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There is something about distant hearing in ViptaKapadia’s landscapes- an immortalization of deep silence becoming the quintessence of primordial sounds. This makes her landscapes scripted with broad gestural lines and strokes that educe feminine energy. Fire for absolute resilience occupies her being while she engages in painting the vastness of these distant landscapes. Embodiment of black in diminishing grey comes as effortless as palpable green recedes into the ocher gold. The land begins to go deeper where the water ebbs and a lesser known village surfaces.
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ViptaKapadia’s long term engagement with the language of landscapes opens up varied layers of her enquiry into the genre. In India, often th e artist’s academic exposure to the genre of landscapes in the west, evolve as a critical consciousness. One may look into the Realists, Impressionists and Abstract expressions in landscapes as informing about the transforming identity of the postcolonial world in India. Consequently, in spite of awareness about dexterous language of landscapes in the west, one may not like to borrow from the same.
In India, often remote villages and peripheries survive on their own as a mystical reality. How is one to encounter that which is really far distant and strongly beckoning? ViptaKapadia’s engagement with seemingly simple realities of these deeply silent distant landscapes embodies a feminine consciousness. May it be of a primordial nature, its realization is embedded in human experience that shapes the current situations.
Vipta’s art-making process is gestural; nevertheless, her cognizance implanted is of a non-physical dimension. Vipta’s landscapes of “entirety of being”, brings about a fullness of existence in contact with the world she paints. Vipta’s poetic language reveals the implicit in a given situation.
Jagannath Paul
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Jagannath Paul has graduated from the Government College of Arts & Crafts, Kolkata. He has won many prestigious awards.
He is known for his charcoals on paper or canvas. His works bring out the drama of black and white by introducing solid blocks of paint, which are restricted to reds, yellows and orange. The contrast sets the mood of the work, highlighting the character that he paints. His skillful rendering of the female form shows an innate understanding and mastery of the subject.
BIO DATA
Born 1976
Education 2000 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Government College of Arts and Craft, Kolkata Exhibitions 2007 'Echoes of Ecstasy', Lalit Kala... Selected Solo Exhibitions 2007 'Echoes of Ecstasy', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2004 Pradarshak Gallery, Mumbai 2004 Nehru Centre, Mumbai 2003 India Art Gallery, Pune, Maharashtra 2003 World Trade Centre, Arcade, Mumbai 1999 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata Selected Group Exhibitions 2008 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2007 'Emerging Sensibilities', Colorido-Gallery G Bangalore, Karnataka 2007 'Conversation with Colors', Colorido-Time & Space Gallery Bangalore, Karnataka 2006 'Decoding 9 Jewels', Colorido-Kitab Mahal, Mumbai 2002-03 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata 2002-03 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai 2000 Gaganandra Shilpa Pradarsansala Infonmation Centre, Kolkata Participations 2005 'Harmony Show', Nehru Centre, Mumbai 2003,04,05 Annual Exhibition, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai 2002,03 Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata & Mumbai 1998,99 Rajya Charukala Annual Show Information Centre, Kolkata 1996,98,99 All India Annual Exhibition, Indian Society of Oriential Arts, Kolkata 1998,99 All India Annual Exhibition Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 1995-2000 Annual Exhibition of Government College of Arts and Craft, Kolkata Honours and Awards 2003 Hindustan Pencil Ltd. Award From the Bombay Art Society, Mumbai 2001 Governor Awards 2001 Camlin Award, Mumbai 1999 College Award From Governemnt College of Arts and Craft, Kolkata 1996 Academy Award From Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 1996 Gopen Roy Award From Indian Society of Oriental Arts, Kolkata 1995-96 College Awards For Best Pencil Study, Government College of Arts and Craft, Kolkata |