Indian Artist Kalode Rajan Aneesh

Aneesh Kalode Rajan was born in Palghap, Kerala, India in 1986 and is currently living and working there today. In 2005, he earned a B.F.A. in Painting from Govt. College of Fine Arts in Chennai, India. He is specialised in Painting. His works have been shown in exhibitions all over the world, and the most recent exhibitions are:

Group Exhibitions

2011
WHAT RULES? ATER FIRST SHOWING, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany

2009
Integrating Times, Gallery Blue Spade, Bangalore, India

Never Before, Faraway Tree Gallery, Chennai, India

KINETICS Chithra Kala Parished, Bangalore, India

He says,

“As travels give lot of inspiration for my work and the happenings in those innovates me to works. I represent myself, my memories in the canvas.

And my evolution to conceptualization happened symmetrically. Here I express unique space which gives chances for everyone to have their own dimension with my intervention on it with simplicity.

Believing towards the idea and being executed in the most simplified form is more effective for my thought to be convyed, better than excitements off the work.”

Please enjoy some work images!

"Perspectives", permanent marker on vinyl print, 60 x 48 in, 2010

"Perspectives", Watercolour on paper, 30 x 22 in, 2010

"Bonding With The Environment", silkscreen 355.6 x 50.8 cm, one panel 35.56 x 50.8 cm, 2010

 

Indian Artist Lodh Shantanu

Lodh Shantu was born in Kolkata, India in 1968. He now currently lives and works in Delhi, India and specialises in painting. In 1993 he earned a B.F.A. at Shantiniketan in West Bengal, India. In 1995 he earned his M.F.A. at Shantiniketan in West Bengal, India. His work has been seen at the following exhibitions:

Group Exhibitions
2010	The Drifters	Gallery Beyond, Mumbai, India
2009	The Drifters	Art Konsult, New Delhi, India
	Classic Colonial Tales	Anant Art, India
2007	No title	Newark Museum, Newark. USA

He says,

“Growing up and living in this world of unjustified conflicts and contradictions, successes and failures…

My earlier works were quite reactive, in the sense that I reacted with craving and aversion towards the object of my expression in my artworks, which made me feel confident about their choice, but definitely frustrated me as the goal was to spread the similar political subjectivity all around. This practice did produce many eye-catching, hard-hitting projects as in public art projects, photographs, videos, posters and performance…

The previous series of paintings were called Classic Colonial Tales, they were mostly black and white, oil on canvas, and quite large in size, created by juxtaposing my family photographs and pictures of Queen Victoria downloaded from the net.

Thereafter I started attending 10-day Vipassana courses, which gave, rise to new esthetic questions and inspirations.

This gave birth to the ongoing series of painting. These are again black and white, gouache on paper. I was inspired by psychedelic art, Buddhist art and Chinese landscape painting. This ongoing series is not a critic as my earlier works were but emphasizes the meditative/hallucinatory aspect of painting. I take photographs of these and mirror them to produce an effect of near symmetry, near balance and the slowness of Intelligent Dance Music by painting in very thin layers. I have intentionally removed color from the paintings to attain an essence closer to Chinese landscape painting, which reduced distraction and seduction; I have also removed linear narratives which were quite central to my earlier works to produce a kind of Now and here, where the mind would not meander into the Past or Future. I am in a transition, as the ongoing experiments in art and sustained meditation in life will definitely lead to unknown quarters of the mind worth exploring as a newcomer to this zone of Mindfulness.”

Please enjoy images of his works:

 

“Humpty Dumpty II”, watercolor on paper, 26 x 20 in, 2009

 

Watercolour on paper, 26 x 20 in, 2009

 

“Man Eater”, watercolour on paper, 26 x 20 in, 2009

 

“Mask”, watercolor on paper, 26 x 20 in,  2009

 

 

 

Oriental VisArt 1st Group Show- Opening Reception

The oepning reception was on Wed 29 September 2010, at La Cave in Old Town, Geneva, Switzerland. The curator/sculptor Gunwoo Shin and Artist Juyoung Park were present to talk with the guests. There were many different groups of people- different nationalities, age groups and people in different fields. I would like to share the atmosphere of the evening with you!

Left: ‘Sculpture’, by Gunwoo Shin, Right: ‘Park Cemetery’, by Juyoung Park

 

‘La Cave’ in Old Town, Geneva

 

‘Skin of Trees’, by Parasuranman Saravanan

 

‘La Cave’ in Old Town, Geneva, Switzerland

 

‘Untitled’, by Parasuranman Saravanan

 

‘Empty Hands’, by Gunwoo Shin

 

Guest

 

Guests

 

Guests

 

Listening to the Curator/Sculptor Gunwoo Shin

 

Gunwoo Shin with the Korean Ambassador, his wife and the 1st Secretary in Geneva

 

Guests

 

Guests talking with the Artist and Organiser

 

Guests

 

Left: Curator/Sculptor Gunwoo Shin, Right: Artist Juyoung Park

 

Left: Artist Juyoung Park, Middle: Organiser Kayla Hye K. Yang, Right: guest

 

Guests

 

Guests

 

Guests

 

Our good friend ‘Antoine’ at the bar

 

Listening to the Artist ‘Juyoung Park’

 

Indian Artist ‘Shantanu Lodh’

Shantanu Lodh was born in Kolkata, India and he is currently living and working in New Delhi. His series titled ‘Drifters’ were shown at Gallery Beyond in Mumbai, 2010 and at Art Konsult in New Delhi, 2009. Anant Art Gallery in New Delhi showed his previous series ‘Classic Colonial Tales’ in 2009. ’Classic Colonial Tales’ were mostly black and white, oil on canvas, and quite large in size, created by juxtaposing his family photographs and pictures of Queen Victoria downloaded from the internet.

He was inspired by Psychedelic Art, Buddhist Art and Chinese landscape painting. This on going series is not a critic as his earlier works but emphasises on the meditativ aspect of painting. He takes photographs for these and mirror them to produce an effect of near symmetry and near balance. He says

“I have intentionally removed color from the paintings to attain an essence closer to Chinese landscape painting, which reduced distraction and seduction, I have also removed linear narratives which were quite central to my earlier works to produce a kind of Now and Here, where the mind would not meander into the Past or Future. I am in a transition, as the ongoing experiments in art and sustained meditation in life will definitely lead to unknown quarters of the mind worth exploring as a newcomer to this zone of Mindfulness”.

Enjoy his work images!

‘Mask’, watercolour on paper, 26″ x 20″, 2009

 

‘Humpty Dumpty – II’,  watercolour on paper, 26″ x 20″, 2009

 

‘Man eater’, watercolour on paper, 26″ x 20″, 2009