LATITUDE 28 makes a debut in India ART SUMMIT with Vietnamese artists and a Baroda TASTE

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Stall no. A04,

Hall no. 7,

India Art Summit,

Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

From – 19 August 2009 by 22 August 2009.

All set to make a Jump in the second edition of the India summit art, art curator and historian Bhavna Kakar brings an eclectic mix of artists under their new art venture Latitude 28 By an art education background of Baroda, was expected to curator-turned-gallery owner who would choose some of the most interesting young Baroda artists during their first participation at the Summit represent

Baroda apart, what gives this show a special place on the summit is that it is the only gallery shows works by the self-confessed homosexual Bhupen Khakhar famous portraits whose work would be on display. In addition, 28 were also presented Latitude Karachi born artist and Diva Nasreen Mohamedi ink drawings on Japanese paper card India to get apart from the first video works by three renowned Vietnamese artists.

Says Bhavna Kakar, curator and director, Latitude 28: "India Art Summit is a wonderful platform for the collection of our new venture, Latitude 28 and with the art fraternity to interact. The gallery is committed to atmospheric and sophisticated technology in a variety of media and is happy to be able to introduce to the Indian art market different genres, not only Indian but international art practices. In addition to displaying veterans like Jogen Chowdhury, Bhupen Khakhar and Mohamedi, our goal is New Age Art Highlight of younger luminaries like Surekha and Prajjwal Choudhury. "

The artists are: Jogen Chowdhury, Bhupen Khakhar, Nasreen Mohamedi, Sonia Mehra Chawla, Prajjwal Choudhury, Rajesh Ram, Surekha, Arunkumar HG, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Thuc Phu Nam Ha and Nguyen Thi Trinh.

While both Bhupen Khakhar Mohamedi and a teacher were related to MSUniversity, Baroda, the latter in their capacity, aesthetics in her work is unique to each.

Honoured with the Padma Shri in 1984, was a self-taught artist Bhupen Khakhar, accounting stop the growth of the profession Baroda chartered to move, against the wishes of his family members. Despite the lack of formal training, began mapping Khakhar his own peculiar style eating on the kitsch aesthetics the streets and households of Gujarat. Later, his paintings have become increasingly the subject of homosexuality in a largely conservative Indian society. Some of his Pictures on the summit, entitled Portrait of Big Head and The Banyan Tree unleash the artist society mirthful take on sexuality and.

Unlike Khakhar bold, figurative paintings, Nasreen Mohamedi style is known that subtle and abstract. Her last major exhibition was at Documenta, Germany. The gallery black and white drawings of geometric Mohamedi has selected work that beautifully complement Khakhar colorful palette.

Born in Karachi in 1937, Nasreen was for their minimalist Zen-accent known from the beginning of her career. In the 60s and 70s, it was perhaps one of the few women in the exclusive male domain of classical modern art in India is forging a distinct aesthetic vocabulary to their own. It is often associated with the minimalist artist Agnes Martin, whose Quality of the works are arranged affected by the pristine texture along the lines defined carefully screened by hand to call the effect of hand-weaving drawn. Although is not much about the early work of the artist, who have passed in 1990 known her poetic diary as the main source of assimilation strands of her vision. Nasreen to make diary notes mention of interactions with artists like VS Gaitonde and Tyeb Mehta on Bhulabhai Desai Institute who made a profound effect on them. In 1971, when she joined the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda as teachers, interactions with Jeram Patel, to explore in his own way an abstract style, strength for the expansion of their own patterned practice.

Women exposing their teeth is the title work yet another veteran Jogen Chowdhury, who also widely recognized as a master of the continuous line. The figure is the prominent source of most his works. Jogen Chowdhury ability, to each other opposite emotions, the real and imaginary, and the known and unknown, make his art not only a form of self-realization, but a reflection of a collective and subjective consciousness.

During these exclusive pictures of the veterans seek the attention of winning Avid art collectors, are video works from the younger artists equally promising. Bhavna Kakar said: "The videos are presented in the video lounge at the Summit and a context specific to wear their nation. But in a global society where everyone strives for peace and progress, the achievement of the aesthetic concerns and Formal language of this stirring military region in the process of crucial importance. "

For example, Trinh Thi Nguyen from Vietnam Artists presented a video work titled Winter Comes Spring, after 2009, Dat watched the funeral of Le. (A Vietnamese Poet, the movement was part of a 1950 literary and intellectual in North Vietnam called "Nhan Van Giai Pham-", the life under communism criticized. He was later banned from publishing for three decades, and it was not until 2007 that the Vietnamese government decided to give him a national award in an effort to to reconcile the complaints of the past.) Explains the artist, "There were the avant-garde artists such as these poets to mention forced Vietnamese art Literature and suffered decades of decline. In this short documentary, the camera focuses on the pain of the attendees of the funeral of the famous poet, many of which Vietnam's contemporary writers and intellectuals are founded. "Thi camera, however, time rolls in the opposite direction, move the procession of people respectfully Le Dat coffin shown in rewind. This reversal of time can point to many interviews with Le Thi Dat before he died, where he once said that it was a common Feeling among many of his generation, the youth was completely lost and wasted away. By reversing the time in the spring after the winter is coming, wishes Thi his youth returned to him.

Vietnamese Tuan Andrew Nguyen Phu video artist Nam and Ha Thuc created a joint video projection with the word Uh … written as graffiti on public walls throughout the day in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. As passers-by strolling the streets and traffic whizzes by, is a realization sinks in that being visited a suggestive way, which provides a strategic oriented detailed images of various government compound walls in Ho Chi Minh City winds. This work examines not only shifted Vietnam landscapes, both cultural and physical, but also questions the reality of change.

Exploring the similar genre of video art is three fragmented actions of silence by Surekha shows that a transition from the autobiographical self to the true picture. Divided into two horizontal frame contains the upper half The removal of the video artist rose petals one by one from her mouth and Paste to the actual strain, as if the flower is creating a humane act. In the lower half it is the same scene in reverse negative eating petals inclined to side down. The dual positive and negative image of the artist to eat new and a flower echoes in the concealment and revelation of her face. Her other video called Bhagirathi Bringing water, space shot artistically in a household that is excreted to a real situation, living in direct metaphorical. Here the protagonist is in a bathtub and is overlooking the Way through the lonely and nostalgic camera and made wishes to make picturize what is stored in the memories of their childhood.

Apart from the videos, are an interesting collage of images and installations of other young artists equally remarkable. For example, Sonia Mehra Chawla mixed media on canvas entitled membrane such as a debate between the individual and the ever-changing urban locations. The display 8.5ft by 5ft of her great work is a prelude to upcoming solo Sonia's show in Mumbai. Their work mainly investigated and researched Layers and complexities that appear within the urban and the biomorphic. The forms are at once sensual and generative, macabre and degenerate, opulent and impressive and bear in themselves the power of life and the vulnerability of decay. The vein-like trees are skeletal and cow in the work is a metaphor for the pain of the mindless urbanization.

Coming to the genre of plants, Arunkumar HG is an artist working a 3-meter high, which he described as Superman Trained as a sculptor from Super Baroda, Arunkumar works in various disciplines, including photography and toy design. His use of ready-made objects such as toys, plastic, ceramic, cow manure, hay and TV monitors gives us an insight into its vulnerability with respect to Neo-Pop movement. His toy-like, but complicated sculptural works often convey a simple message. Sometimes, however, Arunkumar on the dynamics of this relationship works to provide that appear physically easy, but a complex message across in stark contrast to her appearance.

Artist Prajjwal Choudhury In his book entitled It's all been done before, but we want to go back and start all over again, a recycling machine apparently due to the operation as a kinetic treatment and reproduce matchboxes. He says: "It is 2000 boxes of matches in the mixer, which will be placed on a moving steel plate covered. All boxes will be collected together and once the console is empty they go back into the mixer by vacuum process as the process of Recovery begins. "It is obvious that Prajjwal at war with the way that everyday items will be taken for granted. He collects his preliminary Fuel from such objects like matchboxes, imaginative creations engineer. These match boxes in the recycling machine who filled a realistic Optics to deceive but with an ironic humor, the viewer. The cover of the match boxes with images of the works of the famous artist Andy Warhol, Picasso, Damien Hirst, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, Dhruva Mistry, Jitish Kallat, Subodh Gupta and Atul Dodiya.

On the other hand, Rajesh Ram aptly weaves his aesthetic Configurations with deadpan satire in his work tilted pothi Padhi Padhi jag muah Pandit hua na Koye Dhai Akshar Prem Ke Pade Sun Pandit Hoye. Of material Made objects such as books, artist manipulates its forms, which accentuates the heart of their background to define and stressed the saga of love and tolerance in a bigoted society. The artist also eerily gears up to promote the national language Hindi connotation proverbial slogans by the emphasis on its meaningful.

Latitude 28 is a new company headed by Bhavna Kakar, a Delhi-expert on modern and contemporary Art with an emphasis on the Indian subcontinent. Committed to provide a platform for young talent, width 28 promotes broad-based practices range of of painting and sculpture, photography, video and installations.

By anticipating trends and spotting latent talent, width 28 is required not only exhibitions in the White Cube gallery space hosts, but also by the support of residencies, outreach programs, seminars and lectures. Participate in art! is the art magazine started under the same banner, a bold initiative in today's recessionary times is, Latitude 28 set apart from normal commercial.

LATITUDE 28 has issued an eclectic mix of contemporary artists like Justin Ponmany, Atul Bhalla, Prajakta palaver, Manjunath Kamath, George Martin, Sandeep Pisalkar, Farhad Hussain, Binu Bhaskar, Niyeti Chadha, Sakshi Gupta, Minal Damani, Apurba Nandi, Pooja Iranna, Alok Bal, and seniors like Bhupen Khakhar, Nasreen Mohamedi, Ganesh Haloi, Prabhakar Kolte, GR Santosh, inter alia, in India and international venues such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and London.

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