A group of four artists from the Baroda School is bringing in new ideas

A group of four artists from the Baroda School is bringing in new ideas

"My desire's unsatisfied form resulted in this artwork". That's how Nityananda Ojha describes the making of his work Masturbation. "I could have named it something else, but it's a very direct work and I wanted it to be named so," he says. The work is a bold display of a human hand crafted out of junk jewellery, M-Seal and acrylic.

Masturbation by Nityananda Ojha

Urban Testimonies is an ongoing exhibition which has brought together four artists under one single roof to
display their works which demonstrate the contemporary vocabulary evolving at the Baroda School.

Nityananda Ojha's other work, Abandoned Heel, is an approximately 10-feet high sandal, made out of stone, chrome iron and artificial diamonds. Veteran artist Anupam Sood's grandson Kartik is also a part of the exhibition. His works consist of a series of surreal light installations. His Plucking At The Heart Strings is a set of 10 lighted paintings connected to each other through loose strings.

Siddhartha Kararwal's Kalki is a cosmonaut suit prepared from everyday materials like plastic bags, foam sheets, firecrackers, cardboard, bronze, iron, copper, fibre, clay and plaster of Paris. His other work, Skinned, has been prepared with a burnt blanket which has an interestingu00a0 satirical fable on the murder of a 15-year-old mythical character called Skinu written on it.

The fourth artist, Deepjyoti Kalita, has centralised his work around the challenges of duplicity, insecurity and instability. His work, titled The Incompetence of being Completeu00a0-- with a central figure of a man at work, has been made with acrylic, fibreglassu00a0-- iron and paper. Says the curator and the director of Latitude 28, Bhavna Kakar: "Baroda has been producing innovative artists who display contemporary cutting-edge works. They aren't afraid of thinking out of the box. They have set a trend and everybody wants a piece of them now".

At: LATITUDE 28, F/208, Lado Sarai.
Till: August 18
Timings: 11am to 7pm