Naturalé Expressions
Written by Anurag Bhateja on August 13, 2009 – 9:41 am -EXHIBITION DETAILS
The IndiPix Gallery presents ‘Naturalé Expressions’
a group Wall Art Photography Exhibition by
Arvind Hoon, Monika Rawat, Paromita Deb Areng.
IndiPix Gallery, B2/1 Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110 057
show opens on 14 August 2009 ~ 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
and continues till 08 September 2009 ~ 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
(Monday to Saturday. Open on Sunday by prior appointment only)
rsvp +91.11.4170 4334
>>> Naturalé Expressions
a group Wall Art Photography Exhibition
With the onset of Monsoons and Autumn just a dream away, Indipix Gallery presents glimpses of ‘Naturalé’ in an exquisite way through ‘Naturalé Expressions’.
Nature expresses itself in ways that are deep and profound. Just as the child within us needs to be spoken to in verses of power rapturous emotions, Nature needs to be conversed too. In the visions of distilled dreams, waiting to be realized, in symphony of notes understanding the depth of life. There is a whole universe in Nature waiting to be explored, spoken to and experienced. Some of us have taken a plunge to strike the conversations. With an urge to go beyond the obvious, we present a collection of nature abstracts by photographers – Arvind, Monika, and Paromita.
Through ‘Naturalé Expressions’ – the photographers have focused themselves dedicatedly in the pursuit of the timeless expressions of nature – rendering varied forms, hues and colours to capture the mystery, beauty, power and vulnerability of the wilderness. All the collections represent ‘Expressions’. ‘The Fall Collection’ suggests the empathetic nature of leaves – the artist visualizes them as the epitome of beauty and mystique. The profound significance of leaves delves far beyond any form of art into the vivid core of nature. ‘Lucid Dreams’ tries to take us to another level of consciousness, displaying exquisite beauty of flower macros – giving rise to underlying emotions. ‘Trails – Here to Eternity’ shows abstraction of life that entails eternal threads of existence – soulful rejuvenation – trying to trace the existence of life after life.
>>> IndiPix Gallery: A Space to showcase Contemporary Art Photography:
IndiPix gallery was set up to create a niche showcase space for photographers who have a passion for the medium and would like to share their work. Photographers with a ‘name’ are represented anywhere but serious ‘not yet a name’ talent is often ignored by mainline galleries, even by those specializing in showcasing photography or are charged very high rentals with bookings years in advance. We want to open our doors to such talent.
We encourage all photographers to showcase their talent: from upcoming amateurs to serious hobbyists and on to professional fine art photographers. For us the purity of the medium is most important. IndiPix Gallery is a space to showcase and promote Photography as an art form.
The gallery space is also used by various photography groups to organize workshops, presentations, film screenings, seminars, group meetings, … anything to do with photography.
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EXHIBITION DETAILS
The IndiPix Gallery presents ‘Naturalé Expressions’ a group Wall Art Photography Exhibition by Arvind Hoon, Monika Rawat, Paromita Deb Areng
IndiPix Gallery, B2/1 Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110 057 show opens on 14 August 2009 ~ 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm and continues till 08 September 2009 ~ 10:00 am to 6:00 pm (Monday to Saturday. Open on Sunday by prior appointment only) rsvp +91.11.4170 4334
>>> Naturalé Expressions
a group Wall Art Photography Exhibition With the onset of Monsoons and Autumn just a dream away, Indipix Gallery presents glimpses of ‘Naturalé’ in an exquisite way through ‘Naturalé Expressions’.
Nature expresses itself in ways that are deep and profound. Just as the child within us needs to be spoken to in verses of power rapturous emotions, Nature needs to be conversed too. In the visions of distilled dreams, waiting to be realized, in symphony of notes understanding the depth of life. There is a whole universe in Nature waiting to be explored, spoken to and experienced. Some of us have taken a plunge to strike the conversations. With an urge to go beyond the obvious, we present a collection of nature abstracts by photographers – Arvind, Monika, and Paromita.
Through ‘Naturalé Expressions’ – the photographers have focused themselves dedicatedly in the pursuit of the timeless expressions of nature – rendering varied forms, hues and colours to capture the mystery, beauty, power and vulnerability of the wilderness. All the collections represent ‘Expressions’. ‘The Fall Collection’ suggests the empathetic nature of leaves – the artist visualizes them as the epitome of beauty and mystique. The profound significance of leaves delves far beyond any form of art into the vivid core of nature. ‘Lucid Dreams’ tries to take us to another level of consciousness, displaying exquisite beauty of flower macros – giving rise to underlying emotions. ‘Trails – Here to Eternity’ shows abstraction of life that entails eternal threads of existence – soulful rejuvenation – trying to trace the existence of life after life.
>>> Arvind Hoon (b.1962)
Ladybirds: From here to eternity?
ARTIST STATEMENT
Close to twenty years in advertising gave Arvind Hoon an opportunity to develop his ‘aesthetic’ sense having worked with the ‘best art and creative minds’. He absorbed it all. Photography always remained top of mind with him every step of the way and his vacation / occasion images always had his family complaining that it didn’t have any of the family. Mostly landscapes, animals, people and nature. He ignored the ‘digs’. The typical ‘vacation’ photographs were few and far between.
His switch to ‘consulting’ provided him with the ‘time’ and ‘space’ to follow his ‘photography’ dreams and become ‘a photographer at large’. Though the ‘post processing’ dependence and manipulation made the ‘purist’ in him uncomfortable, he soon learned to ‘use’ the ‘digital tools’ to enhance his ‘point of view’.
He has been slowly but steadily been building his eclectic body of work by ‘casting his optics’ with his ‘lens’. The work is eclectic in nature. Abstracts derived from nature and the street. A touch of reality saturation extracted from people and places. His work is being showcased across several galleries in Mumbai, Delhi and Gurgaon. A couple of group exhibitions are on the cards in 2009 to be followed by a solo in 2010.
Arvind is keen to show the world, his ‘point of view’.
ABOUT THE COLLECTION
I have always sought out the ‘unusual’ from my early years, be it an interesting perspective of a traditional home or vacation photograph or simply bits of trivia collected along the way. Sometimes my ‘optics’ have been appreciated, occasionally ‘not comprehended’. Many moons in advertising gave me the exposure to hone my ‘aesthetic’ sense that goes beyond what ‘I like’. I seek to provide through my ‘eye’ images, that ‘please’ and ‘provoke’.
This series of ‘Ladybirds’ on wires and pine needles I chanced upon near my home in Kasauli. I was simply fascinated by their existence on a tree or trees. They just kept going up and down the pine needles and some of them often jumped onto a wire fencing nearby. Going where? I wish I had an answer. Thinking what? I have no idea. I’d love to get a peek into their minds and lives.
>>> Monika Rawat
The Fall Collection
ARTIST STATEMENT
Monika Rawat, an IT professional, started indulging in creative ventures pretty early in life and has never really stopped – from making sketches on the back page during a classroom session to spending hours working on creative assignments to splurging in water colours, making decorative stuff, and stitching her own dresses. That’s how she learned that she had a creative streak within. In the course of satisfying her artistic thirst, she discovered the world of photography, when she shifted from a regular digicam to a DSLR in 2007 and spent as much as six hours a day clicking and editing pictures. As she got deeper into it, she became aware of how photography could evoke emotions. With it came the realization of how colours, textures, and various forms contribute to a composition and how equally important a background was as compared to the foreground image.
She really believes in the concept of art – the mystery and the unknown that it encompasses often intrigues her. She fervently also believes that there is an artist inside us all who reveals them self often – sometimes we ignore the artist in us and sometimes we are just lucky to recognize them and go into profound indulgence. She is glad that she caught her’s on time.
ABOUT THE COLLECTION
This autumn, she is celebrating the colours, textures and patterns of various leaves amidst the tranquillity of nature – focusing only on abstracts. The collection here has images from interiors of Himachal (a beautiful small town called Subatu) to some from she own terrace garden to few others that caught she eye here and their. Through her collection, she has tried to capture the intricacies and beauty of leaves that we see everyday, especially during the fall, with myriad of colours, ranging from green, orange, red to a final decaying brown. It is difficult to adopt the pace of nature, but if you make conversations with it, you will understand the beauty and the depth of each and every object therein. She has tried to give them the look and feel of an abstract painting, evoking varied emotions from subtle purples to blue hues and sometimes giving them a warm feeling to sometimes going overboard and overshadowing images with coldness and bitterness of a bleeding emotion.
>>> Paromita Deb Areng
Lucid Dreams
ARTIST STATEMENT
Paromita Deb Areng is an IIM Alumnus and a HR Manager with a private diversified company based out of Mumbai. A native of Meghalaya, she have travelled and lived across the country since a decade. She was inspired to take up Photography by a friend; an excellent photographer himself and every click since then has been a step to self realisation. Through the viewfinder she sees an enchanted, ethereal world washed with riots of colours and myriad shapes and forms. She calls herself a ‘Sunday Photographer’ and scours the streets and by lanes of her Maximum City to capture its essence with the camera. Photography for her is a medium of expression and an outlet for creative expressions. She feels her images emote her state of mind and defines her moods. She loves working with bold colours, reflections, grains and textures and shadows and is currently having a fatal attraction with flowers. A couple of her images have been published in Better Photography April/May 2009 issues and she has been a finalist in the ‘Lost Flamingoes of Bombay’ Photo contest by Penguin India.
ABOUT THE COLLECTION
Paromita shares a special bond with flowers. She has spent quite a few winter afternoons nestled amidst the flower beds of her mother’s garden listening attentively to her talk fervently about her flowers. With Lucid Dreams she pays a tribute to her mother by talking the same language of flowers through a different medium and exploring unspoken emotions through vibrant bold colours and dark monochromes. She has build up on Lucid Dreams all those underlying human emotions, that fail to touch our everyday lives – yet remain hidden deep within, surfacing only when called for and evoked with reflections of same depth. She finds peace in working through her images. It’s a channel to define life and just believe in what it leads her to. Most of her images capture bold human emotions, with some going to the darker side of life.
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World Around Us – A Photography Exhibition
Written by Anurag Bhateja on July 9, 2009 – 11:57 am -Few of my friends are holding a photography exhibition. I am posting all the details here. If you are in or around the city on the particular dates, do give a visit.
Art for Prabhat and Trinitas Presents
Photographs by
1. Neeraj Mahajan
2. Laurent Goldstein
3. Ajay Rajgarhia
4. Siddharth Puri
5. Shashwat Nagpal
6. Udit Kulshrestha
Towards a fundraiser for rehabilitation of Mentally Challenged Children.
Host: Trinitas (Photosynthesis)
Type: Music/Arts – Exhibit
Network: Global
Start Time: Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 11:00am
End Time: Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 7:00pm
Location: Main Atrium DLF Place
Street: Saket
City/Town: New Delhi, India
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Phone: 9953100012
Email: udit@trinitas.in
About the Photographers:
UDIT KULSHRESTHA (b. 1977, Rajkot)
Born in Rajkot in 1977, Udit Kulshrestha spent his childhood travelling the length and breadth of the country, as an Army officer’s son. As a youth, he ventured into the world of marketing where he studied the domains of the Internet, Media, and Paints & Durables for 7 years. However, with a parental lineage in performing and visual arts, (his grandfather having taught the Great Ghazal Maestro Jagjit Singh & his maternal grandmother being an Oscar winner and a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement award recipient for costumes for her work in the acclaimed Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi), it was only a matter of time till he discovered his true calling as a visual artist and a photographer. Thus began a journey of self realisation and vivid creative expression.
Encouragement came in the form of commissioned projects for UNESADE, Spain, on issues of Education, Poverty, Sustainability, Street Children and other ‘Blind Spots’ of the society, during his initial learning period. Having published some of his editorial works across the US (Smithsonian – 2008), RCE Barcelona E&S, Spain (2007-2009), Pearson University, Singapore (2008) and Times of India & Traffic Life Magazine, India (2007 & 2008), his profession keeps him busy creating visual delights for the Advertising, Editorial and Corporate clientele in the domains of people, lifestyle, still life and sports. His work has been recognised by the Smithsonian (USA) in ’08. His advertising work has been awarded the Rising Tide Award, apart from being nominated for prestigious Industry Awards like Cannes Lions Advertising awards, Clio Awards and One Show Awards in 2009.
A self taught inquisitive photographer and a traveller – more a voyager of the visual senses – he explores the media of motion imagery, literature & creative writing, philosophy, design and music to hone his pictorial perspectives. He is currently exploring the vistas of People, Street & Life, Abstracts and Still Life.
Exhibitions:
2008
- April :: Group: ‘Sahmat’, Mandi House, New Delhi
- July :: Group: ‘Darwaaze’, Market Café, New Delhi
- August :: Group: ‘Three’ at Market Café, Khan Market, New Delhi
- October ::
- Group: ‘Spaces’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- Group: The Wonderwall Show, Café Turtle, New Delhi.
- November::
- Group: ‘Sidewalks’, Global Arts Village, New Delhi.
- Group: DestinAsian: Viewfinder, Viewfinder Gallery, London.
2009
- February ;; Group; Globalware, Ontario, Canada.
- March :: Group: Visions’, ZazaSpace, New delhi
Udit hails from the land of the Taj Mahal and is based out of Gurgaon.
NEERAJ MAHAJAN (b. 1973, New Delhi)
Observing people has been an integral part of Neeraj Mahajan’s life since childhood. A queer habit at first, its significance came into being once it started expressing in the form of Photography, culminating into art form. He deserted his education in hotel management midway to pursue his passion in photography. He followed his heart with his camera and embarked upon a journey through the places, faces and patterns of India juxtaposed with moments of private insight.
Photography for Neeraj is a very intuitive and spiritual process, through which he discovers the two worlds, one that he sees, and the other that he wants to see.
During his travels since 1997, he discovered a hidden conservationist behind his fascination for preservation of culture, rituals and history and a constant disapproval of rapid globalization of the world. Through his photography, he wishes to continue diverting the attention of the world towards the true spirit of humanity and less visible areas of paradox and enigma.
Awards and Exhibitions:
1. India Habitat center’s fellowship award in photography for year 2006 for a documentary on Gypsies of India.
2. Group exhibition on Hinduism, in Wilfred museum, Israel, in Sep 2008.
GYPSY SOUL: NEERAJ MAHAJAN
“Gypsy Soul” is a series of intimate portraits of vitality, pride and fortitude, which has sustained the Indian nomadic populations through centuries of rough living conditions, poverty and political turmoil.
Having shot with an insider’s vantage, the timeless quality of their world and freedom from the ties of civilization, ruminates distinctly in these pictures.
Gypsies and semi nomadic communities are today, a worried lot. As the urban sprawl of cities increases and village commons along with their cattle grazing land shrink, they find themselves being displaced constantly.
This is their story, a way of life that is being threatened. Of innocence and beauty that needs to be preserved.
LAURENT GOLDSTEIN (b. Paris, France)
Raised in a very artistic environment, his father being a music conductor and his grandmother a sculptor, he started being a child actor and later after his Art studies in France and the USA he trained to be an architect. As life would have it he moved on to become a designer and art manager of several high fashion companies in Paris, London and Milan like Hermes, Gres, Balenciaga, Burberry’s and Cassandre among others, before settling in India in order to launch a household linen label.
Laurent has been the Art director of the French Fashion Federation in Paris as well and as during those days, the fashion industry was exloring manufacturing in Asia, made Laurent take this opportunity to come to India in order to settle a bridge between French and Indian professionals, where he launched an household linen label – ‘Red Halo’.
He sports his camera with him always and the first thing which makes him draw is a color combination. Colors are his guidance force to his path of life. He is also involved deeply in fighting for Human Rights in India as well as France.
He is based out of Paris but lives most of the year in Benares.
BENARES – THE OLDEST LIVING CITY: LAURENT GOLDSTEIN
Along the Ganges relationships with people are different and I carry on this human adventure through photography, which allows me to extend a glance to the world and to show many aspects of the Indian society sometimes deeply devoted to its traditions or on the contrary forward-looking. Benares, the oldest living city in the world, became one of my favorite subjects and after adding a specific treatment my images seem timeless and in a kind of biblical set which can sometimes remind the world of Bosch, where he introduces people who are often soaked in a state of grace.
About Benaras he says: “Those pictures of the oldest living city in the world are maybe an answer to my “Search of Lost Time”. Like the french writer Marcel Proust with his monumental work, “Search of Lost Time”(in French, “À la recherche du temps perdu”, also titled “Remembrance of Things Past” in its initial English translation), the role of memory is central. Memory is the link which leads a picture to another but I should say involuntary memory, as Benaras is acting on me like the ‘episode of the madeleine’ in Proust’s novel. When I walk in the City of Lights, I am ransported back to an earlier time by sensory experiences of memory, triggered by smells, sights, sounds, or touch. I believe this is what happens to most of the visitors who come over here and this is why this place is so special, so unique, this is the reason why whoever we are, whatever our culutre can be, we all find something which might be connected to the begining of History and which is deeply in our soul…”
AJAY RAJGARHIA (b. 1967, New Delhi)
Ajay Rajgarhia (b. 1967) has always looked at life with a different angle. He listens to music, preferring lyrics to rhythm. And watches movies with a keen curiosity for the story not told….constantly searching for answers in endless books, lectures and spiritual study. There has to be more to this, is his common refrain.
One, which led him to study in the US, graduating in 1990.
Working in Investment Banking, then, quitting it all to start his own garment factory and working with names like Liz Claiborne, Buffalo, Talbots and Bono.
Big business. Big brands. Same question.
There has to be more to this…
A search that finally led him to seek behind the lens of a camera and explore the world with his inner eye.
Travelling with a restless energy on the streets, he is always looking for ‘that perfect moment’. Chasing after light and shadow, figure and form, man and nature… Ajay finds inspiration even in the mundane and forgotten!
His works are a part of many private collections in India and abroad and his showings include:
2006/India Chic Gallery, New Delhi ‘Flying Solo’
2007/ Wonderwall at Alliance Francise, New Delhi ‘Three Tier’
2007/Mystic Strokes, Pune ‘Three Eyes’
2007/Arushi Art Gallery, New Delhi ‘Harvest 2007′
2007/Sanskriti Art Gallery, Kolkata ‘Fine Art Photography’
2007/ Wonderwall at Stainless Gallery, New Delhi ‘The Other Side’
2008/ Prakrit Art Gallery, Chennai ‘Click Shoot’
2008/The Shrine Gallery, Delhi ‘Art Beat’
2008/Arushi Art Gallery, Delhi ‘Harvest 2008′
2008/Wonderwall, Delhi ‘India Art Summit 2008′
2008/PhotoARTAsia Expo 2008, Bangkok
2008/Seven Art Limited at Jam Jar, Dubai ‘Popular Reality’
2009/Apparao Infinity, Chennai ‘Go….take a walk’.
2009/Mahua – The Art Gallery, Bangalore ‘ Behind the Lens’.
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