15 June,2010 08:40 AM IST | | Preeti Gaur
The city doesn't fail to inspire. This time five students have captured its uniqueness in their art works
Delhi is a theme 'done to death' by the 'creative' types, but still it has so many flavours yet to be tasted and talked about. Five young artists recently went on an exploration to spot such tastes, and now they're running a multi media show of their findings. Read on, as we tell you more about it.u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0
Bhavin Mistry, Neha Thakar, Vrushali Dhage (critic in residence),
Rabindra Patra and Agat Sharma
They stayed to conquer
The exhibition, Peers 2010, is the result of a four-week long student's residency programme organised by Khoj International Artists Association in the capital from May 15 to June 10. All the five selected artists - Neha Thakar, Rabindra Patra, Agat Sharma, Bhavin Mistry and Sajad Malik - are graduates from leading art and fashion institutes in the country.u00a0
Cherishing Delhi
The pulse of the show is Delhi. 27-year-old artist Rabindra Patra, a graduate from Bhubaneswar says, "The theme of my work is a 'search'. I look at the capital from various perspectives, which have been narrated in the form of a story through my sculptures." Delhi boy Agat Sharma, who's a fashion graduate plays with human emotions and the prevalent sentiments of the city through cosmetics tubes. He says, "I have used cosmetic tubes to explain that we apply the emotions on the face mixed with liquid guilt and later wash it off."
Baroda-based multimedia artist Neha Thakar visited the least known monuments of the capital and came out with Unknown Cell, an installation of bricks that pans at the not-so-known side of the city. Her other work Sanitised Air, is a setting up in the form of a perfume dispenser. She says, "I wantedu00a0 clean up the workplaceu00a0 allotted to me so at the completion of the residency, I purified the air using camphor and the idea of 'Sanitised Air' struck me." Sajjad and Bhavin have used new medium to express their ideas.
Sajjad Malik, a daily cartoonist for a newspaper in Srinagar, shows an animated film on the Kashmir conflict through the eyes of a child playing hopscotch and the drawn line turns into barbed wires. "Since the time I was born, I've only seen crisis in Kashmir which inspires my work." The claustrophobic city has inspired video artist and painter Bhavin Misty for his work 'Claustrophobia'.u00a0
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Peers 2010
AT: Khoj International Artists Association, S-17, Khirkee Extension
Timings: 11am-7pm
On till:u00a0 June 15
