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Art for a cause
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EVENT Works of eminent artists are up for auction in aid of Project Give Life
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SUBLIME Alexis Kersey’s ‘Pieta’, one of the art works up for auction
Art has always carried the hallowed aura of sublimity, with the artist sublimating his perceptual and emotional experiences into it Artists are icons and their works labelled as iconic, carry valence particularly for a cause. These developments are
closely worked with gallery dealers, auction houses and collectors. Consequently certain galleries have extended their art dealings also into the auction arena that aids the secondary market. That is works are sourced from collectors and sold in auctions.
Apparaoart Auctions, established in 2006, and a sister concern of Apparao Galleries became the first auction house to offer the unique model of an online cum live auction. This enables prospective buyers to visit physical stations which are set up on the day of the main auction and participate in the live bidding process that occurs simultaneously with the online bidding. It has remained an endeavour of Apparaoart Auctions through their sales of art work to chip from their profits to give back to society. Hence the auction titled “Woman Inspired” is in aid of Project Give Life, initiated in 2006 by Akhila Srinivasan, Fr. Jagath Gasper Raj, and Ravi Chandran of True Value Homes all serving as trustees.
This project provides a poor child educational support, health care, nutrition guarantee, soft skills training, personality development and career guidance. Currently this project takes care of 8,600 children and through this auction aims to make it 10,000. The preview of “Woman Inspired” auction was held at Apparao Galleries on April 9, where Kanimozhi, Member of Parliament was the guest of honour.
The nurturing aspect of life that connects to woman and metaphorically to mother earth finds an evocative echo in this exhibition in which the main protagonist is the woman. The representation is a medley of artists drawn from diverse regions across the country, with the focus on ‘woman’ either painted by the male artist or the woman artist. The artists include Anjolie Ela Menon, Anju Dodiya, Anupam Sud, Arpana Caur, Arpita Singh, Bhavana Sonewane, Chandrima Bhattacharya, Deepali Bhattacharya, Gogi Saroj Pal, Jaya Ganguly, Kanchan Chander, Maya Burman, Mithu Sen, Nalini Malani, Navjot Altaf, Paula Sengupta, Rekha Rodwittiya, Seema Ghurraiya, Seema Kohli, Sukla Poddar, Shipra Bhattacharya, Sujata Bajaj, Sultana Hassan, Vasundhara Tiwari. The medium employed varies from oils, acrylics, water colours, ink on paper, mixed media, printmaking, charcoal drawings to sculpture. The visual language is equally diverse varying from hyper realism to quasi abstract to abstract and from figurative to non representational.
The dominant trope interwoven in this auction through a body of works is a discourse on the ‘body’ that has had a specific importance in Indian art. Within this cluster of woman artists’ majority of them intervene through female bodies to mark the site for critiquing contemporary conflicts and values, or to raise questions concerning issues that are usually ignored, particularly gender. While others mark the approach autobiographically making their creative expressions as sites for precipitating their inner angst, tensions as well as joy, happiness and contentment, or their work gestures to a philosophical journey with inward and outward experiences.
Male perspective
The cluster of male artists represented in the auction; in their artistic expressions presents a wide gamut in terms of style, forms and technique. There is also the presence of pioneers who visualised a language of modernity for the Indian artist through intervention with traditional arts and craft forms. The artists are Jamini Roy, C.S.N. Patnaik, K.H. Ara, K.K. Hebbar, Satish Sinha, Pran Pal Krishna, Gopal Ghosh, Inder Dugar, Keyt, Shyamal Dutta Ray, Satish Gupta, Haku Shah, Atul Dodiya, K. Ramchandran, K.G. Subramanian, Jogen Chaudhary, Paritosh Sen, Shakti Burman, Bikash Bhattacharya, F.N. Souza, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Alexis Kersey, Gobardhan Ash, Shibu Natesan, George. K, D.L.N. Reddy, Sanat Kar, Sarbari Roy Choudhary and B. Vittal.
The choice of artists in the auction is well crafted and offers not only a wide thematic content but also a diversity of materials, medium, technique as well a particular sensibility that makes each artist distinct.
ASHRAFI S. BHAGAT
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