THE ART OF CHESS-1

ARTIST PROFILE Born in Solapur, Maharashtra and brought up in Mumbai. after spending two years in science stream, I did my GD art from LS Raheja

school of art and Diploma in Art education from Sir. JJ school of art. Received Dinanath Mangeshkar smruti prathisthan award in academics . with various other awards and a few particapations as a student.

I was very much facinated by the rush life of mumbai ...the Bhindi bazar ...the timetables of the mumbaikars etcetc ...thus my paintings ...I secured a job as an Assistant Lecturer in an art institute, Karandikar Kala academy in mumbai.

I attended a residency in Paris , France in 2007 at Cite International des Arts. Exhibited there with my paintings . I am never satisfied with the knowledge I have ....believe in learning things around that interests me. Thus attend various workshops and

experiment in a variety of mediums . I have learnt repoussee from a few local artists and the enamelling in Metal from the Timeless Moments, mumbai. Attended a Residency workshop at the Jindals for heavy and big metal plates ...Large Scale Enamelling .

Attended workshops for ceramics and te Raku firing techniques.Learnt Advance techniques in Metal Enamelling .Learnt a short term course Study In Crystals ...

I am also engaged into writing thus learnt the ancient modi script and include them into my own writings and poems on my canvases . My Paintings used as book covers 'Girl child of Nineteenth Century' by prof. Ruby Lal printed at New York, Cambridge press and

'Unarchieved Histories ' by prof. Gyanendra pandey printed in Routhledge,, Mumbai.participated in charity Art auction , Women Inspired and Art Aid Initiative by Apparao Galleries..

I participated for a project in sweden , the Hidden Art , with an installation along the Gota Channel ..in the open air...where I made an,Installation with my own poetic lines as a work of relief sculpture in modi script.

due to polluting atmospheres m now working more on the nature and its elements . exhibited in various group and solo shows ....

in Mumbai, Chennai, Newdelhi , Bangalore , Hyderabad and Paris .have installed my life size Repoussee and Metal Relief sculptures in Newdelhi and Tamilnadu .still eagearly experimenting in new mediums which suits my work style.My collections are in Public and Private all over the world. Have travelled various parts of India and a bit of Europe.

BHAVNA SONAWANE

CONCEPT As the game of chess has a vast history

...travelled through various continents and countries, it has variety in forms and representaions, still the rules are same all over the world.

I have especially used the Sanskrit , Indian representations, and combined with the modernised terms King, Queen, Bishop, Rook,Knight, Pawn. Thus also used my favourite, the Modi script at a few places.

As a design, I was facinated by the Braille script and thinking about the Epic, Mahabharata, while Chess is known to be its Indian origin, I have tried to relate it with Dhrutarashtra and Gandhari, as i felt the the Story of the blind king interesting, where blindness played an important role in the epic. Moreever it will be interesting to touch the embossed braille script on one side of each.

ARTIST PROFILEAdil Writer is a ceramic artist, painter and architect from Bombay, currently living and working in Auroville, where he is a partner at Mandala Pottery which produces functional tableware, assorted ceramic items, and architectural ceramic murals & installations. From his own studio at Mandala, he creates his own line of studio pottery.

ADIL WRITER

CONCEPT“I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." Marcel Duchamp is possibly right about the former …and who am I to comment on the latter? TrutAh be told, playing chess is like wood-firing one’s ceramic works. One knows the possibilities, but the results are unpredictable! In the game of chess, there can be several possibilities at each stage, each of these possibilities resulting in a series of unavoidable consequences. The outcome is a combination of chance and the rigour of the rules of the game. Just like in life, so also in ceramics!!Shatranj originated in India …It is one of India’s earliest cultural exports; and the game, as a tableau in itself, is an incredible collection of sculptural objects that make the whole. The form of the chess-board is supposed to correspond to the Vāstu-mandala, the diagram which constitutes the directive principles for the basic layout of a house, temple or a city. It is interpreted to symbolize existence conceived as a "field of action" of divine powers. The game of chess thus represents, the combat of the devas with the asuras, of universal good versus evil.In my chessboards, I have included most of the media I love to work with; clays variously fired with soda, wood or gas; metals polished, burnished, patinated; wood inlaid, polished, aged; and acrylic on canvas, my first love! I would’ve preferred not to have a racial clash in my works, …black vs white is such acliché… but that’s the premise of the game, I guess; so I’ve worked with monochromes and shades of grey (no pun intended!)

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JANARTHANAN

Born 1984 – Chennai, Tamil Nadu Education• 2004-08 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Government college of fine Arts,

Chennai.• 2008-10 Master of Fine Arts, Government college of fine Arts,

Chennai. Exhibitions Solo shows• 2013 ‘Nest’, Art World gallery, Chennai.• 2009 ‘Care’, Apparao art gallery, Chennai.• 2009 ‘Care’, Apparao art gallery, Delhi. Selected Group shows • 2014 ‘constructing forms’, kalakriti gallery, Hyderabad. • 2014 ‘Form and Function’, gallery Veda, Chennai.• 2014 ‘Art Chennai’, Art World gallery, Chennai.• 2013 ‘Hidden Histories and Geographies of the World’, Apparao

Galleries, The Lodhi, New Delhi.• 2013 ‘PEERS Share’, Khoj, Delhi.• 2013 ‘Nature in Fountain of Life/ The Rain Room/ The Sand Storm’,

Apparao Gallery, Chennai.• 2013 ‘Madras Musings’, Gallery Veda, Chennai.• 2013 ‘Regional Art Exhibition’, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai.• 2012 ‘Emerging Idioms’, Apparao Galleries, Chennai.• 2011 ‘Emerging Idioms’, Apparao Galleries, Aman New Delhi.• 2011 ‘Art Chennai’, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai.• 2011 ‘Sign’, Cholamandal Centre for Contemporary Art, Chennai.• 2009 ‘Platform 15’, Chitra Kala Parishath, Banglore.• 2009 ‘Nirapirigai’, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai.• 2008 ‘Between the line’, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai.• 2008 ‘Flat form15’, lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai.• 2008 Concern India Foundetion, Mumbai.• 2007 ‘About Looking’, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai.

CONCEPT

Janarthanan work statement

Nests are the inspiration and their constructive habitual traces is my drawings on blocks to represent my view on chess.

ARTIST PROFILENagasamy Ramachandran (born 1975) is a contemporary

artist born in Paramakudi, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, Received his bachelor’s degree (distinction) and masters degree in painting and printmaking from the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai, University of Madras in 1999. To enhance his technical skill he undertook a course on Care of museum objects at Chennai Museum in 2005. He went to Edinburgh on a Visiting Artist Scholar to Scotland to learn Photo-polymer Etching at Edinburg printmakers in 2006. In 2008 he went to Edinburg College of Arts on Charles Wallace India Trust Award, to learn Glass making a special course BA (hons.). Other than these international credits he has received important national and state awards.

N RAMACHANDRAN

CONCEPT The basic inspiration for this work came

from Newspapers, as they declare some moves of master players as an image, i wanted this to be an art work rather than a chess set, so its an combination of playability in an work displayed thanks for the high strength magnets.

My love towards non moving objects like painting are because of its dumbness or of an meditative quality it arises in the viewer, with which these objects give lavish time to resonate/view/contemplate by cutting the movement and fast ness of the environment around us. i wanted to give this to the chess set while playing too.. so you can display it as an painting and can be playing it when ever you feel like playing or can keep/stop in a move and can enjoy its possibilities and beauty of that move etc...

RAHUL KUMAR

EducationMaster of Arts in Art with Concentration in Ceramics, The University of Dallas, Texas (USA); 2008MBA, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad; 1997-99Advance ceramics, private studio of Dipalee and PR Daroz, New Delhi; 1996Basic Ceramics, Delhi Blue Pottery, New Delhi; 1994-1996Bachelor of Commerce (Honors), Delhi University, New Delhi; 1993-1996International Shows (invitational)Fourth ASNA Clay Triennial, Karachi (Pakistan); January 2013Inspired by India; Sotheby’s, London (UK); May 2012Golden Earth, artists from Australia and India; Visual Arts Gallery (IHC), New Delhi; November 2010Ceramics Exchange; Griffith Gallery, Nacogdotches (USA); September 2008Censored-Uncensored, Summer show, The University of Dallas, Texas (USA); May 2008harmonic discord (Solo); William Blakeley Gallery, Texas (USA); April 2008Solo Showsparallel intersection II; Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai; October 2013astronomically small; Art Heritage, New Delhi; March 2013parallel intersection; Visual Arts Gallery (IHC), New Delhi; December 2011ceramic works; American Center, New Delhi; March 2010harmonic discord II; Threshold Art Gallery, New Delhi; August 2009recent ceramic works; Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai; September 2005Group ShowsAchrome, one by one!; India Fine Arts, Mumbai; February 2014

CONCEPT

Is it a battle-field or game-board? Is it a war or play? Are these armies or chess-men? Is the terracotta representing rural and the porcelain representing elite, or, the organic and the processed, or, the rich and the less-privileged? Is terracotta from India and porcelain from China? Is it friendly or deadly? Is it a war or play? Is it a battle-field or game-board?

ARTIST PROFILEEducation• 1998 PG Diploma in creative painting from M.S.University• 1995 BFA Painting from Faculty of Fine Arts. M.S. University. BarodaExhibitions• 2013 Group show Hidden Histories & Geographies of the World by Apparao galleries Chennai at• Four Season Hotel Mumbai• 2013 Group show Devalalikar kalavithika indore• 2012 Group show Rachan sansad mumbai• 2008 Group show by chatterjee&lal NYC USA• 2005 Group show “Present- Future” NGMA ( national gallery of modern art) Mumbai• 2007 Group show shades & wood gallery London• 2006 Solo show Radioactive wrappings by Chattergee & Lal NCPA Mumbai• 2005 Solo show Transit by Chattergee & lal(Philips Contemporary), Mumbai• 2005 The Passion of Paper Group show, Apparao Galleries, New Delhi• 1995 Solo Show. Seminar on Artist-Critic Nexus and international art fallacy, M.S.UniversityAwards• 1995 Babubhai Jashbhai Patel silver Jubilee gold medal. BFA Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University. Baroda• 1997-98 Residency Program at ecole de beaux arts le mans France . Sponsored by Ministry of CultureFrance. Inlaks Foundation. New Delhi. Alembic Chemicals. Baroda

SUDHIR PANDEY

CONCEPT

The act of wrapping is being chased by day to day existence as i am being born and brought up sage Mahar iBharadvāja was the son of ṣDevar i B haspati. Devar iB haspati was the son of Mahar i A girasa. ṣ ṛ ṣ ṛ ṣ ṅThese 3 i are called the Traya i, meaning The Three is of the Ṛṣ Ṛṣ ṚṣBharadvāja Gotra. Guru Dro ācārya, the royal guru ṇto Kauravas and Pā avas in the epic Mahābhārata was the son of sage ṇḍBharadvāja. He was a master of advanced military arts, including the Devāstras. Among all the seven gotras Bharadvāja is the largest chain. Bharadvājagotra has more than 1400 branches and i create mimesis (term given by Kant ) of my life as my adulthood and childhood make conflict of duality between modern life and my pyschogeographical shifting one place to another to redefine urban cultural appropriation. As my surname speak itself the tragedy of mimesis (Dropadi) as per say Oedipus complex since i am genetically afflicted and as carrying the only Kauravas who object to the disrobing of Draupadi in the court are Vikarna and Vidura. Vikarna appeals the assembly to answer the questions raised by Draupadi, but in vain. Vidura openly calls Duryodhana a snake and a demon, but after finding no support, even from his own brother, Vidura is helpless. Draupadi herself verbally eviscerates the entire court, threatening that once Drupada heard of his daughter's insult; he would tear Hastinapur to the ground. Just as she is about to curse he Kuru dynasty, she is interrupted by the queen mother Gandhari. i personally think that art without cultural or historical roots cannot be freed with subjective the act of wrapping as preoccupations parallel move along-side historical references. if you will look on my works may you observe metamorphosis of wrapping and day to day ritual of reciting mantra in contemporary context "iwanna be rich ' as my life was trapped by love and love is blind and friendship closes its eyes that is all about this work and there is vertical and horizontal placement of space to be activated. in the middle of the work there is logo centric signified image of planetary movement saying that future can be seen on the time machine but its depends upon once free will existence.

ARTIST PROFILE Myself Uma Shankar Pathak,born and brought up at Bihar, Dist.Jamalpur,India. I have completed

my Bachelor degree in Fine Arts from College of Art & Craft Patna in 2007 and did Master’s in Painting from Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh in 2009.

I have participated in numerous workshops, Group shows, Solo shows , residencies as well as Indian and International Art Fair’s, which are the’ Lalit Kala Academy Orisha’ Camp 2009,Tirpura 2010. Silchar 2011, Shilong 2012

Lalit Kala Akademi & ICCR Patna 2012 ,Indo British Art Foundation Camp,Patna-09, Two Men Show at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2011, Residency at Niv Art Centre, New Delhi 2011, Group Show at Apparo Art Gallery Chennai 18x18 Group Show 2010, Art Alive Gallery New Delhi ’ Turn The Tables ‘ Group Show 2010, Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi Group Exhibition July 2010, Art on The Move 2013 organised by Apparao Galleries, The Lodhi Hotel, New Delhi,Nvya Gallerie (Within Reach-IV’ Summer 2013.)

Solo Show at Mistiq Art Gallery ( January 2008),Urban Mirror Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi 2011, Apparo Art Galleries, Chennai December 2012, Apparo Art Galleries, The Lodhi Hotel, New Delhi, January 2013.Art Fair at United Art Fair 2012 & 2013, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, and India Art Fair in January 2013& 2014, participation with Apparao Galleries, New Delhi .

I have also honored by Red Cross Society, at South Korea, for International Poster Competition, in 2004, Awarded by 2nd position, 1st position awarded by Bihar State Pollution Control Board, Patna in 2004, as well as awarded by 2nd position for a National Poster Competition, at Mumbai in 2005.

At present I live in Delhi.

CONCEPTAs we know our Brain is continuously work like a plastic machine objects,

quickly occupy the sounds, arriving to our surrounding and never stuck on one single thought but, always try to move in a various way’s. According to my perspective, I always try to communicate & experiment with different media, and transform my imagination in a different way’s.

Here I am trying to convey and relate an old game Choopad (like Chessboard) which was played between Kaurva’s and Pandva’s in Mahabharata period,It was the time of Dwapar Yuga. One famous novelist and story writer named Munshi Premchndra has also written an un parallel story name “Shatranj k Khilari” where two player named Meer Raushan Ali and Mirza Sazzad Ali, were two players of Lakhnow. It was the time of Nawab Wazid Ali Shah. AlsoWhenever I see the Chessboard, lways my mind, my eyes turn into my childhood and remind me the Mahabharata scenario and some story where all chessman like standing in the battle field in their position and war have to be started.

As we know that Shakuni Mama (Mahabharata’s Patra) has over command on own himself and played very well for the Koravas. He has great talent of political issues and whatever he thought he did.

I truly believe that the meaning of Art is same form last many years, but the way of presentation of Art has changed. I have also seen and thought about different portraits of great artist,As many Indian and Western artist worked on chessboard, for example Marcel Duchamp, Who had expressed their feelings in a different way’s? Some of them tried to connect interestingly and some artist relate to our surrounding.

The Same way I have tried to connect and add my feelings to achieve new direction by the Chess Game.In this installation symbolically I have placed many Indian and western great personalities who achieved and make their own identity in their fields,and have used two chairs as a two player’s, many small chairs like an audience, to show they are giving their own opinion and discussion on this game that, Who will be the winnerof this game?

Walter D’souza was born on 28th May 1957 in Mumbai . He did his B.F.A. & M.F.A from the Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara 1981/83.

He set up the Print Studio at Kanoria Centre For Arts, Ahmedabad in 1984. He was appointed Commissioner for the 4th Bharat Bhavan International Print Biennale, Bhopal.

Walter is a Visiting Faculty in Visual studies/Basic Design at the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad till date. He lives and works from Ahmedabad and Aldona

Walter states: “Life is beautiful and I have accepted all that it has to offer and for me thus far it has been one hell of a ride with no regrets. All this seeps into my visual vocabulary.”

This is what Walter says about his art and his journey as an artist.Walter Lives and Works in Ahmedabad.

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CONCEPT

• Our neighbourhoods are alive and kicking. A whole lot of episodes play out daily, locally. All of them playing out as part of a larger game plan which we like to believe we have an inkling of. Some of us are pawns, some knights, some this, some that and so on. I figure I am just a pawn in this beautiful game. What are you?

ARTIST PROFILEYUVARAJ

V.YUVARAJ, Born : 1978, Education : 2003-BFA in Sculpture, Government College of fine Arts, Chennai, Live and working in chennai Awards : 2006-Award winner in the 48th National Award, Participation : 2008-09 Participated 51st National Art Exhibition, 2008-Participate in the Kala Sangathi Scribble Artist Association Contest Hyderabad, Participated in the20 th and 22 nd All India ArtContest,Nagpur,2006-Participated in the 20th All India Art Contest, Nagpur, 2006-Temilnadu Oviya Nunkalai Kuzhu, Chennai, Work Shops : 2011- REGIONAL wood camp Conducted by Lalikala Acadamy Dakshinachitra, 2005 stone Camp conducted by North Zone Cultural Centre, Chandigarh, Solo shows : 2007-Ashvita Art Object & Artifacts, Chennai, 2005 Artistic Art Gallery, Chennai, Group Shows’’ form and funtion’’ gallery veda@ shilpa architects Chennai – 2014, constructing forms kalakriti Hyderabad -2014, kinetic – lalitkala academy Chennai- 2014, : ‘’madrass musings’’ group show at gallery veda Chennai – 2013, 2012-Chronicle- Jehangir art gallery Mumbai, 2012-kinetics-chitrakala parishath Bangalore, 2012-man, machine & musings at art & soul Gallery ECR akkarai.Chennai, 2012- Re-start earth art & soul gallery ECR akkarai Chennai, 2011- kinetics –indigo laburnum gallerie Cholamantalam artist village Chennai, 2011- Chennai arts Ashvita art & Artifacts. Chennai , 2011- National Awardess Exhibition Bhuvaneshwar, 2010 Kala krithi Hyderabad. ,2009- Blue Spade Bangalore , 2009- Kinetics Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore , 2007- The Art of investment by Ashvita Object & Artifacts Coyambatore, 2004 -Artistic Art Gallery Chennai, 2003- Elementary Thoughts-Lalit KalaAcadamy,Chennai, 2002- Thumb & Four Fingers Government College of fine Arts, Chennai.

CONCEPT• A strategy within, in self in all

aspects of day to day life. The bias between the positive and negative aspects in everything we do. where most of the time things are done without knowing the outcome experiencing both the success and failure. where the result is unpredictable and which may vary for every individual. Here I had shown the positive and negative aspects as black and white coins of the chess board. on aim of winning we make plan in each and every move , where we may be winner or looser. where it becomes as an experience.

ARTIST PROFILE Born, 16th jan 1983 Chennai, India. He finished his BFA Painting in Govt College of fine arts, Chennai

2005. He has been honored as Best student award by Tamil Nadu Ovia Nunkalai Kuzhu, Chennai, Held “VISIBLE-INVISIBLE” one man show in Veda art gallery ,Chennai 2014.“An exhibition of paintings” one man show in Apparao art Gallery ,Delhi 2008. He has taken part in grour show “KINETICS” in Lalit Kala Akademi,Chennai 2014. “MADRAS MUSINGS” in Veda art gallery, Chennai 2014. “FORM ANS FUNCTION” in Veda art gallery, Chennai 2014. “UNITED ART FAIR” in Pragati Maidan, New delhi 2013. “KINETICS NOW” in No 1SHANTHI ROAD and Chithrakala parishath ,Bangalore 2012.“CHRONICLE” in Jahangir art gallery ,Mumbai 2012. “POSITIONS” in Collaboration with Seven Art Ltd and Apparao Art Galleries, Chennai 2011. “KINETICS” in Cholamandal Artist village ,Chennai 2011.“WHAT RULES? AFTER FIRST SHOWING” in Nature Morte,Berlin 2011.“THE SPACE BETWEEN” in Oriental Visart, Switzerland 2010.“TRESHOLD TO EVERYDAY” in Oriental Visart, Switzerland 2010.“On darkest night I can see light” in Seven Art Ltd ,Delhi 2010.“Integrating Times” in Blue Spade ,Bangalore 2009.“KINETICS” in Lalit kala Akademi ,Chennai 2007.

His works are in the collection of several corporate and individuals. He currently lives and works in Chennai.

KUMARESAN

CONCEPT

From the existing usual constructive forms,

Artists freedom to create their individual forms form the characterizations is the expressiveness on work.

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• . With a BFA in painting from Shimoga, Shailesh’s works are in the realm of the mind, of feelings and human emotions. Abstract human forms reach out theirhands to touch and feel what lies beyond…looking for someone to share their youthful passion and excitement with. Narrow, etiolated figures are oblivious of their environs, as they are engrossed in a quest to quench their thirst. Shailesh has painted on paper, glass and canvas using many media, including foil and paper thread. His very many solo and group shows include Crossing the Pathway, Community Hall, Frome, UK, 2009; Mystic Realism, Sculptures, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi; many galleries and restaurants and public spaces in Chennai, Bangalore and Delhi; Solo Installations at Goethe Institute Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai; Beyond the Natural, Amethyst, Chennai; Eternal Quest, Art Konsult, New Delhi. Some of his films are Split Personality at Cholamandal Artists’ Village, Chennai; Video Art, Community Hall Frame & at Kent, UK, Major Trends in Contemporary Art at Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, etc.A very active artist, Shailesh is always on the move, exhibiting, participating in camps, workshops, collaborations, etc. He has been profusely awarded and felicitated as well the world over. His work can be found in many private, corporate and public collections as well.

CONCEPT

• The Frozen King moves one step with a noise. He is always scared about Check Check Check….

He check the place or rebuilds. My fascination is sound and friendly echo materials. Whenever coins moves on my board they make sounds, it a sound of tuck tuck tuck like Horse. It’s a foldable board taking the shape of pyramid. The white squares divided with concave and convex making 8 x 8 gives the dimension through light. It’s a CHESS - Wait – Think and Move

ARTIST PROFILESiva comes from a family of traditional folk dramatists, his famous grandfather having a definitive impact

on him and the formation of his artistic idiom. Like Perciyal, Siva has experienced great success over the last two years. Now with patrons in abundance around him, Siva is a more assured, relaxed character. The anxieties and insecurities that were present previously have died down and simultaneously his art has improved and centred on exploring the dramatic dreamscape imagery for which he is known. His paintings are characteristically simple in composition and content; shapes are delineated with dark outline and a single colour often is used to describe form. This style highlights most of all his deft draughtsmanship and skilful pictorial arrangement. Content of his work always has a certain theatricality that relates to his upbringing as well as his personality. His technique and palette have changed a great deal from two years back however. Before there was bright, perhaps garish, flat colour deliberately reminiscent of stage set design. Today, instead, Siva spends a great deal of time experimenting with thin layers of colour beneath the surface of the painting. This under-painting creates a different atmosphere for his work, particularly as his choice of colour has on the whole darkened in tone. His final paintings are dramatic and engrossing like watching a wonderfully surreal opera and then being invited on stage to sing. Siva draws us into a dreamscape or hypnotises us by a single mesmeric, symbolic object like a mysterious pot or levitating South Indian ceremonial palanquin. Look long enough at the work and we ask ourselves instinctively: Why are we here? How did we get here? Meanwhile the artist floats through his works as his classic ghostly male form, gracefully and contentedly watching us ponder

CONCEPT

Male and female are in the same field, Female has all the potential and power. In spite of all the power and potential of a male, he is indefensible.

• Name : D. DHASAN• Born : Chennai• Solo Show• 2006 : Ambassador Pallava (Chennai)• 2007 : Ray ‘O’ Art Gallery (Chennai)• 2007 : Ayya Art Gallery (Chennai• 2008 ; Kasthuri Sreenivasan Trust, Coimbatore.• 2009 : Apparao Gallary Chennai.• 2009 : Kasthuri Sreenivasan Trust, Coimbatore• 2010 ; Aakarsh Gallery, ( Chennai )• Group show• 2008 : Apparao Gallary, New Delhi.• : Vinnayasa Art Gallary, Chennai.• : Apparao Gallary Chennai.• : LalitKala Academy, Chennai.• : Ambassador Pallava (Chennai)• 2010 : Apparao Gallary Chennai.• : Apparao Gallary New Delhi• : Aakrit Gallary, Kolkata.• • Collection• Nokia centre, Chennai• Hotel Ambessedor Pallava, Chennai• Jakzur at Malayasia• Oberai, Bangalore. • Kasthuri Sreenivasan Trust, Coimbatore.• Many Collection in India & Abroad.

DHASAN

CONCEPT

Alternative uses of paper..the good news vs the censored news. One who looks at alternative leads and sources to be objective.

• Sculptor , painter , poet is a social activist and his work is predominantly thematic. A self taught artist, his work articulates the beauty of the form in the written word and textual graphics, by skillful use of graffiti and or, an overlay of and many layers of words as skin on the sculptures.His love for poetry is seen in poetic interface to the forms through layers of the written word as free verse.His work covers subjects as diverse as human rights and gender to the proliferation of pop culture, effects of globalization and the vanishing stream of social consciousness.His works are in several collection in india and abroad and are exhibited galleries in Paris , Sydney and India .

CONCEPTS A matter of Taste

Taste is a design process of the sensory mind . “taste” is simply the ability to draw on patterns and experience to identify an input and link it to a category of taste .

Taste is also a nomenclature used to define aesthetics . Good taste , bad taste or no taste at all .

A grouping under different taste symbolizes pattern recognition, so essential in competitive chess strategy .

The chess set has glass containers of the same shape , and size filled with sauces , vinegars and juices segregated into two groups red and black .

Ab initio they are all located in positions on a chess board according to hierarchy , but once the game commences , the chess pieces can only be identified by the taste of the ingredient inside the bottle .

The chess strategy based on pattern recognition in this chess set , will also need memorizing taste and linking it to each piece , both red and black .

This increased complexity of the game represents the increasing complexities of globalization , the change in ground realities and the evolving nature of new strategies to succeed.

The red and black also represents the new emerging economic power blocs , the west and the east In global realities .

2) A game of perception

Chess forces us to engage in an "internal dialogue" with the self or the mind. It is a way of materializing our subconscious mind into the physical realm. Every time we play chess, we are able to "see" and "examine" our minds.

This opens us to review our perceptions of black and white , right wrong,illusion and reality .

Is there a difference of significance or is everything the same ,or is everything an illusion , Maya ? And if so ? Why battles or conflicts .

My work is inspired by yoko Ono "white chess ".

In Yoko Ono’s work PLAY IT BY TRUST aka WHITE CHESS from 1966. The instructions read “Play a game of chess as long as you can remember where all your pieces are“.

My work – using pieces covered in newspaper all of the same color is to rob the game of its purpose , a conflict of black and white .

It there after poses questions on perception and reality .

3)A conflict of fragrance "Smell can not be readily contained, they

escape and cross boundaries, blending different entities into olfactory wholes. A sensory model opposed to our modern linear world view with its emphasis on divisions and interactions."

I have used smell as a medium of artistic expression and creation by stimulating the nose to prove that in art and in life, there is a blending of sensory perceptions and no firm boundaries .

In 1965, the Japanese artist, Takako Saito, member of the Fluxus group, created a Smell chess by replacing chess pieces with bottles containing different scents of spices.

In my work a conflict of fragrance The players have to smell the pieces each with its distinct fragrance to identify the piece . The strategy in "the conflict of fragrances" involves the sensory perceptions of sight and smell in the interface with the mind .

4)Survival games

This sculpture symbolizes the "Survival Games " a contemporary real life, real time chess .Sweets are symbols of the stake involved in the survival game .Win or lose , achieve or fail and there after Eat or get eaten follows the principle "the proof of the pudding in in the eating ". The victor triumphs the vanquished and appropriates the assets of the vanquished .In the survival game of contemporary politics in india , sweets and laddoos fed by the victor and to the victor symbolizes eating a vanquished opponent .

This is Real , real time chess of politics .

5)Strategy In the essence

There are only white cubes of sugar on the chess board , all of the same size and colour .The differences are in the flavoring essences , dropped onto each sugar cube .The flavoring essence adds distinctive smell and taste to each chess piece .

This requires that the players use a combination of smell and taste aside from sight for a game of chess .

All pieces of the same colour denotes the universality of conflicts and the commonality of players as humans , in the conflict .

Only the essence differs .

6) A diagnostic chess

Medical diagnosis and a game of chess have a lot in common, starting from analysis to prediction and fast response.

Both rely on pattern recognition to come to the best alternatives and strategies within limited time slots .

Thereafter using resources at command to execute strategies .

Diagnostic chess set uses a few tools of a pathology lab and symbolizes the conflict of medicine and illness and strategies designed , to ensure a symbolic eradication of disease and "check mate" or killing the virus .

The colour red and black is also to demarcate ground realities of the poor and the affluent , the south and the north, in the global conversation on control of illness and drug prices .

7)The found suitcase of fragrance.

The "object trouvé " is an Aladdin's lamp of olfactory secrets . It is a repository of old smell, albeit new .A blending of aroma and a recall of memories.The decrepit briefcase with its distinctive smell of old leather, in a tattered embroidered cloth cover is of memories past .The distinctive bottles, with caps, in a skin of newspaper, symbolizing the momentary nature of smell and news , the tainted labels on the bottles and remixed fragrances, are the chess pieces in a game of nostalgia .This chess game requires memory to identify friend from foe , a fragrance from another, as the players link fragrances to chess pieces.The chess board made of old shingle, is the match, to light the magic lamp, it is the wish board of memories . Memories of aroma , hidden in the folds of the brain, in the deep recesses of the mind as whiffs of nostalgia, love and sorrow, regret and joy, the different emotions .The squares on the chess board are containers of memory, of different aroma , which awakened by the fragrance , recalls emotions forgotten, past and current, of different times and places, colours and smell, passions aroused and satiated, beautiful sensual women and virile men, and the heady smell of romance in the air. It is as an icon of Joie de vivre, an adjunct to memory and as memory sees the present and the past as part of the same picture, it is a narrative in memory. The found suitcase of fragrance.The "object trouvé " is an Aladdin's lamp of olfactory secrets . It is a repository of old smell, albeit new .A blending of aroma and a recall of memories.The decrepit briefcase with its distinctive smell of old leather, in a tattered embroidered cloth cover is of memories past .The distinctive bottles, with caps, in a skin of newspaper, symbolizing the momentary nature of smell and news , the tainted labels on the bottles and remixed fragrances, are the chess pieces in a game of nostalgia .This chess game requires memory to identify friend from foe , a fragrance from another, as the players link fragrances to chess pieces.The chess board made of old shingle, is the match, to light the magic lamp, it is the wish board of memories . Memories of aroma , hidden in the folds of the brain, in the deep recesses of the mind as whiffs of nostalgia, love and sorrow, regret and joy, the different emotions .The squares on the chess board are containers of memory, of different aroma , which awakened by the fragrance , recalls emotions forgotten, past and current, of different times and places, colours and smell, passions aroused and satiated, beautiful sensual women and virile men, and the heady smell of romance in the air .It is as an icon of Joie de vivre, an adjunct to memory and as memory sees the present and the past as part of the same picture, it is a narrative in memory.

ARTIST PROFILEIn 2010, the Oberoi Hotel at Nariman Point in Mumbai re-opened its lobby some 18 months after the

terror attacks of 26/11 had destroyed it. The prominent change was a bronze sculpture by Dimpy Menon. The seven-foot composition showing a couple with their "arms unfurled in a gesture that portrays a welcome as well as freedom" has been described as "stunning" by the travel guru Mary Gostelow. CNN International told its patrons, "Don't miss the sculptures by artist Dimpy Menon dotted around the premises and named, The Conversation, A Sunday Afternoon, and A Fine Balance." These are among three of a dozen large sculptures of hers at the Trident in Bandra-Kurla. It is a sentiment echoed by the New York magazine Architectural Digest which has called Dimpy Menon one of the "biggest contemporary artists in India"

In Bangalore, Dimpy's works are seen to the best advantage at the Alila where a single figure both delicate and powerful greets the visitor as he drives in. A spectacular composition (over 20 ft high) moving across the lobby from the ground to the ceiling takes the breath away. Dimpy Menon graduated top of the class from the College of Art, Chennai in 1986; the art critic Geeta Doctor writing in Indian Express was already commenting about her work thus: "Dimpy's figures recall the spirit of the Renaissance Man best exemplified in Leonardo da Vinci. The way in which she expresses the concepts, however, is wholly Eastern." Dimpy's works are often large scale, as on the Anna Salai, Chennai where five large-as-life figures greet the public. It is Dimpy's dream to create large sculptures in public spaces where they become a part of the city's landscape.

CONCEPTChess is attractive both as a

game of mathematical possibilities and a treasure trove of visual interpretations. My chess set explores the sensuousness of the rounded pieces; I have used the human form as I do in my work, paring it down further to accentuate its tactility. The heaviness of the metal gives every move gravitas, and the glow of the bronze richness. Thus, while the mind enjoys the game’s intricacies, the body enjoys the feel, the eyes take in the beauty.

ARTIST PROFILEMAINAZ BANO

Born and brought up in Lucknow, which is also known as Nawabi City. Environment and people of this place played a very important role in shaping her personality. Got award in 30 th Annual Exhibition of UPSLKA, her work is also selected in 56 th National Exhibition of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. She got chancellor’s bronze medal, Lucknow University, Best Exhibit Award in Aranya, Kolkata. She visited in China to participate in 5 th Beijing International Art Biennale. She participated in many group exhibition British High Commissioner’s Residence London, Taj Palace Hotel Banglore, Mumbai and New Delhi. Had been a part of Regional Interactive Camp of Contemporary, Folk, Tribal and Traditional Artist, Lucknow. Her works are in many private collections across country.

CHANDAN AGRAWAL

Born in 1987,obtained his BFA&MFA degree from college of art & craft, lucknow. Having different thought while studying had chosen his way to become painter. He had a SOLO Show in Lucknow, and participated in many group show JUST BEFORE 100, ABHIVYAKTIYA L Lucknow, ART NEXXT New Delhi, UNWRITTEN THOUGHTS Chandigarh, ABOZZO 09 Baroda,& Annual Show of Dhoomimal art gallery.As Well his work are part of 1" National Exhibition of Odisha Lalit Kala Akademi, 27",28", 29", 30"31", Annual exhibition of UPSLKA, Bombay Art Society, Camlin Art Foundation,& 12" All India exhibition of UPSLKA Lucknow,& 56" National Exhibition of Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi.he also participated in Regional camp of Lalit Kala Akademi Lucknow. He received Award in 85" All India exhibition of AIFACS New Delhi & MDAN LAL NAGER, Abhivyaktiy group.His Work are in collection of UPSLKA, Lalit Kala Akademi LUCKNOW and Many private collection . He lives and works in Lucknow.

CONCEPT

Golden heritage 56 which is presented in the form chess. One side is full of nawabi imagination of the life of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah and other shows the history of British attack on lucknow. This represents our past that printed in our mind. Whenever we talk about chess, the scene of shatranj ke khiladi directed by satyajit ray comes in the mind. This film inspired me so much that I made an art piece in mixed media which is unique example of different -different history of awadh. This unique art piece represents the history from 18th century till now which shows digital shatranj and Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is trapping in the Shatranji chaal (shatranji step) of the British Government. The trapping story of Wajid Ali Shah in the shatranji chaal of British government in this digital shatranj.

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Born 26 February 1978

Educational Qualification: B.F.A Visual communication design 1998-2002, Govt College of arts and crafts Chennai, India One man show: 2008 one man show at triveni kala sangam by apparao art gallery at Delhi, 2003 ‘Sequestra’ one man show in Alliance Française of madras, Chennai Exhibition Participated: 2014 ‘Dialogues with Self’ by Portrait Project, New Delhi., 2014 ‘Stylish & Contemporary’ at The Noble Sage Art gallery, London., 2013 ‘Written Word’ at Apparao gallery, Chennai., 2013 ‘Madras Musings’ at Gallery Veda, Chennai., 2012 ‘South show’ at Apparao gallery, New Delhi., 2011 ‘Art Chennai’ at lalit kala akademi, Chennai., 2011 Invitee for the 9 th Bharath Bhavan International Print Biennale, Bhopal., 2011 ‘New Trends from South for Art chennai’ by Apparao gallery at lalit kala akademi, chennai., 2010 ‘The Madras Accent ’by safion at venkatappa Gallery, Bangalore., 2010 ‘search within’ Gallerie 88,Kolkota., 2009 ‘Narrative Movements’ Gallery Mementos, Bangalore,Kolkota., 2008 ‘8 th Bharath Bhavan International Print Biennale, Bhopal. Awards & scholarship: 2013-2014 Lalit Kala Akademi Research Grant Scholarship,2008 Grand Prize Awardee at ‘8 th Bharath Bhavan International Print Biennale, Bhopal, 2003 Photographed for Handicrafts of India, 2002 ‘Diploma award’ for portrait “ Royal pose II ” ‘Our dear old man’ art photography show in Tashkent house of photography, Uzbekistan.

CONCEPTBattlefield 2There is a comparison with the pen and the sword, War is a history, it changed so many destinies, It has changed so many lines in the maps, so many territories, we have got the war in the mind, history are written and rewritten boundaries were redrawn. But everything happens in the battlefield.

ARTIST PROFILEKumari Nahappan is a prominent artist in the region of Southeast Asia; her practice encompasses inter-disciplinary

genres, painting, sculpture and installations. She has forged a reputation for effectively reconciling the language of “international contemporary art” with her own vocabulary and developing a visual identity that is decisively shaped by her cultural roots and beliefs.

Kumari is celebrated for her iconic sculptures in landmark locations in Singapore including Saga for Changi Airport, Nutmeg & Mace for the ION Orchard, Pedas-Pedas for the National Museum and Pembungaan for OUE Bayfront (the largest bronze mural in Singapore at over 45m) and other sculptures for corporate developments. Her sculptures have graced sites overseas including G Tower in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), the J.Y. Campos Centre in Manila (the Philippines), and Chengdu International Finance Square (China) in 2014.

Kumari has received commendations in the Philip Morris ASEAN Art Awards & UOB Painting of the Year. She holds the honour of being the first foreigner and woman to be conferred the Ksatria Seni Award (2004) by the Museum Rudana in Bali. In 2011, she won the Artist of the Year Award in the 15th edition of the Shanghai Art Fair and was identified as a notable female artist in the book Women Artists in Singapore [2011]. Recently, she was awarded Singapore Indian Icon of the Year 2014 by Act for Hope organization.

Kumari was invited to show at the Museum der Kulturen in Basel in [2007/8] and at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam [2010]. More recently, she has enjoyed critical and popular acclaim for her installation Anahata, a monumental work comprising of 4000kg of saga seeds for the Singapore Biennale 2013. Her works have been exhibited at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and Singapore Art Museum, Seoul Art Centre in Korea, Museum Rudana in Indonesia as well as in gallery exhibitions in Sweden, Germany, London, Italy, New York, Australia, Hong Kong and China.

Trained in interior design in Willesdon College of Technology in London UK in the mid-1970s, Kumari pursued a successful interior design career before studying fine art at the Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, securing a Masters of Fine Art from the RMIT University, Melbourne. She was appointed as President of ALCA (Alumni of LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts) from 1994 to 2003 and has served as an external examiner and thesis supervisor for the art college.

 

CONCEPT

Moves on Spice was inspired by the variety of chillies and peppers which I havecreated in the last decade. in the form of sculptures...ranging from Habenero, Naga Chilli, Bishop Cap,Halapeno, Bell pepper and cherry chillies. The power of these varies in strengthand these have been identified as metaphors for this game of life where the queenis all powerful and is presented in the form of Sakthi.

KUMARI NAHAPPANMOVES ON SPICE

26.7”X26.7”X3”BRONZE

• Born in Mumbai, Madhvi Subrahmanian was trained under Ray Meeker and Deborah Smith at the Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry, India. She attained her MFA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas under Peter Beasecker. Madhvi has participated in a several public art projects and has her works in the collection of Airport Authority Mumbai, Jindal Foundation (Vijaynagar), Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan), Fule International Ceramic Museum (China), and East Coast Park (Singapore). Madhvi has participated in several artist-in-residence programs- such as FLICAM, Fuping, Shaanxi Province (China), Watershed (Maine), The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan) and Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry (India). Her works have been published in various international magazines such as Ceramic Art and Perception, Ceramics Monthly and in books such as Paper Clay by Rosette Gault, Smoke firingby Jane Perryman and Contemporary Ceramics by Emmanuel Cooper. She has participated in many solo and group exhibitions around the world and her works are in several private and public collections around the world. Madhvi currently lives and works in Singapore.

CONCEPT“The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of theUniverse, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Natureand the player on the other side is hidden from us”

(Thomas Huxley) The chessboard hides a mystery that represents the other kept away from us visible only through a small peephole. Make Your Move but the mystery of the outcome remains.

MADHVI SUBRAMANIUMMAKE YOUR MOVE

12”X12”MIXED MEDIA

• Born in 1981 Uttar Pradesh, he obtained the BFA & MFA degrees from College of Arts & Crafts, Lucknow. He is a National Academy Award winner in 53rd NEA of Lalit Kala Akademi, & got Best exhibit Award in 17th All India Studio Pottery exhibition of AIFACS; both in 2011. He has held three solo shows in M S University Baroda, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai & Apparao Galleries, Chennai. He had been to China to participate in 3rd & 5th Beijing International Art Biennale, in 2008 & 2012 and explored many cities of China, as well as his work got displayed in Malcolm De Chazal Art gallery, Curepipe, Mauritus. He was Artist in Residence on a 5 week program in Clayarch Museum Gimhae, Korea in 2013, and later his work was a part of special exhibition in Ilju & Seonhwa Gallery, Seoul. He had Group shows in gallery YIDO, Gallery Jung, and Indian Ocean Gallery Seoul in 2013 & 2014. He also participated in many group shows in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow, Baroda, Udaipur, & Indore. He received Lalit Kala Research Grant in 2010 & National Young Artist Scholarship, Ministry of Culture in 2007. His works are in collection of India cultural centre Busan, Clayarch Museum Korea, in several galleries and institutions in Mumbai, Baroda, Chennai, Udaipur, Kolkata, New Delhi, Lucknow, Beijing, Italy, & Canada. The artist lives & works in Lucknow.

CONCEPT

A game which takes full exercise and energy of mind, it works in full motion to win the game; though I don’t know how to play this game but while doing this work I exercised my mind to understand complexity & vastness of Chess. I tried to bring Royal touch in this work because I think this is a Royal game and only great minds can control 16 pieces on 64 blocks.

Title - The Royal GameSize - 36"x36"x10"Medium - Mixed Media(Single Edition Work)

Born and brought up in Chandigarh, which is situated on the foot hills of Himalayas; Environment and people of this place played a very important role in shaping her personality. She did BFA and MFA from Govt. College of Art, Chandigarh in 2007. Got awarded in 18th All India Studio pottery exhibition of AIFACS in 2013, her work was also appeared in 55th National Exhibition of Art, New Delhi. Recently she visited China to participate in 3rd Changchun International Ceramic Symposium. She participated in many group exhibitions PARALLEL REALITY Indore, ARTSCAPES Chandigarh, Annual Art show of Dhoomimal Art Gallery, ACTIVE THREADS, UNWRITTEN THOUGHTS, ETHEREAL Chandigarh, WARNA Lucknow, AMALGAMATION Chennai, and many others. Got Commendation Certificate for good work in Sculpture Mission in Chennai. Had been a part of Regional Sculpture camp in Lucknow. Her work is in collection of Changchun Ceramic Museum, Lalit Kala Akademi, Regional center Lucknow, with many private collections in Chandigarh, Lucknow, Mohali, Chennai, & New Delhi. Presently she is learning & working on Ceramics in Lucknow

CONCEPT• I took this work as a challenge

because I never played this game, but I found myself in a learning state where I went through to nature and behavior of this game, and got to know this is more than a game, this is synonym of passion and aggression; through this only I can be able to deliver this work successfully. I tried to keep its functionality on priority and used some found objects to represent its simplicity. In short this game is a perfect blend of simplicity and complexity.

ANJU G MAURYA“LETS PLAY”24"X24"X14"

MIXED MEDIAEDITIONS: 1

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Gautam Bhatia is a Delhi-based artist and architect. The author of Punjabi Baroque andOther Memories of Architecture, he is currently working on “Innovating the New Indian City”.Education:B. FA, 1973, M.Arch., 1977, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. USAArchitectural Awards:2007 Archi-Design Award for Recreational Architecture2003 A+D National Award for Institutional Building2003 A+D National Award for Housing2003 A+D National Award for Hotels2002 JK Architect of the Year Award for Monolith Resorts2001 Habitat Award, Visual Arts Gallery, Habitat Centre1999 Inside Outside Designer of the Year Award for Devigarh Palace Hotel1998 JK Architect of the Year Award for the Childrens Retreat1994 First Prize Architectural Competition for the CRY-Oxfam Headquarters1987 First Prize Architectural Competition for Memorial to Mahatma Gandhi1986 Second Prize Architectural Competition for the Indira Gandhi Centre for ArtsExhibitions/ResearchDesh Ki Awaaz, A Collaborative Arts Exhibit, Triveni Gallery, New Delhi, 2009Nature of the City, Group Show, Religare Gallery, New Delhi, 2008.Indian Art. Group Show, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, 2006.Around Architecture. Group Show, Gallery SKE, Bangalore 2005.The Good Life? An Exhibition of Drawings, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, January, 2004Borderless Terrain. Group Show, Visual Arts Gallery, Habitat Centre, September 2002Looking Through Walls: Architecture in the Age of MacDonalds, An Exhibition of Drawings, Visual Arts Gallery, Habitat Centre, August 2001Unbuilt India: Curated exhibition on Unbuilt Projects, Vis-à-Vis Design Centre, Delhi 2001Shelter in India: A 2-year research project on Indian house types. Sponsored by HUDCO, 1986Traditional Architecture: A study of mud buildings. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, 1985The Mud House: Indigenous buildings in the Developing World, London 1992.A Place to Live: Housing Practices Exhibition at Rabindra Bhavan, 1987. Sponsored by HUDCO

CONCEPT

The hierarchy of the chessboard is defined using the minister as a model for each piece. The girth of each minister piece increases with its importance in the order of play.

CHESS MINISTER32”X32”

GLASS AND FIBRE GLASSNo. of edition-3

PRAFUL SINGH

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DATE OF BIRTH :15TH March, 1976.ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:1999 B.F.A. M.S. University, Baroda.

2001 Post diploma . M.S. University, Baroda.AWARD:2004 Harmony Award (Reliance Industries)1999 Gujarat lalit Kala Academy AhmedabadExhibitions participated : 2015Lalit kala ,new delhi. 2015Vadafeast, Vadodara,gujrat. 2014 Style file, Kolkata 2014 faculty of fine arts ,Vadodara 2013 Jahangir art gallery ,mumbai. . 2013 Style file Show , Kolkata 2012 Apparao Galleries, aman new delhi. 2012 Style file Show , Kolkata 2011 Apparao Galleries, new delhi. 2011 Style file Show , Kolkata 2010 Apparao Galleries, Chennai.2010 Style file Show , Kolkata 2009 Stanless art gallery , New Delhi 2009 VAG Habitat Center, New Delhi2009 Aakriti art Gallery , Kolkata 2008 Style file Show , Kolkata2008 Shridharni Gallery, New Delhi 2008 SriNagar Art Gallery, Kashmir.2008Apparao Galleries, Chennai.2007 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.2007 Harmony show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai2006 Triveni Art Gallery, New Delhi . 2005 Harmony show, world trade center, Mumbai.2005 Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda.2005 Bayers ABS Limited Gallery, Baroda .2005 Kanoria center for arts, Ahmedabad.2004 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai.2004 Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.2004 Lalit kala Academy, New Delhi.2004-Feb Bayers ABS Limited Gallery, Baroda.2004-Sept Bayers ABS Limited Gallery, Baroda2003 Bombay Art Society , Mumbai. 2003 Nehru Centre, Mumbai.2001 Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. 2001 Faculty of fine Arts , Baroda. 2000 Nehru Centre , Mumbai.1999 Art Core , Baroda.1998 Nehru Centre , Mumbai.

CONCEPT

To me the chess is like the battle of choices where I am unable to give up either. It is my own inner battle of my family and career opportunities

ME AND MINE2”X2”

FIBRE GLASS, STAINLESS STEE AND BRASS