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Jaylakshmi Sinha Roy, an art writer from Shantiniketan loves the wide gambit of art, literature, language, politics and culture incorporated in this episode of Underground Talks. Such detailed dialogues on art and culture is the perfect medium for the art and literary fraternity to integrate the rich cultural fabrics into their ideas. We thank her for her presence and invaluable suggestions.

01/10/2019

On September 28, 2019, GAG Moderne Art Gallery in New Delhi held its 9th edition of the monthly event titled “Underground Talks with Manish Pushkale” hosted by the renowned artist Manish Pushkale and graced with the inspiring presence of the prominent intellectual, diplomat, writer, and politician Mr. Pavan. K. Varma, who has been inspiring immensely not just with the impressive career he held, but also with the luster of his intellect. Mr. Pavan. K. Varma is the National General Secretary and the National Spokesperson of the Janata Dal (United).

The event opened on a positive note with Mr. Pushkale introducing the audience with the non-conformist personality of Mr. Varma whose introduction is impossible to be confined within the limits of linearity. Mr. Pushkale’s introduction of Mr. Varma traversed the limit of his political and diplomatic career to enter the realm of his intellectuality and passion for creativity. The talk held within the creative space of the art gallery revolved around issues concerning art, literature, language and politics.

Mr. Varma in his address advised the coming generation to hold as multi-dimensional attitude and not to be glued and obsessed only with their careers but expand their barriers to cultivate a hobby or sport to kindle their zeal for creativity. About his intellectual and creative undertakings that are reflected in the huge corpus of books- both fiction and non-fiction written by him including Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker, The Great Indian Middle Class, Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity, Ghalib- The Man, The Times, etc.

In his address, he even raised the concern about the restricted understanding of truth in today’s time with all claiming their version of the truth to be the only possibility and leaving no space for a civilized dialogue or conversation. Basing his facts in the Indian Civilization that has held the legacy of conversation, Mr. Varma praised the idea of the “Underground Talks” that
despite on a smaller scale was creating such a space for freedom of expression and dialogue.

Talking about the Hindu Philosophy, Mr. Varma said his writings have always aimed at informing and clearing the dew around the religious and philosophical views that has undergone several phases of misinterpretation or over-interpretation. He said that Hinduism is a way of life that is ubiquitous in nature and could not be bracketed by any means.

The talk also centered around literature and went on to discuss the lives of Mirza Ghalib and Shankaracharya and the timeline in which they lived so as to show the influence of the background on the creative canvas of a person. Mr. Varma also enlightened the audience about the language politics and how because of the colonial legacy the native languages have been suffering as they are getting engaged in a battle of supremacy and viability in the contemporary era. He said that language is not just a means of communication but a window to our culture, tradition, history, lullabies and smell of soil associated with life.

The session lived to its commitment of bringing prominent and renowned personalities from the art canvas under the same roof to facilitate the free flow of emotions and creative energy. It was attended by well-known creative minds from the art and literary circuit. Many prominent art critics and art lovers including Jailakshmi Singh, Arnab Banerjee, Sanjay Roy attended the event. Mr. Varma’s wife- Mrs. Renuka also graced the event and appreciated the concept behind it

30/09/2019

On September 28, 2019, GAG Moderne Art Gallery in New Delhi held its 9th edition of the monthly event titled “Underground Talks with Manish Pushkale” hosted by the renowned artist Manish Pushkale and graced with the inspiring presence of the prominent intellectual, diplomat, writer, and politician Mr. Pavan. K. Varma, who has been inspiring immensely not just with the impressive career he held, but also with the luster of his intellect. Mr. Pavan. K. Varma is the National General Secretary and the National Spokesperson of the Janata Dal (United).

The event opened on a positive note with Mr. Pushkale introducing the audience with the non-conformist personality of Mr. Varma whose introduction is impossible to be confined within the limits of linearity. Mr. Pushkale’s introduction of Mr. Varma traversed the limit of his political and diplomatic career to enter the realm of his intellectuality and passion for creativity. The talk held within the creative space of the art gallery revolved around issues concerning art, literature, language and politics.

Mr. Varma in his address advised the coming generation to hold as multi-dimensional attitude and not to be glued and obsessed only with their careers but expand their barriers to cultivate a hobby or sport to kindle their zeal for creativity. About his intellectual and creative undertakings that are reflected in the huge corpus of books- both fiction and non-fiction written by him including Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker, The Great Indian Middle Class, Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity, Ghalib- The Man, The Times, etc.

In his address, he even raised the concern about the restricted understanding of truth in today’s time with all claiming their version of the truth to be the only possibility and leaving no space for a civilized dialogue or conversation. Basing his facts in the Indian Civilization that has held the legacy of conversation, Mr. Varma praised the idea of the “Underground Talks” that
despite on a smaller scale was creating such a space for freedom of expression and dialogue.

Talking about the Hindu Philosophy, Mr. Varma said his writings have always aimed at informing and clearing the dew around the religious and philosophical views that has undergone several phases of misinterpretation or over-interpretation. He said that Hinduism is a way of life that is ubiquitous in nature and could not be bracketed by any means.

The talk also centered around literature and went on to discuss the lives of Mirza Ghalib and Shankaracharya and the timeline in which they lived so as to show the influence of the background on the creative canvas of a person. Mr. Varma also enlightened the audience about the language politics and how because of the colonial legacy the native languages have been suffering as they are getting engaged in a battle of supremacy and viability in the contemporary era. He said that language is not just a means of communication but a window to our culture, tradition, history, lullabies and smell of soil associated with life.

The session lived to its commitment of bringing prominent and renowned personalities from the art canvas under the same roof to facilitate the free flow of emotions and creative energy. It was attended by well-known creative minds from the art and literary circuit. Many prominent art critics and art lovers including Jailakshmi Singh, Arnab Banerjee, Sanjay Roy attended the event. Mr. Varma’s wife- Mrs. Renuka also graced the event and appreciated the concept behind it

10/09/2019

PSYCHO-AN ART EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY, DIGITAL AND COMIC ART

Psycho is an exhibition of portraits, landscapes, and installations of creative minds done for the pursuit of understanding the description of the inexpressible metaphysics of brain. The human mind demands an intricate study of secrets locked mysteriously to be divulged only in its own mystic ways. The perplexing nature highlights the inexplicable alchemy of transcendental thoughts and investigates the neurotic understanding of how the frenzied mind interacts with obsessions. The intricate layers and majestic textures are metaphors for cryptic egos, the colors are just the wilderness of our own imagination. It is not the object, but the observer which is the subject matter of Psycho.

Curated by Jasraman Grewal, Psycho art exhibition is displaying artworks by NEANGO Studio, Li Kuei-Pi, Claudio Romo, Rafael Araujo, Sasha Ciardo, Magali Garnier, Gopal Parmar, Payal Kapadia, Jorge Luis Gabotto, Nicolo Palmisciano, Thodoris Laourdekis and Karthik Ilango

02/09/2019

Works of other national and international renowned artists like Nicolo Palmisciano, Thodoris Laourdekis, Li Kuiepe, NeAnGo Studio, Karthik Ilango, Jorge Luis Gabotto, Payal Kapadia, Caludio Romo, Magali Garnier, Sasha Ciardo, Rafael Araujo and Gopal Parmar have graced the GAG Moderne to exhibit the incongruent understanding of the human brain that by and large establishes the paradox of the mystical nature aligned to human brain that challenges the limitation of human understanding.

In continuum of its legacy to curate work of arts that tend to satisfy the artistic fervour of today’s world, the GAG Moderne Art Gallery in New Delhi inaugurated the ‘Psycho Exhibition’ on August 31, 2019 that turned out to be a great success witnessing huge presence of art lovers and people from the art fraternity.

‘Psycho’ exhibits the exclusive collection of Contemporary, Comic and Digital works of renowned artists from around the globe that traverses the art forms from portraits to landscapes and installation arts. It to a greater extent represent the pursuits of the artists who have been wandering in the depth of their own imagination to understand the metaphysics of human brain- that for many is quite inexplicable and outside human potential of decipherment. The exhibition is to last from 31st August to 20th October, 2019 and it aims to satisfy the visitors wander lust and engage them in their own wilderness of their imagination to traverse a journey inside the mind to discover new treasures of understanding and showcase the vast number of ways in which the mind could be understood.

The art works exhibited hold immense potential to engage the self to wander with an aim to solve the intricacies involved in the understanding of the brain by peeling away the layers of pre-conceived ideas to form their own unique opinion in order to find greater stability and understanding of the inner working of the brain. The incongruency attached to the understanding of the human brain itself expand the scope for artistic creation, which ‘Psycho’ in all its actuality represent with great mastery and accuracy.

The art works exhibited under ‘Psycho’ being a perfect blend of creativity, science and mysticism presents an overarching picture of the limitation of human understanding at the same time bringing to the forefront how art and artistic endeavours could cross the hurdles to bring out great works belittling the limitations. ‘Psycho’ artistically captures the constant flux of the human mind that highlight the paradox associated with it. The subject matter of ‘Psycho’ is definitely not the object, but the observer. The colours used in the art works projects the wilderness of the imaginative realm, while the majestic textures and intricate layers are metaphorical representation of the obscure egos.

The works of artists commanding international fame like Caludio Romo an artist from Chile whose works takes inspiration from the vastness of the ocean, Magali Garnier an artist from France whose arts on the working of mind represent its relationship to the animal nature of man and brings to the forefront the feminine power engaged in harmony with their animal nature, Sasha Ciardo an artist from Italy who presents his understanding through comics, and Rafael Araujo an architect from Venezuela who utilises geometry to present a layered explanation of natural subjects vis a vis the laws of nature formed a part of the ‘Psycho Exhibition’.

Works of other national and international renowned artists like Nicolo Palmisciano, Thodoris Laourdekis, Li Kuiepe, NeAnGo Studio, Karthik Ilango, Jorge Luis Gabotto, Payal Kapadia and Gopal Parmar have graced the GAG Moderne to exhibit the incongruent understanding of the human brain that by and large establishes the paradox of the mystical nature aligned to human brain that challenges the limitation of human understanding.

People from the art fraternity, several art connoisseurs, art lovers and art admirers graced the inaugural ceremony of the GAG Moderne’s ‘Psycho’. Many of the artists like Gopal Parmar from Gujarat, Li Kuiepe from Taiwan and the trio of Neha Talwar, Anirudh Tripathi and Gopal Mehan of the NeAnGo studio; whose works were at display, were personally engaged with the visitors to provide them with their visionary thought process behind their works of art. Mr. Ratan Tyagi, member of the Congress Party also graced the inaugural event. The GAG Moderne expects the ‘Psycho Exhibition’ to attract more people and art lovers in days to come after witnessing great positive response on the inaugural ceremony.

About GAG Moderne
GAG Moderne, rechristened from Gita Art Gallery has a history dated back in 1964 opened by MR Kuljeet Singh Bhutalia and presently being Delhi’s oldest art gallery. The gallery boasts of reviving and instigating the flourishment of art in India. When art becomes passion, it finds its own way for its manifestation and flourishment and with the reopening a promise of new commissions, old Masters and Grand Masters featuring with their unparalleled works and new displays of designated collections is being fulfilled. The gallery has never shielded from hosting committed works of art and the empowering space is now operated by NEANGO Studio, a creative space co-owned by artists Neha Talwar and Anirudh Tripathi

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03/08/2019

The 8th edition of the monthly event titled ‘Underground Talks with Manish Pushkale’ hosted by the renowned artist Manish Pushkale despite the weather constraints was held on July 27th, 2019 at GAG Moderne Art Gallery in New Delhi. The event was graced by the powerful presence of eminent artist, painter and theatre actor, Manu Parekh whose paintings and work of arts not only command attention but also critical appreciation. Manu Parekh has been accoladed with the fourth highest civilian award, Padma Shri and is also the recipient of Lalit Kala Akademi Award.

The spirited host welcomed the guest to engage in a lively session by iterating the need of one to one conversation in the era of forced information where social media has become the new and fashionable trend to commune. Speaking about the name of the ‘Underground Talks’, Mr. Pushkale highlighted the evident oxymoron as unlike the talk being held in the basement last year that justified the name, now the monthly event hosted on the last Saturday of every month has shifted to the roof-top. Definitely, name doesn’t matter when art and artistic conversation is there to grasp the audience mind.

The eighth series of the “Underground Talks” coincided with the 92nd birth anniversary of Krishna Baldev Vaid, a well-known Hindi fiction writer and playwright whose writing challenges the structural framework because of his experimental and iconoclastic narrative styles. Mr. Pushkale started the conversation by reading out some classic extracts from his book, “Bimal Urf Jayen to Jayen Kahan” and dedicated the evening talk to him.

The “Underground Talks” fulfilled its vision of bringing artists from different fields under the same roof and engaging them to contribute towards burning the flambeau of creative spirit and instigate the same in the society at large. Mr. Pushkale navigated the audience to the starts and struggles of Manu Parekh by asking him about the beginning of his artistic carrier, to which the guest of honour vehemently took a ride back to his memory lane to Ahmedabad and how he struggled to realise his worth of becoming an artist and not gluing to his earlier thought carrier prospect of becoming a drawing teacher.

Manu Parekh while talking about his journey extended his respect to several people who became instrumental in establishing him as an artist starting from his drawing teacher to his friend who helped him financially to complete his art education at Sir J. J. School of Art and the artists who influenced him personally like Rabindranath Tagore. The conversation with Mr. Manu brought out his personal aspect to the forefront that more or less established him to be totally engrossed in his paintings and his works.

Mr. Pushkale well aware of the importance of Sir J. J. School of Art in the life of artist especially painters, took the conversation on a personal note discussing with Manu Parekh about the faculty then and Mr. Parekh’s relationship with his batchmates, juniors and seniors who now have established a name for themselves like Jatin Das; a Padma Bhushan recipient himself and a well-established name in the art arena.

Mr. Manu speaking of the craft said that along with carrying a sense of optics, training and learning the craft is quite important. When asked by Mr. Pushkale of his engagement with Banaras to be “Banaras, or Varanasi or Kashi”, Mr Parekh too politely dismissed any political or spiritual concern with his totally artistic engagement with the city. He explained his “Banaras” to be a raw space that fuelled his creative spirit with its celebratory aspect. Mr Parekh told the audience that not spirituality but the festivity and celebratory element in and around the temple or other religious domain interested him much that got translated into his works- “Banaras- Eternity Watches Time”, “Banaras”, “Ritual oblations”, etc.

Manu Parekh said that space and connectivity with space is very important to him and that defines his relationship with both Banaras and Kolkata. Mr Parekh talked about his engagement and interest in folk arts and rural landscape. During the talk he mentioned of the famous “Mithila Painting” of Bihar and “Warli Art”. He also talked about his deep interest in Bangla films that inspired his journey towards theatre, stage designing and his active engagement with Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) movement.

Mr Parekh throughout the talk iterated his deep connection with Kolkata and Bengali culture and his deep fascination with Bengali women that he visions in the direction of a powerful presence vehemently presented by artists like Ganga Devi and Sita Devi.

The event was attended by well-known creative minds from the art and literary circuit. Many prominent art critics also attended the event and appreciated the concept behind it.