The 59th National Exhibition of Art is more than just an exercise in participation arid contribution of the art practitioners from all over the country. It ideates the truth that art is more than a mere conversation between art lovers and artists: it is the bond between the initiator and the spectator. This exhibition is a reflection of the multifaceted art practices comprising sculptures, paintings, prints, photography and mix media. The exhibition chooses to explore and recognize the disintegration of modern day reality with its fluid boundaries between high and low, exclusive and mass-marketed, public and private.
Priority towards keeping the jury's selection of awardees was transparent and objective The modern day conceptualization and historic ideations lead to the melange of decisions and final selections, in all the 173 selected works that will be unveiled in the exhibition, we draw stings between the formless and the one with form. Eminent artists like Bose Krishnamachari, Manu Parekh, K.S. Radhakrishnan, Awaits Gadanayak, Jyoti Bhatt, LN Tallur and N. Pushpamala are a part of the much esteemed invited section. Meandering from one end to the other, with a shifting focus, drawing from classical and folk art forms on the one hand and incorporating new trends, media and techniques on the other, in permanent, semi-permanent or amorphous shapes, and may also take in sound, text and light or appear in a figurative or abstract mode from form to the formless.
I proudly declare the awardees names: Jyotiprakash Sethy, Vivek Kumar, Pappu Bardhan, Cherring Negi, Debashish Dutta, Indira Purakayatha Ghosh, Vikrant Vishwas Bhise, Shivakumar Kesaramadu, Rabi Narayan Gupta, Pankaj Gahlot, Kumaran K R, Atin Basak, Amit Dutt, Amit Chakraborty, Pradeep Prathap. I congratulate all the fifteen awardees whose works have taken imaginations and realities in forms and formlessness too.
Of the myriad creative expressions, sculpture is amongst the most ancient art form practiced universally, Ranging from terracotta figurines of the Indus valley civilization to the rock cut sculptures of Ajanta caves, from revered temple statuary of Southern India to popular idols in wayside shrines of the North, from elaborately adorned rare precious stone and ivory royal items to inexpensive objects in metal and wood for everyday use, from public art projects to new media installations, in multiple hues and incarnations, some rooted in the classical cannons of Shilpa shastra while other inspired by folk or popular genres besides some experimental work in innovative mode with a mix and match of materials, styles, techniques and ideas, sculpture today, reflects the energy and momentum for rejuvenation that marks contemporary India. The prints, paintings and photographs aim to represent the various practiced ideologies evolved through acceptance or confrontation. It is a literal reference to internal and external interface of human desire in diverse modes of expression. Significantly, artists bring their own language of expression with tuned responses of varied forms of lines and color. As the artists investigate their ideologies, the medium of color comes alive to explore the unchartered, full of infinite possibilities of time.
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