The Guild at MiArt 2008

The Guild Art Gallery is delighted to present 

Ashutosh Bhardwaj

Iranna G.R

Pooja Iranna 

K.P. Reji

Sumedh Rajendran  

at the MiArt 2008 (Milan Art Fair)

Date:  4 – 7 April , 2008

MiArt 2008: a benchmark and a meeting point for the art world, the 13th edition like before editions too, will see the participation of internationally respected gallery operators, critics and collectors, as well as the directors of prestigious museums. 

Ashutosh Bhardwaj - Born in 31 December 1981. 2002 B.F.A. Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U., Baroda, 2004 M.F.A. Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U., Baroda, Junior Research fellowship, 2005. National scholarship 2003-05. Workshops for Per 04, residency at Khoj, Delhi,2004 Nasreen Mahamadi award and scholarship , 2004 Workshop for site specific work at Samod, 2005, Painting workshop at Pachmati, 2005, Merit scholarship 2003-04, 2002-03, 2001-02,   2000-01, 1999-2000, 1998-1999, M.S.U.  Baroda. In-Cinque group show at Palette Art Gallery, Delhi, 2005. Open Studio Day, (Installation: Matrix-We Love America, America loves us) Khoj, Delhi, 2004. 13 Artists show, Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda, 2004. PICASSO AND POLLOCK (Installation), Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U. Baroda 2004. Group show at Ravindra Bahvan, Lalit Kala, Delhi, 2004 Camlin watercolour workshop and show, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, 2000. 

Though his works always provide equivocal meanings and interpretations, but they defiantly respond to the contemporary Cosmo and Metro surroundings around us. The cliched images projected to us through various forms of media, which serves as the imagolouge of the global socio-politics comes first to me as metaphors. While juggling with these media, he always try to be conscious of keeping their cliched ness alive.

Iranna G.R - Born 1970 in Karnataka, Iranna obtained B.F.A. from the college of Visual Arts in Gulbarga in 1992 and M.F.A. from Delhi College of Art in 1994.Iranna is recipient of National Academy award in 1997, the M.F.Hussain and Ram Kumar award, Lalit Kala Academy Award and the AIFACS award. He was a recipient of Charles Wallace Scholarship; between 1999 and 2000 and studied at Wimbledon School of Art, London.  Iranna has had solo exhibitions at The Guild art gallery, Mumbai, Espace art gallery, Delhi, British Council gallery. Has also exhibited in Hongkong, London, Cairo and Amsterdam among others. Iranna’s works are in many important collections including NGMA, Delhi and Chester & Davida Herwitz collection. His paintings consist of nude figures: abstract in language they are of a philosophical reflection, revolving around the interest in exploring the interactions of the inner of man world with the existential issues of today.

G R Iranna is an artist whose work transcends the boundaries of time and space. Many of Iranna's paintings depict pain as an abstract force that is translated visually in bruised textures and razor sharp cutting edges. His painting has always been far removed from an overriding, postmodern logic. Instead, Iranna uses the idealistic, representative and modernist language of Indian contemporary art. His most recent works are all visions of resistance. In just a glance, one can tell a sense of massive dynamic energy that pervades the surfaces.

Pooja Iranna Born in 1969 in New Delhi, Pooja Iranna received her BFA and MFA in Painting from the College of Art in New Delhi. Pooja Iranna's solo shows include those at The Kala Ghoda Art Fest - 2000, the 41st National Exhibition at the Lalit Kala Academy and others. She has participated in many group shows at Art Today, Art Konsult, and Gallery Escape among others. Her works are in private collections in India, New York, Bangkok, and Hong Kong.

Pooja Iranna’s art works are devoid of human forms. Textures and grids form an important part in her creations. She is attracted to modern architecture, which is her inspiration for the geometrical forms she creates, well planned and minutely detailed intersecting forms composed of lines using simple objects like strings, wood, toothpick, nails, matchsticks etc.  

K.P.Reji Born in 1972. Reji has completed both his graduation and post graduation in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. U. Vadodara in the year 2000. He has participated in many significant exhibitions – ‘Generation I’ jointly by The Guild and Saffronart, Are We Like This Only at Vadehra Art Gallery. Words and Images by the Guild held at National Gallery of Modern Art Mumbai in 2002, Double Enders a travelling Exhibition curated by Bose Krishnamachari.  And his works are in the collection of National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. 

The Guild had first introduced K. P. Rejis works to the art audiences in the year 2000 along with two other artists. This is the first solo exhibition of the artist in Mumbai. 

A large number of paintings Reji has been doing for last few couple of years are based on the thematic of love (all of them had broadly titled, as ‘Love Paintings’) would attain a different dynamics in this present exhibition. One can easily recognise the resonance of his earlier thematic in the presented works as well, even though the concerns of his works might have been attained much more complexities.

Sumedh Rajendran Born in 1972. He pursued BFA from  Trivandrum University and MFA from Delhi College of Art. In 1993 he was awarded a National scholarship from the Government of India and a Juniour Research Fellowship in 1998. He even participated in Khoj International Artists Residency, New Delhi in 2003 and in Theertha International Residency, Colombo in 2006

Sumedh Rajendran’s work is an assemblage of techniques and disparate materials collapsing the conventional materials such as wood, clay and stone. The tactility of his meticulously crafted objects brings various issues to our conscious while compelling the viewer to experience the comfort and suffering, pleasure and unease simultaneously. He tackles diverse issues such as militarism, ecological and urban atrocities within the contexts of Indian city life.