The buzz around the young created by United Art Fair seems to be continuing. Though there are more, we pick out two art shows happening in the city that showcase the disparate art practices of some of the talent that has just stepped out of art colleges.
Textures
Art Perspective brings together four post graduates in art from Delhi College of Art working in different media. Meeyong Jaiwook, Bharti Verma, Swati Dayal and Devyani Jain, in their canvases and installations, express themselves in a language known best to them. While all of them tackle different subjects and mediums, what binds them is a mature expression. Their works don’t resort to shocking the viewers, for they seem to be in no rush.
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Meeyong, eldest in the group, is a South Korean who has made India his home. His travels to the Himalayas have rendered a meditative silence to the oils.
Bharti, in her paintings and installations, comments on the idea of home and takes an autobiographical route.
Devyani, on the other hand, uses material like cloth, pins, thread and paper in her installation to talk about urban life. Swati Dayal is an abstractionist who plays with colours.
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( Textures is on view at Art Perspective, Lado Sarai, till December 30.)
Alpha and Omega
Like father, like son. Not always. Twenty-six-year-old Arijoy has indeed stepped into his father’s shoes but he isn’t following him to the T tee. He is on a very different trip from his artist father Sanjay Bhattacharya’s. Another graduate from Delhi College of Art, Arijoy’s art has several layers. Science and heritage meet curiously onto his canvases. “A friend describes my art superbly when he calls it ‘new keys for old locks’. To proceed into the future we need to decode our past. When we don’t know our iconography and we have forgotten our methods, customs, how do we move ahead?,” says Arijoy, who approaches his art both as a scientist and a spiritual being. Sri yantra, Shivlinga and, Nataraja recur in his works. Though there is an influence of the Bengal school, it’s not but not as overt as in his father’s.
“What do people do after Durga Puja? They immerse the idol. They let go of it. For me art is like that,” explains Arijoy who is embarking on another project soon. “I will be working on the concept of 64 yoginis.”
(The exhibition is on at Chawla Art Gallery, Square One Mall, Saket, till November 15.)