THE THREE WORLDS AND OTHER SPACES  

The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to present the first solo of Lokesh Khodke at The Guild previewing on 10th January.  

Lokesh Khodke was born in 1979 and received B.F.A (2002) M. F.A (2004) in painting from M. S.U. Baroda with gold medal. Khodke is a recipient of Nasreen Mohammedi Scholarship, Gold medal of excellence in Visual Arts and Junior Research Fellowship, UGC - years 2005 and has shown in selected group shows - 'Interlude: Venice/Kassel' at Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Mumbai presented by The Guild; 'Are We Like This Only' at Vadehra Art Gallery New Delhi; 'Beyond Credos' curated by Shivaji K. Panikkar at Birla Art Academy, Kolkata; 'New Voices' The Guild Art USA Inc, New York.  

Khodke is an exceptionally talented and thinking artist and is also an aspiring poet and writer. The artist lives and works in Baroda.

"The title of this show comes from the title of one of my paintings in the show. In this particular painting I have addressed the notion of the three worlds, a notion that shaped much of my worldview while I was growing up. The interest in these three worlds/spaces can be seen as a continuation of my long standing interest in the question of space and its relationship vis-a-vis object, not merely in formal terms but with all its complex historical, cultural and political implications. Many of my earlier works also try to address this relationship in various ways. The group of work displayed in the present show extends this exploration through attempting to look at the complexity of this relationship in the present time."  - Lokesh Khodke

“Lokesh’s complex journey through the geography of contemporary (cultural) politics reveals multiple levels and layers of spaces and territories and identifies the inscriptions that constitute the limits of this (discursive) geography. He detects the bricks on which all these walls are constructed in order to expose the fact that the genesis of the modernist nation of ‘pure Art’ has to be traced back to the Brahminical concept of purity (in the Indian context). In that sense, even though many matters still remain unresolved in terms of articulation his works are complex cultural essays on social hierarchization and they doubtlessly contribute to the democratic impulses of our systemic and everyday being and becoming.”  -  Santhosh S.