government College of Fine Arts,
Chennai.
2010: Master of Fine Arts (ceramic), Government College of Fine Arts,
Vijayakumar’s works pause to examine the people, experiences and moments
of daily life that make him who he is. But instead of representing these images
directly, he distils the awareness and understanding brought by these momentary
pauses in the flow of life into a more common vocabulary. The particular
turns into the general as he focuses on images that constitute our inner and
outer world. Stars, clouds, interstellar spaces as well as microscopic structures,
become the starting point for Vijayakumar to create a galaxy of forms, memories
and ideas. Rather than presenting these forms and ideas as a unified whole,
the artist cleverly breaks them down into a mosaic. Visually, this allows each
viewer to piece together the image in a different way, thereby foregrounding the
element of choice that determines who we are.
Title : Untitled
Medium : Mixed media
Size : 222.5 x 120 cm
Kumaresan Selvaraj
[
BFA : 2005 Painting First Class Madras University, Government
College of Fine Arts Chennai.
Area(s) of Specialization:Painting, Photography, Printing, sculpture and
Installation Art
Preoccupied with the flux of things, Kumaresan Selvaraj’s work is a quest to
capture this constant change through various materials and forms. For him, this
state of dynamism is a proof of the interrelation between the various elements
of life, where a change at one levels affects the entire picture. In Cetukku, he
focuses on a decaying fish to register the passage of time and the consequent
changes in form. The artist transposes the changes and interrelations that he
observed in this object, to a more aesthetic plane by examining the connections
between medium, language and subject. He does so by using the medium of
laser engraving that literally eats up the paper and thereby creates an image that
visually and literally expresses the ravages of time. Thinking through materials,
for Kumaresan Selvaraj, the medium is also the subject.
Title : Engraving
Cetukku – III & IV
Medium : Laser engraving
Size : 52 x 71 cm
Title : Engraving
(Cetukku - I &II )
Medium : Laser engraving
Size : 52 x 71 cm
S. Potrarasan
[
Bachelor of Fine Arts : Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai.
Master of Fine Arts : Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai.
As an artist who moved from the village to the city, Potrarasan’s work evolved
from his observation of urban man’s lack of empathy for fellow creatures. For
the artist, this attitude was epitomised in the death of sparrows following the
setting up of cell phone towers. In his work, he focuses on this issue and
comments on the destruction of other creatures due to man’s need for profit.
He contrasts man’s greed with the innocence and vulnerability of the birds
that take shelter in the same mobile towers that kill them. Robust and proudly
emblazoned with text, the rising form of the towers provides a counterpoint to
the soft and rounded forms of the birds that huddle and perch precariously in
the eaves. Through these contrasting forms and ideas, the artist brings out the
paradoxes that characterise life.
Title : Radiation – Set of 2 Towers
Medium : Ceramic
Size : 116 x 18 x 77 cm
16 x 15 x 87 cm
(Collection LKA RC. Chennai-6)
Thryambaka Karthik
[
2010 - 2014 : Diploma in Visual Arts,Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts,
Kalakshetra.
Thryambaka Karthik’s work is an enquiry into the self and its perception.Things
and beings which we normally perceive as self-enclosed entities are in her view
part of a larger web of time, space and being. Hence the forms in her work
seldom contain themselves within a boundary, instead they empty themselves
out, bringing the inside outside and vice-versa or they mix and merge creating
an interpenetration of layers. Working at one level with dualities of self and
other, inside and outside, existence and non-existence, at another level, she
believes that these dualities do not exist as independent entities. Hence for her,
the process of creating the image,which increases herself-awareness and makes
her question her own perceptions, is of greatest importance.
Title : The Healers
Medium : Mixed media
Size : 56 x 71 cm
Title : Untitled
Medium : Pencil drawing on paper
Size : 21.5 x 28 cm
G.Gurunathan
[
2011 : M.F.A Painting
College of Fine Arts, Madras University
Gurunathan’s works are records of his journeys through the forests and
mountains of the country. Working in multiple layers that remain hidden at some
moments and resurface at others, he creates the feel of a journey where each
moment brings something new. Crucial to this effect are his specially prepared
pigments that echo the earthy and organic quality of his subjects. Applying his
pigments with spontaneity and allowing forms to emerge on the canvas without
pre-meditation, Gurunathan’s visual language is the result of a philosophy that
believes in living in the present. Travelling which makes one focus on the present
is thus an important meditative tool that grounds him in the moment of travel
and later in the immediacy of creating an image of the travel.
Title : Seed and Forest
Medium : Pigment on canvas
Size : 244 x 122 cm
Selva Senthil Kumar
[
2011 : M.F.A Painting
College of Fine Arts, Madras University
Cats have inspired many artists and poets. For Selva Senthil Kumar too, the
feline grace and personality of his pet cats are a source of inspiration. Sharing
his living space with them, these creatures in turn become his work space since
in his paintings the form of the animal opens, spreads across and eventually
becomes the surface on which the artist draws other images. For the artist, the
process by which the animals enter his work is entirely unconscious and this is
probably reflected in his method of working where colours and forms emerge
spontaneously. Applying colours in uneven patches with linear motifs on it, there
is a primitive quality to his work that captures the bond between man and animal
over the ages.
Title : Cats A - I
Medium : Watercolour on paper
Size : 46 X 38 cm
Title : Cats A - II
Medium : Watercolour on paper
Size : 46 X 38 cm
M.Koilpitchai Prabakar
[
2002 – 2006: B.F.A. (Ceramic)
Government College of Fine Arts Chennai.
2006 – 2008 M.F.A. (Ceramic)
Government College of Fine Arts Chennai.
Known for his organic floral forms created in ceramics, in Udaindhu Pona
Unavu Sangili, Koil Pitchai Prabhakar draws from his rural roots and familiarity
with the agricultural cycle to create an image of the crumbling ecological
balance. Inspired by a verse in the Thirukural that foregrounds the importance of
farming, he depicts creatures that inhabit the fields entering the gallery space, as
their hunting grounds are lost to industrialisation. For the artist, these cats could
either be creatures of the wild foraying for food or metaphorical representations
of human beings, who in the near future will have to go in search of food due
to absence of farm lands. Reminiscent in form and spirit to the votive animals
offered at village temples, these terracotta creatures seem to be the artist’s
prayer for man to respect nature.
Title : “Broken Food Chain “
(Udainthu pona unavu sangili)
Medium : Terracotta Installation
Size : Each 18 X 8 cm
Total no: of cats: 250
A.Vasudevan
[
2005 – 2009: B.F.A. Government College
of Fine Arts Chennai. .
2011 – 2013: M.F.A. Government College
of Fine Arts Chennai.
Vasudevan’s works alternate between depictions of the ‘real’ world and
moments of fantasy, but both represented in a naturalistic language that
makes it difficult to differentiate between the two. Imbued with the
transience of a dream, his works convey their lightness of being through the
medium and the image. The artist draws these images from his childhood when
he spent many hours looking at the snails and butterflies on the riverbank. He
combines these images with the dreams that he nourishes as an artist.
Vasudevan plays on the notion of being an ‘upcoming’ artist by literally depicting
himself rising through the sky. In the other work, he captures a surreal moment
hidden within day-to-day life; a moment when he dozed off reading a book on
art and reached the distant lands that art always takes one to.
Title : Up-coming Artist
Medium : Pencil and pastel on paper
Size : 76 x 56 cm
Title : Previous Memories
Medium : Watercolour on paper
Size : 28 x 35 cm
M.Mani
[
2002-2006:B.F.A Printmaking,
Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai.
M.Mani’s works look at the creation of life and the interaction between the
micro and macrocosms that makes life possible. He begins by contrasting the
views of spirituality and science, the former which views creation as an intelligent
process and the latter which believes life emerged out of matter. Irrespective of
these contrasting views, he believes that the physical manifestation remains the
same and hence depicts cellular structures that are in the process of evolving
into intelligent patterns. The artist envelops these growing forms with large areas
of white space. These white spaces and the fluid boundaries of the paper that Title : In between – III A
project outside the frame are crucial to expressing the artist’s vision of flux; the Medium : Dry Point
flux of creation and our own perception of it. Size : 30 x 46 cm
Title : In Between - III B
Medium : Dry Point
Size : 79 x 64 cm
Vijay Pichumani
[
2009 : B.F.A, Govt.College Of Arts and
Crafts, Madras University, Chennai.
2011: MFA Government College of Arts and
Crafts, Madras University, Chennai.
An artist known for his large and striking woodcuts, in The Mystical Waves, Vijay
Pichumani explores another dimension of the material inorder to engage with
the visual form of sound. While the common perception is that sound waves
are invisible, he believes that sound pervades all life and one only has to probe
deeper to see and feel it. He symbolically enacts the need to look beneath the
obvious by cutting open the trunk of a tree and revealing what lies hidden inside.
What he finds inside are marks that signify the passage of time and energy. These
radiating lines and waves appearing like pathways. The journey they promise
is that of making the invisible visible by making us aware of the need to look at
things more closely.
Title : The Mystical Waves II
Medium : Pencil, trace from the tree,
watercolour and fire
Size : 80 x 62 cm
Title : The Mystical Waves
Medium : Wood, paper, ink,
pencil and fire
Size : 39 x 48 cm
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