Gallery Time and Space exhibition showcases creativity of 50 artists
In this photo essay, we feature highlights from a Gallery Time and Space art exhibition, along with curator insights.
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Gallery Time and Space recently featured a group show by over 50 artists, aptly titled Continuum: Artists across Time and Space. See our earlier coverage of art exhibitions at this popular Bengaluru cultural hub here.
“Art has a depth that goes beyond the merely superficial to a truth either psychological, spiritual or intangible and secret. This truth touches at a level that transcends intellectual understanding,” gallery founder and curator Renu George tells YourStory.
A work of art shows the feelings of the artist. “At the same time, the artists’ vision often has clarity unclouded by their own feeling,” she adds.
“This detachment is a hallmark of good art. The seer and the seen are one and the artists capture them both in a holistic unity that surpasses their own part as an individual, carrying the work into the realm of universality,” she affirms.
In this photo essay, we feature the exhibited works of artists such as Asish Chowdhury, Akhil Chandra Das, Abdullah Pathan, Bimal Kundu, Basuki Das Gupta, Dimpy Menon, G Reghu, Haren Thakur, and Asit Patnaik.
Asish Chowdhury is a Kolkata-based ceramic artist who uses clay as a medium for social commentary and collective memory. His installations engage with themes of protest, public history, and the experiences of ordinary people.
Akhil Chandra Das is an Indian sculptor and educator whose figurative bronze works explore the tensions between spirituality, desire and human existence. He is a winner of the National Award at the 28th National Exhibition of Contemporary Arts.
Abdullah Pathan is a Bengaluru-based artist, sculptor, curator, and art educator with over 15 fifteen years of experience in fine arts and design. His works combine traditional sculptural techniques with contemporary aesthetics, particularly in dynamic depictions of bulls.
Bimal Kundu is a distinguished Indian sculptor from Kolkata who has worked across media such as bronze, stone, wood, fiberglass, and leather. His works reveal layered narratives and formal experimentation.
Basuki Das Gupta is a contemporary Indian painter whose works are characterised by rich colour palettes, dynamic compositions, and a personal visual language. She explores themes of identity, human relationships, and the rhythms of everyday life.
Dimpy Menon is an accomplished contemporary sculptor, renowned for her expressive bronze figures that embody movement, optimism and the vitality of the human spirit. Her sculptures often depict dancers, meditators, mothers, and couples.
G Reghu is a Kerala-born sculptor and ceramic artist whose works are informed by Gandhian ideals, indigenous materials, and tribal cultures. His artistic language conveys a sense of simplicity, earthiness and social consciousness.
Haren Thakur is a modernist painter from Jharkhand whose art fuses tribal visual traditions with contemporary aesthetics. His paintings often depict harmonious relationships between humans, animals and nature in symbolic imagery.
Asit Patnaik is a senior Indian painter from Odisha whose artworks are known for vibrant colours and nuanced explorations of human relationships. They focus on intimate interactions via flowing red hair that symbolises passion, strength and femininity.
The artists’ perspectives reveal an instinctive understanding of the world around them. “This involves the conscious or subconscious levels of awareness. Thanks to the work of traditional and contemporary Indian artists, we have come to understand the soul of the world in our own current way as it resonates with our present-day realities,” George observes.
“When artists create with love, the very subject lends its truth to them. This leads to the ability to see and recreate its essence in an almost uncanny way,” George signs off.
Now what have you done today to pause in your busy schedule and harness your creative side for a better world?
(All photographs taken by Madanmohan Rao on location at Gallery Time and Space.)