Verve Artist Studios: 2010

Friday, December 24, 2010

Deviba Wala's Solo Show in London

'Searching For New Connotations'

recent paintings by

Deviba Wala

The Red Gate Gallery

London

from 3rd to 9th december 2010

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

World Heritage Week

Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings

of Museum Objects by over 50 Artists of Ahmedabad

to mark the Ahmedabad Heritage Week

as a part of

World Heritage Week Celebrations

VICHAAR Trust (Vishalla, Ahmedabad) - Museum of Utensils

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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

London !

Solo shows by arpit biloria and deviba wala in london

the RED GATE GALLERY

sponsored by

GUJARAT STATE LALIT KALA ACADEMY

showcasing their recent paintings

preview at

Ravishankar Rawal Kala Bhavan, Ahmedabad

19th-21st november

Searching for New ConnotationsAn exhibition of recent paintings by Deviba Wala

3rd-9th December

Deviba Wala’s lucid abstractions, predominantly monochromatic, evoke an unambiguous rhetoric of strength in the process of accomplishing elegant but austere forms.Wala believes they are almost naïve in terms of transgressing the disquiets of mundane life. The entangled patterns and wavy lines running across the evasive space of the canvas appear as ‘mind-scapes’, suggesting deeper intuitive feelings of the artist. This challenges the inference of 'specific structures'.

On the whole, the minimal composition is carefully considered, with vital elements prearranged in a very particular manner. They travel from one end to the other, crisscrossing and interlacing, and are undoubtedly the outcome of a unique ‘gestalt’, which creates intensity of visual significance and emotional implication. Again, the very gestalt enables the viewer to discard all ideological statements about the nature of ‘art’ and to cherish the unblemished subsistence of beautiful forms. This 'gestalt' operates on a conceptual as well as on a compositional level; an ode to life’s pure existence.Through this particular process the artist conceives and evaluates the complex meaning of simple forms. Consequently, this enables the viewer to interact and engage in a more significant manner. Inevitably, the art work turns into an initiation process, revealing multiplicity of connotations.

-anand gadapa

Unrevealed Perceptions

An exhibition of Arpit Biloria’s recent paintings

10th-16th December

These works aim to scrutinise the intentional fallacy of perception. Biloria's work explores the minimising of basic forms, which he considers otherwise complex and concealed. This is apparent in his spatial illusions dissolute in fine gradation of muted hues. His discernment about the ‘specific objects’ in his canvas appears not of his own but of a trained viewer as he strives hard to annihilate the presence/intentionality of the artist.

‘Doing more with less’, the pleasing vast negative spaces in his monochromatic paintings are deliberately stripped to its essentials, which imply a sort of illusion and the hierarchically disinterested ‘primary structures’ are often geometrized/systematized as the art work claims oblique hints and insinuates depth while viewed.

True to ‘Minimalism’, Arpit ingeniously employs less number of forms, if not ‘objects’, with refined lines and subtly rendered textures and even the untainted and unmixed hue becomes subservient to the form as it is utilized only for mere delineation of space rather than creating any sort of mood as such. His ‘reductivist’ ideas about sensuously executed compositions further can be traced in reiteration of shapes, which are however, vigilantly exploited working and reworking on all his ‘known’ perceptions and probing into the undisclosed/unrevealed dimensions and to end with, like an empiricist, the artist examines what exists and what does not.

-anand gadapa

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The Red Gate Gallery - How to get there

Nearest Buses from Brixton/Camberwell: 35 (From Clapham Junction), 45 (From Kings X), 345 (From Sth Ken to Peckham), P4 (Brixton to Lewisham) Nearest Train: Loughboroug Junction Thames Link, via King X to Sutton)

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Greetings !

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Ahmedabad International Art Festival

The Sheth CN College of Fine Arts will be a part of the prestigious AIAF 2010.

Beauty in Art:

Installation by Students / Exhibition by Faculty

& Opening of the Fine Art Gallery at 11:00 am 29th October, 2010

Timings: 9:00 am to 7:00 pm

Dates: 29th - 31st of October 2010

Venue: Sheth CN College of Fine Arts
I/C Principal: Ratilal Kansodaria

Co-ordinated by: Deviba Wala & Arpit Biloria

We are Thankful to our sponsors
Smart Art Hub & State Bank of India (Ambawadi Branch)
Special Thanks to Imran for the Catalogue Design

Information about the AIAF

23 Events - 14 Venues - 50 Artists - 3 Days - 1 City
Celebrating 600 Years of Ahmedabad

An Ahmedabad - Manchester collaboration by Stephen Dixon, Kate Egan & Lokesh Ghai
Creative Inputs / Festival Director - Anupa Mehta

Ahmedabad:
This city specific festival celebrates the arts and cultural heritage. The underlying impetus is a desire for harmony and amity through collaborative arts programming.The arts are a bridge, one that transcends cultures and goes beyond borders.

On the occasion of Ahmedabad 600, AIAF celebrates the changing face of the city and its rich vernacular architecture and gracious cultural legacies.

About the Festival:

Ahmedabad International Arts Festival (AIAF) is envisaged as a cutting edge arts initiative, that will grow on the lines of established international arts festivals.

AIAF will be launched over in 2010 with a series of specially designed arts and literary events to be held over three days (October 29, 30, 31) across several partner venues in the city. Visual art exhibits, performing arts, folk music, theatre, literary events etc, all will be presented as a carefully conceived package that revolves and builds on universal ideas of togetherness using the broad thematic of “beauty.”

Event Categories:

Large scale/spectacle/performing arts evening events in public places featuring
National & International artistes
Sunday `Baithak' concerts featuring the greats of Indian classical music
Book readings/ meetings with international celebrities with an affinity for India
Themed Art Exhibits
Collaborative & Hands on Workshops for all ages/striates
City pride activities with school children
Heritage walks

Information Courtesy: AIAF - www.aiaf.in

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