What: Image versus Illusion: Around the World in 7 Days
Where: The Loft, Quest, 6th floor
When: March 22-29; 11am-7pm
On display: Works by artists from India and abroad
t2 caught up with a clutch of artists ahead of the exhibition…
Suparna Mondal continues to weave her take on “urban life” through her mixed media canvases. “Calcuttans understand art and that is such a huge takeaway for any artist,” she said.
— Shivika Goenka, vice-president, special projects, Quest
Maria Folger
My themes: Are usually centred around women.
My mediums: Acrylic and oils.
My favourite artists: Georgia O’Keeffe is one of my favourites. I just love her happy, colourful paintings.
Art is: Freedom.
Gabriele Sermuksnyte
My themes: The two works I will be exhibiting in Calcutta combine large-sized canvases, dramatic baroque-style colours and contemporary mythology of popular culture. The main characters in my compositions are women, whose faces are either not depicted at all, or hidden under masks, and any vestiges of emotion or character are eliminated. While representing the bodies as objects, I draw attention to the feminine-related gender stereotypes existing in society today.
My mediums: Acrylic on canvas.
My favourite artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat. I love his expression. I also adore Marlene Dumas, Luc Tuymans, Gerhard Richter, Michael Borremans, Anselm Kiefer.
Art is: A visual diary.
Pascale Taurua
My themes: Women, shoes especially.... we take it out of its organic function to make it an object of desire, to signify what force animates women and what story they want to tell.
My mediums: In my paintings where everything seems fixed, the colours then create the emotion. I structure all my compositions with large flat areas of colour.
My favourite artists: Paul Gauguin because he was influenced by the tropical environment and the Polynesian culture, where I come from. But I also find myself in the essential characteristics of his painting.
Art is: Liberating!
Who’s showing
From India...
Suparna Mondal
Hardik Kansara
Mousumi Biswas
Nilesh Kumavat
Ashish K Pal
Paresh Maity
Jayasri Burman
Yuvraj
Saptarshi Naskar
Prafull Singh
International...
Budi Ubrux (Indonesia)
Gabriele Sermuksnyte (Lithuania)
Emil Aziz (Turkey)
Maria Folger (US)
Pascale Taurua (France)
Maria Aparici (Spain)
Pepijn Simon (Netherlands)
Steven Lawler (UK)
Daniel Clarke (South Africa)
Mary Chiaramonte (US)
Alexander Ilichev (Russia)
Svetlana Kurmaz (Russia)
Gia Gzhel (Russia)
Carla Sa Fernandes (Portugal)
Elaine Kehew (Kenya)
Francesco D’Adamo (Italy)
Niki Hare (UK)
Deny Pribadi (Indonesia)
Made Wianta (Indonesia)
I Made Wiradana (Indonesia)
Vacareanu Ion Marian (Romania)
Chantal Van Houten (Netherlands)
Yao Hongru (China)
Hyzhy Oleh (Ukraine)
