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CURATORIAL NOTE
BY BAVISHA VARIGONDA
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Ah! Winter can get our lazy-on and it can happen to the best of us. But isn’t it the best time to embody the spirit of the often underrated theme of play and playfulness in the process of creation and pure joy of uninhibited expression; adding free-spirited moments and vibrant colors to your perception and almost nudging you to look at life with fresh eyes.
Artflute presents to you Tongue-in-cheek, a three-women show who explore and express through their works the spirit of playfulness, the charm of naivety and the ball of satire. The collection offers a wide range of works in diverse mediums and these three independent women artists appear to diverge and oftentimes converge through their works, processes and thoughts that iterate the creation of these valued pieces. -
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1. VISHAKHA JINDAL
THE SPIRIT OF PLAYFULNESS
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Vishakha Jindal with her child-like spirit and mannerism in approaching her work, aptly represents playfulness as she employs a spontaneous process to explore the relationships between various visual elements, especially color and form. Her work exhibits an ideal state of suspending reality where the artist herself engages in a delightful and a care-free experience in the making of the artworks which is later reflected and conveyed through her paintings - almost extending an invitation to you to join the experience and have fun. Her work is universal in nature and free of socio-cultural context, thus allowing you to interpret it in your own way.
Instinctive, spontaneous, and abstract are defining markers of her art-practice. She breaks free from various artistic convictions; the Canvas Cutouts Body Art collaboration and Limited Edition Painted Ceramic Lamps are the projects where the artist transports the act of painting beyond 2-dimensional surface plane.
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She also relates her style and practice with what art critic Jerry Saltz stated,
“Too direct a 'meaning' in your work takes your work away from art’s startlingly languageless country.
To simply 'understand' diminishes pleasure; points too narrowly. When we don’t apprehend, it extends art as something to look at further. It becomes locationless.”
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FEATURED WORKS OF VISHAKHA JINDAL
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OTHER WORKS OF VISHAKHA JINDAL
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2. RASHMI POTE
the charm of naivety
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Rashmi Pote envelopes the idea of play in creation by extending her forms as vessels of emotional states; her stylised forms and composition carry a non-presumptuous nature of expressing and confronting ambiguous and intense emotions states with simplicity and sensibility.
Rashmi Pote is a self-taught artist based in Mumbai. With her background in English Literature, she constantly seeks inspiration from a new book, a poem, a quote, or even just a single beautiful word that she comes across. Her works express ambiguous feelings clearly through the specific style she has evolved through her years of practice. She seeks to push the boundaries of the various media, materials and techniques to constantly innovate and experiment in her art practice and to tell a unique story.
The sustainability movement has deeply influenced her art practice and constantly strives towards minimizing waste through creating sustainable art, with found objects and recycled materials.
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FEATURED WORKS OF RASHMI POTE
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OTHER WORKS OF RASHMI POTE
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3. SRINIA CHOWDHURY
the ball of satire
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While Srinia Chowdhury with her masters in Fine Arts carries a specialization in Bronze, she consciously uses ceramics as her medium for sculpture. She is a recent awardee of Jyotsna Bhatt Ceramics Award 2022 announced by Ark Foundation. Her ceramics practice brings in illustrations as strong elements through satire on socio-political issues and human behavior. She brings an innovative approach to comment on issues such a male gaze, moral policing and gender roles through her bright and peppy ceramic pieces. The strikingly cherry themes and ideas she captures in a visually light-hearted and frivolous ceramic sculpture truly mark her style.
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FEATURED WORKS OF SRINIA CHOWDHURY
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OTHER WORKS BY SRINIA CHOWDHURY
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Most often the word, 'play' is often associated with kids. Understandably as they are the ones who play the most and it's probably when you played the most too!But play is how we explore our world, and ourselves in a way that opens up new possibilities, ideas and solutions.Being playful is as much a state of mind as an action. For many of us, the bigger barrier to being playful or creative is... us! These three women artists have approached and explored the idea of play and creation with outward playfulness, sensuous naivety and otherwise cherry in their own quirky means and modes. It's how Eva Balke would say, from his article on “Play and the Arts: The importance of the “Unimportant” (1997), “the true artist has something of the same attitude toward life as the playful child: their awareness of time disappears when playing or creating”. We hope we were able to take you through a visual journey, through this collection, and provide a space for play and embark on a new perspective of imagination.
TONGUE-IN-CHEEK
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